Go live

By the end of this guide your business is verified and sells for real money. You do not need a bank account to go live. You need one before your first payout. Test mode and live mode are separate: each has its own products, sales, customers, and invoices. Your products do not move to live by themselves. You copy each one with the Copy to live button on its product page, and the live copy gets a new buyer link. If you built an integration, only your code carries over, with a live API key in place of the test key.

​

Before you start

• A product that you paid for yourself in test mode. The first row on the Go live page, Create your first product, shows as done after that test payment. See Test mode and testing.
• Your business details: your legal name, your registration number if you are a company, your address, and a live web page where buyers can see the price.

​

Verify your business

Open Go live in the sidebar. The page lists the steps to real money and counts them, for example “1 of 3 done”. The same count shows next to Go live in the sidebar, for example “1/3”. The three rows are:

1. Create your first product
2. Verify your business
3. Go live

Above the rows sits your Revenue & Pricing Audit, sealed until you verify, unless you already asked for it, and unlocked the moment your ID check is handed in. It is not a step and holds nothing up. See Revenue & Pricing Audit. Below the rows, Getting paid has two rows: Bank account and Stablecoin payouts. They are not steps, and your first sale does not wait for them. On the right, Your account shows your business name, when the identity check comes, and your payout schedule. AgentaOS is the merchant of record on every live sale, so we check whose product we sell before real money moves. To start, click Start on the Verify your business row. The form asks one question per screen, in three parts: You, Your product, and The rules. It takes about 5 minutes and saves as you go, so you can click Save & finish later and come back. On the last screen, click Submit for review. The form says: “Reviewed by a person, usually within 24 to 48 hours. No documents to upload and no third-party ID check.” After you submit, the dashboard shows “Submitted for review”, and the row shows In review. You do not need to do anything while we review. When we approve your business, the row says “Verified. Card and bank payments are on.” For what we check, and for what to do if we ask for changes, see Verify your business.

​

Switch to live mode

When your business is verified, the Go live page says “Everything is ready. Turn on real payments.” Click Go live on the Go live row. The dashboard switches to live mode and shows “You’re live”. If you have no bank account yet, that message has the link Add a bank account to get paid, about two minutes. You can also use the switch at the bottom of the sidebar, below Settings. It has two options, Test and Live. Click Live, and the dashboard shows “Switched to Live mode” with “You are now viewing live data. Real funds apply.” While your business is not verified, clicking Live opens the Go live page instead. In test mode, a dark strip across the top of every page says “Test mode” and “No real payments are processed”. In live mode the strip is gone.

​

Copy your products to live

Your test products stay in test mode. For each product that you want to sell:

1. Switch to Test.
2. Open Products and click the product.
3. Click Copy to live. The dashboard shows your product name followed by “is now in live mode.” and a View it button.

The live copy has the same name, price, description, image, tax setting, success and cancel pages, and trial. It starts with no sales and no customers. Your test sales, customers, invoices, and subscriptions stay in test mode. After you copy a product, its test page shows In live mode in place of Copy to live, and that button opens the live copy. Later changes to the test product do not reach the live copy. To change a live product, switch to Live and edit it there. The live copy has its own buyer link. The test link stays a test link, so replace it everywhere you shared it:

1. Switch to Live.
2. Open Products and click the product.
3. Click Copy link, and put this link on your site, in your emails, and in your social posts.
4. Click Preview to open the live checkout page and check it. A payment on this page charges a real card.

​

Add a bank account for payouts

Your sales collect in your AgentaOS balance from the first live sale. To move that balance to your bank, add a bank account. You can add it at any time, also before your verification is done. On the Go live page, the Bank account row under Getting paid says “Where we pay you. Not needed to sell. Add it before your first payout, about two minutes.” Click Add on that row. After you go live, the row is highlighted, its last sentence is “Your balance waits until then.”, and its button is Add bank account. Each button opens the Payout accounts tab on Balances with the form. See Add a bank account for the fields and the name check. Before the first payout, the owner or an admin completes the identity check, in live mode, from the Home or Balances page. See The identity check. See Payouts for how your balance moves to your account. Payouts to a stablecoin wallet are in public preview. The Stablecoin payouts row counts the conditions you meet, for example “0 of 3 done”. See Stablecoin payouts.

​

Changes for your buyers

In live mode, your buyers pay real money:

• Charges. The card processor charges the buyer’s card. Test cards such as 4242 4242 4242 4242 do not work.
• Card statement. The charge shows as AGENTAOS* followed by your business name, shortened to fit, for example AGENTAOS* KNEEGUARD. The buyer’s receipt email says “On your card statement this shows as” and gives the same line.
• Invoices and receipts. Test invoices carry a TEST badge and a TEST- number, and test emails start with [TEST]. Live invoices, receipts, and emails do not.
• VAT. The checkout calculates VAT for each buyer and adds it to the price. See How tax works.

​

If you built an integration

This part is for developers. Your code stays the same, and the key decides the mode.

1. Switch the dashboard to Live.
2. In the sidebar, open Developers → API keys. Under API Keys, click Generate Live Key. Live keys start with sk_live_.
3. Put the live key in your deploy in place of the sk_test_ key. Every call with that key reads and writes live data. See Code integration for where the key goes.

Your webhook endpoint, under Webhooks on the same page, receives both test and live events. Live events carry livemode: true, so check that field before you fulfill an order. See Receive webhooks in Express. successUrl, cancelUrl, and webhookUrl must be https URLs on your live site. A product’s own webhookUrl is not copied to live. Events for the live copy go to your endpoint under Webhooks. Checklist before your first live sale:

• Business verified.
• Each product copied to live, and the live buyer links shared.
• sk_live_ key deployed in place of the test key.
• successUrl and cancelUrl point at your live site.
• Webhook handler checks the signature and livemode.

To verify your business from the CLI, run agenta login, then agenta verify declaration to read the five statements you attest to, then agenta verify submit with your details. agenta verify status shows where the review is. An agent connected over MCP files the same form with the agenta_verify_submit tool. See Verify for every option.

​

Next steps