Shopify Hong Kong

Shopify's pricing varies based on the volume of your sales and the payment gateway you choose to use. You will need to pay a monthly fee for keeping your store online (i.e. Hosting fee), and a transaction fee for each sale you make.

Further information can be found here.

Technically you can target customers in China, however, since Shopify is providing the hosting, your website will not be 'behind the firewall' and may suffer from slower loading speeds, and potentially face SEO challenges. If your main target audience is China, we strongly recommend a self-hosted solution such as Craft Commerce or Magento instead.

Shopify can handle a large number of products, and the administration interface does allow for bulk management through spreadsheet import. However, your data structure must conform to the Shopify standard.

With Shopify, we have access to an extensive range of structural "themes" that provide an excellent starting point to build from. Our design team will work with you to explore the right colour and typographic systems to perfectly align with your brand.

Working with Digital Butter, we aim to have you ready to launch in between 4 and 6 weeks, largely dependent on the scale of your inventory and how complete your content already is before we start. We spend this time collaborating with you on design, content development, search engine optimisation and in planning your Digital Strategy. It is important to note that in order to complete your project within this 4-6 week timeline, you will need to have your product database completed before we start. If you are not yet that far along, then your project may need longer to launch.

In our experience, content is almost always a contributing factor in any project delays we may face. It is important to understand the scale of your project, and to decide early on if you are able to resource content development in house, or if you need help.

You will also need to ensure that all of the below are taken care of well in advance of starting your Shopify project:

• Your business is already registered and you have a bank account so that you are able to take payments online. Whilst this may seem trivial at first glance, online security is a serious business and not all businesses are pre-approved to take payments online.
• Your product database is complete, and you have relevant descriptions, photography and video (if relevant). Before we starting discussing any design concepts, it is imperative that we understand the depth of your content so that we can understand what we are showcasing online.
• You have a plan for fulfilment/shipping your product. In order to design the best possible user experience, we need to understand the whole product purchasing and fulfilment workflow. We also need to ensure that you have an established relationship your chosen with logistics providers (e.g. DHL, FedEx) so that registering with these companies has happened well in advance of launching the new website so that orders can be taken.
• You have all of your legal documentation and shipping/return policies defined. As you'll be selling product, it is imperative that you have all of the necessary legal work in place by the time you go live.

With dozens of ecommerce site launches behind us, we have experience with each of these potential pain points, and can guide you through this process if you are in the early stages.