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Can I Sell On Shopify Trial?
Last modified: December 2, 2021
Shopify allows you to have a 14-day trial for your store. This is a time when you can start to build your website and start driving traffic to it. However, it is not a period that you can actually sell any products through your store.
In order to sell products on Shopify, you must choose and activate a monthly plan.
It’s important to remember that your free trial starts the moment that you signup, not from the moment you start working on your store. So, if you signup on the first of a month and then start working on your site on the seventh, you’ve already lost seven days of your free trial.
What Use Is The Free Trial For?
There are many uses that having the free trial is good for. Therefore, you don’t need to feel pressured into activating a monthly plan straight away. Here are some of the key uses that you can use your free trial for:
1. Building Your Store
Having a website designed and ready to go isn’t as easy as adverts make out. It can take hours to get everything perfect. You need to design the pages, create content, upload products, sort out payment details, build in SEO and more. At the very least you will be spending at least one day on the new website, but it could take a lot more time than that.
The 14-day trial offers you the chance to start building your website into a position where it can become an effective sales platform.
2. Build Branding
Many successful stores will have a period when they attract audiences to learn more about their brand and then on a specific day start selling. This can be done on Shopify. The 14-day trial could be a way to attract audiences to your website to subscribe to mailing lists and then open the store on a specific day.
Using social media and other outlets, you could improve your site’s traffic before you’re off the free trial.
3. Get Used To Shopify
If you’re new to website building or to Shopify, you’re going to be unfamiliar with the technology and systems on Shopify. Therefore, the 14-day free trial allows you to learn how the Shopify CMS works and how you can use it to build a business.
This can be vital in ensuring customers see a polished, professionally published website rather than one that has mistakes on it.
Canceling Your Shopify Account
While we’re sure that you will love Shopify, there are always options to cancel your Shopify account before the free trial ends. If this happens, you won’t be charged at all. If you haven’t selected a monthly plan before starting the free trial, which can happen, then you can just close the account. Otherwise, you will have to follow these instructions to cancel your Shopify subscription.
It’s also important when you cancel any Shopify account that you also cancel any subscriptions to apps that you’ve had. If you’ve paid upfront for any theme or app, you will not get a refund for these.
If you would like to learn more about Shopify, or Shopify Plus, you can read more on our FAQ page.
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