How your shop works

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Stay chill. Your website can sell your products. Here's how your shop decides what's on sale, and what happens when someone orders.

A product's status decides where it shows. Active products are on your shop. Drafts show only on your preview, and can't be bought. Archived products are hidden. And when stock you track runs out, it's sold out, unless you choose to keep selling.

A buyer's cart is rechecked every time it's shown, so any change in price or stock shows before checkout. Placing the order prices everything again and takes the stock in one step, so two buyers can't both get the last one. The buyer gets a confirmation, and you get a notice. And the order lands in Orders.

Here's the real thing. Your website's Overview lists what's left before your shop is ready.

Products lists everything you sell, with its status, its stock and its price.

Collections group your products. Drag them into the order your shop shows them, or switch one off your website.

And every order lands in Orders. The list refreshes itself every minute, so a new one appears without reloading.

Only active products can be bought, so a draft is never sold by mistake. Stock is taken the moment an order is placed, so the last one only sells once. And every order waits in one place, ready for its next step.

That's your shop: what's on sale, how an order is placed, and where it lands. Next up: see how your shop gets paid, and how orders reach buyers. Don't freeze up!