Get started and make a test sale
The six-step checklist every new store gets, how each step is checked, and the test sale that runs a real order through checkout, delivery and your balance without touching your keys.
Home → Get started is the checklist a new store opens on. Every step is read from your store’s real data, so it cannot say “done” before the thing works, and it ticks itself off when you finish a step anywhere in the dashboard.
The six steps
| Step | Done when |
|---|---|
| Create your store | Always done: you have a name and an address on shopfa.st. |
| Add your first product | The store has at least one product. Presets start you on a license key with 1 Day, 7 Days, 30 Days and Lifetime options. |
| Customize your store | You picked a template and published it with your look. You can pick one right inside the step. |
| Choose how you get paid | Checkout can really take money: ShopFast Pay is usable for your store (approved, or open to every store), or you have your own way to get paid (a gateway connected with its keys, crypto to your own wallet or an active payment plugin). Picking a payment model alone is not enough. |
| Make a test sale | The store has a test order, or any real paid order. |
| Connect your domain | A custom domain is connected. |
The Choose how you get paid step shows both ways side by side. Fill in the ShopFast Pay application without leaving the page and watch its status (in review, needs more info, approved), or connect your own gateway right there with its keys. Once ShopFast Pay collects for you, the step (and Home, Payments and Balance) asks where to send your payouts until you add a crypto wallet. Every screen of getting paid, step by step: Get paid: the complete guide.
The test sale
Simulate first sale runs one order through the whole pipeline, the same code real buyers go through:
- ShopFast picks your newest active product (files first, then keys, serials, bundles, memberships, Discord roles and services). For a product with options it takes the first option that is on sale and not out of stock.
- A checkout is created in your name with your store’s country and paid with the sandbox card.
- Fulfillment runs: test sales get generated
TEST-keys, so your key pool is never touched, and the receipt goes to your own email. - The order lands in Orders marked as a test, and the ledger records it without paying anything out.
When it finishes, Get started shows the buyer’s order page beside the checklist, so you see exactly what a buyer sees after paying. Share the store link from the same panel once you are ready.
If no product is active yet, the step asks you to add or publish one first.
Test orders never count in your sales figures and never reach a payout, and their
TEST- keys are placeholders, never keys from your pool. Run as many as you like.
Test mode for the whole store
To try checkout as a buyer would, with your own cart and payment pages, turn on Test mode in Money → Payments for 1, 24 or 72 hours. Every checkout then runs on simulated payments and is recorded as a test order. Test mode turns itself off when the time is up. See Selling on ShopFast.
From the API
The checklist and the test sale are also API calls, with the store taken from your key:
curl https://api.shopfa.st/v1/store/onboarding -H "Authorization: Bearer $SHOPFAST_KEY"
curl -X POST https://api.shopfa.st/v1/store/test-sale -H "Authorization: Bearer $SHOPFAST_KEY"GET /v1/store/onboarding answers with each step’s id, title, done and the completed / total counts.
POST /v1/store/test-sale answers with the test order. See Onboarding and
Test sale in the API reference.