# Create your account
Pay, and your store exists. This is the only gate; everything after it you can do in any order.

**About 3 minutes.**

You have decided to do it. This part takes about three minutes and there is only one decision in it.

## 1. Start

Go to **sitelaunch.io** and press **Create my store**. You give a business name, an email and a password. The name is not final; you can change every word on your site later.

> **On screen:** The first step: a business name, an email and a password

## 2. Pay

$39 a month on your card. That is the whole price: nothing per sale, no setup fee, no tiers. You can cancel from **Settings, Plan** whenever you like and nothing is deleted.

> This is the only gate. Once it is paid, the look, the products, the domain and the payment account can all wait until you have time.

## 3. Confirm your email

We send you an email to check the address works. Open it and press the link.

Until you do, a few things stay closed: adding your own domain is one of them, because we email you when the check passes.

> If it is not there in a minute, look in spam, and check the address you typed on step one. The console will offer to send it again.

## What you have now

A store at **yourname.sitelaunch.io**, and **Home**, which lists what is left before it opens under Needs You. Nothing is public yet.

Next: [set things up the first time](/help/merchant/set-things-up).