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How to Create a Shopify Store on a Subdomain

Why Use a Subdomain for Your Shopify Store

Creating a Shopify store on a subdomain gives you flexibility and can help you better manage your online presence.
Putting a Shopify store on a subdomain can be a great idea. It allows you to:

  • Keep your Shopify store separate from your main website.
  • Maintain brand consistency with your main site without the cost of a new domain.

Accessing DNS Settings

  1. Log in to your domain registrar’s account. Your domain registrar is where you manage your website’s domain name (like example.com).
  2. Look for the DNS settings. These settings control where your domain points to.

Creating an A Record

  1. In the DNS settings, you’ll create a new A record. An A record is like a signpost that tells your domain where to go.
  2. For example, if you want to create a subdomain like subdomain.example.com, put “subdomain” in the A record’s Name field.
  3. In the “Data” field, enter the IP address for the Shopify site server, which is “23.227.38.65.” This points the subdomain to your Shopify site.
  4. You can set the TTL (Time to Live) to the lowest value allowed by your registrar, commonly 600 seconds. A lower value helps changes happen faster, although it might still take up to 48 hours.

Adding a CNAME Record

  1. Now, you need to connect Shopify to your subdomain. To do this, add a CNAME record in the DNS settings of your main domain.
  2. Create a new CNAME record. For the name field, use “www.” For the Data field, use “shops.myshopify.com.”
  3. Just like before, you can set the TTL to the lowest value allowed by your registrar, often 600 seconds.

Screen shot of a chat conversation with Shopify support explaining how to route a cname to shopify.

Connecting Shopify

Shopify Dashboard Store Details
  1. Once your DNS changes are set up, head over to your Shopify store.
  2. In your Shopify dashboard, go to store settings, then select “domains.”
  3. In the domain settings, choose “Connect existing domain” and enter the full address of the subdomain you created.
  4. After submitting, you’ll be prompted to prepare your domain for connecting to Shopify, but we’ve already done this with the steps above.
  5. Click “test/verify the domain,” and hopefully, you’ll receive a success message.

 We hope this info makes the process clear and straightforward for you!