Method

A store operator follows a tutorial while a customer waits. The steps have to match the admin screen in front of them, and the numbers have to add up. The check here is built for that.

The procedure

1. Trace each step to Shopify's own docs. Every admin step in a tutorial is checked against the Shopify help page it came from, opened on the day the tutorial was written. The page is linked in Sources, with the date it was read.
2. Compute every claimed number separately. The figures in the worked example are recomputed in Python from the same inputs, independently of the tutorial text. A tutorial ships only when the recomputation agrees to the cent.
3. Attach the file that was checked. Where the tutorial has a planner or an intake sheet, the download on the page is the file that passed the check. Its contents are listed on the page.
4. State the version gate. Shopify changes its admin. Each tutorial names the date its source pages were read and says which steps are version-sensitive.
5. State what did not run. No live Shopify store was used for the first tutorials. No account was created and no admin screen was clicked through. The tutorials say so on the page instead of implying a live run.

What the check does not do

The check confirms that the steps match Shopify's published docs on the date given, and that the arithmetic is right. It does not confirm that the admin screens look the same on your plan or in your region, and it does not test your store's tax settings. Where a step depends on a setting, the tutorial says so. Tax is never stated as a figure in a worked example unless the tutorial says how it was set; Shopify adds tax once the customer and their address are on the order.

Versions used for the first tutorials

Checked 11 November 2026. Versions are recorded again on each tutorial page when they change.