Do I need a website first?
No. Start at /start with your brand name, pick a theme and add your products. You can open the whole store on your phone before you pay anything.
Do I need my own COAs?
Yes. Torva shows your lab’s certificates by lot on each product page and reads the product, lot and test date from the file names when you upload a folder. It doesn’t test products or verify what a certificate says.
Can I take cards on day one?
Zelle, Cash App and Venmo work from day one, with QR codes and payment reminders. Cards run through your own Stripe account, which you connect once the store is live, because Stripe reviews the live site and decides for itself. Authorize.net and NMI are coming this week.
Which plan does a new store need?
Core at $99/month covers up to 300 orders a month on two themes, with the gate, COAs, pay-by-app checkout, labels and receipts. Growth adds six themes, email automations and customer accounts; Command adds affiliates and weekly monitoring of your live site. You can upgrade from the Desk any time.
How long does it really take?
The free preview takes about 2 minutes. After you choose a plan, the guided setup takes about 20 minutes once your products, domain and payment handles are ready. A domain change can take up to 24 hours, so we start that first.
Is it legal to sell research peptides?
That depends on what you sell, how you describe it and where, and we can’t give legal advice. Our guide covers the questions to take to a lawyer. What Torva does is keep your store’s wording to research use: the 21+ gate, code-style names and no dosing or effect language.
Do you supply products?
No. Torva is software. You source products and lab testing yourself; our supplier guide covers what to check.
Do you take a cut of my sales?
No. No transaction fee, no percentage and no setup fee: only the monthly plan. Card fees are Stripe’s, charged to your own account, and Zelle, Cash App and Venmo never touch Torva.