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Shopify is a leading global commerce company, providing trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify have agreed to provide enrolled schools with free webstores.
Please contact white.richardwayne@gmail.com to:
request your own Shopify webstore
add your school to the consolidated webstore
schedule Shopify training
Fees
Note that while Shopify do not make any money from on-line sales, the banking/credit card fees are unavoidable. This is no different from SchoolCashOnLine or Rycor (which have an annual per student charge and a online transaction charge). These banking fees vary depending on the credit card used. Basic domestic credit card payments are typically 2.9% + CA$0.30 per transaction while International + AMEX is 3.5% + CA$0.30 per transaction.
Please bear this fee in mind when considering pricing of your products. For example:
Selling Price Credit Card/Banking Fee % of Selling Price Card Type
$5.00 $0.445 8.9% VISA Domestic
$20.00 $0.88 4.4% VISA Domestic
Individual School Webstores:
Individual School Webstores:
Schools are strongly encouraged to plan to have their own websites using Shopify for their social enterprise. Having your own website lets you tell the story of your social enterprise.
Before requesting your free Shopify webstore decide on your social enterprise name. The name will be used to get your shopify store... the link will be Your-Social-Enterprise-Name.myshopify.com so think about the name as it will be used alot!
Once you have received your individual Shopify webstore we will link the store url to the Participating Schools page.
See this document for the details on Shopify Administration - Store Setup and Roles for the program and the process of setting up banking details if you wish to enable e-commerce.
Banking Details & On-Line Payments:
Banking Details & On-Line Payments:
For 2021-22 year, we will use one bank account managed by NLESD Finance Team. NLESD finance must become the Store Owner before they can add any banking information required for credit card payments and activation of other payment methods. (Note: For 2021-22 we will NOT be including PayPal as a payment option. It is too cumbersome for reconciliation.)
Schools will only be able to access profits from on-line sales once a regular reconciliation has been performed and money has been transferred to the local school bank accounts. The first reconciliation will probably be done in the first week of Feb 2022 when on-line sales will be calculated by school and money will be transferred from the NLESD Finance bank account into the local school bank account.
Store owners can add up to 15 students as members of staff to any store. The students can have specific roles that are easily set by the owner. With Full permissions, the students will be able to do many administrative duties with several exceptions including banking information. The help doc for adding staff accounts is here:
Adding Products, Analytics, Custom Reports & Sales
When products are created with cost per item, then the financial reports will calculate various reports using this information. Please note that these reports DO NOT include the banking fees.
Shopify has a wide array of methods to see orders, sales and financial information. It is of course only as good as the data provided so when setting up products ensure that you include selling price, cost of item, taxes (for NLESD - no taxes are required) as shown.
Every order can be viewed in detail and easily exported to excel spreadsheet for analysis. The analytics views provide easy visibility of orders, sales, profits and endless detail with date ranges that you can change before viewing. Standard and custom reports can also be made.
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