Testing & Launching your TBYB Program

How to Preview and Test your Try Before You Buy Program Prior to Launching 

After completing the Storefront Setup step where you installed the TBYB add-to-cart widget, you'll land on the final page in the onboarding wizard. Follow the steps below to preview and test the Try Before You Buy customer experience prior to launching.

1. Click the "Preview Here" button. Note that this will automatically launch a preview of your production theme with the TBYB elements made visible. Note that these are only visible to you and will not be made visible to your customers until you run the launch action.
   
   Note that this flow for previewing will automatically launch a preview of your production theme. If you installed the Blackcart app in a draft theme, follow these steps here for previewing and launching. 
   
   
   
   
2.  Navigate to an eligible product page. You should see the TBYB add-to-cart widget. Here you can add the item to your cart using the Try Before You Buy option and proceed to checkout.
   
   Note that any orders placed while previewing are real orders, so be sure to stop fulfillment if you do not intend to have your test order fulfilled and shipped. 

How to Launch your Try Before You Buy Program 

Simply click the "Launch" button and your program will be available to shoppers on your store. 

How to Preview and Launch from a Draft Theme 

If you've installed the Blackcart TBYB app block in a draft theme, you can still preview the Try Before You Buy experience prior to publishing the theme and launching the program by following these steps. 

1. From your Shopify Theme library, open a Preview of the draft theme that you previously added the Blackcart app theme block to. 
   
   
   
   
   
   
2. Navigate to a product page with an eligible TBYB product and add the following query parameter to the end of your store url:
   

   ?tbyb=1

3. Click return to reload the page with the query parameter added to the URL. This parameter will allow you to force the TBYB toggle to show. 
   
   
4. Verify that the TBYB widget is showing as expected. You can also test adding an item to cart as TBYB and checking out with a TBYB order. Note that any orders placed in preview mode are real orders, so be sure to stop fulfillment if you do not intend to have your test order fulfilled and shipped. 
   
   
5. When you're ready to go live, publish your draft theme and complete these steps for launching your Try Before You Buy program.