I am excited about this feature but have a few questions. I have two shopify sites at the moment in Australia and NZ. The AU one is the main one and I would like to combine if this option works well.
1 - How do the custom pages work once - do I make one page "examplepage1"and it will automatically create www.alkaviva.com.au /examplepage1 and www.alkaviva.co.nz / examplepage1
2 - will all the links i create automatically be made for the right page, ie will www.alkaviva.co.nz / examplepage1 links be for NZ pages only not to the original .au website
3 - will buyers in AU be able to buy on the .nz site? I would like to set the currency rate to keep pricing stable but donāt want people to take currency
4 - How would I use terms like Australia in the .com.au page and have them come up as New Zealand in the .co.nz pages
Yes. When you create a page, that page and its contents are automatically created and accessible on all domains.
As in 1., when you create pages or content, that content is viewable on all domains. Itās possible to conditionally display the content that appears on each domain using the {{ request.host }}liquid filter; this would require the input of a developer or Shopify Partner with working knowledge of liquid.
At the moment, buyers will be able to manually purchase from .co.nz/in NZD or .com.au/in AUD, regardless of where they are shipping their order to. We plan to make changes soon so that this does not happen at checkout, and buyers will only be able to checkout in the currency that matches their shipping location (if you choose to setup your currencies in such a manner).
Much the same as your second question, you can use the {{ request.host }} liquid filter to customize content that appears within a page on each domain for Australia and New Zealand.
No. Unless you specifically hard code links into your theme, Shopify will always create your links as relative links, not absolute links.
For example, if you create a page with the URL handle /contact-us and place this page in your main navigation, a buyer browsing from Australia will navigate to website.com.au/pages/contact-us, and a buyer browsing from New Zealand will navigate to website.co.nz/pages/contact-us automatically. Both āContact Usā pages will display the same content, unless you customize them with the {{ request.host }} filter I previously mentioned, which enables you to conditionally display different content based on the domain being visited
This question is regarding Social Media sales channels like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest & Google, and how they work with International domains and/or Shopify Payments Multi-Currency support:
Does Shopify publish product prices to these channels in the currency of the user or does Shopify publish to these sales channels in the Store currency only?
Hey @Art_JulieMiller , Shopifyās sales channels such as Facebook, Instagram and Google Shopping do not yet support multiple currencies; it is something we will be considering.
For remarketing your products in multiple currencies via mechanisms like the Facebook pixel, you can use a product feed app that supports multiple currencies, such as Data Feed Watch.
However, on behalf of all people getting confused --including me-- on how to EVEN GET STARTED on having .de,.fr,.us etc.
Would you be kind enough to give us a step by step procedure using Shopify?
From what Iāve gathered, I need to buy new domain for each country? (shop.de, shop.fr, etc). Do I buy it from a 3rd party domain provider or does Shopify already gives that option?
Iām under the impression that this requires a separate Shopify store for each country? Then thatās a huge workload. Unless Iām missing something.
Confused about how subdomain works on Shopify and how I can set it up. We are using Basic Shopify plan.
You donāt need to buy a new domain for each country - you can use this feature with subdomains if you wish to. If you have a domain purchased from Shopify, you can set up a subdomain directly within the admin (Online Store ā Domains ā Manage). If youāre using a domain from a 3rd party, you will need to refer to their instructions to create this, and then you can connect it to Shopify.
If you do want to use top level domains for international targeting (e.g. website.com, website.ca, website.fr) then yes you would need to purchase these. You can do this directly in Shopify or with a 3rd party domain provider of your choice - either will work with this feature.
No, you do not need a separate store for each country. The idea of international domains is that you can expand internationally within a single store.
The international domains feature is only available to merchants on the Shopify plan or higher, so to see all the options we are talking about you would need to upgrade from Basic Shopify.
Then I guess I go for subdirectory method? Iāve read that somewhere on this thread as well.
Sorry mate, really confused here. Given the plan (basic) that we have and we really donāt want to jump into an upgraded plan during this infant stage of our site.
We are so looking forward for workarounds on this. Cheaper yet effective. Weāll surely dive into Shopify international domain once the budget is ready.
You cannot yet setup subdirectories to target different countries/region, but this is something we are looking into for the international domains feature.
If your site is in the early stages of growing, you can certainly add multiple domains into Shopify for now while growing your domestic presence, until such time where you are ready to make the jump into international domains later on. If you have the domains added, they will be ready to go if and when you make that jump later. If you donāt, then youāre unaffected.
In the meantime if your shop is using Shopify Payments, you can offer shopping in multiple currencies on the same domain for your international buyers, and then use our free Geolocation app to guide shoppers to the currency that matches their location on the storefront.
Iāve set this up on a store recently, however I have a few SEO concerns. Weāre originally based in the UK on a .co.uk domain and we have set up a translated version in French on a .FR domain.
My biggest concern is with duplicate content as to use the Geolocation App we need the .co.uk store to also be available in French and the French store to also be available in English. This effectively creates 2 completely duplicate stores - the .CO.UK/FR site and the .FR site are exact duplicates and the .CO.UK and .FR/EN will be exact duplicates.
One possibility would be to make the English store only in English and the French store only in French however the Geolocation app does then not work - it returns a 404 rather than redirecting to the appropriate domain. So in conclusion we can set up a French site however if a French user lands on the UK site we have no way of redirecting these users to the French site.
Hey @danieltiffany , you certainly shouldnāt need to have both languages published on both domain for this to work with the Geolocation app. Iāve forwarded this to our support team to take a closer look for you - they will be in touch!
Weāre expanding across Europe with international domains, using www.ogglio.org as our main domain, then redirecting the customers to www.ogglio.de etc.) based on their location. Iāve just downloaded the Geolocation App but itās not working. It does not let me do anything: I cannot access āRecommendationsā or āSelectorsā, I can only click on a button that says āLearn moreā but thatās not what I need, as it send me around on a loop. Can you or one or your colleagues look into this? Maybe the App need to be unlocked somehow? Please let me know, many thanks, Giuseppe
Hi @OGGLIO , in this case it would be best to speak to our support team - this sounds like something simple within your setup that our team can take a look at (we donāt have access to your store from the forum).
Hi Cole,
This definitely looks interesting. I have a couple of questions regarding this feature (as we are assessing to provide our store in multiple new regions and languages).
Can we enable/disable products on specific stores - eg. a product is available in the US, but not available in Canada (could be for legal or operations reasons)
The domains dont really need to be ISO code of the country right? We can have a can.shop.com for canada (for example)?
Can we have different content of US English and Canada English for a product description or a page?
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thanks you for your time. will give yall a update when i get updated
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