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title: Connecting your store
description: Pairing your store with Sarvex — the one hands-on step in setup.
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Your store has to be paired with Sarvex before anything else works — the one hands-on step in setup; everything after it is automatic.

1. Install the Sarvex plugin on your store (see [Integration Guides](/integration-guides) for the full walkthrough), then generate a pairing code from the console's **Connect** screen.
2. Enter that code into the plugin on your store's admin and confirm the connection.

Once paired, your store's first catalog sync and audit starts immediately — you'll get an email when it's done — and the rest of the console unlocks. You land on **Path**, which becomes home base from here.

If pairing breaks later, it shows up as a task on your Path, the same as any other setup problem.