Open a shop

Steps

1. Connect Stripe. In your site's admin, open "Commerce", then "Membership". Paste your "Stripe secret key", choose "Connect Stripe" and confirm. Stripe checks the key before Praxis stores it, encrypted; after that, only its last characters are ever shown. The screen reads "TEST MODE" or "LIVE MODE" from the key, and payment notifications register themselves. Connecting a payment account is for Admins.
2. Set up the store as an Admin. Open "Commerce", then "Products", choose "Set up the store", and approve "Set up your store?". It creates your product catalog and three draft pages: Shop, Cart and Checkout.
3. Add the picture. Put your product's picture in "Media" first.
4. Add the product. Choose "Add product": a name, a price in US dollars, the stock, a category, a description and one picture. A new product starts hidden, marked "Hidden".
5. Put it on sale. Choose "Put on sale" and approve its card.
6. Publish the store. Publish the Shop, Cart and Checkout pages, each behind its own publish card.
7. Ship the order. When an order arrives, it is under "Commerce", then "Orders". Choose "Mark as shipped" and add the carrier and tracking. The shopper sees it in their account, and the act can be undone.

Good to know

• Shoppers pay on Stripe's own hosted checkout page, and the money goes to your own Stripe account. Praxis marks a card order paid only when Stripe confirms the payment.
• Your store charges tax through Stripe Tax, and you set its shipping zones and rates. Coming soon.
• You create coupons on your store. Product variations are coming soon.
• A WooCommerce store our engineers move for you keeps its tax rates, shipping zones, coupons and variations, and checkout honours them.
• Refunds are made in Stripe and appear on the order with their date, amount and reason. You can also issue a refund from the order screen, through Stripe. Coming soon.
• "Mark as paid" records an offline payment, such as a bank transfer, a cheque or cash on delivery. "Cancel order" puts the stock back; a refund is issued separately, in Stripe.
• "Emails" on an order holds the receipt and the shipped, completed and cancelled messages, each with "Send again".
• Products brought in by your import are edited on the Products screen like any other. Coming soon.

In a sentence

Ask the copilot "Add an $8 sourdough loaf and put it on sale". It pauses for your approval before the product goes on sale.