Complete setup guide to start selling and earning revenue today
⏱️ 5 minutes
Without payment processing, you cannot accept customer payments. This is essential to start making sales.
Most popular, lowest fees (2.9% + $0.30), best support
Second largest payment processor, large existing user base
View full PayPal setup guide →✓ Completed? You've set up your payment processor and have API credentials ready
⏱️ 5 minutes
Automated emails reduce support tickets by 40% and increase customer trust. Customers expect order confirmations and shipping updates.
💡 Pro Tip: Start with SendGrid's free tier (100 emails/day) to test, then scale up as needed.
✓ Completed? You've set up an email provider with templates ready to send
⏱️ 5 minutes
Check your complete product catalog
Manage inventory and product details
✓ Completed? All products are visible, accurate, and ready for customers to purchase
⏱️ 1 click
Publishing your store makes it live and visible to all customers on the internet. This is the moment you go live and can start making sales.
✓ Completed? Your store is now live on the internet and customers can find you
⏱️ 5 minutes
You need to track visitor behavior and sales to understand what's working and what needs improvement. Analytics tells you where customers are coming from and when they're buying.
Free tool that tracks all visitor behavior on your site
Track when customers complete purchases (required for paid ads)
View your Analytics Dashboard →💡 Pro Tip: Check your analytics daily for the first week to see if any sales are coming in.
✓ Completed? You can now see real-time visitor data and sales conversions
⏱️ Ongoing (5+ minutes per day)
Your store is live, but nobody knows it exists yet. You must actively drive traffic to make sales. Here are proven ways to get customers:
💡 Important: Most new stores get 0 sales the first week because nobody knows they exist. This is normal. Focus on marketing before expecting revenue.
✓ Completed? You're actively promoting your store and driving traffic to get customers
Focus on getting visibility, not sales yet.
Sales should start coming in.
Optimize what's working.
Reinvest profits into ads and marketing.
Monitor revenue, orders, and top products
Manage orders, inventory, and settings
Track traffic, conversions, and visitor behavior
Configure payment processors
Set up automated customer emails
Review and manage your product catalog
Most stores get their first sale within 1-4 weeks of launch, but only if you're actively marketing. Without marketing, you might not get any sales. The key is traffic = sales.
If you're not getting sales, the issue is usually traffic. You need customers visiting your store before they can buy. Increase your marketing efforts, try paid ads, improve your messaging, or adjust your product offerings.
No, you can start with free marketing (social media, communities, email list, blog). Most successful stores start free and only invest in ads after they've proven demand and have profit to reinvest.
This depends entirely on your marketing efforts, product quality, and pricing. A small store might make $500-2,000/month. A well-run store can make $10,000-100,000+/month. The effort you put in determines your results.
Respond quickly and professionally. Check your contact form submissions and respond to all customer inquiries within 24 hours. Many problems can be solved with good customer service, which leads to positive reviews and repeat customers.
Use your Analytics Dashboard to see where traffic comes from. Check your Sales Dashboard to see revenue trends. Use the conversion funnel to see where customers drop off. Test one change at a time and measure the results.
Your store is ready. The only thing left is to publish and start selling.
Remember: Publish first, then start marketing. Traffic = Sales.