H3ktor
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- Oct 20, 2009
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This method is nothing new but definitely improved to make Shopify development store plan useful. Anyone can signup for Shopify partner account and create unlimited development stores.
Development stores are special shopify plan for partners to build store in sandbox mode or test apps. It has all the functionality of Shopify pro plan except, you can’t use it to process payment. In short, you can’t sell product using development stores. The checkout is limited.
I really love the simplicity and easeness of shopify page designer and the themes are really slick. So why not use shopify as a landing page. So we coded a solution for the checkout limitation.
Here is how you can use shopify to host your landing page for free and sell as much as you need.
Step-1: Sign up for Shopify partner account.
Step-2: Create your development store from partner dashboard.
Step-3: Design your website using Shopify themes and theme editor.
Step-4: Add product from your product listing dashboard.
Step-5: Install our Money Saver Pro app and now is the fun part.
Installation url:
Step-6: Login to the app dashboard and you will see a list of your added products. Click on the Edit button and a form will appear. Now, you can add your checkout page url variant wise. You can use paypal payment url, zaxxa url or any hosted checkout url you want. If your variants have different pricing, use different payment url. Save and update.
Step-7: Go to storefront and check if the variant wise payment url redirects properly.
Use cases:
Possibilities:
Limitation:
Development stores are special shopify plan for partners to build store in sandbox mode or test apps. It has all the functionality of Shopify pro plan except, you can’t use it to process payment. In short, you can’t sell product using development stores. The checkout is limited.
I really love the simplicity and easeness of shopify page designer and the themes are really slick. So why not use shopify as a landing page. So we coded a solution for the checkout limitation.
Here is how you can use shopify to host your landing page for free and sell as much as you need.
Step-1: Sign up for Shopify partner account.
Step-2: Create your development store from partner dashboard.
Step-3: Design your website using Shopify themes and theme editor.
Step-4: Add product from your product listing dashboard.
Step-5: Install our Money Saver Pro app and now is the fun part.
Installation url:
Code:
https://devs.pressmattic.com/redirector/login/?shop=your-shop-url.myshopify.comStep-6: Login to the app dashboard and you will see a list of your added products. Click on the Edit button and a form will appear. Now, you can add your checkout page url variant wise. You can use paypal payment url, zaxxa url or any hosted checkout url you want. If your variants have different pricing, use different payment url. Save and update.
Step-7: Go to storefront and check if the variant wise payment url redirects properly.
Use cases:
- Run a full agency website and sell your service online.
- Use it as your landing page for BHW services.
- Open an ecommerce store.
- And more.
Possibilities:
- Shopify development stores allows adding custom domains. So you don’t have to rely on shopify subdomain.
- Shopify gives you free SSL.
- 70% of the apps in app store are development store friendly. That means access to 1800+ apps for free forever.
- 12 really cool free themes in theme store.
- Shopify theme editor is pretty cool.
Limitation:
- Sales through this method will not be recorded in shopify as we are avoiding shopify checkout.
- Do not sell anything that is not allowed by shopify.
