Store GuideHaute Fromagerie & Rogue Creamery, wholesale on Shopify

This is the one that matters most. A chef can browse, create an account, and sign in without your involvement, but until you tag them they see exactly what a stranger sees. One tag turns them into a buyer.

1. They ask to join. The chef fills in the form on your Become a Partner page and confirms they'll pay by credit card. The answer lands in Shopify Forms, not in your customer list. Storefront → Become a Partner
2. They can already sign in, and still see nothing. Shopify accounts work by email alone, no password. So they may well be signed in and looking at a locked catalog. That is expected, not a bug. Storefront → Wholesale Login
3. You tag them. Find the person in Customers and add the tag approved. Spelling matters, because this exact word is what every lock on the store is watching for. Admin → Customers → (the person) → Tags
4. The store reacts on its own. Locksmith unlocks the catalog, the checkout stops blocking them, and the Send approval email to verified customers workflow sends the welcome. You don't send anything by hand. Runs automatically

Your cheese pages aren't built from one long description. The story, the ingredients, the care instructions and the origin are separate pieces of content that you write once and attach. Get these right and the page fills itself in.

1. Create the product with its title, photography and price. Admin → Products → Add product
2. Set the vendor, either Haute Fromagerie or Rogue Creamery. This is what keeps the two houses apart across the store.
3. Add one option called Format. Never anything else. Values describe the pack: 1 × 4.5 lb Wheel, 6 × 7 oz Mini, 2 × 5 lb Wheel. Most cheeses need a single format; a few, like Saint André, carry two at different prices.
4. Attach the content pieces. Ingredients, tasting notes, care instructions and recommended pairings each live in their own reusable entry. Write it once, attach it here. Product page → Metafields
5. Pick the origin, allergens and dietary preferences from Shopify's own lists. These are what power the filters shoppers use on the Cheeses page.
6. Ignore the fields the apps fill in. Shop channel eligibility and Locksmith access status appear on their own. Leave them alone.

These two numbers live in different places. The order minimum is a checkout rule; free shipping is a shipping rate. Changing one never changes the other.

Your checkout carries your branding already: the side-by-side Haute Fromagerie and Rogue Creamery logo, a white header with black accents, a light grey body and a dark order summary. Here is where to change any of it.

1. Open your checkout settings. Admin → Settings → Checkout
2. Edit the branding. You control the logo and its width (currently capped at 300px), the header, the main area and the order summary, each with its own background and accent color.
3. Preview before you save. Checkout changes reach shoppers as soon as they're published, so walk through a test order first.

There is one rule here and it protects you from every bad afternoon: never edit the live theme directly. Every visitor sees your changes the instant you save.

1. Duplicate the live theme. You'll get a copy sitting in your theme library, published to nobody. Admin → Online Store → Themes → ⋯ → Duplicate
2. Edit the copy as much as you like, and use Preview to check it. The live site is untouched the whole time.
3. Publish the copy when you're happy. The old version stays in the library as your way back.

Nobody should be sharing the owner login. On Shopify Plus you get unlimited staff accounts, each with their own sign-in and only the access they need.

1. Decide what they should reach. Shopify's ready-made roles cover most cases: Merchandiser for products and content, Customer Support for orders and customers, Marketing for campaigns and reports, Administrator for nearly everything.
2. Invite them. Staff get an invitation by email. Outside agencies and developers use the 4-digit collaborator code instead. They request access, you approve it, and they never count against your user list. Admin → Settings → Users
3. Build a custom role if none of the presets fit. You can pick permissions one by one. Settings → Users → Roles → Add role

Two workflows run today, both around approving buyers. Beyond them, 28 more events are already cleared and waiting. You can start a workflow from any of them without installing or paying for anything.

1. Switch on the event you care about. Price changed, tag added, customer note edited, and 25 others. Admin → Apps → Workflow Trigger Extensions
2. Build the workflow: the event, a condition, and what should happen. No code involved. Admin → Apps → Flow → Create workflow
3. Send an email from inside it if you need one, using WorkflowMail, the same way the approval email works.