How to Add a Shop to Your Showit Website via Shopify Lite

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Can you sell digital or physical products on Showit? Does Showit has an e-commerce platform? While Showit does not have an e-commerce site at the moment, it lets you use third-party sites like Shopify to sell digital and physical products. 

If you are using Shopify lite and want to know if you can use it in conjunction with Showit, we’re happy to report that integration between these platforms is smooth as butter. You can add a shop to your Showit website through Shopify lite and start selling physical and digital products in no time at all. It’s so easy; we’ll show you how:

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Step 1: Plan the Shop Pages

Before creating your e-store, you need to determine how you’ll present the content on your website pages. Ask yourself these:

• Will you sell a standalone product, or do you have a whole collection of products to sell? 
• What information will you add to the product pages?
• What are your business’ vision and mission statements?
• What are your shipping and return terms? 

Plan the overall structure and navigation of your eCommerce site. The design should be consistent with your existing website. 

Before creating a Shopify lite profile, you need to prepare the following:

• Product photos
• Product name
• Product price
• Product stocks (if needed)
• Product weight 
• Shipping info
• Digital download file (if you're selling a digital product)

Once you’re done with the planning, you can go ahead with uploading the product photos and product descriptions. Be sure that the product descriptions and images are optimized with your primary keywords for better online visibility. 

Step 2: Sign Up for a Shopify Lite Account

If you haven’t already, the next step is to sign up for a Shopify lite account. This is a paid service, it’s USD 9 a month or 6.79 pounds. The platform lets you sell products or add a buy button to existing websites. The service comes with view reports and gives sellers the ability to issue gift cards or split bills. 

Once you’ve signed up for an account, you’ll need to set up your account with basic business information including your business address, if you have one, and tax and payment preferences. After setting up your account, you are ready to upload your products on Shopify lite. 

Step 3: Adding the Buy Button Sales Channel

Because you’re not using the Shopify storefront, you’ll just embed the Buy-Button Sales Channel code on your Showit site. This is how your Showit site and Shopify Lite get connected.

From the Shopify dashboard, go to “Sales Channels” and select “Buy-Button.” Click to add the buy button. Add the product photos and details before generating the buy button from the sales channel. Once that's done, it's just a matter of selecting which products to add a buy button to and then customizing the settings according to your preferences. Easy peasy!

Copy the code from Shopify and then paste it on an embed box in Showit. Check how the product page looks on the big and small screens then adjust when needed. If everything looks good, you can publish the product page and add another. You can add as many products as you like.

Some Helpful Tips

• Be sure to set your Shopify lite profile properly, particularly the financial section
• The buy button should only be posted once on a single page
• Keep the side card on the right side
• Keep the branding consistent for a customized experience
• Test everything and troubleshoot before publishing or enabling a feature, including transactions, discount codes, gift cards, etc.
• Customize your e-commerce site’s web pages with custom fonts and styling. These could be added to your embed codes to match your Showit website.
• For pages with no buy button code like the homepage, add a hidden embed box in your footer or the side of the page on Showit. This way, the cart button appears on all pages.
• Present the store policies clearly – Returns and Refunds, Shipping, Security, etc. 

One last thing to make the user experience as fuss-free as possible, make the transition between your Showit site to your Shopify site seamless and straightforward. The process of integrating Showit and Shopify is so easy. We hope that this guide has provided some clarity on adding a shop to your Showit website through Shopify lite! Try it today and get started on growing your online business!

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