After you have done all the hard work to set up your Shopify Store, you have to follow the following steps
to make shopify store live
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- Add new domain to Shopify – Once you are ready to go live and have got the domain of
your choice, please log in to Shopify Admin panel and then go to settings and then select domains
and then add your domain using “Add an existing domain” button
- Add new domain to Shopify – Once you are ready to go live and have got the domain of
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- Update DNS record – Login to your domain registrar and make the following changes to the
DNS records: please replace the @ or main A record with this IP address: 23.227.38.32 also you have
to replace the www CNAME with storename.myshopify.com
- Update DNS record – Login to your domain registrar and make the following changes to the
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- Remove any storefront Passwords – Make sure that you have removed all the storefront
passwords as no one will be able to visit your website
- Remove any storefront Passwords – Make sure that you have removed all the storefront
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- Set as Primary if relevant – You can choose your main domain by going to the settings
tab in your Shopify admin panel and then to domains, also make sure that all the traffic is redirected
to this domain which basically means that traffic to all other domains are redirected to your primary
domain which will help you with good SEO
- Set as Primary if relevant – You can choose your main domain by going to the settings
Final things that you should check before launching the Shopify Store
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- Make sure that you check the content and the images of all the products one final time
so that you are sure that there are no errors what so ever
- Make sure that you check the content and the images of all the products one final time
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- Make sure all the links on your website are working properly
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- If you had any old promotional codes on your old website, please make sure that you have
set the same on your new store as well and are working with the new store.
- If you had any old promotional codes on your old website, please make sure that you have