🔥The Ultimate Shopify Plus Maintenance Checklist🔥

To ensure peak performance, you need to maintain your Shopify store. Not sure where to start? Use Fyresite’s ultimate Shopify Plus maintenance checklist to make sure you’re getting the best out of your store.

Need a hand keeping your Shopify store the best it can be? Partner with a top Shopify development agency. Check out one of our continuous improvement plans, which offer month by month support for your store. 

Why Shopify Maintenance is Important 

Not sure why Shopify maintenance is important? Think about your car. 

Some people only take their car into a shop when there’s something wrong with it. This leads to extensive repairs and a large bill.

But some people take their car in for routine maintenance, for oil changes, tire rotations, and system checks.

Guess which cars perform better and last longer?

Your Shopify store is a lot like a car. The best Shopify stores are not waiting for an emergency to happen, they’re running maintenance on it and making sure it’s performing the best it can. 

Shopify Maintenance Checklist for Peak Performance

Ready to make sure your Shopify store maintains peak performance? Use this checklist to make sure you’re not missing any task. 

Annual Checks 

• Run a store audit 

  • Verify all certifications are up to date 

  • Check for bad links, 404 errors, UI/UX performance issues 

  • Check legal compliances

• Make sure relevant content is up to date 

  • Make sure events have the right date/year on them

• Plan and schedule the events of the year

  • If you plan on running sales on holidays, plan them at the beginning of the year so you can get them ready to go live before the sale begins

• Run a security audit 

Quarterly Checks 

• Test all submission forms

  • Most submission forms are tested once: when they’re set up

  • Test your submission forms once a quarter to make sure they’re still working the way they should be 

• Review and test automations

  • Automations are very helpful for taking work off of your plate, but only when they’re working. Test automations to make sure they’re still in peak condition

• Test social media links

  • Check your social media links to make sure they’re not broken or 404ing

Monthly Checks

• Review analytics

  • Review sales performance, cart abandonment rates, check abandonment rates, and other relevant metrics 

• Rotate content 

  • Change out banners and other content to keep it relevant and up to date

• Run speed tests

  • Site speed is one of the most important parts of any successful website 

• Verify themes are up to date

Weekly Checks 

• Back up site data

• Verify your store is ADA compliant 

• Manage and update content 

  • Including images 

Create a Stronger Shopify Store

The checklist above is a helpful tool for tracking your maintenance tasks. But if you want to do more than maintenance, if you want to improve your site, check out Fyresite’s continuous improvement plans. 

Fyresite offers three tiers of continuous improvement, the details of which you can view here. There are a number of ways to use the hours allotted in a continuous improvement plan.

Popular Uses for Continuous Improvement Hours 

We have many clients on continuous improvement, from a variety of industries who use it for a variety of different purposes. But across these different issues, here are the most common use cases. 

• Setting up B2B

• SEO

  • On-page and technical 

• Functionality for product lines 

• Updated product description pages

• Sales tax compliance

• Speed optimizations

• Custom sale functionality

• UX improvements

Boost Your Shopify Store Performance Today

Are you ready to learn how to make your Shopify store even better? Schedule your free consultation with Fyresite today to learn how a continuous improvement plan could benefit your store.