As you've no doubt realized — and one great reason for this book — Magento 2 delivers its power as an e-commerce platform by giving you a lot of versatility. This versatility comes at a price, though, most notably in terms of the vast number of configuration tasks and choices available.

Over the years, we have created our own Magento Pre-Launch Checklist to make sure we touch all the important configuration and design points within Magento 2 that are necessary for a live store to operate. If you've read through this entire book, you may have already addressed a number of these items, but having an itemized list to follow will save you a lot of time and give your store owner a great deal of immediate satisfaction.

We've broken down this checklist into the following areas:

In this chapter, we will go over the configurations to review in order to have a successful Magento store launch.