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Independent Shopify guides · United States

Build your store with a clear head.

Step-by-step Shopify tutorials for US merchants: store setup, payments, sales tax, shipping and the apps that actually earn their fee. Every figure sourced and dated.

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What you will find here

Guides written for the bill you will actually pay, not the one on the pricing page.

$ / month

The whole bill, written out

Plan, card processing, apps, theme and shipping added into one number, with the date each figure was read on shopify.com.

sales tax

Your state, named

Sales tax and economic nexus explained as orientation, attributed to the state revenue department in question, and never dressed up as tax advice.

admin > settings

The real screens

Every step names the actual menu label in the Shopify admin, in the order you meet it, so you are never translating a stale screenshot.

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