A website for gift shops, live in minutes
Nobody searching for a gift knows what they want. They know who it is for and roughly what they will spend.
A real Clay site, built from a Google listing
A gift shop is the one kind of retail where the customer arrives with no product in mind at all, which makes browsing a catalogue exactly the wrong thing to ask of them.
So the page is arranged the way the decision is made: who it is for and what you will spend. Clay builds it from your Google listing, and under that go the two things that close it, which are wrapping and posting, because half of these are going to somebody in another town.
Why Clay
It pulls your info from Google
No blank page. Clay reads your Google business listing and fills in your name, photos, hours, map and reviews automatically.
A real website, not just links
Menus, bookings, a shop, a gallery, contact, Clay is a full site that also works as a link-in-bio, not a list of buttons.
Live in minutes, free to start
Search, pick a style, publish. No signup to see it, no credit card, and a free live address at name.clay.site.
Yours to grow
Bring a custom domain, add pro widgets, run multiple sites. It scales from a bio link to a full business site.
Your photographs, already sorted
Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.
The way somebody actually decides
A new baby, a housewarming, a leaving present, a thank you for somebody who has everything. Arranged that way, a shelf of unrelated objects becomes an answer rather than a browse.
With a rough price beside each group, because a budget is the other half of the question and no gift shop puts it on the page.
The half of the sale that happens elsewhere
A good part of what a gift shop sells is going to a different address than the person buying it. Wrapping, a handwritten card and posting turn a browse into an order you can take over the phone or off a form.
Corporate gifting is the version of this that pays properly and almost nobody advertises it.
What you can switch on
Every one of these is part of your site, not a plugin to install. Turn on what you use and leave the rest off.
What it looks like when it is live
Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.
How it works
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Search your business
Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
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Pick a style
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.
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You're online
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
What you get
- 1 Grouped by occasion, with price ranges
- 2 Wrapping, and whether it costs
- 3 Posting, and the last date it will arrive
- 4 Corporate gifting, quoted
Questions
How long does it really take?
Most people are live in two to three minutes, search your business, pick a style, publish. There is nothing to install and no signup needed to see your site first, because it is built from your Google listing rather than from a blank page.
Is it free?
Yes. You get a live site on your own name.clay.site address with a small badge in the footer, and nothing expires. The paid plan is your own domain, the badge removed and the pro features.
Do I need any tech skills?
None. If you can type your business name, you can build a Clay site: the live page is the editor, so you tap the thing you want to change. There is no code anywhere, and nothing to install or keep updated, see the WordPress comparison for what that saves.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, buy it wherever you like and point it at Clay on a paid plan; the certificate is issued for you. Until then the free name.clay.site address is a real one you can print, and it keeps working afterwards.
How should the page be organised?
By occasion and by budget, because that is what the buyer knows. A catalogue asks somebody with no product in mind to browse, which is the wrong question.
Should I take orders online?
For anything you post, yes, and a gift is the easiest thing to sell that way because the buyer never sees it: what a shop band adds.
Is corporate gifting worth a line?
It is worth a section. It is the highest value order a gift shop takes, it is decided in October, and almost nobody says on their page that they do it.
Try it with your business
Search your business and see your site in seconds, free, no signup.