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.
No income promises. No numbers from memory. affiliate link.
What you will find here
Guides written for the bill you will actually pay, not the one on the pricing page.
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.
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.
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.