Claim your Shopify store after you sign up

Who gets a store

After you pay on avatarfactory.io/start, the money step decides whether a store comes next:

• Sell a digital product: you get a Shopify store that sells your digital product, in the colors you pick.
• Sell real products: you get a Shopify store stocked with products for your niche and two homepage banners, already placed.
• Get paid to recommend things: no store. You go straight to the next question.

If you imported your own avatar, or you signed up without building one on /start, there is no store step either.

The store steps come right after payment. If you bought the AI Influencer package, its offer of two more influencer slots comes first. When you finish or skip the store, you answer How did you hear about us? and land on your avatar’s Face step.

Picked the wrong kind of store?

On the first store screen, click the Back arrow. The How will Sarah make money? screen lets you pick Sell a digital product or Sell real products again. Click Continue and the store screens for that choice open. You can switch as many times as you like until you claim the store. After you click the claim button, the store is reserved on Shopify and its type is set.

Step 1: Pick your product (digital product only)

The first screen shows five ready digital products for your niche, each with a Suggested to sell for price. One carries a Recommended badge. Click the one you want, then Continue.

Have your own product? Click I have my own product instead:

1. Click Choose your product file and pick a PDF or a .txt file, up to 25 MB.
2. Give it a Product title (for example, The 30-Day Morning Reset).
3. Set Your selling price, between $1 and $999, or tap one of the suggested prices.
4. Click Continue.

If the upload stops, the screen tells you why. “That file is larger than 25 MB. Choose a smaller file.” means the file is too big, and “Upload your product as a PDF or a .txt file.” means the file type is not one the store takes.

Step 2: Pick your store colors (digital product only)

Tap a theme to see your store in it: Midnight gold, Sunset, Electric, Blush, Fresh, Sand or Plum noir. You can change it later in Shopify. Click Continue.

Step 3: Claim your store on Shopify

• Digital product: the Claim your Shopify store screen shows your product, its price and your colors. Click Claim your Shopify store.
• Real products: a single screen, for example Get Sarah’s fashion store, shows the store with its products and banners. Click Claim my store.

The button reads Opening Shopify… while it works, and Shopify opens in the same tab. Follow Shopify’s screens to take over the store, and Shopify sends you back to AvatarFactory when you are done.

Step 4: Activate your Shopify plan

Back from Shopify, the Almost there: activate your Shopify plan screen shows the offer: Shopify costs $1 a month for your first 3 months, then $39 a month on Basic, paid to Shopify. You can cancel anytime.

1. Click Activate my store. Shopify opens in a new tab with Basic monthly already picked. You can switch plans on Shopify.
2. On Shopify, add your card and click Subscribe.
3. Come back to the AvatarFactory tab and click I picked my plan, continue. Closed the Shopify tab by mistake? Click Open Shopify again.

If you see We can’t see your plan yet, Shopify still shows the store on a trial. Click Open Shopify plans, pick the Basic monthly plan, enter your business address, choose credit card and enter your card details, click Subscribe, then click Check again.

Until the plan is active, your store stays behind a password and no one can buy from it. If your store is already on a plan, this step does not show. That includes a plan you picked on Shopify while claiming the store: you go straight to the build.

Step 5: Building your store

The Building screen shows your store filling in, with a line for what is happening now and a time estimate. You can close the tab. Your store will be there when you come back.

We build your store right after you claim it, whether or not you have picked a Shopify plan. Until a paid Shopify plan is active, the store stays behind Shopify’s password page, buyers cannot purchase, and download links do not work yet. If Shopify ever asks for a plan before the build can finish, the build continues on its own once your plan is active.

Step 6: Attach your file (digital product only)

Shopify does not let us attach your file for you, so you do it in Shopify’s free Digital Products app. Five short screens walk you through it, one action each. After you click a screen’s main button, it turns into Next, and a small link lets you do the action again.

1. Install Digital Products. Click Install the app. The Shopify App Store opens in a new tab. Click Install there.
2. Download your file. Click Download your PDF (for a bundle product, Download your ZIP: it is a .zip with all the parts). The link works for 15 minutes. Click again for a fresh one. For a product from our catalog, the file is made for your store: your AI influencer’s name is on it as the author, on the cover and inside.
3. Open the product. Click Open Digital Products, then click your product in the list.
4. Attach the PDF (or Attach the ZIP for a bundle). Click Open your product. In Shopify, click Add asset, choose File, and upload the file you downloaded. For a bundle, upload the .zip as it is and do not unzip it (Safari unzips downloads on its own, so use the .zip from your downloads, not the folder). Automatic delivery is on by default. Leave it on.
5. Confirm. Once the file shows under Assets in Shopify, click I attached it.

While your store is still on the Shopify trial, these screens remind you that buyers get your PDF (your file, for a bundle) once your Shopify plan is active.

If you see “We could not get your file. Try again.” or “We could not save that. Try again.”, click the same button again.

The Coming soon button

Until you click I attached it, the store’s Buy now buttons read Coming soon, and the instant download lines stay hidden. That way no one can pay for a product they would not receive. Once you confirm the file, the buttons switch to Buy now.

Step 7: Your store is ready

The Done screen shows your store’s address, with Open and a copy button.

• Sarah’s store is live: your Shopify plan is active and buyers can check out. Share the link anywhere your influencer posts, then click Continue.
• Your file is not attached yet. shows under that headline when the file is still missing: buyers who pay get no download until you attach it. Click Attach it now to go back to the attach steps.
• Sarah’s store is ready, marked Behind a password: you have no Shopify plan yet, so no one can buy. Click Activate my store to pick the plan, or Continue without a plan.

Warning: A digital product store comes with example reviews. Replace them with real ones before you advertise. Edit reviews opens your product in Shopify, where you change them.

When something goes wrong

• We could not finish connecting your store: Shopify did not finish the claim. Your picks are saved. Click Try again to go back to Shopify.
• Reconnect your store: Shopify needs you to reconnect before we can finish. Click Reconnect on Shopify. Shopify opens in this tab, and we pick up where we left off.
• We could not finish your store: the build stopped on our side. Your store and your picks are saved. Click Try again. If you see “We could not restart the build. Try again.”, wait a moment and click again, or use Contact support.
• We could not load your store: we could not read your store setup. Click Try again in a moment.
• Start your Shopify store: we cannot set up a store for you right now. Click Start my Shopify trial to start a Shopify trial in a new tab instead. Your product and colors are saved on your account.

Skip is always there

You never have to finish the store to keep going. Every store screen has Skip for now, except the attach screens, which have their own Skip link, and the Done screen, which has Continue. On the plan screen, Skip for now moves you on to the build. On every other screen, it takes you to How did you hear about us? and then to your avatar.