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The Get Sales checklist — your guide to your first orders

How the in-dashboard Get Sales checklist works and how to use it to drive your first 10 orders.

The Get Sales checklist is a guided list inside your vendor dashboard that walks you through everything you need to do to start getting orders. It surfaces the highest-leverage moves first and tracks your progress so you always know what's next.

Where to find it

Open Get Sales in the GROW section of your Vendor Dashboard menu. It shows how many steps you've finished (for example "1 of 8 complete") and what's next. Click Mark as Done as you finish each step.

What's on the checklist

  1. Add at least 3 products with photos

  2. Set your pickup location and schedule

  3. Copy your store link

  4. Text your store link to 10 people

  5. Post about your store on Instagram or Facebook

  6. Get your first order

  7. Thank your first customer and ask them to share

  8. Send your first weekly update text

Below the checklist, Your Weekly Routine lists four habits: update your products, text your customers, post on social media, and fulfill orders and thank customers.

Why this order

The checklist is sequenced based on what we've seen drive first orders for new vendors. Photos before descriptions because shoppers scroll fast. Fulfillment before product mix, because shoppers can't place an order until there's a pickup spot or a delivery area to attach it to. Sharing the link with friends-and-family for the first orders because cold shoppers rarely buy from a brand-new store with zero reviews.

What happens when you finish

The checklist disappears from your dashboard once everything's done. From there, growth is mostly about marketing — see How do I start getting customers? and Get your first Homegrown order in 72 hours.

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