{"id":777,"date":"2022-09-07T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/09\/07\/6539029-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-place-a-test-order-in-the-online-store\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:02:33","slug":"6539029-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-place-a-test-order-in-the-online-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6539029-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-place-a-test-order-in-the-online-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Hostinger Website Builder: How to Place a Test Order in the Online Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">The best way to check user experience in your online store is to make a test purchase.<\/p><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">The below instructions apply for online stores created with <b>Hostinger Website Builder <\/b>&#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">1. <b><a href=\"\/support\/6538344-website-builder-how-to-add-products\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Create a new product<\/a><\/b>: call it <b>Test product<\/b> and set a low price for it. Make sure that your test product is of the same type (physical, digital, appointment, etc.) as your regular products.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">2. Make sure you&rsquo;ve enabled payment methods based on your testing preferences:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/6538417-website-builder-how-to-enable-manual-offline-payments\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Manual payment methods<\/a><\/b> allow testing the purchase flow without making the actual payment <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b><a href=\"\/support\/6538413-website-builder-online-payments\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Online payment methods<\/a><\/b> require making the actual payment<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">3. Display the test product on your website with the help of <b><a href=\"\/support\/6538352-website-builder-product-sections\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">product sections<\/a><\/b>.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">4. Enable the <b><a href=\"\/support\/6539042-website-builder-shopping-bag-settings\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">shopping bag<\/a><\/b> on your website.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">5. Open your online store, find the test product, add it to the bag, and proceed to checkout.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">6. At the checkout, specify the required information &ndash;<b> <\/b>shipping, contact, payment &ndash; and complete the purchase.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">Once you place an order, you&rsquo;ll receive two emails:<\/p><ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">As a merchant: the confirmation email will arrive at the email address specified in the <b>Store settings <\/b>&rarr;<b> Company information<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">As a client: the confirmation email will arrive at the email address specified when submitting the test order<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"no-margin\">To find all emails that are sent from your online store, go to <b>Store settings <\/b>&rarr;<b> Emails<\/b>, and to find all orders, go to the <b>Orders<\/b> section. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you place a test order using a manual payment method, the payment<b> <\/b>status will be <b><i>Awaiting<\/i><\/b>. If you test an online payment and it goes through successfully, the payment status will be<b> <i>Paid<\/i><\/b>. In case the online payment fails, check if the payment method is fully set up.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">8. Once you&rsquo;re sure that everything works as intended, you can delete the test product.<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">It&rsquo;s also a good idea to ask for feedback when building your store. Consider asking a friend to take a look and discuss their experience after shopping in your online store.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how to create a test product and place a test order in your online store with Hostinger Website Builder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[286],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-store"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/6539029-hostinger-website-builder-how-to-place-a-test-order-in-the-online-store\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/6539029-creador-de-sitios-como-realizar-un-pedido-de-prueba-en-la-tienda-en-linea-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/6539029-hostinger-createur-de-sites-web-comment-placer-une-commande-de-test-dans-la-boutique-en-ligne\/","default":0},{"locale":"lt-LT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/lt\/support\/6539029-hostinger-svetainiu-kurimo-irankis-kaip-pateikti-testini-uzsakyma\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/6539029-hostinger-criador-de-sites-como-fazer-uma-compra-teste-na-loja-online\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}