August 15, 2019 1 Comment

Shopify is by far the best and easiest way to create an E-commerce website without all the headaches. They are an all in one solution for busy entrepreneurs who want to build beautiful websites and have a hosting option all in one.  

First, you want to start your Free 2 Week Trial, during this time you can create your website and launch it when you are ready. 

Once you start your free trial you can get started! You can choose from one of over a hundred themes, both free and paid for your store. Think of the theme as the "look and design" of your overall store. This includes your homepage, products, and pages. You can even search for themes based on what type of business you own and what type of products you are selling. The options are endless and the end product is professional and easily adaptable to the needs of any business. 

Here are over 100 free resources and tools to help you launch and grow your Shopify store. 

Shopify Store Setup

• Shopify Theme Store: Free themes for your online store 
• Shopify App Store: Customize your website with free apps that connect to your store to optimize your store
• Point of Sale: Track and synchronize customers, orders and inventory with Shopify

Finding Products to Sell in Your Store

• Oberlo: Find products to sell on Shopify 
• Printful: Print on demand drop shipping and warehousing service
• Spocket: EU & US Dropshipping

 

Store Design

• Pagefly Advanced Page Builder: Powerful drag and drop page builder 
• Related Blog Posts: Suggest other blog posts for better engagement and SEO
• Blog Studio: Drag and Drop blogging solution
• Kiwi Size Chart & Recommender: Manage your sizing charts and recommendation
• Infinite Product Options: Unlimited custom options for products
• Smart Search and Instant Search: Relevant and instant search, smart navigation 
• Buddha Mega Menu: Create submenus for your website
• Instant Search: AI-powered search, filters, merchandising and recommendations
• HelpCenter: Build an attractive FAQ page
• Product Reviews: Simple way to share your customer's experiences through reviews
• Judge.me Product Reviews: Product and site reviews with photo and video 
• Reviews, Loyalty, and Wishlist: Many apps in one, social login, reviews, loyalty and wish list all in one app.  
• Customer Account Page: Wishlist, social login, credits and referrals
• Modern Pre-Launcher: Design beautiful countdown pages before your store launch

Social Media Tools for your Shopify Store

• Instafeed: Add custom shoppable Instagram feed to your store
• Facebook Live Chat Box: Live chat, free chat via Facebook messenger
• Instagram Shop by Snapppt: Shoppable galleries, find influencers and build communities
• Facebook Likes Pop up: Coupons and exit intent to grow your social following 
• Covet.pics: Shoppable Instagram photo gallery and lookbook
• Instastories: Craft stunning Instagram stories in minutes
• Lotus Social Post: Automatically posts your store products to social media

Timers and Counters 

• Sales Pop Master: Drive buyer urgency with countdown timers, stock count, and pop-ups
• Countdown Timer: Boost conversions and add to carts with countdown timers for your store
• Ultimate Sales Boost: Increase sales with scarcity, urgency, and trust with countdown timer
• Conversion Plus: Offers countdown timer for carts to provide urgency to complete the purchase

SEO and Site Optimization

• SEO Image Optimizer: gain SEO traffic for google image search
• Bulk Image Edit-SEO: Image SEO, Alt image text, rename, resize, watermark, compress images
• FavSEO: Advanced SEO audit and bulk title and meta description editing
• SEO Images: All in one image compress, resize, rename, meta
• Plug-In SEO: Fix SEO issues, improve store rankings and increase traffic

Maps and Calendars

• Store Locator: Add unlimited stores to your website to show the closest store
• BookThatApp: Seamless Shopify booking calendar
• Events Calendar: Display an events calendar on your website
• Globo Store Locator + Pickup: Offer local pickup at your store 

Badges

• Free Trust Badge: Beautiful payment badges to boost trust and sales
• Trust Hero-Trust Badges: More trust, more security, more sales.

Wishlists

• Wishlist Plus: Help customers pick up where they left off and allow them to save items to their wishlist 
• Wishlist Pro: Beautiful, advanced, customizable wishlist plugin for your store

Sales and Conversion Optimization

• ReConvert: Design thank you pages that convert and upsell
• Upsell Recommendations: Personalized upsell recommendations
• Smart Search and Instant Search: Cross and upsells to boost sales
• Related Products-Upsell: Recommend related products, frequently sold together to increase sales
• SaveMySales: SMS/MMS Marketing to increase sales 
• PushOwl: Recover abandon carts with web push notifications
• Consistent Cart: Saves you customers order in their cart with persistent shopping cart
• Recart Facebook Messenger Marketing: Recover abandon carts through Facebook messenger 
• Smart Push Marketing: Recover abandon carts through web push notifications
• Wholesaler: Selling wholesale made easy
• Fast Checkout In One Click: Allow customers to skip cart page and go directly to checkout
• Globo Sticky Add to Cart: Boost sales with sticky add to cart, skip cart, 1 click upsell
• Scout: Recovery and retain CRM, free personal assistant for abandon carts and customer retention

Marketing

• Justuno: Shopify app for pop-ups, exit offers, and email list building 
• E-Mail Pop Ups: Mailchimp form, free announcement bar, email pop ups, and email capture tools
• Sales Pop Up: Social proof tool shows sales in your store to other visitors who may be browsing
• Privy: Exit pop ups, email marketing, abandon cart and wheels to drive sales
• Free Shipping Bar: Free shipping bar with updated cart goal to boost overall order value 
• Instastories: Craft stunning Instagram stories in minutes

 Advertising 

•  Free Traffic and Ads: Run ads on partner stores 
• Facebook Marketing: Promote products to the right audience on Facebook
• Flexify: Sync your store with your Facebook product catalog
• Snapchat Ads: Drive sales with shoppable ads on Snapchat

Analytics

• Conversific: Actionable analytics and reports to make sense of your website data

Product Feeds

• Google Shopping Feed: Show your products across Google shopping 
• Instafeed: Shoppable Instagram feed
• Flexify: Sync your store with your Facebook product catalog
• Bing Shopping Feed: Shopping feed for Bing

Contests and Giveaways 

•  Viral Sweep: Run contest and giveaways 

Orders and Shipping Tools

• Point of Sale: Track and synchronize customers, orders and inventory with Shopify
• Retail Barcode Labels: Create and print barcode labels for your products
• AfterShip: Branding tracking page and delivery updates for orders 
• Digital Downloads: Sell digital products in your store
• Order Printer: Print invoices, labels, receipts 
• Shipping Easy: Pull all orders into one source and compare shipping options
• Tracktor: Real-time order tracking and status lookup in your store
• Aftership Returns Center: Have seamless and happy returns
• Smart Tags: Automatically tag orders, products, and customers the easy way
• Stock Sync: Update inventory/add products from a supplier or any feed format
• MassFulfill: Fulfill your orders or line items automatically from a file

Customer Service

• Tidio Live Chat: Live chat boosted by chatbots and marketing automation
• Messenger Channel: Provide customer support and sell products through messenger
• AfterShip: Branding tracking page and delivery updates for orders 
• Aftership Returns Center: Have seamless and happy returns
• WhatsHelp Chat Button: Chat with website visitors via popular messaging apps
• Chatra Live Chat + Facebook: Live Chat and Facebook chat for your store
• Pure Chat: Free Live Chat
• HelpCenter: Build and attractive FAQ page

Reporting 

• Quickbooks Sync by Bold: Automatically sync your orders with Quickbooks online 
• Compass: Analyze your date and benchmark against your peers
• NeatTracker: Simple product add to cart and view reports for your online store

Inventory Tools

• Stock Sync: Update inventory/add products from a supplier or any feed 
• Retail Barcode Labels: Create and print barcode labels for your products
• In Stock Alerts: Automatically notify customers when products come back in stock
• Omni Importer: Amazon importer, Wish importer, eBay importer, Etsy importer, to import products to your store
• Bulk Edit Tags: Quickly add, remove or replace product tags in bulk
• Wipeout: Hide Sold-out products or publish In stock products automatically
• Vela: Bulk edit and optimize product listing with ease

Trust and Security

• EU Cookie Bar: Cookie GDPR, Provide a cookie bar to european customers, GDPR compliant
• Easy GDPR + Cookie Bar: Get GDPR compliant and cookie bar for free
• Rewind Backups: Automated secure backups for stores
• McAfee Secure: Show visitors your site is secure
• Disable Right Click: Keep people from stealing your images from your store

Places to Sell 

• Buy Button Channel by Shopify: Let customers checkout on any website or blog or share checkout links
• Google Shopping: Show products to interested customers across Google's network 
• Instagram Channel by Shopify: Sell products on Instagram by tagging your products in your post and your stories
• Facebook Channel by Shopify: Sell on Facebook through the Shop section of your Facebook page
• Point of Sale by Shopify: Easily sell your products in-store, online, at pop up shops, trade shows, and anywhere you can think of!
• Messenger Channel by Shopify: Sell products through messenger 

Well, there you have it! Over 100 free resources and tools to launch and grow your Shopify store. Now it's time for you to go and be an e-commerce rockstar! 

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