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Commerce Activation Readiness Check

Answer eight operating questions for one product launch, subscription, or small catalog. The result stays in your browser and routes you to preparation, a bounded diagnostic, a $15,000 activation sprint, or an independent release audit.

Up to 12 productsOne catalog and sales model

14 calendar daysAfter access and scope confirmation

No answers transmittedNo store, customer, or payment data requested

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1. Can the launch be bounded to one catalog of no more than 12 products?

The base sprint covers one sales model and one payment provider.

The catalog or sales model is still open-endedProducts are known but records or prices are changingUp to 12 approved products and prices are fixed

2. Is the client-owned merchant account operational?

NorthStar does not create merchant identity, bank payout, tax, or regulated business registrations.

Merchant identity, payout, or required tax setup is missingThe account exists but an owner must finish setupLive and test access are client-owned and ready

3. Is there one authoritative product and price source?

Titles, prices, currency, variants, billing intervals, and availability need one owner.

Records conflict across files or platformsA source exists with known cleanup remainingOne approved source controls every launch record

4. Are product assets, descriptions, and selling rights approved?

The client owns rights clearance and all regulated, medical, financial, or performance claims.

Rights or launch claims are unresolvedMost assets are approved with named gapsFinal assets, copy, and approvals are available

5. Who owns inventory, fulfillment, returns, and delivery?

The sprint integrates an agreed path; it does not become the merchant or fulfillment operator.

No accountable fulfillment or delivery owner existsAn owner exists but exceptions are unresolvedOwner, states, exceptions, and handoffs are defined

6. Can checkout and signed webhook behavior be tested end to end?

Success, cancellation, failure, duplicate delivery, and delayed events need observable outcomes.

Only a happy-path manual checkout is plannedTest mode exists with incomplete event coverageTest data, webhook verification, and acceptance checks are ready

7. Is one team accountable for support, refunds, disputes, and customer communication?

Automation must hand exceptional money and customer states to a responsible operator.

No accountable post-purchase owner existsOwnership exists but procedures are incompleteOwners, policies, and escalation paths are written

8. Is launch acceptance tied to exact release and rollback evidence?

A green checkout alone does not prove catalog, webhook, access, portal, or delivery readiness.

Launch is based on a date or informal approvalChecks exist but release identity or rollback is incompleteExact release, checks, owners, evidence, and rollback are named

Browser-local result

Commerce readiness

See the bounded next step See the $2,500 Failure Map See the $5,000 release audit

The score is an educational routing aid, not merchant approval, launch authorization, a proposal, tax or legal advice, certification, or a revenue result.