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Sell online without building a shop

No website to build, no monthly fee, no contract to be stuck in. We charge 4% when you make a sale and nothing at all when you do not.

Register your interestSee the fees

Getting started

Three steps, about twenty minutes

1

Tell us what you sell

A few products to start with. Tickets for an event, a weekly bread round, a Christmas box, a gift card. We will suggest the usual ones for your trade.
2

Connect your bank through Stripe

You open a Stripe account in your own business name. Stripe runs the identity and bank checks, and money from your sales lands in your account, not ours.
3

Start taking orders

Your products appear on your town’s site. Customers order and pay, you get the order, you fulfil it exactly as you would over the counter.

What you get

The parts that matter to a small business

You are the seller, not us

Every sale is a contract between you and your customer. You set prices, you issue receipts, you keep your own customer relationship. We are the shopfront and the checkout.

Money goes straight to you

Payments are direct charges to your own Stripe account. We never hold your takings, so there is no float sitting with us and nothing to chase if we go quiet.

Reach the whole signed-up town

A weekly email goes to every household in your town who opted in, featuring what local businesses are offering. Being in it costs nothing extra.

Customers who came for the cause

People sign up through their school or club. When they buy from you, their group gets a share, so choosing you over a chain has a reason attached.

What it costs

4% of what you sell. That is the whole list.

The fee is taken automatically out of each sale before your payout, so there is no invoice to pay and nothing to remember. Stripe charges its own card processing fee on top, the same as any card machine, and that goes to Stripe rather than to us.

There is no monthly charge, no listing fee, no setup fee and no minimum. If you sell nothing in a month, you pay nothing. We can change your town’s fee schedule on at least 30 days’ written notice, and any change only applies to sales after that.

The full fee breakdown →

What you take on

Being the seller cuts both ways, so here it is plainly. You agree to:

  • Keep listings accurate, including allergens and ingredients where they apply.
  • Fulfil orders as described, and tell us quickly if you cannot.
  • Handle refunds and complaints under UK consumer law, refunding through Stripe.
  • Hold the registrations, licences and insurance your trade needs.
  • Deal with your own tax, including VAT on your sales if you are registered.

The full terms are in the Vendor Agreement, which you accept at sign-up. Worth ten minutes of your time before you commit.

Next step

We are signing up the first Reigate businesses now

Tell us what you sell and we will come back with what it would look like for you, including the products that tend to work and what a realistic first month looks like. No obligation and no sales call unless you want one.

Register your interest