With Articulation, you can quickly start selling and taking payments on your website with our commerce tools and easy drag-and-drop builder. You can set up your store in any order you like, though this guide aims to show you the most efficient way to set everything up.
Configure Your Store
First things first, go to the Commerce page of your dashboard. Here you’ll find all of your store settings. Before that, though, let’s do the most important step needed before you can use your store.
Connect to a Payment Processor
You’ll need to connect to a payment processor in order to take payments. We currently offer Stripe as a payment processor. Click the Connect button to connect your Stripe account; if you don’t have one, that’s ok - you can create now. Once you’re connected, you’ll see a button here to take you to your Stripe dashboard as well as a Disconnect button.
Store Settings
Now let’s set up your store settings:
- Currency - Use this dropdown to select the currency used by your website. The currency options shown here are those available with your connected payment processor. At this time you can only use a single currency.
- Transaction Notification Address - With this field, you can enter a dedicated email address to receive transaction email notifications. Leave this blank to use your account email address.
- Order Success Text - The text shown in this field is shown to customers on the order confirmation page after checkout.
- Collect Taxes - If you want to collect taxes on orders, enable this option. Note that this requires some additional setup with Stripe. We provide a link to Taxes in your Stripe dashboard to set this up.
- Enable Product Reviews - Toggle this option on if you would like to give customers the option to leave product reviews.
- Send Notification Delay - With this option, you can set the number of days to wait before sending an email to a customer to review a product.
- Category Template - With this option you can choose which design template to use on category pages. By default this is set to Grid, which displays products in a grid. You can also choose Grid with Category Sidebar, which displays products the same but includes a sidebar with links to other categories.
- Enable Shopping Carts - Toggle this option on to enable a shopping cart on your website. Note that this option is auto-enabled if you set up coupons for your store.
- Cart Page Footer Code - With this field you can add code to the footer of the cart page specifically, which can be useful for commerce analytics tracking.
- Enable Abandoned Cart Emails - Toggle this option on to enable abandoned cart emails. We’ll ask for an email address prior to actually checking out, and with this enabled we’ll email the customer about their cart if they did not complete the purchase.
- Email Delay - With this pair of options you can set how long we should wait before sending an abandoned cart email.
Once you’ve configured your settings, click the Save button to save your changes.
Add Products and Categories
Now let’s start adding all of your products and categories. For steps on how to do that, see the following guides:
Tip: If you will eventually want to have a page showing all products, consider making an “All Products” category and adding all products you create to it.
Fulfillment
Next, let’s set up fulfillment options if you have physical products. We currently provide options for both pickup and shipping. For instructions on how to set those up, see our guide on managing store fulfillment.
Create Store Pages
Finally, let’s add products and categories to your website. With Articulation you’ll do this by adding pages to your site and using store components. For more information, see the following help articles: