Seven checkpoints, from setup to review.

Seven checkpoints before, during and after a sale.

1. 01 Owner: Admin

   Connect your hostname

   Your hostname is verified and ready for a staging check.

   • Hosted: we connect your room; you add the tag and allow its address in your Content-Security-Policy.
   • Complete the hostname ownership challenge and configure matching signing keys for that hostname.
   • Own Cloudflare zone only: install the Worker with config storage, room authority, rate limiter and telemetry bindings.
   • Own Cloudflare zone only: route the waiting runtime and your protected paths to the same Worker. A health response alone does not prove admission works.
2. 02 Owner: Launch manager

   Prepare the event

   The event names the hostname, protected path, sale window and timezone.

   • Check the organization and event before editing.
   • Use one active room per hostname and check the generated route instructions.
   • Keep the draft separate from the last version the QueueRoom Worker acknowledged.
3. 03 Owner: Ops

   Review admission policy

   Admission rate, active-session cap, session duration and queue order are understood before you publish.

   • A queued buyer is admitted only when a rate permit is due and an active-session slot is free. A rate of zero stops new admissions; a full room does not use up permits.
   • New admissions get fixed-length sessions. Changing session duration does not extend sessions already granted.
   • Queue rules shows the cap and session duration as read-only. Review rate changes with Admission rate on the Live control tab.
   • Queue order is first-come, or a seeded draw for people who arrive before the sale opens. Queue order is not weighted by bot risk.
   • Rehearse on the Worker you will use for the sale. Local checks do not prove production capacity.
4. 04 Owner: Marketing

   Preview and save branding

   The room has reviewed copy and style for its waiting page.

   • Open the launch’s Waiting page tab and preview desktop and mobile states.
   • Presets change appearance. Check event copy, support details, contrast and motion.
   • Save room settings, then stage and review the publication. Stage again if branding changed after staging. An editor preview does not prove what buyers are served.
5. 05 Owner: Ops and engineering

   Review and confirm publication

   A reviewed change has a receipt from the QueueRoom Worker and a checked buyer flow.

   • For a new change, stage it, compare saved and proposed values, and confirm with the slide-to-confirm control. Retrying a failed saved policy happens immediately, as described in Troubleshooting.
   • Compare the desired and acknowledged versions. If the receipt is pending or unknown, reconcile the Worker’s status before you publish again.
   • Check a fresh buyer request through registration, waiting, admission and your origin. Check the served branding and record how you would roll back.
6. 06 Owner: Launch room

   Monitor admission

   Operators use current receipts and telemetry to decide whether a change is needed.

   • Check the selected event, the publication receipt and how fresh the signals are before tuning.
   • Inspect pending visitors, live sessions and recent admissions. Missing data is unknown, not zero.
   • Stage and review emergency changes. Rate and cap limits still apply. Waiting browsers pick up policy changes on their next status check.
   • Start immediate non-FIFO admission lets waiting buyers in without queue order or pacing, still within the active-session cap. Queue everyone holds every new admission; admitted sessions continue until they expire.
   • If the edge still serves an old policy, Purge edge config cache makes the next request load the latest published version. Visitors keep their place.
7. 07 Owner: Business and ops

   Review the event

   Recorded actions and available reports support the next rehearsal.¹

   • Check the report’s time range and allow for late telemetry.
   • Read audit entries alongside publication receipts.
   • Write down changes for the next launch.