Air Cooled Vintage Works – Shopify Design & Development November 05, 2019at 21:24 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of AirCooledVintageWorks.com After Dark Grafx Shopify Web Design services along with our Shopify Development services, enabled Air Cooled Vintage Works to quickly launch their Shopify Store. AirCooledVintageWorks.com initially contacted After Dark Grafx to provide Shopify Consulting Services. After Dark Grafx was then retained to perform the Shopify Design, Development and App Installation and configuration. “After Dark Grafx offered a custom website development and design to focus on product sales and conversion. They setup and integrated Facebook Shop, Instagram Shopping, Shopify payments, shipping and inventory management and offered Custom Shopify Development and coding solution to optimize our product pages. They held our hand through the process, always just a quick email or call away. They created How To Videos so we understood how to update certain sections of the website and just made it an excellent experience.” – Jason – Owner The Shopify Platform is a robust eCommerce platform with a low barrier to entry along with a “simple to use and understand” interface, this platform allows for businesses large and small to offer and manage a professional eCommerce website without a lot of training. Easily track inventory, hook into your financial booking and shipping systems and easily manage and process orders make Shopify the “GO TO” eCommerce solution for you. If you need Expert Shopify Help or just have a simple Shopify Question, please feel free to contact us even if you are not doing business with us.
Your Facebook account doesn’t have admin access to the chosen page – What Do You Do? September 12, 2019at 17:04 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Have any of the following happened to you? – Shopify sends you a message that your Facebook Sales Channel has been disconnected? – You try to connect or reconnect your Facebook Sales Channel within Shopify and receive the following message even though you are an Admin on the Facebook Page and get the following message? Your Facebook account doesn’t have admin access to the chosen page I spoke with a Shopify Rep on chat and they said on 9/11/2019: “Our developers just put out an update, it appears this is the result of an issue on our end. They are investigating now, I will follow up on this thread as soon as they have an update.” Before contacting support to receive the above message, I scoured the web and community and tried all of the suggestions before I finally did the following below steps which solved the “Shopify Facebook Sales Channel Won’t Connect” or “Reconnect”. To SOLVE this problem, I went through all of the steps below to connect the shop correctly via a data feed. a) make sure you have a personal facebook page b) make sure that this facebook personal user is the ADMIN for the Facebook Page that you are trying to connect (see settings –> page roles) on the actual page ie: https://www.facebook.com/YOUR-PAGE-NAME-SHOULD-BE-HERE c) make sure that this is a BUSINESS PAGE and controlled by Facebook Business Manger d) on the business manager page business.facebook.com click on the PAGES on the left ie: https://business.facebook.com/settings/pages/YOUR-REALLYLONGIDSTRINGHERE e) make sure that your PAGE is the PRIMARY BUSINESS PAGE. Click on the page on the right and then you will see PEOPLE to the right of that. Click on the ARROW to the far right of your name and make sure that MANAGE JOBS and VIEW EARNINGS INSIGHTS is turned OFF and that MANAGE PAGE is ON (this means you will have admin privs here too)–> select SAVE f) make sure that the template for your SHOP is using the SHOPPING TEMPLATE. ie: go tohttps://www.facebook.com/YOUR-PAGE-NAME-SHOULD-BE-HERE –> click on SETTINGS top right —> on left click on TEMPLATES AND TABS –> on right it will say TEMPLATES (current template) – if it doesn’t say SHOPPING (select EDIT then select the SHOPPING template and SAVE) g) click on PAGE ROLES on the left and just double check that you are the admin of the page. In some cases, the page will be owned by the BUSINESS MANAGER account and you, as a user will be the admin on the page. h) ADD FACEBOOK PIXEL: go to business.facebook.com and click on top left menu EVENTS MANAGER –> click on GET STARTED under Facebook Pixel on the right. Once completed, COPY the facebook pixel # and go back or LOGIN to SHOPIFY –> SETTINGS –> GENERAL and scroll down to facebook pixel and paste your pixel and SAVE i) NEXT: You are going to do 2 things. 1) add Facebook Marketing and 2) add an app called FLEXIFY https://apps.shopify.com/facebook-product-catalog j) on left side of Shopify Click on MARKETING –> Select Setup Facebook Marketing and follow the steps to connect the account and page (if you need help message me) k) one Facebook Marketing is connected, click on APPS on the left side then click on VISIT SHOPIFY APP STORE top right l) type in FLEXIFY and click ADD APP j) once the app is installed click on FLEXIFY app and then copy the URL for the FEED ending in …./facebook.rss k) go BACK to business.facebook.com and click on COMMERCE ACCOUNTS —> click on the arrow to the right of your name on the last column and make sure you have ADMIN privs. l) on left click on DATA SOURCES –> CATALOGS and click on the CATALOG that should now be there then top right click on OPEN IN CATALOG MANAGER m) on the left side of the CATALOG MANAGER page, click on PRODUCT DATA SOURCES —> then on top right of this page select ADD PRODUCTS and select the Use Data Feeds – select NEXT then enter the facebook.rss url you copied earlier and save. It gives you the option to do the feed hourly, daily or monthly, etc. I usually select DAILY but you may select hourly depending on how busy your store is. SAVE It will then take a little while, sometimes 24 hours for the feed to start picking up the products. If successful, it will show all your products on the SHOP page of facebook. I tried other options before figuring all of this out. I removed the sales channel app for facebook and removed the shopify connector from the facebook account and waited 30 mins, cleared cache, tried different browsers and devices and even tried the mobile app. All failed. This worked for me. It is a little but of a pain but you don’t have to rely on Shopify’s Facebook Channel in order to connect the page. I hope they fix this soon as this is way too many steps just to get this working correctly. Hope this helps someone. Please contact us at (888) 578-8300 or 619-702-7377 for help with this if needed. Hourly rates apply.
Shopify Login August 15, 2019at 22:28 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx How Do I Login To My Shopify Account Admin? You have 200 tabs open in your browser and you type in what you think is your Shopify Login page only to find out that it sends you to Shopify’s main login page. https://accounts.shopify.com/store-login This is fine. Just login with your Shopify Login Credentials. Otherwise, if your domain is already pointing to Shopify just add /admin to the end of your website url. Example: Your website is https://www.my-cool-website.com just make it this https://www.my-cool-website.com/admin (please note: this is a fake domain) Don’t have a Shopify Account? No problem. Sign up here for a free 14 day trial here! You can build your store and make sales before the trial ends! Need help creating a Shopify Store? We are Shopify Experts in San Diego but we develop for Shopify all over the world! Contact Us Today, FREE No Obligation Consultation. Since 1992, After Dark Grafx has been creating online brands for businesses large and small. Contact us today to discuss your project and budget. We specialize in Shopify, Magento, Miva and WordPress WooCommerce websites. We build them Fast, Search Engine Optimization Friendly and Mobile Device Specific.
Shopify Tutorial For Beginners Part 2 – Create An Online Shopify Store 2019 August 14, 2019at 20:08 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx In this Shopify video tutorial, Part 2 of 2, I show you how to easily edit the backend of a Shopify Store using the default Debut Theme. Shopify is a great e-commerce platform with a robust set of features to have you selling your products/services in no time. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify Here: https://shorturl.at/kKX17 Pros of using Shopify: – Quickly Start and Launch a Store – Thousands of FREE Apps to help you sell and run your store – Inexpensive if using free apps but can get expensive if you use a lot of paid apps. – Low Learning Curve – No Need for a Merchant Account – No Need for a Shipping Carrier Account – Easy to Add Apps, Change Themes and Update – Easily Add other Sales Channels (ie: Facebook, Instagram, etc.) – Easily Add a Buy Now Button onto an EXTERNAL website. (You can add a product button called BUY NOW to a website that is not hosted with Shopify but would process the checkout through Shopify Cons of using Shopify: – There is a 3 option limit for products. Example: If you sell t-shirts and have Size, Color, Material (you can add all kinds of variants to these options like small, medium, large, etc.) but Shopify has a 100 variant limit for these so you would need an app to extend the OPTIONS to get you past the 3 options threshold and the 100 variant threshold. – You use Shopify Payments, otherwise, if you use your own merchant account, then they add additional fee to your monthly plan plus you will pay a percentage to Shopify in addition to your existing Merchant Account and Gateway Fees. – If you add another Shipping Carrier (Shopify’s built-in carrier is USPS) if you add: FEDEX, UPS or other carrier there is an additional monthly fee approx $20 per month as of today’s date but this is cheaper than upgrading to the next plan on Shopify. – No direct access to the Shopify database without an app via Api – No direct backup mechanism without an app. You can export the products, customers and orders within Shopify but that is it. You would need an app to extend this functionality. If you need a Shopify Expert or just want ask some questions, please feel free to contact me at any of the links below. My Main Website: https://www.afterdarkgrafx.com ——————————————————————————–– MY TWITTER: Tweets by AfterDarkGrafx MY FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/afterdarkgrafx MY INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/afterdarkgrafx/ MY LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-byrne-755b9217/ I Use Quicktime Player To Record My Screencast Videos and edit them with: https://fxhome.com/hitfilm-express (its free) You can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify Here and Try it out as well as make sales before you even have to pay them their monthly fee: https://shorturl.at/kKX17 If you missed Part 1 of this series – Click Here Disclaimers: Links in the description are typically affiliate links that let you help support the channel at no extra cost or are direct links to my existing accounts.
Shopify Tutorial For Beginners – How To Create An Online Shopify Store 2019 August 06, 2019at 18:07 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx In this video tutorial, I show you how to easily create a Shopify Store using the default Debut Theme. Shopify is a great e-commerce platform with a robust set of features to have you selling your products/services in no time. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify Here: https://shopify.pxf.io/dojygQ Pros of using Shopify: – Quickly Start and Launch a Store – Thousands of FREE Apps to help you sell and run your store – Inexpensive if using free apps but can get expensive if you use a lot of paid apps. – Low Learning Curve – No Need for a Merchant Account – No Need for a Shipping Carrier Account – Easy to Add Apps, Change Themes and Update – Easily Add other Sales Channels (ie: Facebook, Instagram, etc.) – Easily Add a Buy Now Button onto an EXTERNAL website. (You can add a product button called BUY NOW to a website that is not hosted with Shopify but would process the checkout through Shopify Cons of using Shopify: – There is a 3 option limit for products. Example: If you sell t-shirts and have Size, Color, Material (you can add all kinds of variants to these options like small, medium, large, etc.) but Shopify has a 100 variant limit for these so you would need an app to extend the OPTIONS to get you past the 3 options threshold and the 100 variant threshold. – You use Shopify Payments, otherwise, if you use your own merchant account, then they add additional fee to your monthly plan plus you will pay a percentage to Shopify in addition to your existing Merchant Account and Gateway Fees. – If you add another Shipping Carrier (Shopify’s built-in carrier is USPS) if you add: FEDEX, UPS or other carrier there is an additional monthly fee approx $20 per month as of today’s date but this is cheaper than upgrading to the next plan on Shopify. – No direct access to the Shopify database without an app via Api – No direct backup mechanism without an app. You can export the products, customers and orders within Shopify but that is it. You would need an app to extend this functionality. If you need a Shopify Expert or just want ask some questions, please feel free to contact us here at any of the links below. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify Here and Try it out as well as make sales before you even have to pay them their monthly fee: https://shopify.pxf.io/dojygQ Disclaimers: Links in the description are typically affiliate links that let you help support the channel at no extra cost or are direct links to my existing accounts.