Course 3 of 4 · Beginner · 7 lessons · 37 min
Open your online store
“I want a store that takes orders while I sleep”
Seven lessons from a blank store to your first delivered parcel: create it, set up products the right way, get paid, charge for delivery, make checkout trustworthy, launch, and run the first week.
For: Instagram and WhatsApp sellers, shop owners going online, and anyone who has finished the first course and knows what they are selling.
A SitesPlaced store is free to open and free to run: unlimited products, unlimited orders, 0% commission. Customers pay by UPI, card, cash on delivery or straight on WhatsApp, and every order lands in one list with the address, the items and the payment. This course walks you through opening one in the order that avoids rework.
The order matters. Sellers who add forty products and then discover they needed sizes end up editing forty products. So the course does the one-time setup first — the catalog, payments, delivery, checkout — and only then adds products in bulk and launches. Budget one evening for lessons one to five, a second for the test order and launch, and the first week for lesson seven.
Already selling somewhere?
If your products are already on Instagram, Shopify, Dukaan, dm2buy or in a PDF catalogue, the Importer builds the store for you in about a minute. Do lesson one with the Importer instead of a template, then carry on from lesson two — the setup still applies.
Lessons
- 1
Create your store
Name it, pick a template you will keep, and get a draft store you can open in your dashboard.
4 min
- 2
Set up your catalog, then add products
Decide once how products are priced and stocked, then add products with photos that sell and sizes that work.
6 min
- 3
Get paid: online, UPI, COD and WhatsApp
The three places payment settings live, which methods to switch on, and how to sell from day one even before a payment gateway approves you.
6 min
- 4
Delivery charges and shipping
Set a delivery charge and a free-delivery threshold, give heavy products their own fee, and decide whether to book couriers by hand or through Shiprocket or Shipmozo.
5 min
- 5
Checkout, policies and the things that make strangers trust you
The checkout form, a minimum order, trust badges, your returns and delivery policies, branded order numbers, and the share preview a forwarded link shows.
5 min
- 6
Test it, then go live
Place a real test order with every payment method, walk it through the statuses, then Publish and share the link the right way.
5 min
- 7
Run your first week
A daily routine for orders, how to handle payment that hasn't arrived, spam orders, running out of stock, and when to pause rather than panic.
6 min
After this course: Get your first 100 orders