Selling online shouldn't cost you £30 a month before you've made a sale.
Most website platforms charge you for a full storefront — inventory tracking, multi-channel selling, apps you'll never open — whether you need it or not. If you're a barber selling gift vouchers, a bakery taking pre-orders, or a trainer selling sessions, that's the wrong tool for the job. Answer two questions below and I'll tell you honestly which setup actually fits — including when the answer is a proper platform like Shopify, which I also build.
What "Light Commerce" is
Take payment for services, bookings, or digital items straight from your existing site — no extra monthly platform fee, managed from the same admin panel as everything else.
What a full storefront is for
Physical products that need packaging, posting, and stock tracking — inventory, shipping rates, and tax handled by a platform built for exactly that.
The difference isn't how many things you sell — a barbershop with thirty services has zero shipping to worry about. It's whether anything you sell has to be put in a box and posted.
Question 1 of 2
What are you looking to sell?
Question 2 of 2
Any chance you'll sell physical products later too?
Light Commerce is the right fit for you.
You can take payment for what you sell directly from your site — no extra platform, no separate login, no monthly fee beyond your existing hosting. It's built into the same admin panel you already use to manage your services.
Sell online add-on: Quote on request
For reference, platforms built for full storefronts typically start around £25–30/month plus transaction fees — often more than a service-only setup like this will ever need.
You'll want a proper storefront — and I build those too.
Once physical products are involved, a platform built for inventory, shipping, and tax handles it properly — trying to bolt that onto a normal website usually costs more time and risk than it saves. I build and manage Shopify stores directly, so you'd still be working with me — just on the right platform for what you're selling.
Shopify's own plan: from around £25/month + transaction fees
Build and setup: priced per project, based on what you're selling.