Publishing Your Storefront
Publishing your Quick Shopping Cart storefront creates your Online Store and moves it to the Internet. The Publishing page lets you view changes made to your store since the last update, preview the store before publishing, and publish (or update) the storefront.
Whether publishing your storefront for the first time or updating your storefront, just click Start Publish. Before publishing, you can preview the site by clicking Preview Site.
Remember, it may take 24-48 hours for your published store to display on the Internet. This is because it takes time for your Web site (Online Store) to spread throughout the various Web servers that make up the backbone of the Internet (we call this Domain Name Server propagation).
To Preview the Storefront
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
- In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
- Using the Advanced Builder, click Publishing.
- On the Publishing page, click Preview Site.
To View Changes to the Storefront
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
- In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
- Using the Advanced Builder, click Publishing.
- On the Publishing page, all changes made to the storefront since the last time it was published are shown in the Modifications section.
- Each section that has been modified is shown. Click any section heading to expand the list and get a description of all changes.
Publishing the Storefront
The process for publishing your new store is also used to update an existing storefront.
To Publish/Update Your Storefront
- Log in to your Account Manager.
- In the My Products section, click Quick Shopping Cart.
- In the Quick Shopping Cart list, click Open next to the Quick Shopping Cart account you want to use.
- Using the Advanced Builder, click Publishing.
- On the Publishing page, click Start Publish.
Publishing may take several minutes. Do not click off the publish page while your store is being published.