How To Connect Your YouTube Channel To Shopify via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

YouTube is introducing an casual mode to nexus Shopify stores with channels, which allows contented creators and businesses to diagnostic their products crossed YouTube.

This motorboat makes it imaginable for eligible channels to showcase their merchandise and products, which viewers tin bargain without leaving YouTube.

This differs from erstwhile integrations arsenic viewers tin acquisition straight connected YouTube alternatively than visiting an outer link.

All channels that conscionable the pursuing criteria are eligible to link their Shopify store to YouTube:

• Channel is approved for monetization
• Creator is based successful an eligible country/region
• Channel has 10,000 subscribers oregon is an authoritative creator channel
• Channel’s assemblage is not acceptable arsenic ‘made for kids’
• Channel doesn’t interruption YouTube’s monetization policies

You tin travel the steps successful the adjacent conception to link your accounts if you conscionable the requirements above.

Connecting Shopify To YouTube Step-By-Step

To merchantability your products connected YouTube, commencement by connecting your Shopify store to YouTube:

• Sign successful to YouTube Studio
• Select Monetization from the near menu
• Click Shopping
• Click Connect Store
• Click Shopify
• Select Continue

Screenshot from YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, July 2022.

YouTube volition nonstop you to Shopify to implicit the setup process.

Sign successful erstwhile prompted and prime Add App to adhd the Google transmission to Shopify.

Screenshot from YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, July 2022.

Next, you’ll person to implicit the pursuing steps successful Shopify:

• After adding the Google app to Shopify, click Add income channel connected the apical right.
• Select Connect Google account and motion in.
• Complete each store requirements connected the adjacent leafage (see representation below).

Screenshot from YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, July 2022.

At this point, you’re astir done; conscionable a fewer much steps to go.

Next, implicit these steps portion inactive successful Shopify:

• Add your Google Merchant Center relationship (if you don’t person one, you’ll person to make one).
• Agree to Google’s presumption of service.
• Select Complete setup.

Now that your accounts are connected, the past measurement is to sync your products with YouTube.

• On the adjacent screen, click Get Started.
• Ensure your transmission meets requirements, and past click Continue.
• Select your transmission from the drop-down menu.
• Agree to the YouTube Shopping presumption of work and click Complete Setup.

Screenshot from YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, July 2022.

After completing the setup process, YouTube volition reappraisal your products for compliance with its and Google Merchant Center policies.

The support process is said to instrumentality respective concern days to complete. Once approved, your products volition look connected YouTube, and you tin prime which videos you privation them to look on.

Benefits Of Connecting YouTube To Shopify

• Visibility: You tin diagnostic products straight beneath videos, connected extremity screens, and elsewhere crossed YouTube.
• Automation: Your merchandise catalog syncs automatically with YouTube. The updates volition use to your transmission erstwhile you adhd oregon region products to Shopify.
• Additional features: Get entree to YouTube Shopping features specified arsenic unrecorded shopping.
• On-site checkout: Viewers tin bargain your products without leaving YouTube.
• Shop tab: When channels link their Shopify relationship to their YouTube channel, they’ll unlock the Store tab, which serves arsenic a integer storefront.

On-site checkout is presently disposable to channels successful the US only.

Source: YouTube
Featured Image: Screenshot from blog.youtube/news-and-events, July 2022.

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