E-commerce reading path #

The E-commerce section, together with Online stores and small shops and Running your store, has many pages. This page gives the order that works for most readers: a short path for a busy merchant, four stages everyone goes through, and the extra pages per role.

Contents #

1. The one-hour path for a busy merchant
2. Stage 1: decide
3. Stage 2: set up
4. Stage 3: launch
5. Stage 4: run
6. Paths per role

The one-hour path for a busy merchant #

1. E-commerce: start here
2. What the built-in shop does
3. Merchant path
4. Decision checklists
5. Store launch checklist
6. Operations calendar

Stage 1: decide #

• Store planning for small businesses
• Paths by role
• Payment gateways for businesses
• Multi-store and multisite, if you have several sites

Stage 2: set up #

1. Catalog modeling and its four pages.
2. Shop settings walkthroughs and the walkthrough per file.
3. Checkout and workflows, then Workflows on shop triggers.
4. Payment gateway event and Simple shipping event.
5. Order lifecycle operations and Status transitions and permissions.
6. Product imports and migrations.

Stage 3: launch #

1. Testing a store
2. Store accessibility
3. Store security checklist
4. Store launch checklist

Stage 4: run #

1. Daily store routine and the weekly and monthly checklists.
2. Order mail and receipts for operators.
3. Store figures and exports and Analytics for stores.
4. Content commerce with Layouts for campaigns.
5. Troubleshooting checkout and Commerce audit trail when something goes wrong.
6. Archive, remove and cleanup once a year.

Paths per role #

Related pages #

• E-commerce: start here
• Businesses reading path
• Customers reading path
• Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.