Checklist for setting up an online store for your restaurant

If your customers can’t visit your restaurant for a meal, then selling online gives you the option to let your customers pick up their meals, have meals delivered to them, or purchase gift cards to share with others. Creating an online presence for your restaurant lets you provide customers with more information about your business, a place for them to leave reviews, and a way for them to sign up for emails from your business. You might find it helpful toprint this checklistor to download it as a PDF so that you can refer to it throughout the setup process.

If you already have an ecommerce website, then considermigrating it to Shopify.

For more details, refer to our in depthguide to setting up an online store for a restaurant.

Set up your store

Before you launch the online storefront for your restaurant, verify that you have considered all of the following steps.

Create your online store

Log in to your store

Password-protect your store

Name your store and set your store's legal business name

设置你的办公地址

一个dd your billing information

Set up your payment provider

Set up a tip option

Set the default currency for your store

Create an online menu

一个dd gift cards

Set up your shipping settings

Set up local pickup and local delivery

Set up your taxes

Set up your payment gateways

Staff your store if necessary

Set up your domain

Explore theShopify App storeto see which apps could help you with your business

Customize your store

Use these suggestions to help make your online store your own.

Customize your Crave theme or choose another theme from the Theme Library

Customize your home page and create pages

Test your store

Before you launch your online store, place some test orders to see how the checkout process works.

Test successful and failed transactions

Test refunding and canceling orders

Test fulfilling and partially fulfilling orders

Test archiving successful orders

Learn aboutShopify’s fraud analysis settings

Open your store

一个fter you've picked a plan and tested your online store, you're ready for people to see it. You can remove your online store password, and add a chat widget to make it easy for online store visitors to ask questions.

Remove your online store password to give customers access to your store

Let your customers know you're open for business

一个fter you open your online store, you need to promote it. You can improve your store's visibility by adding the information that will be used by search engines, and by promoting your store in all of the appropriate spaces.

Define your home page metadata

Use social media to promote your store

Create a marketing plan

Set upShopify Email and send your first email marketing campaign

Improve your store’s SEO

Use discount codes and sales

Customize yourabandoned cart emails

一个dd chat to your online store and read and respond to messages in Shopify Inbox