Previous article - Prerequisites #2 - Adding Your Payment Gateways, Providers & Optionally Payment Routing.

As customers navigate to your Shopify Store and checkout, we need to redirect them to Sticky.io Checkout. Part of that redirect requires a domain to direct them to. Below we will guide you through the entire process from registering an account to getting a domain and configuring it.
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Once we've knocked this out - we will first have a sigh of relief and can move on to integrating your Shopify Storefront and building your new Checkout Pages using our template builder.

Without further ado, let's begin!

To start, let's register for a free Cloudflare account. If you have an existing account, you can skip this part.

Navigate to cloudflare.com and sign up for a free account.

Following, you'll be presented with 4 plans to choose from. Free is all you'll need for Sticky.io Checkout.

Once you've registered your Cloudflare account, you'll be taken to the domain registration page. Accessible under Account Home.

Here you can either:

Once either step has been finished - enter the domain and click Quick Scan for DNS Records > Continue.

​After clicking Continue, we'll be redirected to the Plans page and much like our Account, the Free plan is sufficient for Sticky.io Checkout.

And lastly, the the Activate Cloudflare page. Similar to prior steps, we'll just click Continue to Activation.

Once we click Continue to activation, Cloudflare will recognize that the Nameservers have yet to be updated.

We'll put Cloudflare on the backburner. Do not close this page. We need to copy the nameservers on this page to our domain registrar.

Next is verifying and updating your nameservers. This is crucial as it directs your domain's traffic through Cloureflare's network. Enabling services like CDN (Content Delivery Network), security protection and performance optimizations.
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Unfortunately this part of the setup guide can't cover every major domain provider. (e.g GoDaddy, Namecheap, Bluehost). Thankfully, Cloudflare has provider specific instructions here. - We'll cover what the process looks like for GoDaddy here.
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Registrar Requirements:

Identify your domain registrar from where you created your domain. (e.g. GoDaddy, Namecheap).

To begin, login to GoDaddy. Following, My Account > My Domains.

Once loaded, you'll land on your GoDaddy Domains Portfolio Page. Click DNS > Your Domain.

Next we'll navigate over to Nameservers > Change Nameservers.

This will prompt a small window to appear and we'll choose > I'll use my own nameservers > Add each Cloudflare nameserver individually > Save.

Remember the Cloudflare tab I told you not to close? Go back to it and copy the nameservers. We discuss this here - Registering Your Domain Through Cloudflare.

After saving, an additional window will appear just reaffirming what you just did and we'll click Continue.

After you click continue, refresh the page and make sure the nameservers mention Cloudflare. At this point, everything on GoDaddy is done and you can close the tab.

The domain propagation process generally takes 30 minutes to an 1 hour but could be up to 24 hours.

Simply navigate back to Cloudflare > Account Home. Here you'll see the status of the domain. It will either be Invalid nameservers or Active.

If this sounds intimidating, I promise it's easier than the header suggests. Once the domain has propagated and is "Active" we can continue.

To begin, navigate to Account Home > Your Domain. Once you've opened your domain on the left navigation menu open SSL/TLS > Overview > Configure.

After clicking Configure. We'll be presented with two options. By default, your domain will be configured under Custom SSL/TLS <> Flexible.

While Custom SSL/TLS is selected - click Full. Afterwards, click Automatic SSL/TLS > Save. As illustrated below. Once you save, refresh the page and make sure your changes are accounted for.

And... that's it! I promised this was the easy part. Next is fetching the API Token!

To fetch your API token, we'll first navigate to My Profile > API Tokens > Create Token.

Following, Cloudflare provides a few API token templates to choose from. We'll click Edit zone DNS > Use template.

Afterwards there are two adjustments we'll make prior to saving our new API Token.

Once finished click Continue to Summary > Create Token.

Once you've created the token, copy it to a secure location as we'll be needing it later in the integration process.

One step closer to launching! Let's segue into - Step #2 - Connecting Your Shopify Store to Sticky Checkout.