You must create an international Shopify Market to enable cross-border sales and shipping. This guide will help you create, activate, and expand these Markets. To learn more about Shopify Markets, you can refer to this article.
💡 Shopify automatically creates and activates your Domestic Market and adds inactive “European Union” and “International” Markets.
How to Create a Market
To create a Market, follow these steps:
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In Shopify Admin, go to Settings → Markets.
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Click on “Add market.”
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Add a name for your new Market. This is only seen by you.
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Select the countries you wish to add to this Market by clicking on them.
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Once you’ve selected the countries, click on “Add market.”
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Your new Market is automatically activated.
How to Activate and Deactivate a Market
If you wish to activate or deactivate a Market, follow these steps:
Activating a Market
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In Shopify Admin, go to Settings → Markets.
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Click on the inactive Market you wish to activate.
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On the top right, click on “Inactive”.
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In the drop-down menu, click on ‘Active’.
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To save your changes, click “Save” on the top right.
Deactivating a Market
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In Shopify Admin, go to Settings → Markets.
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Click on the active Market you wish to deactivate.
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On the top right, click on “Active”.
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In the drop-down menu, click on “Inactive”.
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To save your changes, click “Save” on the top right.
How to Expand a Market
You can add the country to an existing active Market to expand sales to a new country. To do so, follow these steps:
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In Shopify Admin, go to Settings → Markets.
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Click on the Market you wish to expand.
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On the top right, click on “More actions”.
- In the drop-down menu, click on “Edit Market”.
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To add a country, under “Countries/regions”, click on “Edit”.
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Now select the country or countries you wish to add to this Market.
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On the bottom right of the pop-up screen, click “Save”.
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To save all changes, click “Save” on the top right.