Complete your store setup

Your dashboard is ready as soon as signup finishes, but your storefront stays private until you open it. Everyone who reaches your store address - you included - sees a password page until then. Dashboard Home shows the password next to Go live: enter it to preview the shop exactly as a customer will, and share it with anyone who should see the store early.

1. Confirm the store identity

1. Open Branding.
2. Check the store name, logo, colours, contact details, and business identity used on customer-facing material.
3. Open Settings, then Account, and confirm your own name and verified phone.

2. Add something to sell

1. Open Products and create the first product.
2. Add its price, images, variants, tax details, shipping measurements, and supplier barcode where they apply. StoreMink generates the permanent StoreMink SKU for you.
3. If you track stock, enter a sensible starting quantity and backorder choice.

See Add your first product and check the storefront for the quick workflow.

3. Prepare the website

1. Open Storefront, preview the themes on their demo stores, and choose one with Use this theme.
2. Open Website Builder.
3. Review the Home page, header, footer, menus, and contact links.
4. Preview desktop and mobile sizes.
5. Publish the page and site-wide changes when they are ready. Saving a draft does not publish it.

4. Prepare checkout and delivery

• Choose the payment methods available on your plan. Cash on Delivery can work without connecting an online gateway.
• Open Settings, then Shipping & delivery, and configure the delivery charge and promise shown to customers.
• Check the business, GST, tax, and invoice details used on orders and documents.
• Confirm that at least one active location can fulfil online orders.

5. Prepare customer communication

1. Open Settings, then Notifications.
2. Review customer order messages and the team members who receive operational alerts.
3. Add or review the privacy, returns, shipping, and other policies that apply to your business.

Open your store

Dashboard Home lists what must be in place before customers can shop. There are five required tasks:

1. Verify your mobile number: the store owner's mobile, confirmed with a code we text to it.
2. Choose your storefront theme under Storefront. Until you do, anyone who enters your store password sees a Store in progress page. You can change the theme any time.
3. Add your first product: at least one published product of your own. The theme's sample products don't count.
4. Add your business and delivery details: your business name, address, email and mobile under Taxes & invoices, and your delivery charges, saved once under Settings → Shipping & delivery.
5. Publish your store policies: Terms & Conditions, Refund & Cancellation, Shipping and Privacy, all under Settings → Policies.

Each task links to the page where you complete it and ticks itself off when the page is saved. The business and policies tasks list their parts, each with its own tick, and count as done when every part is. The store owner verifies their mobile right in the checklist: enter the number, then the six-digit code we text to it. If your invoice details have no mobile yet, the verified number is added there too, and you can change it under Taxes & invoices.

Recommended items - your logo, a personalised homepage, removing the sample products, online payments, your GSTIN and your own domain - improve the store but do not hold it back.

When every required item is done, the store owner presses Go live. The password page comes down, search engines are told about the store, and your My Store link opens the public shop. Before that, use Preview store on Dashboard Home (or share the password with a colleague) and check the complete shopping journey as a customer: prices, stock, delivery information, policy links, contact details, and mobile layout. Features that require a higher plan remain unavailable until the plan is active; StoreMink does not delete existing data when a plan is lowered.

If a page or setting is missing, your dashboard role may not have permission to view it. Ask a superadmin before repeating setup or creating duplicate data.