Build and Run a Shopify Store with Claude AI and Make (E-learning)

Learn how to build and run a Shopify store with Claude AI and Make in this practical online course for beginners. It's built from real, live businesses run this way from a web browser: online marketplaces, a services business, digital products and physical products.

Most Shopify courses teach you the tools. This one teaches a working method: what was built, how it was built, what went wrong, and the rule followed now. You get the mistakes as well as the wins, so you can skip the expensive ones. No coding or Shopify experience is needed.

What you'll learn

• How to choose the right Shopify business model: marketplace, services, lead generation, digital products or physical products
• How to set up physical products with accurate weights, stock tracking and shipping rates
• How to connect Claude AI to Shopify safely and use it to build and manage your store from a browser
• The duplicate-theme rule that stops you breaking a live store
• Metafields and metaobjects: custom content without paying for apps
• How to run a catalogue of thousands of products with clean conventions and bulk updates
• The mistakes that cost money, and the checks that prevent them
• SEO and AI search built in as you go: pages that rank, structured data and answer-first content
• Automating your store with Make: enquiry routing, reports, reminders and data stores
• Taking payments: one-off sales through Shopify's checkout, subscriptions through Stripe, and a launch checklist

Course outline

1. Start here: what Shopify can sell: a beginner's guide to Shopify, Claude and Make, then choosing your business model before you build
2. Your setup: Claude AI, Shopify and a browser: running a Shopify business without a developer, and connecting Claude to Shopify safely
3. Building your store without breaking it: the duplicate-theme rule, metafields and metaobjects
4. Running a catalogue at scale: the conventions that took a catalogue from 1,000 to more than 6,000 products, and bulk updates with Claude
5. Mistakes that cost money: the inventory setting that quietly removed products, and fact-checking AI content
6. SEO and AI search as you build: Shopify pages that rank, structured data and AI-ready content
7. Automating your Shopify store with Make: webhooks, enquiry routing and scheduled automations
8. Payments and going live: Shopify checkout, Stripe subscriptions and a launch checklist

Course format

• 18 written lessons and 8 module quizzes, about 4 hours in total
• Every lesson opens with a plain-English summary and ends with a short exercise on your own store
• Screenshots and copy-and-paste Claude prompts throughout
• Taken online on a course platform, with your progress saved so you can pick up on any device
• A certificate of completion when you finish every lesson and pass every quiz

Who it's for

Beginners, business owners and founders who want to build a real business on Shopify, whatever it sells, without hiring a developer for every change. If you've never used Claude, Claude AI for Beginners and Getting Started with Connectors on Claude AI are helpful short courses to take first (recommended, not required).

What you'll need

• A Shopify store (a free trial store is fine)
• A paid Claude plan, to use Claude with its Shopify connection
• A Make account for the automation lessons
• A computer with a web browser: everything is done in the browser, so a Chromebook works

Licence

This course is supplied under a single-user licence for one named individual. It may not be shared, copied, resold or redistributed.

Frequently asked questions

How do I access the course?
Your access is set up after your booking is paid, and you'll be emailed how to sign in. You sign in with your email address and a one-time code, so there's no password to remember.

Do I need to know how to code?
No. The course shows you how to use Claude AI to do the technical work, and how to check what it has done.

Is this a drop-shipping course?
No. It works for any Shopify business and covers physical products (weights, stock and shipping), but most of it is built from marketplaces, service businesses and digital products, which most Shopify courses don't cover. It doesn't cover drop-shipping.

How long do I have access?
Your access doesn't expire. Work through it at your own pace.

Is this an accredited qualification?
No. It's a practical skills course with a certificate of completion, rather than an accredited or regulated qualification.

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Independent course by Operator Academy. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Shopify, Anthropic or Make. Shopify, Claude and Make are trade marks of their respective owners, used here only to describe the subject of the course. The certificate awarded is a certificate of completion, not an accredited or regulated qualification.

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