Operator guide

You are the Operator if you run an instance: one shop, one Printful account, one Stripe account, one config file you edit and redeploy. There are no user accounts and no admin UI that writes anything — the Operator View is read-only and every action is a CLI command against your own instance.

Read these in order the first time.

• Deploy — one deployable per platform. Cloudflare with D1, Vercel with Turso, or anywhere that runs Node with a SQLite file.
• Configure — pressline.config.ts: the shop name, the currency, the Engines you trust, and the Catalog of things you sell. It is a typed file in your repo, so a bad config fails at boot rather than at checkout.
• Secrets and webhooks — what goes in the platform’s environment, and registering the Stripe and Printful endpoints.
• Demo Mode — run the whole flow with no money and no goods moving, so you can see a real order without paying for one.
• Go live — the checklist, and pressline doctor as the thing that tells you whether you are ready.

Then, once orders are arriving:

• Orders and reconciliation — the ledger, every state an order can be in, the CLI actions, and the nightly pass that repairs whatever a webhook missed.
• Legal wording and personal data — the withdrawal notice you must show, and how long recipient details are kept. Read it with counsel; the shipped wording is a template, not advice.