What's real,
what's simulated.

Dopameez is currently operating as an interactive commerce experience. You can create a real account, browse a real catalogue, build a real Stash, check out through a real order flow, and receive a real order confirmation and order history — all of that is genuine, working infrastructure. Two specific things are simulated during this phase: payment settlement and physical fulfillment. No payment is actually collected and no physical item is actually shipped. Nothing below is intended to mislead you about that.

What's real

• Accounts. Signing in uses real passwordless authentication (email magic-link, and Google Sign-In where available) — not a form that just remembers your email in a browser field.
• Your Stash. If you're signed in, it's saved to your account in a real database and follows you across devices, not just stored in this one browser.
• Pricing, inventory, and totals. Every price, shipping cost, and order total is computed server-side at checkout from live catalogue and inventory data — never trusted from what your browser last displayed.
• Orders. A completed checkout creates a real, persisted order with a real order number, retrievable order history, and a genuine order-status timeline.
• Addresses. Saved addresses, pincode-based city/state lookup, and the delivery-location map are real, working systems.
• Order confirmation email. If email is configured, you'll receive an actual email, not a page that only pretends to send one.

What's simulated

• Payment. Checkout runs through a simulated payment provider built to the same architecture a real gateway (like Razorpay) would use — it produces a genuine processing state and a genuine success/failure outcome — but it never contacts a bank, card network, or UPI system, and no money moves. See Refund & Cancellation Policy for how this affects returns.
• Fulfillment & delivery. Order statuses (Confirmed → Preparing → Dispatched → Out for Delivery → Delivered) update on a timeline, but no courier is actually engaged and nothing is physically packed or shipped. Delivery estimates shown at checkout describe what a real timeline would look like, not an actual dispatch.

Why build it this way

The goal of this phase is to validate the entire shopping experience — browsing, accounts, cart, checkout, order history — end to end, without the legal and financial overhead of processing real payments before the rest of the platform is ready. Every part of the architecture (payment provider, courier integration) is built as a swappable component specifically so this can become a fully real store without being rebuilt from scratch.

Questions

If anything on this page is unclear, or you're not sure whether a specific interaction is real or simulated, email hello@dopameez.com — we'll tell you plainly.