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How to quickly launch an online store with Shopify?

Xendit
Last updated: October 14, 2022
 •  4 min read

With COVID-19 related restrictions in place, many retail businesses are already shifting sales through online channels to fulfil the newly increasing digital demands. Some choose to set up an eCommerce store while others engage with customers via social media and messaging apps.

As competition in the digital spaces gets tighter, businesses have to compete in reaching out and retaining customers. Beyond setting up online channels, businesses have to provide a seamless online shopping experience for end-customers.

Bring your business online instantly with Shopify

Shopify offers you the simplest way to quickly launch an online store. You no longer need to worry over server and development costs. Shopify plan comes with free hosting, domain and SSL certificates. With a clean and user-friendly admin interface, you can intuitively manage your business on your own. To get started with Shopify, you can simply sign up and create your store from Shopify main website. 

Shopify is perfect for:

  • Solopreneurs or SMEs looking to set up an online store quickly
  • Dropshippers or distributors looking to reach more customers
  • Brands with large inventory and different variation of products

Shopify offers three plans: Basic Shopify, Shopify and Advanced Shopify. You can select a plan that suits your business needs.

Basic
US$ 26
Get all the basic Shopify features and sell unlimited products.
Shopify
US$ 71
Comes with more ecommerce features like gift cards and abandoned cart recovery.
Advanced
US$266
Get advanced reports, automatically calculated shipping rates, and more.
*monthly costs for yearly subscriptions

If you want to explore more before selecting a plan, you can enjoy a 14 days trial for free.

Perfectly customizable

Once you’re logged in to Shopify, you can start customizing your store with your style and branding. There are hundreds of themes available (free and paid) in the Shopify Theme Store or other sites like ThemeForest. You can then easily add products to your store and start selling online.

Ideal for scaling

Online stores with large inventory can use Shopify’s flexible collection features. You can group your products into collections to make it easier for customers to find them by categories of items such as clothes for men, women, children or items in a certain size or color.

If you need additional features to scale your business, Shopify App store is packed with a variety of add-on apps, such email marketing integration, contact form and even SEO audit for your store to reach more customers.

Customer Support

Unlike open source eCommerce solutions, Shopify also has a 24-hour support team to assist you in building and maintaining your stores.

Need further customization?

While Shopify is easy enough to build on your own, you can also consult with Shopify experts to take your store to the next level. Shopify experts, not to be confused with Shopify support, are independent developers who specialize in building and optimizing a Shopify store. There are hundreds of Shopify experts like SSDC available for hire to help you scale your business.

Improving Shopify Store Payment Experience with Xendit

With e-commerce and online transactions, cart abandonment or payment drop-off rates can be up to 70%. This makes it crucial for businesses to address and reduce friction to improve their customer checkout experience and increase revenue.

Xendit can help you provide a better checkout experience for your customers with a variety of payment channels, integrated directly to your Shopify checkout page. 

Indonesia has a fragmented payment market, with different preferences spanning over 17,508 islands across the archipelago. With Xendit integrated on your Shopify store, your customers can pay you with:

  • Bank transfers – your customers can pay into Big 4 banks, which means no transfer fees no matter what bank they use
  • Cards – debit and credit cards from all over the world
  • e-Wallets – Ovo, Dana, LinkAja, largest e-Wallet play in Indonesia
  • Retail outlets – Alfamart, perfect for customers in suburban cities

Simplicity

No more tracking receipts. We can send both you and your customer an email confirmation at the moment of payment, so that you can focus on your business, instead of on accounting.

Security

Xendit processes millions of transactions every month for customers like Traveloka, Tiket and Samsung.  Xendit is PCI DSS Level 1 compliant (the highest certification in the world) so we go to extreme lengths to keep you and your customers safe.  

Pricing

Xendit only makes money when you do.  We charge a small fee for each transaction where your customer pays you, while you can use our invoices absolutely free.

Integrate your Shopify store with Xendit in 3 easy steps

Step 1: Install Xendit payments on Shopify store

Login to your Shopify account and navigate to our documentation to download Xendit payment plugin. You will be redirected to your Shopify account, click ‘Install Payment Provider’ to proceed. You will then be directed to Shopify’s payment settings, click ‘select additional payment method’ in Alternative payments and choose the payment provider that is provided by Xendit. You will need to input your ‘user id’ and ‘key’.

Activate Xendit on Shopify

Step 2: Generate and copy your API key

Login to your Xendit account in a new tab. On your dashboard navigate to Settings > Security > Developers > API Keys. Simply generate a secret key. Copy the key and paste it on ‘Integration Credentials’ on your Shopify dashboard.

Step 3: Start Accepting Payments with Xendit

Click ‘activate’ and your end customer can see the payment channel right away.

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