Blocks orders, fix before launch
- Every sellable product has a live fulfillment location. Products stocked only at a disconnected dropshipping app location look fine and ship nowhere.
- Every market you enabled has a real shipping rate. Enabling a country is one click, giving it a rate is not, and without one checkout fails for that whole region.
- Cross-border products have an HS code and a country of origin, since missing either can hold the parcel.
- Checkout actually completes. Place a real test order end to end before you tell anyone the store is open.
Costs money, fix soon
- Every variant has a real weight, not zero, so carrier-calculated rates are right.
- Duties and taxes are handled the way you intend, so buyers are not surprised on delivery and you are not absorbing the cost.
- Identifiers like SKU and barcode are set where you need them for fulfillment and reorders.
Hurts trust, fix when you can
- Shipping and return policies match what the product pages and checkout actually say.
- No expired promotions or sale-ends banners past their date.
- Product copy does not contradict itself across the page or its collection.
The one test that catches most of it
Run the free storefront check, then connect for the operational audit. Between them they surface the blockers above as a single list grouped by impact, so you fix the order-stoppers first.
Common questions
What actually stops a new Shopify store from taking orders?
Usually one of three things: a product with no live fulfillment location, an enabled market with no shipping rate, or a customs field missing on cross-border products. All three look fine on the storefront and fail at checkout or customs.
Do I need to place a test order before launching?
Yes. A real end-to-end test order is the fastest way to catch a checkout, shipping, or payment gap that no visual review will show.
What is the difference between the free check and the operational audit?
The free storefront check reads your public pages for consistency issues. The operational audit connects read-only to your store to check customs, shipping, tax, and fulfillment data that never appears on public pages.
Free · Beta · Read-only
- Free to use, in beta.
- The free check reads only your public storefront. No access to your store required.
- The connected audit uses Shopify's official read-only permissions. Storecheck can look, never write, place orders, or change anything.