Not a separate shop on somebody else’s address with your logo at the top. Products live on your site, on your domain, in the same editor as the rest of it.
Part of your website. No commission on anything you sell.Which means it looks like the rest of your site, it is found the same way, and it is edited the same way.
A photograph, a name, a description and a price. Fields, not code.
With its own web address, so you can send somebody straight to it and Google can index it.
The listing page picks up every product on its own. There is nothing to add in two places.
The buy button goes to your own payment link, so the payment lands with you directly.
Because it is your site. The difference between this and a bolted-on shop is visible from the first click.
The buy button points at a payment link you own, so the money goes from your customer straight to you and nothing sits in the middle taking a percentage. If you already take payments some way that works, keep taking them that way.
Selling online covers everything from six hampers at Christmas to a warehouse. It is worth knowing which end of that this is built for.
A roastery with a dozen bags of coffee. A joiner selling made-to-order pieces. A salon selling the products it uses. A shop with a few hundred lines. Anything where each product deserves a proper page rather than a row in a database.
The strength here is that the product page is a real page on your own domain, which is what gets found and what gets shared.
If your customers routinely put six different items in a basket, or you need live stock counts synced to a till, or you want automatic emails chasing an abandoned basket, tell us before you sign up and we will say honestly whether this is the right thing.
We would rather lose a sale than have you find out in month two. There are dedicated platforms for high-volume retail and sometimes that is the right answer.
Most small businesses selling a few things end up with a shop that lives somewhere else and looks like it.
| Blinki | A shop on another platform | A social media shop | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sells from your own domain | Sometimes | ||
| Looks like the rest of your site | |||
| Each product findable in Google | |||
| Commission on your sales | Usually | Usually | |
| Second system to log into | |||
| You own the customer relationship | Sometimes |
Including the ones about leaving, because a page that will not answer those is hiding something.
It is part of your website rather than a separate product. Your site is £24.99 a month live on your own domain, and the shop is one of the things a Blinki site can have.
No. Nothing. The buy button points at your own payment link, so the money goes from your customer to you and we never touch it.
Through whichever payment provider you already use. You create a payment link there and the product’s buy button points at it. If you do not have one yet, support will walk you through setting one up.
There is no fixed cap, but this is built for businesses where each product deserves a page of its own rather than for a catalogue running to tens of thousands of lines. If you are at that scale, talk to us before you commit.
Each product has its own buy button pointing at your payment link, so it works best where people buy one thing at a time. If a multi-item basket is central to how you sell, say so up front and we will tell you honestly whether this fits.
Yes, and plenty do. A treatment, a session, a package of hours. It works the same way: a page describing it, and a button that takes the payment.
Each product is a real page with its own address, its own title and its own description, which is what makes that possible. It is far better than a product that only exists inside a widget.
Yes. A price is a field. Click it, type the new number, done. No developer, no ticket, no wait.
Set out what you charge and where you post to on the product or the shop page, and take it through your payment link. This is deliberately simple rather than a rules engine.
Yes, the same way you would in a shop window: change the price, add a line saying what the offer is, and put it on the homepage. All of it by clicking and typing.
Yes, at any point. It is part of the same site, so it is not a migration, just more pages.
UK support, Monday to Friday, on the same account as your website, your domain and your mailboxes. One place for all of it.
The shop is part of your website rather than a separate thing to manage, and nobody takes a percentage of what you sell.