Why Shopify Plus Expansion Stores?

When it comes to international expansion for your Shopify store, Shopify Plus gives you the ability to quickly open country-specific Shopify stores for new geographies as it provides 9 expansion stores at no extra cost.

While a single-store approach can usually be the fastest way to get you started—especially since Shopify now allows country-specific pricing with its Advanced and Plus Plans—it still has many limitations when you need to customize your offerings for each location.

Shopify Plus expansion stores give you more control over your store's messaging, product mix, and promotions as you can individually tailor each store to the target market, especially if you have dedicated teams responsible for different markets.

Key Considerations with Managing Multiple Shopify Stores

While Shopify Plus gives you a centralized dashboard across all stores, the management of each store is still largely separate, including the management of product data, inventory, and orders.

When selling globally, you may have the following needs for product information management, inventory management, and order management:

1. Product Exclusion and Country-Specific Products

   Many countries sell the same products, but certain countries would need to exclude certain products due to regulatory or market-specific concerns. You may also have country-specific products that target a limited number of countries.

2. Multi-Lingual Content Localization

   You will need to localize your product content into different languages and require some form of approval process for the localization workflow to ensure accuracy.

3. Inventory Allocation Strategies

   Certain countries may have dedicated inventory for order fulfillment, while others might share inventory from a single location. Managing this complexity requires centralized visibility.

4. Order Aggregation and Routing

   You may need to aggregate orders from multiple stores for central processing, especially if they share a single fulfillment center. Alternatively, you may want to route orders to the nearest fulfillment center to lower logistics costs and speed up delivery time.

Multi-Store Management with CLEARomni

CLEARomni can be your all-in-one central hub to manage your multi-store operations. CLEARomni's built-in integration with Shopify allows you to integrate with multiple Shopify stores simultaneously—and also other e-commerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

The integration enables real-time synchronization of data between Shopify and CLEARomni. This gives you the ability to manage product information, inventory, and orders in one place.

Product Information Management

With CLEARomni, you can manage all your products in one central catalogue. CLEARomni provides customizable workflows to create and edit multi-lingual content, determine which products to sell on which website, and set up approval processes to ensure accuracy and consistency of product information across all stores.

Key Benefits:

• Single source of truth for all product data across markets
• Multi-lingual content creation with review workflows
• Granular control over product availability by store
• Completeness Score by Language feature highlights translation gaps

Inventory Management

CLEARomni gives you visibility of inventory across all locations, so you can easily see which products are available and make sure inventory is allocated properly to meet customer demand.

Key Benefits:

• Centralized view of inventory across all stores and warehouses
• Real-time stock level updates to prevent overselling
• Smart inventory allocation based on demand and location
• Support for country-specific and shared inventory models

Order Management

With CLEARomni, you can consolidate and route orders from multiple Shopify stores to the correct fulfillment center, manage shipments and returns from a single platform. This helps to improve the efficiency and accuracy of order fulfillment.

Key Benefits:

• Order aggregation from multiple stores for streamlined processing
• Smart routing to nearest fulfillment center for cost savings
• Customizable fulfillment workflows per country requirements
• Unified platform for managing shipments and returns