Creating a store
Start a new store
Go to Store and click Create Store. Give it a name and a slug. The slug is the web address piece, so your store lives at a clean public URL under your shop.
Set the look
Add a headline, description, logo, and banner so the store looks like yours.
Set the window
Optionally set an open date, a close date, and a close time. Pick the time zone the store keeps: it defaults to your browser’s, and every date and time on the store, open, close, and the countdown, is read against it. Before the open date the store isn’t reachable. Turn on Show countdown and shoppers see a “Store closes in 3 days, 4 hours” banner on the landing page, counting down to the exact instant the store closes.
Leave close time blank and the store gets the whole close date, closing at the following midnight in the store’s time zone. Change the time zone later and every close date you’ve already set is read against the new one.
Choose how orders are fulfilled
Pick a fulfillment mode, immediate or group order. This is the most important choice, and it’s covered in detail in Fulfillment modes.
Then pick a fulfillment method, pickup or ship. It doesn’t change how orders are processed. It selects which copy the buyer gets when you mark their order fulfilled: “Your order is ready for pickup,” with your address, or “Your order has shipped,” with theirs.
Add contact info and tax
Fill in the contact details shoppers see, add social links if you want, and set a flat tax rate if you need one. The tax rate is applied to the subtotal at checkout and charged to the buyer.
A setting that doesn’t do what it sounds like
Password protection has no effect. The Password Protected toggle and the password you type are stored, but nothing in the public store checks them. An active store is fully public to anyone with the URL. If a store must be private, keep it inactive until you’re ready and take it inactive again when you’re done.
Auto-close
Auto-close on Close Date is a separate toggle, and it is off by default.
A close date on its own does nothing. Without auto-close, the store stays live past its close date until you close it by hand. This trips people up. If you want the date to mean something, turn the toggle on. Read Fulfillment modes for exactly when the close fires.
Fulfillment emails
Enable Fulfillment Emails is on by default. Leave it on and buyers get a notification the moment you mark their order fulfilled. Turn it off and orders still fulfil, silently. See Orders & fulfillment.
Once a store has taken a paid order, you can’t change its fulfillment mode. Switching mid-stream would scramble how orders turn into invoices and jobs. Decide the mode before you go live.
Everything is editable later
Every field above lives on the store’s Settings page, reachable from the store detail screen. Rename it, re-slug it, swap the banner, move the close date, change the time zone. Settings shows you the exact moment your current close date, close time, and time zone add up to, so you can check it before saving. The only locked field is the fulfillment mode, and only after a paid order.
Deleting a store
Deleting a store deletes its products with it. ManagePrint blocks the delete when accounting or production records would be orphaned:
- The store has a consolidated invoice from a group-order close. Void the invoice first.
- Any order on the store is linked to an invoice or job. Refund and void those first.
A store with nothing but unpaid or abandoned carts deletes cleanly. Any custom domain pointed at the store is released automatically, so the domain is free to reattach elsewhere.
Before you can sell
Two things must be true to take payment: your shop has storefronts enabled (a Professional feature), and you’ve connected Stripe. Without a connected Stripe account, the store can show products but checkout won’t work. Creating your first active store flips the shop-wide storefront switch on for you. See Settings → Payment Collection.
Next
With the store created, add some products.