Cut over only after staging rehearsal and production approval.

• Complete staging onboarding and email verification.
• Enable 2FA for owner/admin users.
• Create a staging secret key and complete payment creation tests.
• Register staging webhooks and verify signature handling.
• Run Test Shop and Test Center flows for checkout, webhook, refund, settlement, chargeback, and payout dry-runs.
• Confirm your order system handles pending, failed, cancelled, expired, refunded, and disputed states.

• Accept production invite or receive production merchant access from Alpha.
• Upload KYB documents in production when requested.
• Wait for production KYB and production readiness approval.
• Confirm pricing, reserve policy, settlement currency, payout rails, payout schedule, and support contacts.
• Create production live API keys and store them in your production secret manager.
• Register production webhook endpoints and store production signing secrets separately from staging secrets.
• Choose signed-only or encrypted webhooks, store any one-time private key, and run a production receiver verification test.
• Confirm the approved checkout path and support contact plan with Alpha before live payment traffic.

• Replace staging API base URL with https://api.alphadigiwallet.com/v1.
• Replace staging checkout assumptions with production checkout URLs returned by the API.
• Use sk_production credentials only on production servers.
• Point production webhook subscriptions to production receivers.
• Verify webhook signatures and decrypt encrypted payloads before fulfilment.
• Use hosted checkout for buyer payment details; do not collect or submit those details yourself.
• Keep staging keys, staging webhooks, staging test orders, and production systems separate.

Run one controlled low-value live transaction before routing full customer traffic. Confirm each step below before increasing volume.

• Payment created by your production server.
• Buyer reaches Alpha hosted checkout and completes payment.
• Your webhook receiver verifies signature and records payment.completed.
• Your order system fulfils exactly once.
• Payment appears in production merchant dashboard.
• Alpha confirms expected settlement and payout readiness for your account.