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.
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://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 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.
GetItPowerSports.Com – Shopify Design & Development July 11, 2019at 18:59 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of GetItPowerSports.com After Dark Grafx Shopify Web Design services along with our Shopify Development services, enabled Get It Power Sports to quickly launch their Shopify Store. GetItPowerSports.com initially contacted After Dark Grafx to provide Shopify Consulting Services for their existing group of website brands. After Dark Grafx was then retained to perform the Shopify Design, Development and App Installation and configuration for GetIitPowerSports.com. “After Dark Grafx offered a custom website design approach to focus on product sales and conversion. They setup and integrated Shopify payments, shipping and inventory management and offered a Custom Shopify Development and coding solution to optimize our product pages. We basically, said –> Just take care of it! And they DID! AWESOME!” – Eric F. 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.
Kingfisher Woodworks – Shopify Setup, Design & Integration June 25, 2019at 22:22 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx After Dark Grafx announces the launch of KingfisherWoodWorks.com ! After Dark Grafx offered a simple design approach to emulate but not copy the previous website. They setup and integrated Shopify payments, Shopify shipping and offered a Custom Shopify Development and coding solution to optimize our product pages. Kingfisher Woodworks initially contacted After Dark Grafx to consult on their existing Miva Merchant Website. After discussing the pros and cons of each platform, billing methods as well as ease of integration with other apps and systems, we chose to move and re-build the entire website into the Shopify Platform. Kingfisher was able to easily add, reorganize and update their custom-made wooden swords for Japanese Martial Arts product line after a short phone and screen share consultation. “After Dark Grafx is a Shopify Setup Expert that was able to quickly integrate and setup our Shopify Store. They offered valuable insight on which free and paid Shopify apps to use. They used their custom Shopify Development skills to customize our product pages. We have over 1200 inscriptions that can be added to our wooden swords with a simple to use interface for our customers. They built a custom Shopify solution for use while utilizing one of the paid options apps to achieve what we needed for our product pages. Awesome! With a simple, short, online consultation we were able to understand how the order and shipping process worked very quickly with Shopify’s simple interface.” We appreciate you choosing After Dark Grafx to design and develop your new Shopify website. Visit them today at: http://www.kingfisherwoodworks.com.
Mistralsoap.com New Shopify Website Launched December 11, 2018at 18:37 pm By: James Byrne After Dark Grafx Mistralsoap.com new Shopify Website Launched with this Holiday season version just in time for the holidays. Be sure to visit mistralsoap.com or mistralmen.com for excellent deals on soaps and beauty products. We are proud to have them as a part of the After Dark Grafx family. From developing their first Miva site over 10 years ago to their new redesign and Shopify Development, Mistral has placed it’s confidence in After Dark Grafx once again. Since 1994, Mistral has crafted exceptional quality soaps and beauty products. Their exquisite fragrances and superior formulations celebrate the body while nourishing and soothing the skin. With the lush landscape of Provence as their laboratory, they invite you to experience the transformative power of Mistral. NOTE: FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OVER $58.00 “After Dark Grafx has been an integral part of our online growth. We know that we are in good hands and do not have to worry about our website. We enlisted James and his company over 10 years ago to create our first eCommerce website with Miva Merchant. We have grown and have now moved on to Shopify to better suite our needs in the marketplace. James and his team integrated and added and recommended the proper Shopify Apps that allow us to be successful today. We know that After Dark Grafx is just an email or phone call away, after all – They work After Dark, So you don’t have to!” – MISTRAL, LLC.