Fashion Store Launch Checklist: Plan Your First Online Store
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Planning your first clothing store? Review what you need before building and before accepting orders. No existing store or email address is required.
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Still deciding what to build? The free Fashion Store Starter Planner helps you choose your next three tasks. Use this checklist afterward to review the wider launch requirements.
Your first-store checklist
Select “Reviewed” only for items you have checked. Your answers stay on this page and are not automatically saved or submitted. This is a self-review; it does not inspect a store or verify a supplier.
You can review an idea before opening Shopify. Complete the selling checks before opening checkout.
Your launch budget and the cost of one order answer different questions. Use the startup-budget planner for bills due and cash held for supplier payments and refunds. Use the calculator below for the costs associated with a single order.
Estimate one order’s costs
Use one currency throughout. The starting figures are invented: 40 − 16 − 7 − 2 − 3 − 2 − 8 = 2. Replace them with your assumptions. Include revenue after discounts, excluding tax collected for authorities, plus any shipping charged to the customer. Allocate other costs consistently. This is a planning calculation, not verified profit.
The interactive calculator is unavailable. These figures are a fixed example.
- Revenue, excluding tax
- 40
- Product cost
- 16
- Supplier shipping
- 7
- Payment and conversion fees
- 2
- Return-cost reserve
- 3
- Other costs per order
- 2
- Advertising per order
- 8
40 − 16 − 7 − 2 − 3 − 2 − 8 = 2
- Order contribution
- 2.00
- Ad spend at zero contribution
- 10.00
Illustrative values; the result changes with your costs. A zero or negative ad allowance leaves no room for paid acquisition in this model.
Plan the cash needed before customer payouts arrive. A positive amount remaining from an order does not mean the money is available to pay your supplier. Use the supplier-payment cash planner (new tab) to explore a fixed daily-order scenario and a payout delay you choose. Keep other bills and refund reserves separate. Your figures on this page stay here.
Review your next steps to download a text copy. Review again after changing your answers or costs.
Your next steps
Based on your answers and cost assumptions. These are planning prompts, not a store approval or a promise of sales.