Shopify Ecom FAQ

Yes — US infant formula adds FDA registration and a 90-day premarket notice, written for whoever makes or distributes a new formula.

Usually yes — an overseas seller registers regardless of turnover; HMRC's carve-outs are narrow and each needs every UK sale to fit it.

IOSS covers imports in consignments up to €150; OSS covers goods already inside the EU — where your stock sits decides.

In the US: a monograph or approval route, a Drug Facts label and drug listing; registration falls on whoever makes, repacks, relabels or salvages it.

Shopify's user-management page names three: store owner, organization owner or a POS user administrator — only at POS Pro locations.

Active is a product status, not a channel publication — the product and its variant must also be published to that channel.

Yes — for an importing operator only Article 10–11 risk steps fall away, and only when every relevant product was produced in a low-risk country.

Yes — on Plus and enterprise plans a child keeps its page and URL; no help page we read documents a status change for a child. Unlisted is manual.

Shopify defaults to 100% metal for US Section 232 duty; you can set your real percentage, but only one for the whole store.

Yes — no Shopify page we read describes the admin blocking a shared barcode at save time; the clash surfaces later, in the scanner and SFN transfers.

No — Shopify validates VAT numbers on guest and Shop Pay checkout, not on B2B checkout, and only with Shopify Tax and an EU fulfillment location.

Renaming leaves the order's locked snapshot; deleting removes that variant's data from your sales reports — unpublish instead to stop selling it.