Getting started

The Getting started page brings every step to prepare your site before it goes live into a single guided list: create your pages, upload your logo, connect a domain and, if you sell online, set up your products, payments and shipping. Each step checks itself off as soon as you complete it, wherever you did it in the dashboard. Nothing to confirm by hand.

Read the steps in order, then open the linked guide when you need more detail. If a word such as domain, variant or publishing is unfamiliar, Understand the terms explains it with examples.

It's the first page you see after signing up. As long as your site has no domain name yet, the Home menu brings you straight back here; once your domain is connected, it opens your analytics instead and the list stays reachable via Home then Getting started. Come back whenever you want to see what's left before publishing, or simply to track your progress.

Your progress

At the top of the list, a percentage ring sums up where you stand, with the number of steps done out of the total (for example 3 of 10 steps). Nothing to tick off yourself. A step turns green and gets struck through automatically once it's done, here or from the matching page of the dashboard.

The steps in the Start selling group only concern online sales. If your site has no store, they're hidden and don't count toward the total.

Build your site

These first steps shape your site:

• Create your first page: add a home page to start structuring your site from the page list.
• Upload your logo: your logo appears across your site, at checkout and in your emails. Upload it from your brand identity.
• Connect a custom domain: point your own domain name to your Vivlab site.

Start selling

These steps prepare online sales. They only show if your site has a store:

• Add your first product: create a product with its photos, price and description.
• Enable online payments: link your Stripe account from online payments.
• Set up automated emails: send order confirmations and shipping notifications from your emails.
• Configure shipping: set your delivery zones, rates and carriers.
• Set up taxes: define the tax rates for the regions you sell in.
• Enter your billing address: your business details appear on the invoices sent to your customers.

Go live

• Take your site live: pick a plan to make your site available to everyone. Compare plans and subscribe from your subscription.

Discover the dashboard

Next to the list, the First steps banner leads to this documentation with Read the documentation, or to our help with Help center.

Below it, cards introduce the dashboard's features, grouped into four families:

• Publish your site and content: pages, site translation, blog.
• Sell online: products, online payments, orders, shipping.
• Your brand and presence: brand identity, domain name, taxes, billing, go live.
• Build loyalty and automate: customer accounts, promo codes, loyalty program, emails, custom code.

Each card leads to the matching screen, with an Active badge on what's already set up; each family shows its counter, for example 2/4.