Create Your Store Guide
There are 2 parts of the guide (Part 1 & Part 2) where we will explain what you need to do exactly in order to create your customized store using PingBusiness prompts.
What you should first know
Before you start, gather these and make sure you have these items. You don’t need them all today - the ones marked (Part 2) can wait until you’re ready to go online:
- Your PingBusiness account, with your store created in it.
- Your merchant key - it’s in your Ping Business welcome email. Keep it somewhere
safe. (Part 2) - Your logo file, and photos of anything you sell.
- Two brand colours. If you don’t have any, pick a main colour and a second
one to go with it. - Cursor, or another AI coding assistant that runs on your own device.
- A payment card, for the hosting bill on cloud platform like Railway. (Part 2)
- A web address you own, if you want your own. (Part 2 - optional, you can
start with a free one)
What you will need to do besides pasting the prompt
Across the whole process, there are only four things the prompt and AI workflow can't do for you, this means you will need to:
- Decide how the store looks with your store name, colours and brand logos
- Sign in to Railway or cloud platform to host your store - it hands you a link and you will need to approve it
- Add a payment card and pick a plan on the cloud platform
- Put your secret key into a file on your own device - the AI workflow will tell you exactly where to put, you never need to type the secret key into the chat
Everything else will be handled by the AI assistant using the prompt you share.
Six words worth knowing
| Keywords | Definition |
|---|---|
| Your merchant key | A long secret code, like a password, that lets your shop
take payments. Treat it like a bank card PIN. |
| Hosting | Renting space on someone else’s computer so your
shop is online all the time. Railway is the tool used in the guide. |
| Deploy | Putting your shop onto that rented space so the public
can reach it. |
| Practice mode | A safe copy where test orders don’t charge anyone real
money. Sometimes called staging or test. |
| Real mode | The live shop, with real customers and real money.
Sometimes called production or live. |
| Domain | Your web address, like myshop.com. |