Become a Shopify Master With Our Cheat Sheet

Shopify is one of the best e-commerce platforms around. If you use it to run your store, here are a number of tips, hacks, and shortcuts you can use to slash admin time and boost sales in your online store.

Shopify Keyboard Shortcuts

Speed up your use of Shopify by mastering the many shortcuts available.  To see a list of all the shortcuts, press “?” while you are in the admin area. To close the list, press “Esc.”

TIP: Where the shortcuts involve pressing multiple keys, press these in the order that they are displayed from left to right.

Function	Shortcut
Focus search bar	S
Focus filter bar	F
Go to your profile	M E
Pretend to be working	B O S S
Log out	B Y E
Add product	A P
Add collection	A C
Add discount	A D
Add blog post	A B
Add blog	A L
Add page	A G
Add customer	A U
Go to Home	G H
Go to Orders	G O
Go to Abandoned checkouts	G B C
Go to Products	G P P
Go to Products / Transfers	G P T
Go to Products / Inventory	G P I
Go to Products / Collections	G P C
Go to Products / Gift cards	G P G
Go to Customers	G C
Go to Analytics	G N
Go to Discounts	G D
Go to Online Store / Overview	G W O
Go to Online Store / Blog posts	G W B
Go to Online Store / Pages	G W P
Go to Point of Sale / Overview	G T O
Go to Point of Sale / Locations	G T L
Go to Apps	G A
Go to Settings / General	G S G

(See the full list of shortcuts on the Shopify website.)

Power User Tips, Hacks & Useful Apps

These Shopify tips & hacks cover nearly everything you need to supercharge your experience with the e-commerce platform.

Import Data Using CSV

Use CSV (Comma Separated Values) files to import and export products, orders, and more to save time with large tasks.

You can create, edit, and export CSV files in a spreadsheet app like Excel or Google Sheets.

Use these to edit details of your products and import them directly into your store. This might be useful if you are switching to Shopify from another platform.

Once you have your CSV file ready:

• Go to Admin
• Click on “Products”
• Click on “Import”
• Click “Choose File”
• Find your file
• Click “Upload File”

NOTE: The maximum file size is 15 MB.

Display Customer Reviews

Customer reviews have a big effect on buyers because they are an important form of social proof.

• Download the Yotpo app
• Follow the instructions to add reviews
• No coding required

TIP: Buy the premium version for extra features including sharing reviews on your social account, display your star ratings in AdWords ads, Community Q&A feature, provide coupons in return for reviews, post replies to reviews, and more.

Schedule for Future Publishing

Not ready to post a blog post, product, page, or collection? Set it up to publish in the future and streamline your workflow:

For products and collections:

• Go to the Products page and select a single product
• OR go to the Collections page and select a collection
• Go to the Sales channels section
• Click on the calendar icon
• Choose the date and time for publishing
• Click “Save”

For blogs and pages:

• Select the page or blog you want to publish
• Click “Visibility”
• Select “Hidden”
• Click “Set a specific publish date”
• Choose the date and time
• Click “Save”

Optimize Meta Data

Get your products found in the search engines by optimizing your meta titles and meta descriptions in Shopify to include your main keyword for each page.

First, choose a theme that allows you to edit your meta data. Once you have a theme in place, you can edit any page. For the home page:

• Go to “Online Store”
• Click “Preferences”
• Edit the meta data

For all other pages:

• Go to “Online Store”
• Go to “Pages”
• Choose the page you want to edit
• Edit the meta data

For individual products:

• Select a product you want to edit
• Look for “Edit website SEO” and click on this
• Edit the meta data

Make Use of Tags

Tags can save you a lot of time by labeling orders, customers, products, and more. Once you have tags in place, you can filter and search faster.

There are six types of tags to choose from:

• Product
• Transfer
• Order
• Draft Order
• Customer
• Blog post

To add a tag:

• Open the product, blog post, etc, that you want to tag
• Go to the “Tags” section
• Enter a name for the tag (or choose an existing tag)
• Click “Save”

You can then search for a tag whenever you want to when using Shopify:

• Go to the search bar
• Type in the name of the tag
• Select from the results

Split Test Product Pricing

Split testing pricing for your products allows you to discover the best market price so you can obtain more conversions. To do this:

• Download and install the Quant Price app
• Follow the instructions to split test two different prices for the same product
• Choose a product that is selling over 100 a month for the best results
• Use the results to change your product pricing accordingly

Edit Product Images

Use Shopify’s Image Editor to resize images of products in your store and improve them so they look more enticing to shoppers.

• Choose the product you want to edit
• Click the image file and then “Edit”

You have a range of options to choose from:

• Enhance (to make an instant improvement to the image)
• Crop
• Change the Aspect Ratio
• Resize
• Change orientation
• Change the colors (saturation, tint, warmth, fade)
• Change contrast, brightness, shadows, highlights
• Draw on the image
• Add text to an image

When you are happy with the edits you have made, click “Apply” to save them.

Upsell Products

Upsell products in your Shopify store to make more sales from existing customers.
Download and install the In-Cart Upsell app
Set it up to automatically recommend similar products to shoppers when they add a product to their carts.

Track Your Shipping

Install the AfterShip app to track all your shipping activity. Using this app, you can:

• Enable your customers to track their orders
• Create a branded tracking page
• Send SMS and email alerts automatically to save time
• Import all your shipments automatically
• Track deliveries with over 380 couriers
• Filter your shipments by couriers, dates, statuses, and more

Reduce Cart Abandons with Checkout Boost

You can reduce cart abandons and make more sales with help from a dedicated app:

• Download and install the Checkout Boost app
• Follow the instructions to set up the app
• When a shopper is about to leave, they will receive get a pop-up asking them to share the product on social media in return for a bonus
• Choose from various bonuses including free shipping and cash bonuses

Split Test Your Calls to Action

The copy you use for your CTAs can affect conversion rates. For example, you could get different amounts of sales with variations like:

• “Add to Cart”
• “Buy Now”
• “I Want It”

To split test the copy of your CTAs on a Shopify product page:

• Choose a testing tool that works with Shopify stores like Convert
• Add the scripts, choose your goal, and configure the test settings (most tools have detailed guides for Shopify
  stores, like this guide from Convert
• Run your tests

Find a full guide to how to run a test here, or hire a conversion rate specialist to run the tests for you.

Use Shopify Bulk Actions

Bulk Actions help you carry out multiple actions all at once, saving you time. To use these:

Go to Admin

• Select the items you want to edit
• Go to “Bulk Actions”
• Choose the action that you require

There are many bulk actions to choose from, with different options available depending on the Admin page you are on.

Orders:

• Fulfill orders
• Capture order payments
• Archive orders
• Unarchive orders
• Add tags
• Remove tags
• App functions

Orders > Drafts:

• Delete draft orders
• Add tags
• Remove tags

Orders > Abandoned checkouts:

• Archive checkouts
• Unarchive checkouts

Products:

• Publish selected products
• Hide selected products
• Delete selected products
• Add tags
• Remove tags
• Add to collection
• Remove from collection
• App functions

Products > Inventory:

• Disable selected Gift Cards

Products > Collections:

• Publish selected collections
• Hide selected collections
• Delete selected collections

Products > Gift Cards:

• Disable selected Gift Cards

Customers:

• Delete selected customers
• Add tags
• Remove tags

Discounts:

• Disable Discounts
• Enable Discounts
• Delete Discounts

Online Store Content areas

Blog Posts:

• Publish selected blog posts
• Unpublish selected blog posts
• Add tags
• Remove tags
• Delete blog posts

Pages:

• Publish selected pages
• Unpublish selected pages
• Delete pages

Navigation / URL Redirects:

• Delete selected redirects

Settings / Files:

• Delete selected files

(See full information about using Bulk Actions on the Shopify website.)

Supercharge Your Shopify Experience

If you use Shopify to sell products online, make sure you are getting the most out of it by taking advantage of all the above tips and enjoy more success with your store today.

Futher Reading

Not yet Shopify user? Be sure to read our full review of Shopify and how it compares with BigCommerce.