Define the offer
Record the menu cadence, products, variants, modifiers, prices, tax handling, order cutoff, locations, fulfilment windows, and availability rules. Confirm which values the server will enforce.
Check the operating model before opening orders.
A storefront can look complete while the operating path behind it still has gaps. Use this checklist to name each decision and owner before accepting a real payment.
Define the constraint
Name the real production or handoff limit, its unit, the menus that consume it, who can change it, and what happens when availability changes during checkout.
Define the paid-order path
Assign owners for provider connection, payment review, production, packing, pickup or delivery, cancellations, refunds, disputes, and reconciliation exceptions.
Prove the release
Run the full synthetic and provider-test path in the local environment and staging. Check permissions, audit evidence, email delivery, accessibility, initial HTML, crawler policy, monitoring, backups, rollback, and production configuration.