Our online store terms and conditions template is suitable for those who are looking to achieve any or all of the following:

• Establish a contract with your buyer

• Cover availability of items

• Ensure you get paid

• Limit your liability where you use third party platforms like Stripe, Square or Paypal to collect payment

• Protect you when using third party delivery operators (like Australia Post) to deliver your items

• If physical products, require the purchaser to inspect the items immediately upon receiving them (so they can’t claim 3 months later the item is faulty)

• Protect the intellectual property of your shop and content on your platform

• Cover user content - particularly important where you use online reviews

• Limit your liability if a buyer claims against you

• Refer to the Australian Consumer Law and protect you where this does not apply by limiting the ability of purchasers to make claims or limit the amount of claims; and

• Provide general disclaimers around infection control and the quality of the products.

Do you only sell digital products and need more than terms and conditions? Take a look at our Digital Product Business Legal Templates Bundle.

Looking for a legal template bundle that includes these online store terms, a website terms of use policy and online store privacy policy? Take a look at the Online Store Essentials Bundle. 

What happens when you purchase our Online Store Terms and Conditions Template?

1. You will receive a download link to an editable Microsoft Word document (your template) immediately after purchase of the template.

2. Download the template (your access will expire after 24 hours but once you save it on your desktop, it is yours to keep forever)

3. Add your own logo/badge and change the font to personalise your document.

4. Add your information where we have red text indicators and/ or guidance notes. While you can edit the contract, we suggest you don’t edit without legal advice as these templates have been drafted by an experienced lawyer.

5. Your template can be used more than once, however you should be mindful that where a significant amount of time has passed since it was purchased or the law in that area has changed significantly, the template may not be current or up to date with the law.

You should ensure that these terms and conditions are placed on your online platform (whether that be your website, Shopify or a third party platform like Facebook) so that your customer has the opportunity to review and agree to them after they have added the item to their shopping cart but before they have entered their credit card details to buy the product.

Disclaimer

In downloading the Online Store Terms and Conditions Template Australia from Ready to Boss Legal (Template), you have not asked us to provide legal advice to you.

This document contains information only, noting it was current as at the time of the date in the footer of the template document. We cannot guarantee that the law will not have changed since your purchase of the document and you are obligated to ensure that if you save and use at a later date, that the law remains current.

Ready to Boss Legal is not acting as your lawyer in providing this document to you and provides it as legal information only. 

Finally, we ask that you do not share our templates as this breaches our copyright and the purpose for which this template was sold to you.

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