# Ecommerce MVP Requirements Checklist

Reviewed: 2026-08-10

## Commerce model

- [ ] Define customer, merchandising, fulfillment, support, finance, and administrator roles.
- [ ] Define product types, variants, inventory ownership, price, tax, and promotion rules.
- [ ] State launch countries, currencies, payment methods, shipping methods, and return policy.

## Shopping flow

- [ ] Browse/search/filter the catalog and understand product/variant availability.
- [ ] Add/update/remove cart lines and calculate discounts, tax, shipping, and total.
- [ ] Complete payment, receive confirmation, and view order status.

## Fulfillment and service

- [ ] Pick/pack/ship or digital-fulfillment state transitions.
- [ ] Shipment tracking, cancellation, return, refund, exchange, and support workflows.
- [ ] Failed payment, oversell, address, inventory, and carrier exception handling.

## Quality and operations

- [ ] Accessibility, performance, security, privacy, fraud, backup, and monitoring targets.
- [ ] Catalog migration and required ERP/PIM/warehouse integrations are bounded.
- [ ] Merchandising, customer service, reconciliation, and release ownership are assigned.

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