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BestWebby Academy

Learn BestWebby, one screen at a time

Short narrated lessons drawn from the real dashboard, with English and French captions. Follow the path from sign-up to your first sale, or look up any feature in the library.

The onboarding path

Eleven modules, in the order you build a store

Each lesson runs two to four minutes. Modules marked as coming next already have manual pages you can read today.

  1. 01

    From sign-up to your first product

    Create your account, confirm your billing email, activate your plan, check your store details and add a first product.

    Getting Started with BestWebby Billing and Your Plan Managing Products

    Watch · 3:54
  2. 02

    Set up your store

    Your store currency, your shop policies, tax, and the address you ship from.

    Storefront Prices Going Live Orders and Shipping

    Watch · 2:15
  3. 03

    Your products in depth

    Categories, photos, sizes and colours as variants, stock, and importing a catalogue from a CSV file.

    Managing Products Migrating from Shopify to BestWebby

    Watch · 2:19
  4. 04

    Theme and brand

    A design brief, a generated storefront and logo, your theme, and the page builder basics.

    Storefront Generator Pages, Menus and Redirects

    Watch · 2:06
  5. 05

    Edit your pages

    Building pages from sections, drafts and publishing, header and footer menus, and the policy pages every store shows.

    Pages, Menus and Redirects Going Live

    Watch · 2:03
  6. 06

    Connect your domain

    Your setup address, finding a domain, connecting one you own with two DNS records, the certificate, and moving your store onto it.

    Custom Domains and Branded Email

    Watch · 2:05
  7. 07

    Take payments

    Connecting your own Stripe account, Interac e-Transfer for Canadian shoppers, and automatic tax with Stripe Tax.

    Getting Started with BestWebby Accept Interac e-Transfer

    Watch · 2:08
  8. 08

    Shipping

    Zones and rates, labels through your own EasyPost account, local delivery, and in-store pickup.

    Orders and Shipping Buy Online, Pick Up In Store (BOPIS) & Multi-Location Stock

    Watch · 2:16
  9. 09

    Go live

    Previewing your store, the checks before it goes live, switching the site on, and naming the person in charge of personal information.

    Going Live Privacy and Quebec Law 25

    Watch · 2:06
  10. 10

    From first order to refund

    Working an order to delivery, answering the customer, returns, refunds by card and by Interac e-Transfer, and disputes.

    Orders and Shipping Inbox Accept Interac e-Transfer Disputes

    Watch · 2:25
  11. 11

    Grow

    Promotions, customer segments and flows, review requests, and the sign-up pop-up for your mailing list.

    Promotions and Discount Codes Segments and Flows Review Requests Sign-up Pop-up Loyalty Points and the VIP Club

    Watch · 2:09

Feature library

Every page in your dashboard

One entry for each page a store can open, grouped the way the dashboard menu groups them, with the plan that includes it. Where a lesson is not recorded yet, the manual page covers it.

Home9 pages
  • Home

    Every plan

    Your daily briefing and everything that needs you, in priority order.

    Lesson coming Getting Started with BestWebby

  • Detailed metrics

    Every plan

    Revenue, orders, activity feed, and key metrics at a glance.

    Lesson coming Analytics

  • Suggestions

    Every plan

    Restocks, win-backs, and drafted replies to review and approve.

    Lesson coming Approvals and Limits

  • Notifications

    Every plan

    Everything that needs your attention, in one feed.

    Lesson coming Notifications

  • Shop health

    Every plan

    A graded score of how your store is performing.

    Lesson coming Shop Health

  • Help

    Every plan

    Guides, contact support, and account help.

    Lesson coming Getting Help

  • Docs

    Every plan

    Product and developer documentation.

    Lesson coming Getting Started with BestWebby

  • Support

    Every plan

    Ask BestWebby for help, follow your requests, and vote on the feature board.

    Lesson coming Getting Help

  • Feature requests

    Every plan

    Tell us what the product is missing. Private to your store, and we reply.

    Lesson coming Getting Help

Orders16 pages
  • Orders

    Every plan

    View, fulfil, and refund customer orders.

    Lesson Orders and Shipping

  • Appointments

    Growth and up

    Bookable services, staff calendars, deposits and reminders.

    Lesson coming Appointments

  • Custom orders

    Growth and up

    Track made-to-order requests, quote a price and turn a request into an order.

    Lesson coming Custom Orders

  • Subscriptions

    Growth and up

    Recurring orders and plan billing.

    Lesson coming Subscriptions & Subscribe-and-Save

  • Standing intents

    Every plan

    Recurring purchase authorizations shopping apps hold against your store.

    Lesson coming Standing Intents

  • Abandoned carts

    Growth and up

    Recover carts that never checked out.

    Lesson coming Segments and Flows

  • Returns

    Every plan

    Process returns, refunds, and exchanges.

    Lesson Orders and Shipping

  • e-Transfers

    Every plan

    e-Transfers waiting for you to confirm they arrived in your bank.

    Lesson Accept Interac e-Transfer

  • Shipments

    Every plan

    Track outbound shipments and labels.

    Lesson coming Orders and Shipping

  • Post-purchase

    Growth and up

    Upsells and flows after checkout.

    Lesson coming Post-Purchase

  • Disputes

    Growth and up

    Manage chargebacks and payment disputes.

    Lesson Disputes

  • Shipping

    Every plan

    Carriers, rates, and shipping zones.

    Lesson Orders and Shipping

  • Fulfilment network

    Scale and up

    Post surplus stock for other stores, or source theirs.

    Lesson coming Micro-Fulfilment

  • Micro-fulfilment

    Scale and up

    Find stock other stores hold near a city.

    Lesson coming Micro-Fulfilment

  • Distribution

    Scale and up

    Keep your retail and wholesale partners on file, and record shipments by hand.

    Lesson coming Distribution

  • Supply chain

    Scale and up

    Monitor supply-chain risk and flow.

    Lesson coming Supply Chain

Catalog14 pages
Customers14 pages
  • Customers

    Every plan

    Profiles, history, and lifetime value.

    Lesson coming Customers

  • Sales pipeline

    Growth and up

    Leads, scoring, and the deal pipeline through to quote.

    Lesson coming Sales OS

  • Sales console

    Scale and up

    Provision, assign, and monitor field and tele sales reps.

    Lesson coming Sales OS

  • Dialer

    Scale and up

    Tele-sales agent console: screen-pop, dial, and disposition.

    Lesson coming Sales OS

  • Segments

    Growth and up

    Group customers for targeting.

    Lesson Segments and Flows

  • Inbox

    Growth and up

    Customer conversations and support.

    Lesson Inbox

  • Shopper chat

    Every plan

    Questions your storefront chat could not answer, and live conversations.

    Lesson coming Chat

  • Care metrics

    Growth and up

    Resolution rate and time-to-resolve across support.

    Lesson coming Inbox

  • Reviews

    Growth and up

    Moderate and respond to reviews.

    Lesson coming Review Requests

  • Review requests

    Growth and up

    Ask buyers to leave reviews.

    Lesson Review Requests

  • Loyalty

    Growth and up

    Points, tiers, and rewards.

    Lesson coming Loyalty Points and the VIP Club

  • VIP club

    Growth and up

    Perks for your best customers.

    Lesson coming Loyalty Points and the VIP Club

  • Waitlist

    Growth and up

    Back-in-stock and launch waitlists.

    Lesson coming Back-in-Stock Waitlist

  • Gift registry

    Scale and up

    Gift registries you set up for your customers.

    Lesson coming Gift Registry

Marketing19 pages
  • Promotions

    Growth and up

    Automatic and code promotions: percentage, fixed amount, buy-one-get-one, volume tiers and shipping offers.

    Lesson Promotions and Discount Codes

  • Discount codes (legacy)

    Growth and up

    Older discount codes created before Promotions — kept reachable so existing codes can still be seen and managed.

    Lesson coming Promotions and Discount Codes

  • Campaigns

    Growth and up

    Email newsletters and promotions to customers who agreed to hear from you, all of them or a segment, now or scheduled.

    Lesson coming Email Campaigns

  • Push

    Every plan

    Browser notifications to subscribed shoppers, and a notice when their order ships.

    Lesson coming Push Notifications

  • SMS

    Growth and up

    Send text-message campaigns — with consent and opt-out built in.

    Lesson coming Phone Numbers, Calls and Text Messages

  • Sign-up pop-up

    Every plan

    Invite store visitors onto your mailing list, with the consent wording, time and source recorded.

    Lesson Sign-up Pop-up

  • Deliverability

    Growth and up

    Sends, opens, clicks and revenue for each email campaign, text broadcast and automation.

    Lesson coming Deliverability

  • Product feeds

    Scale and up

    Publish your catalog to Google, Meta, and TikTok shopping.

    Lesson coming Product Feeds

  • Flows

    Growth and up

    Build automated customer journeys with email, SMS, and timing. Replaces the legacy Automation page.

    Lesson Segments and Flows

  • Email sequences (legacy)

    Growth and up

    Older trigger-based email sequences created before Flows — kept reachable so existing ones can still be seen and managed.

    Lesson coming Email Sequences (Legacy)

  • Clearance

    Growth and up

    Schedule step-down markdowns for slow, aging, or overstocked stock — with a hard price floor.

    Lesson coming Clearance & Markdown Scheduler

  • Affiliates

    Scale and up

    Run an affiliate program.

    Lesson coming Affiliates

  • Referrals

    Growth and up

    Customer referral rewards.

    Lesson coming Referrals

  • Blogs

    Growth and up

    Publish content and SEO articles.

    Lesson coming Blog Posts and the Content Calendar

  • Social

    Growth and up

    Schedule and publish to social.

    Lesson coming Social Media

  • Market intel

    Every plan

    Category trends and competitor digests, synthesized weekly from live search.

    Lesson coming Market Intel

  • Quiz

    Growth and up

    Product-finder and lead-gen quizzes.

    Lesson coming Quizzes

  • Survey

    Growth and up

    Feedback and lead-gen surveys — collect answers with no scoring.

    Lesson coming Surveys

  • Printing

    Every plan

    Request flyers, signage and other physical print jobs — a team member follows up with a quote.

    Lesson coming Printing & Physical Services

Channels20 pages
  • Sites

    Every plan

    Your storefronts, pages, and themes.

    Lesson Pages, Menus and Redirects

  • Storefront generator

    Every plan

    Describe your shop in plain language and get a designed storefront: brand colour, type, layout and copy, in minutes.

    Lesson Storefront Generator

  • Appearance

    Every plan

    Storefront theme: brand colour, corners, and type.

    Lesson Getting Started with BestWebby

  • POS

    Every plan

    In-person point of sale.

    Lesson coming Point of Sale

  • Shifts

    Every plan

    Cash-drawer shifts: opening float, closing count, over or short.

    Lesson coming Point of Sale

  • Time clock

    Scale and up

    Clock in and out, breaks and time-off requests for your team.

    Lesson coming HR & Timesheets

  • Sell everywhere

    Scale and up

    Connect other sales channels: bring their orders in and keep their stock in step.

    Lesson coming Sell Everywhere

  • Wholesale

    Growth and up

    B2B catalogs and price lists.

    Lesson coming B2B

  • B2B accounts

    Scale and up

    Company accounts, price lists, net terms, and draft orders.

    Lesson coming B2B

  • Live Studio

    Growth and up

    Host live shopping broadcasts.

    Lesson coming Live Studio

  • Franchise

    Enterprise

    Locations, location prices, royalty statements and your store locator.

    Lesson coming Franchise

  • AR showroom

    Scale and up

    3D and AR files for your products, and your showroom page.

    Lesson coming AR Showroom

  • Auctions

    Scale and up

    Run timed product auctions.

    Lesson coming Auctions

  • Flash sales

    Growth and up

    Time-boxed limited offers.

    Lesson coming Flash Sales

  • Network Search

    Growth and up

    Sell from your own supplier and affiliate accounts when a search comes up short.

    Lesson coming Network Search

  • Call assistant

    Scale and up

    Answer inbound calls automatically, and place outbound calls for order follow-ups, appointment reminders and win-backs.

    Lesson coming Phone Numbers, Calls and Text Messages

  • Storefront chat

    Every plan

    Turn on chat for shoppers on your storefront, and manage what it knows.

    Lesson coming Chat

  • Offers

    Scale and up

    Make-an-offer and supplier counter-offers.

    Lesson coming Offers & Negotiation

  • Buying network

    Scale and up

    Offers, suppliers and quote requests between participating stores.

    Lesson coming Buying Network

  • Reseller network

    By invitation

    Invite-only supplier↔reseller links, catalog sharing and order allocations — a different relationship than the buying network above.

    Lesson coming Reseller Network

Insights17 pages
  • Analytics

    Every plan

    Sales, traffic, and conversion reports.

    Lesson coming Analytics

  • Shopping-agent traffic

    Every plan

    Visits, orders and revenue from shoppers sent by shopping assistants and shopping agents.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Engagement insights

    Every plan

    Webcam-based attention tracking for a storefront preview — processed locally in your browser, never sent to our servers.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Approvals & limits

    Every plan

    Review what your automations proposed or did, approve what is waiting, and set their limits.

    Lesson coming Approvals and Limits

  • Insights

    Growth and up

    Health score, board report, cash outlook, restock suggestions and keyword ideas.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Benchmarks

    Scale and up

    See how you compare against the network.

    Lesson coming Analytics

  • Smart bundles

    Growth and up

    Suggested product bundles based on what customers actually buy together.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Predictive returns

    Growth and up

    Per-order return-risk scoring, with the reasons and a preventive action for each.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Digital twin

    Growth and up

    Ask what a price, stock or launch change might do, answered from your recent sales.

    Lesson coming Insights

  • Retention

    Growth and up

    Spot and win back customers at risk of leaving.

    Lesson coming Analytics

  • Cohorts

    Growth and up

    Cohort retention analysis.

    Lesson coming Analytics

  • Competitors

    Scale and up

    Track competitor pricing and moves.

    Lesson coming Market Intel

  • Fraud protection

    Growth and up

    Review and block risky orders.

    Lesson coming Fraud Protection and Blocked Visitors

  • Brand protection

    Scale and up

    Check products for trademark and IP risks.

    Lesson coming Brand Protection

  • Social listening

    Scale and up

    Track public mentions of your brand, products and competitors.

    Lesson coming Social Listening

  • Operator

    Scale and up

    Run everyday tasks by typing a command.

    Lesson coming Operator

  • Carbon

    Scale and up

    Estimate shipping emissions per order.

    Lesson coming Carbon

Finance6 pages
Settings21 pages

PlansPlan labels show the lowest plan that includes a page. Your own plan and invoices are under Billing in your dashboard.