Shopify – First Steps, Tips & Tricks

On this page you will find some short illustrated tutorials explaining how to use Shopify. These are the absolute basics, however, after creating products and category for the first time, many customers have already internalized Shopify’s intuitive system to such an extent that many questions can be solved with the official Shopify documentation or with DIY (“Do it yourself”).

If you get stuck, we will of course be happy to support you through the known channels.

Change Account language in Shopify

Customizing the language of your account in Shopify, which affects the language of the administration area, can be done in a few steps.

Create product in Shopify

Creating products on Shopify is quite simple. However, there are some things you can configure in more detail. To create a product, navigate to the “Products” item in the Shopify admin area on the left.

In the overview that opens, there is a green button labeled “Add product”.

Create categories/collections in Shopify

Creating categories (also called collections) in Shopify is easier than you think. With the following tips and tricks, you will become a pro.

To create a category, navigate to the “Products” item on the left in the Shopify admin area and under “Products” -> “Colllections”. There you will find a green button labeled “Create Collection”. Click on it.

Bulk editing of products in Shopify

When you have to edit multiple products and have to manually call up, change, and save each product to do so, you can quickly run out of steam. Fortunately, Shopify natively offers multiple ways to bulk edit products (including variants).
Let’s move on to Shopify’s bulk editing tool.

Customize navigation menus in Shopify

All navigation areas can be controlled in Shopify via navigation menus, which you can define autonomously from each other.


How to adjust the order, add, edit or delete menu items you will learn here.

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Shopify – bulk editing of products

Bulk editing of products in Shopify When multiple products need to be edited and each product needs to be manually accessed, modified, and saved, you…

Shopify – Create Collections

Create Collections in Shopify Creating categories, also called collections in Shopify, is easier than you think. With the following tips and tricks, you will become…

Shopify – Customize Navigation Menu

Navigation menus in Shopify All navigation areas can be controlled in Shopify via navigation menus, which you can define autonomously from each other. Basically, Shopify…

Shopify – Create a product

Create products in Shopify Creating products on Shopify is quite simple. However, there are some points where you simply get along better with a short…

Shopify – Change account language

Change account – or store language of Shopify admin area Customizing the language of your account in Shopify, which affects the language of the administration…

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