Set up the shop

The shop comes with the Pro plan. On a website without it, the Shop page explains what the shop adds and links to the plans; nothing about selling appears on the website itself.

With a Pro licence, the website menu gains a Shop group: Products, Orders, Insights, Order emails and Shop settings. Members and above can change the shop; people with view-only access can look but not change anything.

Your shop takes card payments through your own Stripe account. Money goes straight to you and CubeSites takes no cut; Stripe holds the card details and pays out to your bank account.

Set up payments opens Stripe's own form in a window inside CubeSites. Stripe opens a short pop-up to confirm it is you, so allow pop-ups for this site if your browser asks. If the pop-up never appears, Finish on Stripe's page takes you to Stripe's own page and brings you back; the status is read again as soon as you return.

The card shows where things stand: Not set up, Details needed, Stripe is checking your details, then Ready to take payments. Refresh status asks Stripe again at any moment.

Shop settings is one long page with a list of its sections beside it: Payments, Delivery, Dispatch, Basket and checkout, VAT, Product pages, Stock, Discounts, Documents and Advanced. Choosing a section in the list jumps straight to it.

Changes collect in a bar at the foot of the page with Save changes and Discard, so nothing goes live by accident. Discount codes are the exception: they save as soon as you save each code. Under Advanced, Order emails to sets where new order emails go (empty sends them to the workspace owners) and Shop address sets the opening path of the shop pages.

Pause taking orders keeps the shop visible while the basket cannot go to payment: useful for a holiday or a stocktake.

Under Basket and checkout, choose how buyers pay. On your website, then Stripe for the card asks for their details and delivery on a page of your website, then takes the card on Stripe. All on Stripe's page sends the basket straight to Stripe, which asks for everything.

The basket can be a slide-in drawer, which keeps buyers on the page they were reading and opens from the left or the right, or a page of its own at the basket address. You can also ask for a phone number, let buyers add a note with a label of your choosing, add a basket note and a payment page message, link a terms page, add a tax note and show the free delivery progress bar.

Payouts, on the Payments card, shows what Stripe has paid into your bank account and what is on its way. Business and bank details reopens Stripe's form when something changes.

Demo websites are set up by Cube Systems staff, not from your account. On a demo website payments use the Stripe sandbox: no money is taken, orders are marked as test orders and the website shows a small notice saying so.