Your Website + Shopify

How selling online works when Muse builds your site.
The simple version — one page, no jargon.

🍽️ Think of a restaurant Your website is the dining room. Shopify is the kitchen and cash register in the back — you rent it, you don't build it.
1

Muse builds your website

Your design, your name, your photos. It lives on Cloudflare — fast, secure, and the hosting is free. This is the only website customers ever see.

2

You set up Shopify once — about 30 minutes

In Shopify's private dashboard (not a website), you type in your products, prices, and photos, and add your bank account so you can get paid. That's the only part only you can do. You never design anything in Shopify.

3

Connect the two

Shopify gives you a small piece of code for each product — the "Buy Button." Paste it to Muse, and Muse puts the buy buttons on your site in the right spots. That's the whole connection.

4

Somebody buys

They shop on your site, then pay at Shopify's checkout. Shopify runs the card, emails the receipt, and drops the money in your bank. The order shows up in your dashboard, ready to fill.

Your websiteshows the products
→
Shopify checkouttakes the money
→
Your bankgets paid
$0website hosting (Cloudflare)
~$12/yryour domain name
$5/moShopify Starter plan
Your website does the showing.
Shopify does the selling.
Your site never touches a credit card — that's why it's safe.

One thing to ignore: Shopify automatically creates a page called yourstore.myshopify.com. It's an unused side door — ignore it or password-protect it. You don't maintain it.