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0.4Create your shop

After you verify your account, open your shop in three steps — business info, logo, launch — or join an existing shop with an invite code.

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Who:
Everyone (no sign-in)
Package:
All packages
Updated:
2026-10-15

Overview

Once you are signed in with an account that has no shop yet, the panel shows Let's get started. There are two ways forward:

  • Open a new shop — you become the owner. You name the shop and give its basic details in three steps: Business Info, Design and Launch.
  • Join with an invite code — an owner has made you staff or a manager and sent you a code. You paste it and join that shop.

One account can own one shop. Once your shop exists, this screen no longer appears for your account, and the panel opens the dashboard. (If you already work in someone else's shop as a Manager or Staff member, you can still open your own — use Open my own shop in the shop menu at the top.) Address, delivery charges and cash-on-delivery settings are not part of these steps. You set them later under Manage Shop.

Screen tour

These screens are shown only while you are signed in and have no shop, so this page has no screenshots.

  1. Let's get started — the choice between Open a new shop and Join with an invite code.
  2. Business Info (step 1 of 3, title Set up your store basics) — shop name, business category, store URL, address, owner phone and description.
  3. Design (step 2 of 3, title Customize your appearance) — the store logo, with Next and Skip for now.
  4. Launch (step 3 of 3, title Go live) — a checklist, with Launch store and Back.
  5. Invite code — opened from Join with an invite code. One field, Code, and the Join button.

Steps

Choose your path

Steps

  1. On Let's get started, read the two choices.
  2. Press Open a new shop if you are the owner. You will see one short form.
  3. Press Join with an invite code if the owner sent you a code.
  4. To change your mind, press Back (at the top of the form). You return to the two choices.

Step 1 of 3 — Business info

Steps

  1. On the Business Info screen, type the Shop name (required).
  2. Press the Business category list and choose one option (required). The choices are Fashion & apparel, Grocery & essentials, Electronics & gadgets, Beauty & health, Home & lifestyle, Food & beverage, Books & stationery, Gifts & handicrafts and Other.
  3. In Store URL (subdomain), type the part of the address you want before .shopgoti.com, for example my-shop. Use lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. The field is required.
  4. If you want, type the Business address.
  5. If you want, check the Owner phone. It is filled in with the phone from your sign-up, if you gave one. You can change it.
  6. If you want, type a Store description in one or two lines. It can be up to 100 characters; the counter shows how many you have used.
  7. Press Next. The button reads Saving… while it works.
  8. You move to step 2. A message Shop created. appears.

Steps

  1. On the Design screen, under Store logo, press Choose a picture. Your Media Center opens.
  2. Pick a picture for your logo. A square picture looks best; it appears in the header and on your storefront.
  3. Press Next to save the logo and move to step 3.
  4. Or press Skip for now to move to step 3 without a logo. You can add one later from Settings.

Step 3 of 3 — Launch

Steps

  1. Read the Ready to launch? card: your store is set up, and customers can shop once you add products.
  2. Read the checklist. Store configured is always shown. The plan line depends on your account: Free plan active if no trial is running, or a free-trial line for your plan, with the number of days left.
  3. Read Ready for business: start adding products and accepting orders.
  4. Press Launch store. It only opens the dashboard. Buyers can shop once you have added products.
  5. To go back to the logo step, press Back.

Join a shop with an invite code

Steps

  1. On Let's get started, press Join with an invite code.
  2. On the Invite code screen, paste the code the owner sent you into the Code field. Paste it exactly as it arrived.
  3. Press Join. The button reads Joining… while it works.
  4. You go to the dashboard, and the message You have joined the shop. appears.

Fields

Step Field Required What it does
Business info Shop name Yes The name shown in the panel and on your storefront.
Business info Business category Yes The kind of business you run. Choose one from the list.
Business info Store URL (subdomain) Yes The first part of your shop address, before .shopgoti.com. Lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. Example: my-shop
Business info Business address No Your business address.
Business info Owner phone No Your phone. Filled in from your sign-up phone if you gave one.
Business info Store description No What you sell, in one or two lines. Up to 100 characters.
Design Store logo No A picture for the logo, chosen from your Media Center. Skip it if you like.
Join Code Yes The invite code from the owner, pasted exactly.

Tips and common mistakes

  • Choose the link carefully. The panel cannot check a store URL before you press Next. If it is taken you see "Someone has already taken this address." If it is reserved you see "This address is reserved." Then type a different one.
  • Use only lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens in the store URL. The panel changes capital letters to lowercase for you, but other symbols are refused: "Use lowercase English letters, numbers and hyphens only."
  • If you typed a link on the ShopGoti home page, that link may already be filled in under Store URL (subdomain). Check it before you press Next.
  • "Shop created." but a detail was not saved. You see "Saved the store, but not the details — you can fix them in Settings." Your shop exists. Add the missing detail under Manage Shop.
  • One account owns one shop. If your account already owns a shop, you go straight to the dashboard. "Your account already owns a shop. One account can own only one shop." is the message if you try to create a second one. Working as a Manager or Staff member in other shops does not count — you can do that in as many shops as invite you.
  • "Paste your invitation code." The Code field is empty. Paste the code the owner sent you.
  • "This invitation is no longer valid." The code has been used up or withdrawn. Ask the owner for a new invite.
  • The Back button at the foot of step 1 is greyed out, because there is no earlier step inside the form. To leave the form, press Back at the top of the form to return to the two choices.
  • Settings you set here are not everything. Your address, delivery charges and cash-on-delivery options are set under Manage Shop, not in these three steps.