
Sell Worldwide: Why Shopify Markets Is the Best Choice
Published on by Tobias Fischer

Shopify Markets, as a global e-commerce solution, enables you to sell in multiple countries and expand internationally—all from a single Shopify store.
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What is Shopify Markets?
Shopify Markets is an all-in-one solution that allows you to effectively manage your cross-border business. With Shopify Markets, you can easily oversee international markets from a single shop. Whether you want to identify new markets, optimize existing ones, or target new customers, Shopify Markets offers all the necessary features.
Thanks to the centralized management of international sales tools, you can increase and manage your global sales. With tailored online shopping experiences, you can specifically target different customer segments and address the unique needs of particular countries or regions.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Shopify Markets
Shopify Markets makes entering the international marketplace easier with its user-friendly interface, allowing you to set up your online shop globally without having to deal with the hurdles and complexities of international trade yourself.
You can expand into new markets in just a few days and become a global brand. With an internationalized storefront, a seamless checkout process, and affordable shipping, you have everything you need to get started right away.
Arguably the biggest advantage is that you do not need a separate shop for each country but can manage all your international markets from a single shop.
This not only improves user-friendliness but also delivers significant savings in time, labor, and costs.
All Shopify Markets options are seamlessly integrated into the platform, making it easier for you to maintain control over all the international shops you manage.
With Shopify Markets, you can create customized customer experiences for each market—from translations in various languages to the ability to pay in over 130 currencies. This helps win the trust of potential customers and positively influence their purchasing decisions.
This way, you can turn visitors into loyal customers, increase sales potential, and successfully grow your business at the international level.
However, keep in mind that Shopify Markets is only available when using Shopify Payments. Merchants therefore cannot use Shopify Markets in countries where Shopify Payments is not yet available.
“We often see customers operating separate Shopify shops for different countries. With Shopify Markets, this is no longer necessary.”

Features of Shopify Markets
Below you’ll find a description of the key features that Shopify Markets offers.
Shop optimization
With Shopify Markets, you can create international domains to give your shop more trust and credibility. By using a country-specific domain, your shop locally reflects a connection to each respective country. This increases the likelihood that customers from that country will trust your shop and choose to buy from you.
To enable an optimized shop structure, Shopify Markets allows you to use top-level domains, subdomains, subfolders, or a combination of these. This flexibility enables you to choose the best domain structure for your international markets and maximize your shop’s visibility, number of visitors, and purchase rate.
By showing country and language recommendations based on visitors’ locations, you can offer a localized shopping experience. Customers will see information and offers specially tailored to their region and language. This increases relevance and trust and boosts conversion rates.
To ensure optimal visibility in search engines, your SEO tags are generated automatically. Visitors therefore see localized search results and can find your shop more easily.
Local currencies and prices
Shopify Markets lets you offer your products and services in 133 different currencies. This way, you can adapt your shop to the currency of each country where you sell. This makes shopping and price comparison easier for your customers in that region.
Additionally, you can optimize your pricing strategy and competitiveness with percentage adjustments or individual pricing for products in each market. You can set prices based on factors like local inflation, competition, or customer expectations.
To meet the requirements of regional tax regulations, taxes are automatically included in your prices. This ensures that your prices comply with local tax laws and makes it easier for you to adhere to legal requirements.
Localized content
You can offer your shop in multiple languages and set appropriate options for each market. Country and language recommendations can be displayed based on the geographical location of shop visitors. Furthermore, your storefront content can be individually adapted to the regional and cultural specifics of each market, and selected products can be offered for purchase in different markets. This delivers a personalized and localized shopping experience.
Localized checkout
Enable your customers to pay with their preferred payment methods, including Shop Pay, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay.
To further provide your customers with a seamless checkout experience, you can automatically localize address forms and integrate Google’s autocomplete. This makes entering address data easier and faster.
Tip
It’s important to offer a sufficient selection of suitable payment options in e-commerce to prevent abandoned purchases.
Centralized control of all markets
The Markets admin area enables you to measure your performance with consolidated reporting. For example, with personalized market analyses, tailored recommendations, and default settings, you can optimize your customers’ shopping experience as well as your international strategy in a targeted way.
Translating your shop into other languages
With Shopify Markets, you can provide the shopping experience for your international customers in up to 20 different languages, thereby increasing your sales and the visibility of your shop. Translation can be carried out via a third-party app or easily with Shopify’s free Translate & Adapt app.
Shopify Markets Pricing
Shopify Markets is already included in the Basic, Shopify, Advanced, and Plus plans, so the tool itself is initially free to use. However, Shopify charges transaction fees that vary depending on the Shopify plan you choose. For setup, you can rely on a Shopify agency.
You can find the current Shopify pricing overview here: Shopify Pricing
Conclusion
Shopify Markets meets all major requirements for seamless international trade.
All features are centralized in your admin area, allowing you to manage localization, shipping, prices, currencies, languages, customs duties, and regulatory compliance from a single interface. You have full control over all aspects of your international business and can efficiently direct your activities without switching between different platforms.
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