Quickstart

This walkthrough takes you from signup to your first sale, and each step links to a page with more detail.

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Create your shop

Sign up at dashboard.shoppex.io. After you confirm your email, you land on a fresh shop with a URL like yourshop.shoppex.io. This URL is live, but it has no products yet. Shoppex routes every sale directly to the payment account that you connect to your shop: Stripe, PayPal, or crypto. There is no Shoppex wallet, no payout delay, and no merchant-of-record layer. When a buyer pays, the funds settle to your own account on the gateway’s schedule.

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Connect a payment gateway

Open Settings → Payment gateways (/settings/payments/gateways). Pick at least one provider:

• Stripe for cards. Paste your Publishable Key and Secret Key from your Stripe Dashboard. Shoppex validates them, creates a webhook on your Stripe account, and registers Apple Pay automatically.
• PayPal for buyers who prefer it. Paste a Client ID and Secret from the PayPal Developer Console.
• PayPal Friends & Family for the no-fee route. It needs only your PayPal email, plus IPN configured on PayPal’s side.
• Cash App (US only). Connect your $cashtag with Gmail forwarding.
• Crypto through Cryptomus or Oxapay (multi-coin aggregators), or through a direct wallet address for BTC, LTC, ETH, or Bitcoin Lightning.

Customers see the methods you have enabled at checkout. You can mix as many as you like. See Payment gateways for the full breakdown of each.

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Add your first product

Go to Products → New product (/products/create). Pick the fulfillment mode that fits what you sell:

• File — Upload a downloadable file. The buyer gets a download link after payment.
• Serials — Upload a list of single-use codes (license keys, gift codes). Each buyer gets a unique one.
• Service — Manual fulfillment. You get notified after payment and deliver yourself.
• Subscription — Recurring billing on the schedule you set.
• Dynamic — Generated per order through your own webhook endpoint.
• Info card — Information-only product, no automatic delivery.

For now, the simplest path is File or Serials.

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Share your shop

Your storefront at yourshop.shoppex.io is live with whatever products you have added. You can also copy a payment link for any single product from its detail page. Share this link in Discord, Telegram, or a social media bio.

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What happens on your first sale

Once a buyer completes checkout, Shoppex creates the order and starts delivery based on the product’s fulfillment mode. You can see every order, whatever its mode, on the Orders page in your dashboard. A Service product never delivers on its own. Check your notifications after each sale, and complete the delivery yourself. A Serials product needs a fresh batch of codes once the pool empties, or the listing stays out of stock. See Products for the full detail on each mode, including variants, bundles, and quantity deals. Reaching the buyer. If the buyer has a question, they open a ticket from their order, and it lands in your Inbox. You get an email and a dashboard notification. Reply from the ticket, and the buyer sees your reply from their own dashboard. A ticket moves through Pending, Open, Awaiting reply, Resolved, and Closed. If a buyer sounds unhappy, resolve it through a ticket first. This is faster than a dispute, and it skips the chargeback fee a dispute always brings. See Support inbox for ticket states and replying in detail.

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Multiple shops per login

You can create more than one shop from a single Shoppex login. Each shop is fully independent: its own URL, its own payment gateways, its own products and orders, and its own team. Shoppex does not copy settings between shops, so a new shop always starts empty. See Team and stores for how to create more shops and switch between them.

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