Hey @jfairchild If there is a non-profit involved please see https://www.shopify.com/nonprofits
to duplicate our shop with our store to have a separate location to shop
For merchants using Shopify Plus use an expansion store.
For other plans, though I haven't heard any anecdotes recently, it's not unheard of to try and negotiate to a second store at a cheaper price especially with a reduced product inventory of only a handful.
There is also the shopify lite plan $9/mth but that does not come with a website , its only for embedding buy-buttons in other websites that go to a shopify checkout process and give you the ecommerce admin without the online-sales channel.
If you need to pursue any of the following with expertise contact me with details.
Frontend user experience
To just present a different frontend experience there's also setting up specific pages using layout tags, or a different theme with the parameter: '?preview_theme_id=' in specific links, or using a pagebuilder app.
Buy buttons
Buy buttons can let you basically embed ecommerce anywhere you can add code.
https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-sales-channels/buy-button
Permalinks
Permalinks let you send people directly to checkout with products.
https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-design/cart-use-permalinks-to-pre-load-the-cart/td-p/613702
https://shopify.dev/apps/channels/cart-permalinks
Arbitrary Donation Amounts
If you need people to be able to enter any arbitrary amount for a product they want there is also a new tipping feature built into /checkout, just change the labels/locale strings to "donation" instead of tip. And make test orders and review every step of the process to validate that's suitable when you need arbitrary amounts.
Otherwise it basically takes an app to generate a product with any arbitrary price at time of customer input. There are a few that do this, or use the draft system. This can also be scripted with usemechanic https://tasks.mechanic.dev/create-a-draft-order-from-the-cart .
Alternatively use paypal https://www.paypal.com/donate/buttons
Tips
- Remember to set any donation products to be inventoryless to avoid out of stock situations.
- Remember to set any donation products to be digital to avoid shipping steps.
- If you have accelerated checkout buttons disabled on normal product pages you may want to enable it for donation product pages.
- If you use a payment-installments service you may want to disable that from being shown on donation product pages.
- And validate your tax setup with an actual accountant.
Goodluck
