# Can you have multiple stores on Shopify? > Yes. Shopify's terms say a store owner may have multiple stores. Each store is on its own plan, and one email reaches all of them through the store switcher. Source: https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/can-you-have-multiple-stores-on-shopify ## Can you have multiple stores on Shopify? Yes. Shopify's terms say a Store Owner may have multiple Shopify stores, each on its own pricing plan, and stores you own on one email address are reached from one login through the store switcher. ![More than one Shopify store, one owner, beside a screenshot: filtering Mosaic profiles by tag: only the profiles tagged "shop" are listed](https://mosaicbrowser.com/covers/can-you-have-multiple-stores-on-shopify.webp) You can have multiple stores on Shopify. Section 2.1 of Shopify's Terms of Service, which we read on 2 November 2026, says it in two sentences: "Your Shopify Store can only be associated with one Store Owner. A Store Owner may have multiple Shopify Stores" ([Shopify Terms of Service](https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms)). So one person or one company can own as many stores as it wants to pay for, and each store has exactly one owner. Shopify's terms allow one owner to run several stores, each with a single named owner. Mosaic keeps accounts you are entitled to run apart; it does not change what a platform allows. ## What having multiple Shopify stores costs Every store is its own subscription. Shopify manages the plan from each store's **Settings > Plan** page, where "your pricing plan determines which Shopify features and tools are available to your store, and your monthly cost" ([Managing pricing plans](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-pricing-plan)). When you create a store inside an organization, the form asks you to select a plan or skip and decide later ([Creating stores](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-orgs/create-store)). Two smaller costs catch people out. A theme bought from the Theme Store is licensed "for a single Store only", and the terms say "Multiple Stores require multiple downloads and each download is subject to the applicable fee." Apps bill per store as well: Shopify's organization page notes that recurring app charges "are attached to the store, not the organization". Mosaic is a desktop app Email yourself the link and open it on your computer. How it works: Presets and extensions ## Can you have multiple stores on Shopify under one login? Yes, if they share an email address. Shopify's store switcher "contains the Shopify stores where you have an account with the same email address", with the most recent first and a searchable list behind **View all** ([Switching between stores](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/logging-in/store-switcher)). Frozen, paused and closed stores drop out of the list until they are reactivated. That is the cheapest way to run two or three stores you own, and it needs nothing installed. The limit is the email. On a desktop browser, Shopify says, "You can't log in to multiple accounts on a desktop device, you can only switch between different accounts" ([Log in and out of your Shopify account](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/logging-in/log-in)). A store you work in under a different address, such as a client's store where you are staff, sits outside the switcher. ## Organizations: Shopify's own way to group stores On plans other than Shopify Plus, an owner of two or more stores can group them into an organization from **Settings > General**, under **Transfer store**. Grouped stores share users and settings, and billing moves to the organization owner. Shopify sets four conditions ([Group a store to an organization](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-orgs/group-store)): 1. You need at least two stores. 2. You must be the store owner of every store you group. 3. All stores need the same billing currency, and it cannot be changed later. 4. Stores billed in Indian rupees cannot be grouped. Shopify says there is "no specific limit on the number of stores you can group into an organization" outside Plus. Plus merchants use expansion stores instead, created inside the organization or added through Shopify Plus Support. ## What Shopify does not expect you to hide The same terms ask the opposite of secrecy. The Store Owner is "responsible for ensuring that the name of the Store Owner (including the legal name of the company that owns the Store, if applicable) is clearly visible on the Store's website." Several stores under one owner are normal on Shopify, and the owner is meant to be visible on each of them. What the rules do restrict is ownership. A store has one owner, and if you sign up for your employer, the terms make your employer the owner and require an employer-issued email. Whether running several accounts is allowed at all differs a lot between platforms; [is it legal to have multiple accounts](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/is-it-legal-to-have-multiple-accounts) compares the rules site by site. ## When separate browser profiles help With the switcher, most owners never need more than one browser. Separate profiles start to pay off when your stores live on different email addresses: stores belonging to separate companies, stores you run for clients, or a store where you are staff rather than owner. Signing out and in between them every hour is where a reply meant for one store's customer goes out from another, and where three stores' order exports end up in one downloads folder. We built Mosaic for that case. Each store gets its own profile with its own cookies, saved logins and two-factor codes, and its own downloads folder, kept out of Spotlight and deleted with the profile. A tag such as "shopify" filters the table down to your stores. ![Filtering Mosaic profiles by tag so only the store profiles are listed](https://mosaicbrowser.com/shots/tags-filter.png) *Every store profile, one tag* Setting that up store by store, alongside the switcher and organizations, is the subject of [how to manage multiple Shopify stores](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-shopify-stores). For running many logins on one machine more generally, see [how to manage multiple accounts on one computer](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-accounts-on-one-computer). Free is 3 profiles and 10 profile creations, and the plans for sellers with more stores are on [pricing](https://mosaicbrowser.com/pricing). ## Sources 1. [Shopify Terms of Service](https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms), read November 2, 2026 2. [Shopify Help Center: Switching between stores](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/logging-in/store-switcher), read November 2, 2026 3. [Shopify Help Center: Group a store to an organization](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-orgs/group-store), read November 2, 2026 4. [Shopify Help Center: Creating stores](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-orgs/create-store), read November 2, 2026 5. [Shopify Help Center: Managing pricing plans](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/manage-orgs-and-stores/manage-pricing-plan), read November 2, 2026 6. [Shopify Help Center: Log in and out of your Shopify account](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/logging-in/log-in), read November 2, 2026 ## Questions ### Do I have to pay for each Shopify store separately? Yes. A plan belongs to a store: Shopify manages it from that store's Settings > Plan page, and a new store asks you to select a plan when it is created. Grouping stores into an organization moves the payment methods to the organization, but each store keeps its plan. ### Can I use the same email for two Shopify stores? Yes. Shopify's store switcher lists every store where you have an account with the same email address, so one login reaches all of them. A store missing from the switcher usually uses a different email. ### Can I use one paid theme on two Shopify stores? Not with one purchase. Shopify's terms license a Theme Store theme to a single store, and say multiple stores require multiple downloads, each with its own fee. A theme can move to a second store of yours only if you close the first. ### Can two Shopify stores share staff? Inside an organization, yes. Shopify says grouping stores lets you manage them with shared users and centralized settings. Outside one, each store adds its own users, within its plan's user limit. ## Related [How to manage multiple Shopify stores](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-shopify-stores): Manage multiple Shopify stores with the store switcher for stores on one email, an organization for shared staff, and a browser profile per login for the rest. [Anti-detect browser for ecommerce: what sellers need](https://mosaicbrowser.com/use-cases/ecommerce): An anti-detect browser for ecommerce gives each store its own profile, exit and cookies. eBay allows several accounts; Amazon wants a business need. [Is it legal to have multiple accounts?](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/is-it-legal-to-have-multiple-accounts): Having multiple accounts is generally legal. Whether a platform allows it is a matter of its terms, which range from ten accounts on X to one on Upwork. [How to manage multiple accounts on one computer](https://mosaicbrowser.com/guides/manage-multiple-accounts-on-one-computer): Manage multiple accounts on one computer with the platform's own switcher, a browser profile or container per account, or an anti-detect browser for clients.     ## Run this guide on your own accounts Every Mosaic profile is a fingerprint, a proxy exit and a cookie jar that agree with each other, kept on your computer. Free holds 3 profiles. Pro is $49 a month for any number. Mosaic is a desktop app Email yourself the link and open it on your computer.