Online Store

A shop that looks like your business

Most website builders give you shop pages out of a template. You pick one, and then you spend a weekend fighting it, and at the end a furniture maker and a phone case seller have the same website with different photos in it.

Here the two halves are separate on purpose. You keep your products in one place, and the AI designs the shop pages around them and around the rest of your site. Change a price or add a product in one place and your shop pages pick it up, because they read your product list rather than having it typed into them. On sites with member sign-in that happens live; on the rest it lands with your next publish.

Everything a product needs, and nothing it does not

A name and a price is enough to start selling. When you need more it is there: up to five photos, a category, a sale price that shows the old one struck through, and options like size, color or finish with their own prices and item numbers.

Not everything you sell is a thing in a box. Mark a product as a download and buyers get a private link in their order email that keeps working, without the file ever appearing on your public site. Mark it as a service and everything about delivery simply disappears, which is right for a consultation, a class, or a fitting.

Stock that counts itself

Turn tracking on for a product and the number goes down as things sell. At zero it shows as sold out and cannot be bought, so you never take an order you cannot fill.

Tell us the level you want warning at and we email you once when it crosses it, not every time something sells. Tracking is per product, so anything made to order, or anything you simply do not count, can be left alone and stays available. The counts are held on our side rather than on your website, which is what stops them being something a visitor could ever interfere with.

Orders you can actually work from

A sale arrives with the buyer, what they bought, and where it is going. Mark it sent and the buyer gets an email with the tracking number. Print a packing slip for the box. Refund all or part of it without going anywhere else.

The money still lands in your own Stripe account and we still take no cut of it. What this adds is the part Stripe does not do: knowing what is left on the shelf, and what is waiting to go out of the door.

And if it still does not fit

Some businesses sell in a way nobody has built a screen for. On the Grow plan your site has a real database behind it, so you can describe the management pages you actually need and have them built into the site itself, working on the same products.

You are not choosing between the two. Use the store manager for the ordinary work and build whatever else your business needs on top of it.

What you get

• Products with photos, categories, sale prices and options
• Stock levels that go down as orders come in
• An email before you run out, not after
• Sell downloads and services alongside physical things
• Discount codes with dates, limits and minimum order sizes
• Orders, tracking emails, packing slips and refunds
• Shop pages designed around your business, not a template
• Included with the Grow plan

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