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So by these days you should be in pretty good shape because you've now got a great looking store with

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some great products and you've got a provider or possibly even a couple of providers.

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Of course we're still missing a major part which is driving traffic to the store so that people do buy

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our products.

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But all that is coming up now in this lecture what we want to do is look at making a test order.

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And the main reason for doing this is to make sure that the store is functioning correctly.

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Now again I get questions from people now again saying I have problems with my store.

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I'm not getting any sales whatever it might be.

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And often the first thing I'll say is have you done a test or have you checked that absolutely everything

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works from A to Zed and very very often they'll do an order of some kind and discover that you know

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they do have issues.

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So for that reason although we're going to do one test order right now I encourage you to periodically

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maybe once a week or once a month something like that.

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Make a test or on your site so that you're fully convinced that everything is working perfectly.

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Now of course later on once you got many many sales coming in you probably don't need to worry about

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that.

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But just in the beginning on this so much going on and so much to consider this is really really worth

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doing.

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Now most providers will enable you to do some sort of test purchase without actually having to pay.

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What I like to do is to buy something off my site and then simply refund myself.

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It gives me a much better feeling for making sure that everything is actually working perfectly.

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So let's go ahead and make the test order.

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So I don't buy this whole thing here this heart shaped pendant you put on a little while ago and I'll

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simply add it to the cart.

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And go to the checkout.

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Now what I did here is I set up a fake basically a fake address just for the test in anchorage in the

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United States and you can see I've got a subtotal of 19.

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And I got my shipping as I would expect to 95 as we set it up.

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Not so long ago now over here we have the payment method Pay-Pal.

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If I had other payment methods available they would also be showing here and then I'm just going to

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leave this as same as the shipping address for the moment.

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So now complete the order and it prompts me to pay with PayPal.

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So I'm going to go ahead and buy this and I'll see you on the orders page which is not something we've

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looked at yet but I'll see you there once I'm done.

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So here I am.

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I've come straight to the orders page and here we see my order made 23 minutes ago so I had to go and

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do a couple of things.

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So I'm back.

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But basically the order happened 23 minutes ago.

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It's paid and it's currently unfulfillment.

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Don't worry about that because we're going to be talking all about how to fulfill orders later on in

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the course.

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But if you click on your order then you should see all the details as you expect.

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And my heart shaped pendant there at all is paid by the customer.

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Twenty one ninety five.

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So for me that proves that my store works from A to Zed So a very successful test order.

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So the last thing I want to do is just refund myself because there's no point me actually buying this.

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It was all just for a test.

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So there we go all the details and just simply click on a refund.

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And there we have it.

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So now we get an all items were shipped or refunded just for confirmation.

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So all done you have made full blown test order.

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And as I say in the beginning just go through that process periodically maybe once a week once a fortnight

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or possibly once a month.

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But certainly don't forget about it.