Testing Site Before Going Live

Is there a protocol for testing a site? I’m new to the shopping cart world outside of a little paypal experience. I’ve set up shipping, taxes, payment, products. I think I got it all, but . . . ?



How does one test everything before going live?



John

[quote name=‘johnwade’]Is there a protocol for testing a site? I’m new to the shopping cart world outside of a little paypal experience. I’ve set up shipping, taxes, payment, products. I think I got it all, but . . . ?



How does one test everything before going live?



John[/quote]

Just go through all functions in the front- and backend, add a real email address in the admin to check all send- receive functions, gift codes, etc. Also you could create a Paypal sandbox account to check the Paypal gateway and ordering process.

Thanks.