Before you approve a Shopify store built by a developer in Lebanon, place two or three test orders yourself, from a phone, as a customer would, and only approve when the order, the payment step, the confirmation email and the delivery choice all behave as you agreed. A store that looks right on the developer's screen can still fail at the checkout, and that is the part your customers pay through.
Need a Shopify developer? See Shopify developers in Lebanon and what the work includes, or ask Furrsati for three hand-checked names.
1. Order as a customer, on a phone
Open the store on your own phone, not the developer's laptop. Pick a product, choose a size or colour, add it to the cart, and go through to the last checkout step. Most of your buyers will do exactly this. If any step is slow, cut off or confusing, write it down with a screenshot.
2. Test every payment and delivery option you offered
List each way you said customers could pay and receive: cash on delivery, card, pickup, delivery to different areas. Run one test order per option. Ask the developer to switch the payment method to test mode, so you do not move real money, and to switch it back before you approve. Note that what works depends on the payment provider you chose, so the developer should tell you in writing what is connected and what is not.
3. Read the emails the customer receives
Look at the order confirmation and the shipping email. Check your shop name, the sender address, the language and the contact details. A confirmation with a wrong phone number is a lost customer.
4. Check the Arabic and English pages side by side
If the store has both languages, open the same product in each. Check the text direction, that no words are cut off, and that prices, buttons and menus all follow the language. Our guide to a bilingual Shopify store lists what to ask before the build starts.
5. Try to break it
Enter an empty phone number, a very long address, a product that is out of stock, and a discount code that does not exist. A good store tells the customer what to fix. A broken one shows an error or simply does nothing.
6. Then close the project properly
Once the tests pass, use the Shopify handover checklist so the store and its logins end up in your name. For the budget side, see what a Shopify store setup costs in Lebanon. If you have not yet written down what you need, start with the Shopify store brief.
On Furrsati, funded milestone money is held and released when you approve the work, or automatically 10 days after delivery, so run these tests inside that window and tell the developer what to fix before you approve.
How this was made: written by the Furrsati team with AI assistance. It is a checklist of things to test, not technical advice for your particular store, and it contains no prices or statistics.