Commerce Catalog, Tax, Shipping, and Order Operations

Step 1: Review Store Readiness
Start on the Commerce dashboard and review catalog, customer, payment, order, fulfillment, subscription, refund, and operational health. Confirm currency, business identity, policy pages, email delivery, test mode, and required modules before accepting a real order.

Step 2: Verify Order Context
Open an order and read customer context, line items, quantities, options, discounts, tax, shipping, payment state, fulfillment, notes, and status history together. A single-sale product with quantity disabled should not expose a quantity control, while separately configured line items remain independently purchasable according to their product rules.

Step 3: Test Tax and Shipping
Configure reviewed tax behavior for the relevant jurisdiction and verify display, rounding, exemptions, and saved order evidence. Then test shipping zones, providers, service levels, package rules, fallback behavior, and address failures. Use test destinations that cover the boundaries the store actually serves.

Step 4: Run the Lifecycle
Complete a test from catalog through variation selection, customer fields, cart, discount, tax, shipping, payment, webhook, order email, account state, fulfillment, cancellation, refund, and subscription renewal where applicable. Repeat the critical path on mobile and keep the processor and checkout in test mode until every expected transition is recorded.
