Website & Admin Panel

Go-Live Checklist

Run through this before you announce your store. Tick each item.

Security & environment

• ☐ APP_DEBUG=false and APP_ENV=production in .env
• ☐ HTTPS enabled and APP_URL uses https:// (plus SESSION_SECURE_COOKIE=true)
• ☐ Admin password is strong and unique (you set it during install — rotate it if anyone else saw it)
• ☐ License activated with your purchase code
• ☐ Strong database password; database not publicly reachable

Performance

• ☐ composer install --no-dev --optimize-autoloader run (the package ships no vendor/)
• ☐ .env exists — copied from .env.example — and is writable
• ☐ php artisan config:cache and php artisan route:cache run
• ☐ Frontend built with npm run build
• ☐ php artisan storage:link done (images load)
• ☐ Correct file permissions on storage/ and bootstrap/cache/

Background processing

• ☐ Cron entry for schedule:run active (or an external cron service hitting /cron/run?key=…)
• ☐ CRON_SECRET set in .env if using HTTP cron triggers
• ☐ Queue worker running (Supervisor or cron fallback)
• ☐ A test notification/email actually arrives

Configuration

• ☐ Branding: logo, favicon, business name, theme colour
• ☐ Currency, country & taxes set correctly
• ☐ Modules you want are enabled
• ☐ At least one payment gateway in live mode
• ☐ Stripe/other webhooks registered (if used)
• ☐ SMTP tested; SMS/OTP tested
• ☐ FCM push configured (apps receive notifications)

Apps

• ☐ Each app's API base URL points at your live domain
• ☐ Apps built with your own Firebase / Maps / login keys
• ☐ Test order placed end-to-end (customer → seller → delivery)

Operations

• ☐ Automated database + files backup scheduled
• ☐ Error monitoring / log rotation in place
• ☐ Demo/sample data cleaned up (if you don't want it public)