Helpful Terminology and Information

Checking if a Store is Shopify

1. Go to the website of the store that you want to check. In this example, Kith will be used.

2. Right click anywhere on the page and select view page source.

3. Right click anywhere on the page and select view page source.

Shopify Checkout Stages

  • Shopify checkout can broken into four stages:

    • Cart

    • Contact Information

    • Shipping Method

    • Payment Method

Stage 1) Cart

Visit the item you want to checkout. The generic link to take you to your cart for any Shopify powered store is shown below

https://website.com/cartarrow-up-right

Replace the website with the store you’re using - kith for example would be https://kith.com/cartarrow-up-right.

Stage 2 ) Contact Information

From your cart select the check out option. This will take you to the Contact Information page, where you will enter your shipping profile information as shown below.

Note that if there is a queue on the site due to high traffic, you will have to either sit through it or bypass the queue if you can through the Queue Bypass method.

This stage of checkout will have a URL that looks something like

https://website.com/######/checkouts/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?step=contact_informationarrow-up-right

Where website is the Shopify store, # is a random number and X is a random alphanumeric character.

Stage 3) Shipping Method

Here you will select the shipping method for your order.

This stage of checkout will have a URL that looks something like

https://website.com/######/checkouts/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?previous_step=contact_information&step=shipping_methodarrow-up-right

Or

https://website.com/######/checkouts/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?step=shipping_methodarrow-up-right arrow-up-right

Stage 4) Payment Method

On this page you will fill in your card information and click pay now to complete your order.

This stage of checkout will have a URL that looks something like

https://website.com/######/checkouts/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?previous_step=shipping_method&step=payment_methodarrow-up-right

Or

https://website.com/######/checkouts/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX?step=payment_methodarrow-up-right

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