Draft mode lets you switch Tacey on in your store without your customers seeing it yet. While it is on, only orders placed with one of your staff emails or domains show any Tacey tool on the Thank you and Order status pages. Every other customer sees nothing, exactly as if Tacey were not installed.

Use it to place a real test order, open its order status page, and check that everything looks right before you let customers in. Turn it off when you are ready.

Both the switch and the list are saved together. A new store that has never saved a setting starts with Draft mode off.

Capital letters do not matter, and a leading `@` is allowed (`@acme.com`). Tacey shows Staff entries that will be saved under the box as you type, so you can see how it read your list.

Tacey matches against the email on the order, so the order you test with must be placed with a staff email.

If any entry in the list is not accepted, nothing is saved, and the page says Draft mode was not saved. Fix the staff list below and try again. It names each entry it did not like:

If Tacey cannot read the setting for a moment, it hides its tools from customers to be safe. Your Global settings page then says Draft mode could not be read and asks you to reload in a minute. Nothing was changed. This is deliberate: showing an unfinished tool to real customers is worse than hiding it for a minute. (Address checks work the opposite way. They never block an order.)

Tacey says it on the page: This is a test gate, not a security lock. Anyone can type a staff address at checkout, and a customer at a staff domain sees Tacey early. Draft mode keeps an unfinished setup away from ordinary customers. Do not use it to hide anything sensitive, and do not leave it on by accident: while it is on, your customers cannot use any Tacey tool.

I turned it on and now I see nothing myself. Your staff list is empty, or the email on the order you are looking at is not on the list. Add your address, save, and use an order placed with it.

A customer at our company domain can see Tacey. Is that a bug? No. Every address at a staff domain counts as staff. Use full addresses if you want only certain people.

Does Draft mode stop Tacey from handling customer edits? It stops customers from reaching the tools. Orders still come in and are checked as usual.

Can I use it to launch one tool at a time? No. It is one switch for all customer tools. To keep a single tool away from customers, switch that tool off on its own page.