Preview your store before publishing
Before you publish your Tapmy store, view it signed out on desktop and on a phone, open every link and offer, and run a test checkout. Publish only when the visitor's path looks right.
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Applies to: a new store, a redesign, an offer launch or a domain change.
How should I get ready?
Finish your draft, decide on the public URL, and pick the one or two actions you want a visitor to take. Open a private window and a phone-sized view. If you go on to checkout, use test data. Keep a copy of the current text, links and design values so you can undo a change.
How do I preview my store as a visitor?
The editor can hide problems that visitors will hit: your logged-in session, cached files, private links and desktop-only layouts. Check the page under the same conditions a new visitor has.
- Open the preview in Tapmy, then separately open the intended public URL while signed out.
- Make sure your name, photo, bio, store promise and main action show up without much scrolling.
- On mobile, look for cut-off text, oversized images, crowded buttons and tap targets that are hard to hit.
- Click every link, social profile, featured offer, policy and support path. Each one should go where you meant.
- For each offer, check the title, price or free label, currency, what is included, delivery, access and limits.
- For a paid offer, open checkout and confirm it loads without exposing real payment details. See pricing for what each plan covers.
- Check spelling, contrast, heading order, image alt text and link wording.
- Write down what is wrong, fix it in the editor, and repeat the signed-out check before publishing.
What does a good preview look like?
Desktop and mobile show the same current brand and offers, every important link works, and a visitor can tell what to do next. No placeholder text, private URL, test product or unsupported promise is visible.
Test the real public URL, not only the editor, and make sure the page makes sense without access to your creator account.
What if something looks off?
- The preview and live store differ. Check you have the right Site and URL, that changes are saved and published, and whether the preview shows unpublished edits or a cached copy.
- Mobile content is cut off. Shorten copy or simplify media, then retest at phone size rather than trusting editor scaling.
- Checkout will not open. Check that the offer is published, payments are set up, and that the product is actually priced.
A visual preview does not prove that payment, orders, emails or access work. Run a separate buyer test for those. Custom domains and caching can also behave differently from the preview.
Do not delete a working link, DNS record, published offer or customer-facing page until its replacement is tested. Note the time of each publish or DNS change so you can tell cached states from live ones.
What next?
When the preview passes, run the whole buyer journey. Publish and share only after the test gives the right confirmation and access.
If a problem continues, contact Tapmy Support with the Site URL, what you see, the time and time zone, your browser or device and cleaned screenshots. Do not send passwords, verification codes, DNS credentials, tokens or customer data.