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How to prepare your Christmas campaign with all the power of Shopify

Follow these tips for your Shopify Christmas campaign and prepare your online store to attract more customers this holiday season.

Business Management Solutions

Nov 21, 2025

Christmas is just around the corner, and if you have an online store on Shopify, you're in a prime position to make the most of this season. Today, we will share with you how to approach your holiday campaign using the most powerful and up-to-date features the platform has to offer.

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1. Festive design and user experience

Use Christmas themes or customize your design with banners, colors, and fonts that evoke the season. Take advantage of customizable sections to highlight star products, promotions, and gifts.

💡 Tip: Add an interactive touch, such as an animated banner or a countdown timer, to create a sense of excitement and urgency among your visitors.

2. Smart promotions

Create automatic limited-time discounts.
Use Shopify Scripts (if you have Shopify Plus) to customize pricing rules and promotions.
Implement product packs or holiday bundles that encourage average ticket sales.

💡 Tip: Combine your promotions with clear messages on the product page (“Exclusive Christmas offer”) to reinforce the perception of opportunity.

3. Integrated email marketing

With Shopify Email, design visual campaigns with holiday templates and communicate your special offers. Segment your audience to send personalized messages based on their purchase behavior or history.

💡 Tip: Create a mini email series (“Gift Week”) and use creative subject lines to stand out from the flood of holiday emails.

4. Cart automation and cart recovery

Shopify includes automated flows that cover needs such as:

Abandoned cart.
Welcome messages to new subscribers.
Post-sales emails to thank or recommend products.

Activate the recovery of abandoned carts and don't miss out on sales at the most important moments of the holiday campaign.

💡 Tip: Personalize the abandoned cart message by including the product name and a small reward (“Your gift is waiting for you with a 10% discount”). A detail like this can make the difference between a lost sale and a recovered one.

We help you activate automatic flows and recover abandoned carts

5. Optimized checkout and gift options

Offer gift wrapping as an option at checkout.
Allow personalized messages for gifts.
Make sure you have multiple payment methods active and keep the checkout process as smooth as possible.

💡 Tip: Add a progress bar (“Step 2 of 3”) at checkout to reduce friction and increase completion rates.

6. Inventory management and logistics

Anticipate holiday demand by reviewing your sales history and adjusting the stock of your most popular products.

Shopify lets you monitor stock in real time, organize inventory by location, and receive alerts when a product is about to run out, so you can react in time.

Clearly communicated delivery times and return policies to build trust and reduce incidents.

💡 Tip: Display the deadline for receiving orders before Christmas on your website and offer express shipping or in-store pickup for last-minute shoppers.

7. If you also have a physical store...

The holiday season is the perfect time to connect your online and offline channels with Shopify POS. With the point of sale system, you can:

Unify inventories between your online and physical store.
Enable in-store pickup or cross returns.
Access unified sales and customer reports in real time.
Deliver a consistent shopping experience across all channels.

And if you work with Shopify POS Go, you can do it all from a handheld device, ideal for events, pop-ups, or in-store sales during the holidays.

💡 Tip: Invite customers from your physical store to discover your online channel with QR codes or exclusive discounts.

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8. What's new to power your strategy

Shopify Magic

Your AI assistant for generating product descriptions, campaign texts, or even automatic responses in seconds. Ideal for saving time and maintaining a consistent tone throughout your store.

Shopify Markets

It allows you to sell internationally with automatic configuration of currency, language, and local prices, offering each customer an experience tailored to their country.

💡 Tip: Use these tools to create translated and customized product listings for different markets. Well-localized text can turn browsers into buyers, especially during the holiday season.

Conclusion

Take advantage of these tools to create a seamless, consistent, and memorable experience for your customers this Christmas.

And if you need support, we have an expert team in sales strategy, loyalty, and Shopify that can help you prepare your holiday campaign for success.