Book Image

Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7

Book Image

Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Squarespace Templates in a Nutshell
List of Online Resources Used in This Book
Index

Testing your store


Once you have created your products and variants, now is the time to test how to add them to a shopping cart and check out. It's a good idea to test as many product variants as possible to ensure that you haven't accidentally made a typo or set up a variant incorrectly. Your store should still be in test mode, so you can safely add things to a shopping cart and go through the entire checkout process without worrying that real charges will be made to a credit card.

To make a test purchase, follow these steps:

  1. Go into the fullscreen Preview mode or log out of the Squarespace administration if you prefer.

    Tip

    Use a different browser if you want to keep your site open in the Site Manager in one place but test the purchase process as a normal user in another.

    As your site is still password-protected, you may need to enter your password during the checkout process. This will not happen once we launch your site.

  2. Visit your Products page(s) and add item(s) to your cart. A floating Shopping...