Sell candles online
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How to sell candles online in just 5 steps
Everything you need to sell candles
Free resources
Learn at your own pace with on-demand courses from Shopify Academy, and with other business owners on the Shopify Community forums. Find answers to your questions on the Shopify blog, or in our comprehensive guides.
Professional tools
Create an online candle store that reflects your unique brand with over 70 customizable and responsive themes. Efficiently manage your inventory and process customer orders all from one unified dashboard.
Smart marketing
Grab your customers’ attention with targeted marketing campaigns on social media and Google. Make sure customers can find your candle store by using Shopify’s built-in SEO tools and integrated blogging.
Award-winning support
Shopify support is available 24/7, no matter which plan you're on. You'll also have access to help docs, webinars, blog posts, and online courses to guide you along the way for your candle business encounters.
Learn more about selling candles
If you are a merchant interested in selling homemade candles or you already have a brick-and-mortar candle shop and want to take it to the next by opening your ecommerce, you can do it faster and easier with Shopify's 6,000+ apps and user-friendly platform.
On Shopify, you can sell candles and other decorative and aromatherapy items. Ecommerce store owners can use Shopify's 1,000+ existing templates to customize their branded shop.
Yes, you can sell candles on Shopify. Shopify lets you build your ecommerce from scratch or integrate the products you already have uploaded onto other marketplaces such as Amazon and Facebook Marketplace.
Price your candles depending on their purpose and the material they are made of. For example, vegan candles made with soy wax, natural fragrance, and essential oils for consumers who do not want to use animal products can be more expensive than tallow candles. But the best practice is to analyze your competitors and calculate your costs using Shopify’s free profit margin calculator.
One good example of an online candle store is Boy Smells, a store built using Shopify's platform. It successfully sells candles that are both social and ethically sustainable. Its candles are made using different scents created using natural materials that appeal to all kinds of consumers.
Powerful apps
Showcase your candles with professionally edited photos or build customer loyalty with rewards programs. With over 6000 options in the Shopify App Store, you can customize your store experience and test for success.
Sell everywhere
Sell your candles online, in-person, and wherever your customers are. Quickly accept payments, view sales, fulfill orders, and track inventory with the Shopify POS app—no matter where you sell.
Scalable pricing plans
For candle businesses at every stage and size
Show Plan Prices as Pay yearly (save 25%)* Subscription Rate
Basic
For solo entrepreneurs
Card rates starting at
- 2.9% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.7% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 2% 3rd-party payment providers
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For small teams
Card rates starting at
- 2.7% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.6% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 1% 3rd-party payment providers
Advanced
As your business scales
Card rates starting at
- 2.4% + 30¢ CAD online
- 2.4% + 0¢ CAD in person
- 0.6% 3rd-party payment providers
Start your candle business with Shopify today
Try Shopify free for 3 days, and explore all the tools and services you need to start, run, and grow your business.
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