Setting up your first store
Work through the store-readiness checklist — currency, language, identity, location, tax, payments, and shipping — before your first order.
Your dashboard Home shows a store-readiness checklist grouped into Foundations, Catalog, and Checkout. A store can't sell until the essentials are in place, so this guide follows that checklist in order. Plan for about an hour of focused work.
Foundations
Currency & language
Open Global Configuration → Localization. Set your store currency and number formatting, then choose your default language, your enabled languages, and your timezone.
Store identity
Open Global Configuration → Store Identity. Enter your Company Display Name and Company Legal Name (used on invoices and emails), your address and tax/VAT number, logos, and contact details.
Storefront pages
Open Content & Navigation → Pages and publish your essential pages — Terms, Privacy, About. The 'add default pages' action scaffolds the essentials for you.
Catalog
Set a default location
Open Commerce Management → Organizational Units and create a default location with a full address. This is your stock and fulfilment origin — stock operations need it.
Checkout
Add a tax rule
Open Commerce Management → Tax Management and add at least one tax rule for your country (for example, VAT 18%).
Enable a payment method
Open Commerce Management → Payment Methods and enable at least one method so customers can pay. Cash on Delivery is enabled by default.
Set up shipping
Open Commerce Management → Shipping Settings and add a delivery method, a zone, and a rate. The quick shipping setup does all three at once.
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