After buying an ideal domain, you want it to be shown to your customer as an inspired brand of your shop. It’s strongly recommended that you’d better use the domain for a long period. Customers may access your online store by the domain with its extension so avoid changing is really necessary.
Only a domain can be displayed in the address bar called primary domain. You can use a root domain or a subdomain as the primary domain. After you’ve decided, set the primary domain to make sure the customers will see it when they browse your shop. This writing helps you with a transparent guide about how to set your primary domain.
Note: Before setting a primary domain, make sure all your domains have an OK status.
How to set your primary domain
- Step 1: Go to Domain
- Step 2: Change the primary domain
- Step 3: Choose the domain
- Step 4: Save primary domain
Step 1: Go to Domain
First of all, log in your Shopify account. Then, go to Online Store in the SALE CHANNELS field and choose Domains.
Step 2: Change the primary domain
Take a look of Primary domain section, click Change primary domain.
Step 3: Choose the domain
Choose the domain expected to be primary domain.
Step 4: Save primary domain
Finally, choose Save to complete.
It might takes some hours to affect fully. Then, you can see the change of the primary domain in the address bar. Do not change it so often because it can cause bad effects. Primary domain should be durable.
To set your primary domain on iPhone
Step 1: Go to Store
From the Shopify app, log in your account. Choose Store in the bottom of the screen.
Step 2: Click Online Store
Click Online Store in the SALE CHANNELS field.
Step 3: Go to Domains
Scroll down and tap on Domains to go to domain’s page.
Step 4: Change the primary domain
Select Change primary domain in the Primary domain field.
Step 5: Choose the domain
Choose the desired domain in the box.
Step 6: Save
Finally, click Save to save all.
To set your primary domain on Android
Step 1: Go to Store
After logging in your Shopify account, select Store.
Step 2: Click Online Store.
Look for SALE CHANNELS section and click Online Store.
Step 3: Go to Domains
Scroll down to find Domains button, then, tap on it.
Step 4: Change the primary domain
Choose Change primary domain to change the domain you expected.
Step 5: Save
After all, select Save to finish.
Conclusion
Above is a tutorial which has simple steps you can take to set a primary domain. After following this, I hope you will have more and more customers access to your store by the domain. For further information about how you can manage your domains, check out our articles about enabling/disabling automatic domain renewal, setting up email forwarding, etc.