A page that sells, without building a website.
One link carrying your details, your hours and everything in your catalogue. Customers browse and order; the order arrives on your desk with the customer already saved as a contact. No website to build, nothing to design, free.
- Free with BizSimple
- One link
- Collection or delivery
Corner Cafe
Order ahead, collect from the counter.
Drinks
Bakery
Your business, not a template.
Your name, logo, opening hours, address and contact details come from your business profile, so they only have to be right in one place — and they are already right if you have sent an invoice.
Your own handle
Derived from your business name and yours to change. Two businesses with the same name both get a working address rather than one of them losing.
The catalogue you already have
The same items the till and your invoices use, grouped by category, with sold-out worked out from the stock you keep. Anything internal is left off with a tick.
Collection, delivery or both
With a delivery charge, a minimum order and tax. Ask for an address only when it is a delivery, and never take an order you cannot fulfil.
Paid now or paid on collection
A connected card gateway means customers pay when they order. Not connected means the order still comes through and is settled in person.
Customers become contacts
Anyone who leaves an email is saved, matched to the person already in your CRM if they are there. The second order knows about the first.
Closed without disappearing
Turn off orders and the page stays up with your own words on it. A shop with a sign in the window beats a dead link.
An order is a promise, not a receipt.
Somebody has asked for something and gone away, and you still have to make it, pack it and hand it over. So the store gives you a queue, not a list of transactions.
One button per order
Accept, mark ready, handed over. Marking it ready emails the customer, because that is the whole point of marking it ready. Clicking twice does not email them twice.
Stock moves when the goods do
Off the shelf when an order is handed over, back on if it is cancelled — once, however many times someone clicks, and however many times an order is reopened by mistake.
Paid and unpaid, told apart
A card payment is confirmed by the payment gateway, not by a customer clicking a button. An order paid for the wrong amount stays unpaid in your queue as a question you can answer, rather than being marked settled.
A retried order is not two orders
A patchy phone connection is the normal case, not the edge case. The same basket sent twice is one order; a corrected address is a different order, with the corrected address.
Orders to fulfil
O-1043Paid
Ada Lovelace
Delivery
O-1042Paid
Grace Hopper
Collection
O-1041Unpaid
Alan Turing
Collection
A public page that takes money is worth being careful with.
Prices come from your settings
The browser sends what and how many. Everything that costs money — the price, the delivery charge, the tax, the minimum — is read server-side from your own configuration. There is a test in the codebase that forges a one-cent price and proves the order still costs full price.
An unpublished store is invisible
Not 'hidden', not 'unlisted'. A store that is not published and one that never existed give an identical answer, so nobody can go fishing for handles.
Order volume is capped
Nothing here is signed in, so the page is rate limited and email addresses are checked before anything is written or sent. A public form that creates records and sends mail is a thing worth bounding.
The things people ask.
Do I need a website first?+
No. That is the point. You get a page on your own link — bizsimple.io/shop/your-name — carrying your name, logo, hours, address and catalogue. Put it in a bio, on a QR code by the door, or in a shop window.
Do I need a card processor to open a store?+
No. With a card gateway connected, customers are taken to pay when they order. Without it, orders still come through and are settled on collection or delivery — which is what most counters do anyway. The page says which it is doing.
How do orders reach me?+
As a queue on your order desk, and as an email the moment one lands. You accept it, prepare it, mark it ready — which emails the customer — and mark it handed over.
What stops someone changing the price before they order?+
The page sends product ids and quantities and nothing else that costs money. Every price, the delivery charge, the tax rate and the minimum order are read from your settings on the server. A forged price is ignored.
Can I keep some items off the store?+
Yes, per item, with one tick. Your catalogue is shared with invoicing and the till and usually has internal lines in it — call-out fees, deposits, subcontractor rates — and none of them belong on a page anyone can open.
What happens when I sell out?+
Anything you asked to track shows as sold out once the stock is gone, and cannot be added to a basket. Stock comes off when the goods actually leave, not when the order is placed, so a cancelled order does not cost you a unit.
Can I close the store without taking it down?+
Yes. Turn off 'taking orders' and the page stays up with your own message on it. Better than a dead link when someone is standing outside wondering if you are open.
Do customers need an account?+
No. A store that asks a stranger to sign up before it will take their money is a store that does not take their money.
Put your catalogue on a link.
Turn it on, tick what should be public, and publish. There is no site to build and nothing to design.