The best way to see your customer’s experience is to place a real order including payment. We recommend setting up a test product with a low purchase price. You can always return the funds to yourself ;)

If you want to place a test order without any charges, you can use a manual payment option. This way you can place an order and set its status to Paid manually.

To place a test order with a real online payment:

1. From your Joatcart Admin dashboard, go to Catalog → Products.

2. Create a product and set the price to $1. Name it Test product so your customers do not buy it by mistake:

3. Make sure the test product does not require shipping so you’re not charged for delivery:

4. Open your storefront. You can use the View Store in the Sales channels section online store (eye icon) in your JoatCart Admin dashboard.

5. Find the Test product and add it to cart:

6. Enter your real email and click Checkout.

7. Select the payment method you want to test.

8. Pay for the order using real payment details.

9. Check to make sure the order appears in the Catalog → Orders section.

10. If the order shows as Paid, congrats! You’re all set up and ready to sell!

11. Once you’ve made sure everything works properly, you can delete the test product.

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