We're an award-winning provider of online stores and e-commerce services to indie shops: 1,502 of America's best stores use our service.
Use many different resources and spend $1,000s each month on:
Use Shop Local to get it all done and avoid spending $1,000s each month.
Skip over paying and using multiple resources.
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:
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.
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Shop Local's Online Store offers your business a directory of more than 3,492 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 the above brands? If so, we can instantly add products from the above brands to your Store.
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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 |
Our services are compatible with all third-party providers.
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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.
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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