How to Add Google Merchant Center to Shopify – James Byrne – After Dark Grafx January 11, 2021at 19:09 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Jan 11, 2021 by James Byrne, After Dark Grafx In this video tutorial, I show you how to easily Add Google Merchant Center (merchants.google.com) to your 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://www.shopify.com/?ref=after-dark-grafx 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://www.shopify.com/?ref=after-dark-grafx Learn How to Connect Google Merchant Shopping to Shopify. Step by step. Some sites referenced in this video: Google Ads – https://ads.google.com/home/ Google Merchant Center – https://merchants.google.com/ Things you will need to set this up: 1) Active Shopify Store not password protected 2) Returns, Shipping, Privacy Policy and Contact Information clearly stated on Shopify Store 3) Merchants.Google.com Account 4) Ads.Google.com Account with active billing on file and active account How to create a Google Adwords Account – https://ads.google.com How to create GOOGLE MERCHANTS ACCOUNT – https://www.google.com/intl/en_us/retail/get-started/?product=merchant-center How to Create Shopify Store Video 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQdN-w_9wZU&feature=emb_logo How to Create Shopify Store Video 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7dFG4jZZiM&t=4s Shopify Product Requirements: For the purposes of this how to video, you will need to make sure that the products in your Shopify store have all of the following items in order to be synced correctly. Name Price Weight SKU UPC or GTIN Brand Name Images (good size requirements are 1000px by 1000px 72 dpi) Assigned to a Collection NOTE: Merchants.google.com grabs SEO data from your products. You can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify Here: https://www.shopify.com/free-trial?ref=after-dark-grafx Use Quicktime Player To Record My Screencast Videos and edit them with: HitFilm FX 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://www.shopify.com/free-trial?ref=after-dark-grafx Disclaimers: Some links in description above are affiliate links that help me support the channel at no extra cost or are direct links to my existing accounts. After Dark Grafx James Byrne Sites referenced in this video above text are strictly for entertainment purposes and for the use of this how to video, any references to Google or Google Services, Shopify or other companies are trademarked and owned by their respective companies.
BABY RUDE DUDE COLLECTION Launches – Shopify December 08, 2020at 17:18 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Shopify Website Design and Development by After Dark Grafx in San Diego FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: RUDE DUDE CANDLES LAUNCHES BABY DUDE COLLECTION Rudedudecandles.com recently launched their “Baby Dude Collection”. After Dark Grafx recently updated rudedudecandles.com main collection page to allow for adding sub-categories under a Shopify Collection (Shopify does not allow for sub-categories to be shown without custom coding and it is on a theme by theme basis so contact us if you are interested in this development), custom coded the Shopify Abandoned Cart email to add a discount code to visitors if they leave the website, created some new category banners as well as coded the homepage to add the new Shopify Collection and announcing the BABY RUDE DUDE line of products. Example of Shopify Sub Categories for a Collection The Rude Dude BABY Collection was created for the sarcastic baby in all of us! *** PLEASE NOTE: RUDEDUDECANDLES.COM CONTAINS WHAT SOME MAY BELIEVE TO BE OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE. ***
RudeDudeCandles.com Shopify Design/Development August 31, 2020at 23:43 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of RudeDudeCandles.com – BAD NEVER SMELLED SOOO GOOD! – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to design and develop your new Shopify website. RudeDudeCandle Co. is owned and operated by Cali Cosmetics, Inc. an international brand. After doing such an excellent job on one of their brand websites, Tarocco-Baronesscali.com . Rude Dude contacted After Dark Grafx once again to create their “Rude Dude” website. They performed an an extensive search for a Shopify Expert who understood their brands and competencies. They enlisted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their new business with many more to come. “We have been selling candles for years and this just seemed like a good addition to our product line. After Dark Grafx has created several Shopify E-Commerce Websites for us in the past so this was a no brainer. They made it easy for us. 500 Stars!!!” – Owner – Eric J. Visit them today at: https://www.rudedudecandles.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a Shopify Website? WooCommerce Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
Germ-Bot.com – Shopify Development August 01, 2020at 01:06 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of Germ-Bot.com – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to design and develop your new Shopify website. GermBot (germ-bot.com) is owned and operated by California Precision Products, Inc. and Election Works, Inc. They contacted After Dark Grafx after an extensive search for a company who understood their product and vision and could just take it over to provide a professional result. They enlisted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their new business. GermBot was created out of the recent need for an all-inclusive hygiene station in the Polling Places during the Voting Process.. GermBot offers a portable sanitizing solution for offices large and small, excellent for events and gatherings and can be easily moved from room to room. It is 60lbs and only takes up 16″ by 64.5″ of available space so it can be placed in a corner or in tight spaces. Founded in 2020 by Sandy Hed of Election Works, Inc, and Joe Bean of California Precision Products, Inc., GermBot is ADA Compliant, includes a battery operated hands free gel dispenser, areas for customer supplied standard disinfectant wipes, multifold paper towel dispenser, 5.5″ X 8.5″ placard / tablet device mount, storage compartment and a 7 gallon trash can. GermBot offers discounts to wholesale suppliers for large orders. If you are interested in becoming a GermBot wholesaler, please contact them. “We are so busy, we just needed someone to take on the project with little to no guidance. James and his team delivered! They created our logo, then stickers for the sides of the GermBot as well as packaging. We then had them create the Shopify E-Commerce Website. They sent us tutorials and were able to explain what we needed in the simplest terms. We appreciated that. We are now having James and his team perform Search Engine Optimization Services. They made it easy for us. Thank you, 10 Stars!!!” – Owners, Germ-Bot.com Visit them today at: https:www.germ-bot.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a New Shopify Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
ParkWestLiquors.com – Shopify Development June 19, 2020at 00:40 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: After Dark Grafx announces the launch of ParkWestLiquors.com – Thank you for choosing After Dark Grafx to develop your new Shopify website. Park West Liquors contacted After Dark Grafx to design and develop a brand new Shopify E-Commerce Website for their business. Park West Liquors also needed a new logo. They again turned to After Dark Grafx to design a logo that matched their business brand. Needless to say, After Dark Grafx hit the nail on the head once again. “We were happy to provide our over 28 years of website, graphic design and eCommerce development experience to help ParkWestLiquors.com realize its’ full potential. We upgraded their payment gateways, utilized updated apps, added security enhancements, increased their page speed and mobile optimization and how they are represented on all of the latest media devices. The new design and integrations will help to increase traffic and build their network of loyal customers.” – James Byrne – Owner, USMC VET – After Dark Grafx Visit them today at: https://www.parkwestliquors.com and tell them James from After Dark Grafx sent you! Need a New Shopify Website? E Commerce Store? App Developed? SEO Services? Contact us today! FREE QUOTE!
How To Fix Shopify Photo Alignment and Photo Sizing June 12, 2020at 23:18 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx How To Fix Product Sizes in Shopify Are your products misaligned in Shopify? This is typically due to your product images being different sizes, cropped differently, etc. Images downloaded from the web are usually the biggest culprits. It is always best to photograph your own images for your eCommerce store so that all of your product images are the same width and height. The easiest way to fix the issue of image alignment on collection and home pages is to always upload all of your product photos at the exact same size. This involves adding extra space around product photos. Here is a FREE way to solve this problem. a) Watch This Video below or via this link: https://youtu.be/Na3Jp0OExH8 b) Go to: https://www.photopea.com – (you can also use photoshop, affinity, gimp or other image software but this online version is just like photoshop and it’s FREE) c) Find an image that you would like to use for your website d) In the Photo editor from B above, Create a NEW FILE and make the image size of that file 800px width by 800px tall. Some people like to make the images larger at 1200px by 1200px or larger, so for the instruction of this post, we will use 800×800 e) Fill the background color with white or the color you would like to use for the background of your images OR leave it transparent. ie: if leaving transparent, you should export your files as PNG files instead of JPGs as below to maintain the transparency f) Open up the image you would like to use for your product in the editor. You now have the editor with the 800×800 px file and the product image you just uploaded. g) Select the product image and select ALL then copy the image h) Go back to the 800×800 file and PASTE this image. It will be larger or smaller depending on image selected. Select Transition or Scale the product image to fit on the 800×800 file. I will usually add a guideline towards the bottom of the file a few pixels above the bottom so that all of my product images will all have the same BASELINE. This is good if you have multiple products shown on your COLLECTIONS or CATEGORY pages, and will fix the alignment so they are all in a row. i) Once you have the image centered on the 800×800 file. Select FILE — EXPORT or SAVE AS JPG – if you want a transparent background – save as PNG file. j) One last step is to optimize this image so it loads quickly. Head over to tinyjpg.com or tinypng.com (free) and upload your image(s). Then download the optimized files. k) Upload a few product images that will next to each other in category. If you did this correctly, all of your images should look the same height and width and be in a row and look awesome! That’s It! James Byrne is an Information Architect, USMC VET and the owner of After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx – Since 1992 “We Work After Dark, So You Don’t Have To!” Home
Klaviyo Email Marketing and SMS Platform April 30, 2020at 21:44 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Email Marketing Software For Any Size Business Klaviyo is an easy-to-use, centralized and cloud-based marketing system that allows eCommerce marketers to effectively and efficiently target, personalize, monitor and optimize their marketing campaigns, including email and Facebook campaigns. If you have used MailChimp, Constant Contact, Vertical Response or any other platform, you will be familiar with Klaviyo. After Dark Grafx is now a certified Klaviyo partner and is offering one free hour of Klaviyo Integration consulting for your Shopify website. Klaviyo seamlessly integrates into the larger eCommerce Systems to include but not limited to; Shopify , Shopify Plus, Big Commerce, WooCommerce, Magento and more. Enterprise ecommerce marketing isn’t just for the enterprise anymore Most ecommerce marketing software forces you to choose between being as effective as possible or moving fast. Klaviyo is different. Designed for growth-minded ecommerce merchants, Klaviyo gives you powerful functionality without sacrificing the time it takes for your marketing to make an impact on your bottom line. See all Klaviyo features on their website here: Klaviyo. Fast integrations that still pull in rich customer data Klaviyo is built from the ground up to pull in data and make it actionable. Our deep integrations with ecommerce platforms like Shopify, Shopify Plus, BigCommerce and Magento are easy to combine with data from other marketing tools to form a single cohesive view of any contact. Using your own homegrown system? No worries – their API will get you started. See integrations You can see full features on their website as well as pricing as they price it per email size. If you have more questions, please fee free to Contact Us If you are looking for: How To Install Klaviyo on Shopify Contact Us!.
Tarocco Baronessa Cali – Shopify Development & Design March 13, 2020at 01:23 am By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of https://www.tarocco-baronessacali.com/ After Dark Grafx Shopify Web Design services along with our Shopify Development services, enabled Tarocco Baronessa Cali a Cali Cosmetics, Inc. brand to quickly launch their Shopify Store. Tarocco Baronessa Cali initially contacted After Dark Grafx to provide Shopify Consulting Services. After Dark Grafx was then retained to perform the Shopify Design, Development, App Installation and configuration. “After Dark Grafx offered a simple, no nonsense approach to a custom website and design. The site focuses on product sales and conversion for one brand in our product offering. 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 then created several sub brand websites for our company. We will continue to use After Dark Grafx as our eCommerce Partner. They are currently working on Google Ads and Facebook Ads for our company. Excellent job! Excellent Service!” – Eric – 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. We also offer affordable, targeted Search Engine Optimization Services that are customized for your industry.
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.
Migrate Miva to Shopify October 24, 2019at 18:57 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Thinking of Migrating Miva to Shopify? There are many things to consider when migrating or moving your website from Miva Merchant to Shopify. Before you begin this process, it is best to contact After Dark Grafx via Chat (bottom right of this website), via our Contact Form – click here or via Phone Toll Free (888) 578-8300 or if in San Diego (619) 702-7377. This will save you in both time and money and the 30 minute consultation is FREE! TAKE AN INVENTORY OF YOUR MIVA STORE: You will want to take an inventory of what functionality is currently in place within Miva and see if this same type of functionality is available within Shopify. In some cases, you can change or alter the the functionality to best suit your needs but in some cases, you will either need to add a paid or free app from the Shopify App Store or contact a developer (like After Dark Grafx wink! wink!). To perform the upgrade or add advanced custom coding that Shopify or the theme that you choose does not offer. WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT SHOPIFY BEFORE MOVING (PROS, CONS, LIMITATIONS & BENEFITS) VIEW EXISTING SHOPIFY THEMES VIEW EXISTING APPS CONTACT A SHOPIFY DEVELOPER (We are Shopify Experts) USING A THIRD PARTY MIGRATION SERVICE PROS & CONS EXPORTING AND IMPORTING DATA INTEGRATING DESIGN CHANGES CODE FUNCTIONALITY CHANGES INSTALLING FREE AND PAID APPS SETTING UP THIRD PARTY SHIPPING AND THE COSTS INVOLVED SETTING UP PAYMENT GATEWAYS AND THE COSTS POINTING YOUR DOMAIN NAME LAUNCHING YOUR NEW STORE UPDATING THE SITE MAP WITH GOOGLE USING REDIRECTS SO YOU DO NOT LOSE “*SEO JUICE” This is just a basic list of what needs to be done before, during and after a migration from Miva Merchant Shopping Cart to the Shopify Platform. You can Sign Up for a 14 Day Free Trial with Shopify – Click Here! Contact us today click here for a FREE, 30 MINUTE, NO OBLIGATION consultation. Toll Free (888) 578-8300 Local: (619) 702-7377 Shopify’s post about Migrating to Shopify Click Here After Dark Tip: Make a Backup of your entire site and database before starting or making any changes or migrations. *SEO JUICE = Your current SEO standings or what links you currently have within the search engines.