Free checks for Shopify stores — starting with why products don’t show up on Google.
Product not showing on Google? Check the password page, product status, sales channel, search listing and content.
Open the tool →Tool · ShopifyPayment fees for every Shopify plan — Shopify Payments or a third-party provider — and what you keep on an order.
Open the tool →Shopify deliberately skips abandoned checkout emails in several cases — payment errors, unsupported shipping addresses, phone-only checkouts, free orders and more. How to tell which applies.
The most common reason a Shopify store doesn’t appear on Google is private mode, which hides the store from search engines. How to check, how to verify your domain and submit your sitemap in Google Search Console, and what to expect afterwards.
Sessions but no orders? Use Shopify’s conversion funnel to see whether visitors leave before the cart, at checkout or at payment, then fix that step — and check the traffic is real.
Shopify gives you several ways to hide a product: Unlisted status keeps it reachable only by direct link and out of search, collections and the sitemap; the seo.hidden metafield hides it from search engines and store search; a noindex tag hides it from Google only.
Shopify says 2048 × 2048 pixels usually displays best for square product images. Images can be up to 5000 × 5000 pixels (25 megapixels) and must be smaller than 20 MB. Plus why your collection grid looks uneven.
Shopify plans let you sell unlimited products, but each product can have up to 2,048 variants, three options and 250 media items. Large stores also hit a daily variant upload limit. What the limits are and how to get around them.
A product missing from a Shopify collection is usually inactive, not available to the Online Store, failing an automated condition, or out of stock. How to check each and force a refresh.
Shopify marks a product out of stock when inventory is tracked and the quantity is zero or below — often at the location that fulfills online orders. How to fix the quantity, when to turn off tracking, and how “Continue selling when out of stock” works.
Shopify’s SEO page title field takes up to 70 characters, and Shopify recommends 60 or fewer so Google doesn’t cut it off. How it relates to your product title and what to write.
Each Shopify discount error points to a different cause: an inactive or expired code, products that don’t qualify, codes that can’t be combined, a used-up code, or an app hiding the field.
Shopify rates the risk of a fraud chargeback as low, medium or high and recommends fulfilling, confirming with the customer, or cancelling. The fraud indicators (AVS, CVV, location, cards tried), where to find them, and how to handle a high-risk order before you ship.
“Your order cannot be shipped to the selected address” usually means the checkout doesn’t match any of your Shopify shipping rate conditions. Check product weight and “physical product”, locations, markets, shipping zones, weight and price tiers, carrier settings — and test with a new checkout.
With Shopify Payments, a chargeback takes the disputed amount and a fee (US$15 in the US) straight away. You usually have 7–21 days to respond, and the bank can take up to 75 days to decide. What evidence to send for each dispute reason, and inquiries vs chargebacks.
A Shopify Payments hold stops your payouts until it’s resolved; a reserve keeps back part (or all) of your sales for a set period, such as 10% for 120 days. Common reasons, where to see a reserve in Finance → Payouts, how to resolve a hold, and how to appeal a reserve.
Shopify Payments settles most charges in 2–3 business days (US, Canada, UK, EU: 3; Australia: 2), then your bank takes 1–3 business days. Daily, weekly or monthly schedules, how weekends work, and the common reasons a payout is late or missing.
Most Shopify custom domain problems come from DNS: the A record must be 23.227.38.65, the www CNAME shops.myshopify.com., with only one A and one AAAA record. Plus Cloudflare proxy, CAA records, DNSSEC, and why SSL can take up to 48 hours.
Shopify’s Pause and Build plan stops checkout on every sales channel at a reduced fee while you keep admin access. Who can use it, what stops and what keeps running (including app charges), why orders can still come in until your billing cycle ends, and how to unpause.
Shopify’s Stocky app stopped being available after August 31, 2026. Where its purchase orders, stocktakes and transfers live now in the Shopify admin and POS, what each needs, and what Shopify’s help pages don’t cover.
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