Starting my shop: a beginner’s guide

After signing up, you will receive a welcome email from Winslor. Nothing is charged before the trial ends. Here is how to go from signing up to your first sale.

1. Set your password

The welcome email contains a ‘Set my password’ link. It takes you to winslor.com/welcome: choose your password and you will land straight in your shop’s admin, without having to log in again.

The link is valid for 7 days. After that, click ‘Forgotten your password?’ on the login page and you will receive a new link.

2. Follow the getting started guide

When you arrive, your dashboard opens on the getting started guide. It lists what is left to do before you can sell, with the next step already expanded, and each ‘Open’ button takes you to the relevant settings page. Steps tick themselves off as you go.

Six steps are essential before you can sell:

1. Name your shop: its name and contact email address, which appear on your storefront, on your invoices and in the emails sent to your customers.
2. Publish your first product: a draft does not count, as your customers cannot see it.
3. Connect Stripe to get paid: it is your own account, and the money goes straight to you. See Set up Stripe and receive my payments.
4. Set up your shipping: a rate, a free-shipping threshold, or a note that you do not ship. See Sending your orders.
5. Publish your terms & privacy policy: terms of sale are mandatory to sell online, and they protect you in a dispute.
6. Fill in your legal entity: company name, registration number and address, which feed your legal notice and your invoices.

Until you set up shipping, it is free to every country: set your rates before your first sale.

Optional steps follow: write your pages (about, FAQ), personalise your storefront, connect your domain name, check your VAT regime and register your shop with Google. In France, you will also find the declaration of your consumer mediator there: the guide does not count it as blocking, but joining a mediator is a legal obligation.

The guide stays on your dashboard as long as an essential step remains. You can also open it from any page with ‘Getting started guide’ at the bottom of the admin menu.

3. Publish your first product

Go to Catalog → Products → ‘New Product’. Enter the name and price, add photos, then set the status to ‘Active’ to make the product visible. Full details are in Add my first product.

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