Creating stores in Shopify Plus with Organization Settings

To create a new store, you need to have the Stores permission and you need to be on the Shopify Plus plan.

When you create a store, it's usually added right away. However, if the requested store exceeds your contract limits, then a trial store is created instead. A request is sent to Shopify Plus to add the additional store, and you'll be prompted to approve an extra fee. Within a few days, your request will be processed and your trial store is upgraded. You'll be sent an email confirming the change.

Considerations for creating a new store

When you create a store in an organization, you become the new store's owner. To change a store's owner after it's been created, you need to use that store's Shopify admin.

During the process of creating a store, you're asked to provide a purpose for your new store. The purpose that you select might affect the billing or setup of your store, but won't restrict its features or capabilities. If you're not sure which option to choose, then contact Shopify Plus Support.

Importing data from an existing store

When you create a store, you can import the following data from a store that already exists in your organization:

• themes: include themes from your selected store
• products and collections: includes all products, variants, collections, and their metafields (excluding reference types and category metafields) that you have on your selected store
• files: includes all images, videos, and files you've uploaded to your selected store

Considerations for importing themes into a new store

When you import a theme into a new store, any references to files that are hard-coded in that theme continue to point to the files in the original existing store. If a file in the original store is deleted, then the link to that file is broken in the theme in your new store. To prevent links from being broken, make sure that you import files when you import themes, and that you update any URLs in your theme so that they point to the files in your new store.

Create a new store from Organization Settings

To create a new store, you need to have the Stores permission.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, click Settings.
2. In the Organization section, click Organization.
3. Click Create store.
4. In the Store type section, select the purpose of your new store.
5. In the Profile section, enter a name and a store URL.
6. Optional: In the Internal name and icon section, enter a name and a two-letter or three-letter initial for the store. The name and initials that you enter in this section display within the Shopify admin only, and don't display to customers.
7. Optional: To import data, in the Import data from an existing store section, click Select store, and then select the store.
8. Select the data that you want to copy to your new store by completing any of the following steps:
   • To select a theme, do either of the following:
     • If there is more than one theme in the store that you selected, then click Select themes to select the themes that you want to copy.
     • If there is only one theme in the store that you selected, then select Themes to copy the theme.
   • Select Products and Collections to copy all the products, variants, and their metafields (excluding reference types).
   • Select Files to copy all files, including all images and videos.
9. Click Create Store.

You can now log in to the store and start adding details.

Configuring store-specific settings and information

To configure settings for a specific store, such as its payment providers or shipping settings, use that store's Shopify admin.

To make any of the following changes, contact Shopify Plus Support:

• change a store from development to production
• deactivate or close a store
• downgrade your store's Shopify subscription plan

Accessing a store

If you're the organization owner or a user with the Organization administrator system role, and someone other than you creates a store in that organization, then you won't be able to access that store directly after it's created. In order to gain access to a specific store, you'll need to first go to the Organization settings of a store in the organization that you do have access to, and then select the new store.

After you have accessed the new store from your the Organization section of your Shopify admin, you can then access the store as usual.

Steps:

1. Log in to the Shopify admin of one of the stores in the organization that you already have access to.
2. From your Shopify admin, go to Settings > General.
3. Click Organization.
4. In the Stores section, click the name of the store that you want to access.