At this point, you should be ready to launch. Of course, the store owner or administrator may still need to add more products and content, but from a developer's point of view, if you have completed the steps in this checklist, your initial work is done.

Congratulations!

We would like to add one more item to the list, though: test. Test, test, test, and test again. Before you go live, have the store administrator, any backend users, and your colleagues go through all possible scenarios. Store owners are always eager to launch — usually yesterday — but you cannot overdo thorough testing. It's always better to catch problems before launch than after.

As you've no doubt realized — and one great reason you bought this book — Magento is powerful and complex. Many assume that since the community edition is free to use and PHP-based, that anyone with the knowledge of PHP can easily master Magento. We all know that's not really the case. Knowledge of how to apply Magento and the depth of Magento's features and interactions is what will truly turn a Magento novice into a Magento master.