Help / Running your store

Set things up the first time

Pick a look, add one thing to sell, and open. About twenty minutes, and Home tells you what is left.

The store exists and nobody can see it yet. Four things stand between here and open, and Home keeps score under Needs You so you never have to remember which.

1. Pick a look

We suggest one for your trade and what you sell, with two alternates. Open Website, Design and every look shows itself as your business, with your name and words already in it.

Switching later keeps your words. Nothing you write is tied to the design you chose first.

2. Say what your page does

On Website, Design, under your look, What your page does decides what the page lists:

• Sell products puts your offers on it, each with a price and a Buy button.
• Take bookings puts your services on it, with a calendar people pick a time on.
• Get leads lists neither, and is the look as designed with a way to get in touch.

If you sell both, Sell, Offers notices and offers Show both on my page in one press. Getting this wrong is the commonest reason something you added is not on your site.

3. Add one thing

One offer opens the store. A file to download, or a service with a length. See sell your first product and take a booking.

4. Connect where you get paid

On Money, Payments, one click to your Square or Stripe. If you have neither yet, skip it: the store opens and says plainly that it is not taking payments yet.

Then it is open

Your store is live at yourname.sitelaunch.io the moment the last item is done, and at your own address once you connect a domain.

Still stuck? Ask us. Models: this page is Markdown, and every page is in llms.txt.