Make your store sellable — plan, domain, payments, password page

Walkthrough · ~70 seconds · captions, no audio
Built is not selling.
Four switches stand between them.
A plan, a domain, payments, and the password page. All four live in your Shopify admin — here is where each one is.
my-store · Settings
Plan
Development store
Free · for building and testing
Choose a plan
A development store can't take real payments, and its password page can't be removed. Selling starts with a paid plan — Basic is enough.
my-store · Settings
Domains
Buy new domain
Search for a domain
forestcrest.com
forestcrest.com — $15/year · Shopify connects it for you, nothing to configure
my-store.myshopify.com — current, stays as a fallback
my-store · Settings
Payments
Shopify Payments
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay — one provider, no extra account
Activate
PayPal · third-party providers
If Shopify Payments isn't available in your country, pick one here — the checkout works the same
See providers
my-store · Online Store
Preferences
Online Store → Preferences — not in Settings
Password protection
Restrict access to visitors with the password
Save
Then buy something from yourself.
1Open your store like a customer and order the cheapest item
2Pay for real — this is the whole chain, tested once
3Watch the order reach your dashboard, then refund it
Ten minutes and a few dollars, spent before a stranger's money ever touches the store.
That's the whole gap.
Plan, domain, payments, password page, one test order. Your dashboard's Ready to sell? panel reads these straight from your store — open it any time to see where you stand.
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