Sell school supplies online
Start, run, and grow your school supply business
Get the training, tools, and support you need to build the school supply business you’ve always wanted.
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Everything you need to sell school supplies
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 school supply 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 school supply 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 school supply business encounters.
Learn more about selling school supplies
It's easy to start selling school supplies through your own online store, whether you're looking to sell backpacks, pencils or notebooks, or selling specific supplies and textbooks for college and university classes. Shopify online stores allow you to set up your store in minutes, with more than 80 mobile-friendly website templates — no design or coding education required.
You can sell school supplies directly to students, schools or other educational institutions online through your Shopify store. Shopify has thousands of apps to help you customize the shopping, checkout and delivery experience for your customers.
Yes, you can sell a range of school supplies through your Shopify ecommerce store.
School supply prices vary from a few cents for a pencil to thousands of dollars for a desk, depending on the product and use. Consult Shopify's profit margin calculator to come up with prices that work for you.
Powerful apps
Showcase your school supplies 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 school supplies 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 school supply 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¢ USD online
- 2.6% + 10¢ USD in person
- 2% 3rd-party payment providers
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For small teams
Card rates starting at
- 2.7% + 30¢ USD online
- 2.5% + 10¢ USD in person
- 1% 3rd-party payment providers
Advanced
As your business scales
Card rates starting at
- 2.5% + 30¢ USD online
- 2.4% + 10¢ USD in person
- 0.6% 3rd-party payment providers
Start your school supply 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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