A test’s state decides what you can do with it. Most tests follow one path: draft → preview → active → closed. While a test is active, you can pause and resume it.Documentation Index
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Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
What each state means
| State | What it means | What you can do |
|---|---|---|
| Draft | Configured but not running. Nothing is live and no data is collected. | Preview to check it, Launch to go live |
| Preview | Live on your storefront, visible only to you. Shoppers still see the original. | Launch to go live, Update preview after edits, Convert to draft to stop the preview |
| Active | Live for all shoppers. ABConvert assigns visitors and collects data. | Edit the name and traffic split, Pause, End |
| Paused | Stopped. Every shopper sees your original storefront again, and your data is kept. | Resume to go live again, End |
| Closed | Finished. Results are final and it cannot be resumed. | Archive to hide it, Duplicate as draft to copy and adjust |
| Archived | Hidden from the default list, with analytics intact. | Duplicate as draft to copy and adjust |
Preview before you launch
Preview shows a variant on your live storefront, scoped to your session only. Real shoppers keep seeing the original, so you can walk the buyer journey and confirm everything looks right before a single visitor enters the test.Click Preview
Click Preview. ABConvert opens your storefront in a new tab with the variant applied to your session.
Walk through the buyer journey
Browse as a shopper would. Visit the affected pages, add to cart, and step through checkout. Confirm the modification displays the way you designed it.
Check each variant
Switch between variants from the preview widget and confirm each one looks right.
What Preview confirms
Preview is your check on what shoppers see:- Display. The modification renders the way you designed it.
- App conflicts. No other app overwrites the same part of your storefront (price, shipping, checkout, or theme).
Edit a live test
While a test is Active, you can change its name, hypothesis, variant names, and traffic split. This restriction is deliberate. Changing what you test partway through mixes two setups into one result set, and the numbers stop meaning anything. To test a different change, end this test and start a new one.Pause a live test
Pause is your emergency stop. If a live test looks wrong, pause it right away. Common reasons: a display bug, a conflict with another app, or results you don’t trust. When you pause, ABConvert removes the test’s changes from your storefront. Every shopper sees your original store again and no new visitors are assigned. The data you’ve collected so far is kept. Resume puts the variant back and starts assigning visitors again.File a support ticket
Paused because the variant isn’t behaving the way you expected? Send us your store and the test, and we’ll help you find what’s overriding it and get it working.