How would I start up a shopify store under 18. I know you can have staff and stuff, but I don’t think I can do that with my basic plan. I have a legal guardian willing to help, but I don’t know how all this works. Could I have their info and my debit card hooked up to it. Would I need to use PayPal or Stripe, if so can I even do that under 18. Should I the store only under the legal guardians info and bank, and just have them pay me with a check or something every month. If so how would I transfer my site over to them. Please help, thanks!
Hey there! Great question and I’d be happy to help you with this.
If you are wanting to use the store on the Basic plan then you would want the account owner details to be set to your legal guardian. You can have your bank set to the payout account, but the account owner details need to belong to someone over 18.
If you are currently the account owner on file you can follow these steps:
- Log in as the current owner.
- Click Settings > Users and permissions.
- Click Transfer ownership.
- Enter the new owner’s email and your password.
- Click Transfer store ownership.
You can read more about this in our Help Center: Transferring store ownership.
While we do recommend that everyone has their own staff account on the store, it’s perfectly okay if you and your guardian share access to the store through their account owner login.