How this demo works

What's real

• The catalog: rendered from a single product file, with structured data (Product/Offer JSON-LD) that Google reads for rich results.
• The cart: add, remove, change quantities, watch the free-shipping threshold. It survives page reloads and works without any account.
• The sold-out handling: the First Light Candle is deliberately out of stock: button disabled, and the server refuses it even if you re-enable the button in dev tools.
• The security model: your cart sends only product IDs and quantities. Charged amounts live server-side in Stripe, so page-tampering can't change a price.
• The speed: this is a static site on Cloudflare's edge with one small worker guarding /api/*. Run PageSpeed on it; we encourage that.

What's demo

The products are fictional and the checkout deliberately stops before payment: this deployment has no Stripe keys, so the "checkout" button returns a friendly explanation instead of a payment page. No card is ever requested, no order ever ships. On a client store, that same button hands off to Stripe's hosted checkout; card data never touches the site at all (that's the point).

What your version adds

• Your real products, photos, and prices, pulled from your existing store or built fresh.
• Your own Stripe account: revenue lands in your bank, and you keep the store if we ever part ways.
• Order confirmation emails, webhook-verified fulfillment, automatic sales tax.
• An /admin editor so you change prices and products yourself, no developer required.
• The rest of a premium site around it: the pages, the SEO, the monitoring, the monthly report.