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title: From signup to your first order
canonical: "https://oneshopfront.com/how-it-works"
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# From signup to your first order

Six clear steps. Pickup windows and a local delivery rate card are created with your store.

Open a OneShopFront store in six steps: create an account, verify your email, name the shop, wait for the URL to go live, set up payments, and pick a theme. No card on signup.

## The six steps

Signup is name, email, and password. No card on that form. You stay logged out until you verify your email.

- Create an account with name, email, and password. No card needed.
- Verify your email, then log in to finish creating the store.
- Name the store and URL. Time slots and a local delivery rate card are created with the store.
- Wait while your shop URL goes live. When the subdomain is ready, you land in admin for that shop.
- After the shop URL is live, connect Helcim for cards, or turn on Interac e-Transfer (Canada only).
- Pick a theme, then sell. Built-in themes are included from Starter up. Catalog, time slots, and channels are ready to turn on from there.

## What you turn on next

Enter products, prices, and availability once. Physical goods, digital downloads, subscriptions, and bookings can share that catalog.

When connected, publish eligible products to social and WhatsApp. Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok and run products, orders, the storefront, and publishing from there.

- SEO is on from launch
- Coupons, review approval, order email, reports, tax rules, and facility bookings
- Connect your own domain from admin when you are ready

## Common questions

### Do I need a card to create a store?

No. Sign up with name, email, and password. You stay logged out until you verify, then you name the shop URL.

### When do I set up payments?

After the shop URL is live, connect Helcim for cards, or turn on Interac e-Transfer (Canada only).

[Start your store](https://oneshopfront.com/register)