What should you check before you flip your store live?
A short walk-through that catches the small things that quietly cost you sales on day one.
Most launch-day problems are not dramatic. They are a checkout that fails on a phone, a page that overflows, a shipping cost that surprises people at the last step. None of them announce themselves. This walk catches them before a customer does.
Step 1: walk your own checkout
Buy something from your own store on your phone, all the way to the payment screen. Check that a card, Apple Pay, and Google Pay all work. If you would not finish it, a customer will not either.
Step 2: read every page on a phone
Most of your shoppers are on a phone. Scroll your home page, a product page, and your cart on a small screen and fix anything that overflows, hides, or reads wrong.
Step 3: turn on the money-savers
Before you send a single visitor, switch on cart recovery and set returns up the way you actually handle them. These stop leaks you would otherwise pay for later.
Step 4: point your domain and tell the team you are open
Connect your own web address so customers see your brand, not a platform. Then let the team know you are live so it starts working from the very first visit.
Do this
Run this five-minute walk-through, plug the leaks, then point your domain and open.
You get
You launch without the small broken things that quietly turn first-time visitors away.
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How do you move your store to SquareUp without losing your design?
Bring your existing storefront over so it looks exactly like it did, then let the team run underneath it.
How do you point your own domain at your SquareUp store?
Put your store on your own web address so customers see your brand, not a platform's.
How do you bring your products, images, and inventory over cleanly?
Move your catalog without losing a variant, a photo, or a stock count.
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