Ecommerce Peak Season Readiness Checklist

Change freeze on the money path before peak, feature flags armed as kill switches, and rollback rehearsed — velocity resumes in January.

Payment failures, inventory oversells, and shipping cutoffs get runbooks and on-call owners — ops readiness converts incidents into footnotes.

Skipping the discipline this article describes until an incident, audit, or stalled project forces it — every practice above is cheaper adopted early than retrofitted under pressure.