You’ve heard the phrase that “a picture paints a thousand words”?

That really is the case with most Shopify stores, where eye-catching images can help to showcase and sell your products, services and ideas.

Product images usually require a professional photographer and customized shots but most stores also need a range of other images to illustrate blog posts and information pages to help break up text and make pages generally more digestible.

These can be tricky to find with copyright to consider and restrictions often placed on what you can and can’t use.

For these situations, it helps to have a collection of stock images to sort through and select what works for your site. Unfortunately, some of these can be unoriginal, over-used or even downright cringe-worthy – but high-quality sites with unique and high-resolution images are increasingly available.

Having a few of the best stock image sites to choose from can help you find the right image. With that in mind, we’ve compiled a shortlist of the top 25 image sites for you to check…

In your Shopify store, “locations” are the places from which you stock inventory, fulfill orders, and sell products.

Smaller stores and drop shippers may have one primary location from which everything is done but larger stores and enterprises may use multiple locations to fulfill and ship orders from while the business is coordinated from one main “default” location.

This makes it slightly more complex but it is still relatively easy to manage on Shopify through any desktop, iPhone or Android device.

Whether you run a single-location store or a larger enterprise with several warehouse distribution points, the inventory and order fulfillment processes are crucial to the success of your business.

Fortunately, with Shopify, it’s very simple to add, modify, deactivate or delete locations as your business develops.

Simply follow the steps outlined below…