Whether you’re an ecommerce business with a long track record and are ready to take it to the next level, or you’re a Shopify developer working with clients, sooner or later, you’ll face a daunting problem:
how do I clone your Shopify store to a new account?
There are several reasons why Cloning your Shopify store
or just specific components of it to a new account is so helpful, and we’ve outlined the most prevalent ones below.
But, in any case, you are facing two significant problems.
- Even if you’re using CSV exports, manually cloning a Shopify store, or even your products, theme design, blog entries, and so on would take hours.
- Changes you make to one store may need to be reflected in the other.
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What are the Benefits of Cloning Your Shopify Store?
1. You could offer your products in multiple currencies
Improving your customer experience by localizing is a fantastic approach to do so.
You may operate two or more stores for your business by putting one for US clients, one for EU customers, and so on.
Gymshark, for example, has expanded worldwide with 11 international outlets and is highly localized.
The advantage of displaying the local currency is that your foreign consumers will know precisely how much they’ll pay without manually calculating the conversion rate.
You don’t have to stick to a flat conversion rate, eliminating exchange rate fluctuation.
In Europe, a product priced at $100 is approximately 85.57 Euros.
Because the odd retail price of 85.57 prohibits you from charging 85 Euro in your European shop, you could set the value at 85 Euros.
2. You could offer your products in multiple languages
According to studies, around 20% of the world’s population, or 1.5 billion people, speak English to some extent.
That is, approximately 6 billion people on the planet do not speak English.
You may lose millions of potential consumers if you just serve them in English if the sort of goods you sell would do exceptionally well in foreign markets.
You (or someone you hire) may translate the content while maintaining consistent overall design after cloning your Shopify store.
3. You can create more Test Stores
Having a test store as a Shopify developer, or an entrepreneur who likes to break things,
allows you to be more experimental and test theme and code changes without jeopardizing your live store.
You may simulate the live store’s data, pages, orders, items, and so on into your sandbox test store (often known as a staging environment) by duplicating it in your live test store.
4. You can create a Wholesale Store
Retailers are always on the lookout for new items to sell. If you have a unique product, wholesale may be a highly lucrative avenue for your business.
If you don’t currently have any wholesale orders or if they account for a significant portion of your revenue, allowing partners to place orders online will provide them with a better experience with your brand.
This can help you, and your staff manages wholesale transactions more efficiently.
You can also make your wholesale store password-protected to limit who can see your wholesale prices and offers.
Things to Do Before Cloning your shopify store
#1- Disable automatic Order fulfillment
To begin, we’d need to ensure that Shopify doesn’t send out automatic emails to the consumers if we’re moving orders.
Go into your new store’s Shopify Admin -> Settings -> Checkout. On this page, look for the area labeled “Order Processing.”
Ensure that the option “After an order has been paid” is switched to Do not automatically fulfill any of the order’s line items.
This is required so that the app may fulfill orders with the information in the file when importing Orders.
Otherwise, Shopify can automatically fulfill orders before the app can do so and will also send fulfillment notification emails on its own.
#2 – Disable Staff Order notifications
A Shopify notification email is sent to the store owner and perhaps other Shopify shop employees whenever a new order is created.
To disable these Staff notifications, go into Shopify Admin -> Settings -> Notifications and find the section Staff order notifications.
In the “Recipients” section, you can turn off notifications to any people to whom you don’t want to receive them. Don’t remove the recipient; instead, leave it in place so that you may enable these alerts after completing the move.
#3 – Set up locations
After that, you would need to duplicate the locations in your new store to match those in the old one.
It’s required to replicate Product Inventory and Order Fulfillment.
Go into your Shopify Admin -> Settings -> Locations in both stores. Check if the new store’s “Locations” section contains the exact locations as the old store.
The Location Name in both stores must be the same because the app will be utilizing names to match locations. The address of the location is unimportant.
How to Clone your shopify store?
#1- Associate Your Shopify Stores
The first step is to establish your source store. This is the shop you wish to clone.
After that, you’ll need to create a new Shopify account and designate it as your Destination Store, where the data will be copied.
You may have several Destination Stores.
You must have a Backup and restore App installed in both stores before you can do a store copy.
Finally, you must link your Source and Destination stores together via an Association.
#2 – Clone Your Shopify Store
This is why you’re here: a time-saving approach to replicate items from one shop to another.
From the Backup and restore section of your Source Store, choose “New Replay task” from the drop-down menu, then “Clone your store.”
Select “Only selected items” from the drop-down menu to copy certain goods, such as brands or categories, instead of the entire store. There’s so much leeway here!
Choose the item you wish to clone next (it’s best to start with something small if this is your first time). If you want your Source Store items to be seamlessly updated into your Destination Store(s), choose “Continuously clone changes.”
Any modifications made to any specified goods in your Source Store (that you wish to clone) will be automatically duplicated and updated in your Destination Store(s).
Finally, choose the stores you want to duplicate your items to. This is where you can pick more than one destination store.
#3- Exclude Product Attributes From Your Continuous Copy
The Backup and Restore app enables you to automate the transfer of some product attributes between your Source Store and Destination Store, but not all of them.
You may also opt to remove the Price from your store copy to offer a different price or currency for this product in your destination store.
You can opt-out of one or more of these criteria: Title, Description, Images, Price, Compare at Price, SKUs, and Tags.
#4- Sync Inventory Between Shopify Stores
In its most basic form, Shopify’s “Sync Shop” function enables merchants to synchronize their inventory across different Shopify shops.
Synchronization was previously a feature of the Backup and Restore App that enabled businesses to keep their products up-to-date between two or more Shopify stores.
Shopify announced that it will be introducing “Shopify Locations” during Unite 2018, allowing companies to manage numerous outlets and update inventory across all of them.
#5 – Dont Forget To Backup Your Store
The first commandment of web development is to have a backup. The second commandment of web development is: HAVE A BACKUP IN PLACE AT ALL TIMES.
We don’t mean to get personal, but we feel compelled to point out that you should always have a backup of your Shopify store before making any modifications.
When not sure if this relates directly or tangentially to the topic at hand, but it’s worth mentioning for those inclined toward reading things like this.
You might not know when you’ll make a mistake, or another program will malfunction.
Always have a backup in case something goes wrong, and you need to restore your account earlier.
Rather than risk losing the hours of work invested in building your stores, it’s preferable to maintain a backup.
The simplest method to back up your Shopify store is with the Backup and Restore App.
You just set it and forget about it, knowing that a backup will be created automatically at the end of the day. Manually initiating a backup is also possible.
Conclusion: Automation is Key
It can be a huge time sink to clone your Shopify stores.
Automating as much of the setup and maintenance process as feasible will allow you to devote more time to assisting clients and promoting your companies. Use the Backup and Restore App to automate the process of manually cloning Shopify stores.
Common things To Know.
- There may already be merchandise available at other merchants.
- When you clone a Shopify store by this technique, the additional products will be added, and the ones with the same Handle (or E-mail or Coupon code) will be updated. Others will not be altered.
- You may use this technique to convert your store goods to any other languages you have in your other business.
- Exporting the backup to Microsoft Excel, handing it over to a professional translator, and importing the translated file into your new store is all you need to do.
- You may also enable automatic repeated data copying between Shopify stores daily, weekly, or monthly.
Your Possible Next Steps
- Create a second Shopify account.
- Install Shopify’s Backup & Restore shop to use the browser-to-browser sync feature. You must install it in all your stores to clone them back and forth.
- Go to your account’s “Free Trials” section in the App settings and click “Activate My Free Trial.”
- Check out our other tutorials to discover what else you can accomplish with Shopify.
