# Get started with Commerce Orbit

> The steps from an empty organisation to a shop that takes orders: settings, Stripe, taxes and shipping, your first product and a test order.

Source: https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/get-started/

This checklist takes you from a new organisation to a shop that can take a real order. Your first shop is ready when you open Commerce Orbit; to run another, see [Add a shop](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/add-a-shop/). On **Overview**, **Get ready to sell** shows the steps still open, the next one highlighted; select the **×** at its top right to hide it for good. Most steps need an Admin. Editors can add products, collections and discount codes.

## 1. Name your shop

Open **Settings** and fill in:

- **Shop name**, logo and colour, which the hosted shop and emails use
- **Shop address**, such as `northwilds`. It is part of every link to your shop and of the storefront API, so choose it before you share links. Use lower-case letters, numbers and hyphens.
- **Main currency**, and any other currencies you sell in, such as EUR with NOK and SEK
- **Languages** you sell in, with the main one first
- **Contact email**, which customers reach when they reply to an email
- **Seller details:** legal name, VAT number, registration number and address. They are printed on invoices and receipts.
- **Order prefix**, such as `NW`, so order numbers read `NW1042`, and the **invoice prefix**, such as `INV-`
- **Website** and **allowed websites**, if your own website will run a cart. See [The storefront API](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/developers/storefront-api/).

See [Languages and currencies](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/languages-and-currencies/) for how prices work in more than one currency.

## 2. Connect Stripe

Make a restricted key in your Stripe account and paste it under **Stripe**. Start with test keys, so you can place orders without real money. See [Connect your Stripe account](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/connect-stripe/).

## 3. Taxes and shipping

- Choose the country you sell from, whether your prices include VAT, and whether you are registered for the EU One Stop Shop.
- Add at least one shipping zone with a rate, such as **Norway** with **Standard, 3 to 5 days**, or mark a location for collection in store. A shopper can't check out without a way to get the order.

See [Shipping and taxes](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/shipping-and-taxes/).

## 4. Locations

Commerce Orbit starts with one location, **Warehouse**. Rename it, add your shops or other warehouses, and switch on collection in store where shoppers can pick up. See [Stock and locations](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/stock-and-locations/).

## 5. Your first product

Open **Products**, add a product such as the Fjell GTX boot with its sizes, prices, stock and photos, and set its status to **Active**. Only active products are for sale. See [Products](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/products/).

Group products into [collections](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/collections/), such as Tents or Winter boots, so websites can show them together.

## 6. Place a test order

With Stripe in test mode, open your hosted shop, put the product in the cart and check out with Stripe's test card `4242 4242 4242 4242`, any future date and any CVC. The order shows under **Orders** within seconds, and the confirmation email goes to the address you used. Mark it as sent to try the shipping email too. See [Orders](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/orders/).

When everything works, connect your live Stripe keys and cancel the test orders.

## 7. Bring in your team

People get Commerce Orbit from your organisation's members in Orbit. Owners and admins there are Admins here; everyone else starts as a Viewer, and an Admin can make them an Editor under **People**. See [Who can do what](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/roles/).

## Optional next steps

- Show products on your website in CMS Orbit: [Show your products on your website](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/cms-orbit/)
- Add business customers with invoice terms: [Customers and companies](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/customers-and-companies/)
- Connect MAM Software: [The MAM integration](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/mam-integration/)
- Change the emails customers get: [Emails to customers](https://docs.bifrostorbit.com/commerce/everyone/emails-to-customers/)