We booked a first qualifying round tie at Worthing after seeing off Farnham Town in the FA Cup.
Team news: Richard Ismail and Paris Hamilton-Downes were handed their first starts of the season, while Peter Adeniyi came in for the injured Kalvin Morath-Gibbs.
It was the visitors that carved out the first opening of the game; Mark Corbett showed a neat touch on a long ball before wriggling between two defenders, but Alex Kozakis did just enough to make the forward poke the ball wide of the far post.
The pace of Mickel Miller was a constant threat throughout this one and he first got away from the Town defence on five minutes, but his cross towards Ricky Korboa was cut out. He then fired a shot in on goal shortly afterwards which didn't dip quick enough to test goalkeeper Matt Pietts.
We appealed for a penalty on 10 minutes after Miller and Tommy Bradford combined to get Ismail away down the right and his cross appeared to be handled by a body in blue, but the referee waved away the calls.
At the other end, our backline kept the visiting forwards quiet - Matt Males kept calm under pressure to collect and protect a long searching ball and his pass to Hamilton-Downes set us off on a counter attack. The ball was eventually shifted out to the right and Bradford beat his marker only for Miller to stab his low cross just wide from close range.
Sekou Kaba then burst through on an Adeniyi through ball but Pietts came out and blocked his effort, only for our boss to take the loose ball round the prone keeper but then get crowded out by several defensive bodies.
But we eventually broke the deadlock on 18 minutes as Korboa knocked Ismail's deep cross back first-time and Miller swept home from close range.Town almost curtailed the home cheers straightaway however but a linesman's flag denied Corbett's headed goal from a right wing delivery.
We continued to boss possession but were grateful to Jahmahl King for stopping a Town attack inside our box and we went up the other end before winning a corner which was played short. Korboa eventually found Bradford whom spun and forced a good save from Pietts and Miller reacted by turning the ball goalwards but it smashed back off the crossbar.
Kozakis was alive to the danger as Town played a quickly won free kick on 34 minutes and he denied Chris Poole from 12 yards, while Pietts saved brilliantly from his own defender as Ben Williams conspired to power a Miller cross towards his own goal.
It was our turn to suffer under a lineman's call on 39 minutes as Korkoa tapped in a pass from Miller, whom was given offside during the build up, but the same combination gave us some breathing space before the break as Miller took Adeniyi's through ball before drawing Pietts and giving Korboa the simplest of tasks for his third of the season.
HALF-TIME: 2 - 0
We stung the visitors within one minute of the restart as Adeniyi ignored the run of Bradford to play Miller in one-on-one with Pietts and our forward dinked home his second of the game to make it 3-0.
Then, a couple of minutes later, he took and turned on a Kaba pass before unleashing an angled 20 yard rocket which hit the underside of the crossbar and bounced away to safety.Korboa had another goal chalked off for offside as we attacked Town at will and one move, on 55 minutes, started with Kozakis and ended, via six passes, with Korboa helping on an Ismail cross before Bradford eventually shot into the arms of Pietts.
Our visitors rallied somewhat around the hour mark and forced a couple of corners, while Jack Dillon curled weakly into Kozakis from 18 yards and Elliot Cardona headed a cross down into our six yard box only for Kaba to clear.
Jarrell Gray and Kingsley Aikhionbare were both introduced as the clock ticked on and Brendan Murphy-McVey forced a flying save from Pietts before also ruffling the top of his net with a 20 yard free kick.
Bradford had to come off late on after sustaining an ankle injury but we saw the game out with both Aikhionbare and Hamilton-Downes hitting shots that Pietts dealt with comfortably.
Next up: We visit East Grinstead Town on Saturday 27th August before Chipstead arrive at Colston Avenue on Monday 29th August.
Carshalton Athletic: Kozakis; Ismail, King (Gray - 67), Males, Hamilton-Downes (c); Bradford (Salgado -78), Kaba, Murphy-McVey, Adeniyi, Korboa; Miller (Aikhionbare -72)
Unused subs: Minchin, O'Toole
Goals: Miller (18 and 46), Korboa (45)
Farnham Town: Pietts, Meaton, Spurr (Smith - 33), Williams, Ford, Staines (Clarke - 61), Dillon, St. de Corix, Corbett, Ramsden (Poole - 25), Cardona
Unused subs: Ossia, Wilson