Create & Manage An Online Store for Your Business
We're an award-winning provider of online stores and e-commerce services to indie shops: 1,501 of America's best stores use our service.
- We've been responsible for more than 1 million purchases for indie merchants.
- A merchant often generates $242 per online order. You can, too.
- Sell products from any brand you offer. Pre-populate your registry service with up to 74,939 products from 114 partner brands.
- Retailers report selling 18% more due to our Syncing service.
- Your Online Store includes a built-in gift & wedding registry service.
- Use the Free plan. No setup fee. No monthly or annual fee. Pay a transaction fee when you receive an online order.
- Satisfaction guaranteed or you don't pay (Details).
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Overview
What Problem is Shop Local's Store Solving?
- Setting up an online store is often expensive and time-consuming.
- Leading e-commerce service providers do not provide an easy way for indie retailers to manage an e-commerce store.
- Shop Local's Online Store is more efficient and affordable to use than other leading software choices.
- We offer a free plan. Setup is free.
How Do You Keep Up Online?
Use many different resources and spend $1,000s each month on:
- Web developers
- Apps (e.g. Gift registry apps, review apps, etc.)
- Marketing firms
- Social media consultants
- SEO companies
- Photographers
Use Shop Local to get it all done and avoid spending $1,000s each month.
Skip over paying and using multiple resources.
How Much Does Running an Online Store Cost?
When a retailer offers an online store, it's a costly venture. An indie store will build the site and then have to maintain it. On a day-to-day basis, the business has to:
- Pay for the design and coding of new features.
- Ensure its web pages load quickly. This often requires the business to use image-optimization software to reduce the page size and a CDN (content delivery network) to get the content closer to the visitor's geographic location.
- Pay for hosting.
- Pay for security.
Shop Local bundles the above features and services together as part of our general service offering. This makes it easier and more cost-efficient for clients.
Other providers charge higher out-of-the-box rates and then charge service fees for add-on services. The charges add up and the services become expensive. In contrast, we offer many features out-of-the-box by default with Shop Local Store. Due to this, our Store costs less and is easier to use.
In addition, our Syncing service drastically reduces the labor needed to maintain an online business. Other providers do not offer a product syncing service.
» View 11 features comparing Shop Local to other software platforms
Examples
How Are Businesses Using Shop Local's Store?
- Businesses wanting a new website
- Businesses with no existing website
Businesses with an existing website (such as from Squarespace, Weebly, Shopify, etc.)
- Businesses wanting a new website
- Businesses with no existing website
Businesses with an existing website (such as from Squarespace, Weebly, Shopify, etc.)
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Brand Directory & Syncing
Easily Add Up to 3,489 Brands
Shop Local's Online Store offers your business a directory of more than 3,489 brands to add to your Online Store. Using our Brand Directory, you can easily add a brand to your Store, show a brand's logo, add products for it, and more. Save yourself from having to hunt for this information.
Don't see a brand in our Brand Directory that you need? We'll add the brand. Your Store allows you to add any item from any brand.
For 114 of the brands in the Brand Directory, Shop Local has partnerships with these brands. These brands are our Syncing partners.
Do You Sell Any Of These Brands?
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Do you sell any of the above brands? If so, we can instantly add products from the above brands to your Store.
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Assess How Shop Local Can Help You
What is your current website situation?
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| Situation: | “I have no official business website. I only have a Facebook page or other social media account for my business.” | “I have an official business website; it's only an informational site.” | “I have an official business website; it has e-commerce functionality.” |
| Assessment: | Since you have no official website, you can use Shop Local as your business's official website. On your Facebook, Instagram, and other social media accounts, you can add your Shop Local website as your official website (e.g. yourstorename.myshoplocal.com). | You can edit your existing website and add links from it to your Shop Local Store. For example, you can add a link that says "Gift Registry" that leads to your Shop Local's Gift Registry page. You can also add a link that says "Shop Full Juliska Catalog" that leads to your Shop Local's Juliska page. |
How you use Shop Local depends on if you wish to use Shop Local's gift registry service. If you wish to use Shop Local's gift registry service,
you can add a link on your existing site saying "Gift Registry" that leads to your Gift Registry home page.
When you have your own e-commerce store, you may wish to import Shop Local's product data into your e-commerce database. |
| Choice: | Shop Local Handles It All for You | Hybrid | Advanced Hybrid |
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Assessment: Since you have no official website, you can use Shop Local as your business's official website. On Facebook, Instagram, and other social media accounts, you can add your Shop Local website as your official website (e.g. yourstorename.myshoplocal.com). |
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Assessment: How you use Shop Local depends on if you wish to use Shop Local's gift registry service. If you wish to use Shop Local's gift registry service, you can add a link on your existing site saying "Gift Registry" that leads to your Shop Local's Gift Registry home page. When you have your own e-commerce store, you may wish to import Shop Local's product data into your e-commerce database. |
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Our services are compatible with all third-party providers.
Add to Your Retail Business
Start Using Our Online Store or Syncing Service
Features
21 Reasons Businesses Choose Shop Local Store
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Design
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Customers to Shop
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Products
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Pictures per Product
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Reporting Tools
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Unique URL
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Review Software
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Products to
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More Shop Local Store Features
More Shop Local Store Features
In 5 Days Be Ready to Sell 18% More
We created a five-day plan to help you increase your sales.
By the fifth day, you'll have your products in your Online Store, be ranking better in Google, and be ready to take orders.
- Open your free Shop Local Online Store with the free Gift Registry service.
- With our directory of 3,000+ pre-populated brands, easily add the brands you sell in your store to your account.
- Send Sync requests to your brands that use the Syncing service.
- Add your first product.
- Welcomes you and learns about your goals.
- Update your Store settings (tax rate, etc.).
- Update your gift & wedding registry settings.
- Add slide images for your home page.
- Add your staff.
- Customize your site design.
- Offers you bonuses to invite your brands and add your gift registries.
- Create a test purchase.
- Create a sample test wedding registry.
- Promotes your store as a new member.
- Adds your store to our Find a Store directory.
- Add a news post.
- Promote your new Online Store and Registry service on your social media channels.
- View your Store using your mobile phone.
- Boost your Google ranking with the SEO tools.
- Start the process to accept credit cards online.
Retailer Qualifications
To join and use Shop Local Store, a business must have a federal tax ID (TIN) and one or more dedicated, physical storefronts that consumers can access (e.g. not a P.O. box or postal/mail center).
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