Shopify is built to run an online store. If you run a real shop that also sells a few things online, that is a lot of machine for the job.
Shopify is the best product in its category and this page is not going to pretend otherwise. If online sales are your business — stock levels, shipping zones, abandoned baskets, a hundred SKUs — use Shopify and stop reading.
But a great many businesses are not that. A bakery with eight things worth posting. A studio selling prints. A deli with a Christmas hamper. For those, a Shopify subscription is a monthly bill for a warehouse you do not have, and what you actually needed was a website with a basket on it.
Photographs, a price, options like size or flavour, and a checkout that takes a card. Enough to sell a box of pastries or a print run; not enough to run a fulfilment operation, and it does not pretend to be.
A shop on its own does not answer the question most of your visitors have, which is whether you are open and where you are. On Clay the shop is one band on a site that also carries your hours, your map, your reviews and how to reach you — because for a real-world business that is what the traffic is looking for.
Type your name — Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap — no code, no templates to wrestle.
Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot — so what you see is what it looks like right now.
There is no hard cap, but the shop is designed for a browsable list rather than a searchable catalogue. Past a hundred or so you want proper filtering and stock control, which means Shopify.
Card payments through Stripe, straight into your own account. There is no marketplace fee on top.
Yes — collection is the common case for a local shop, and it is the default. Flat-rate delivery is there too; carrier-calculated rates are not.
You can mark something sold out. There is no live inventory syncing with a till system — if you need that, you need a real commerce platform.
Yes, and you should if the shop becomes the business. Your products are yours; your domain moves with you.
It is the only way it works — payments go straight to your account and Clay takes no cut of a sale. What you type as a price is what the customer pays.
Upload from your phone and they are cropped and compressed on our side, so a forty-product page still opens fast on a phone with one bar of signal.
Search your business and see your site in seconds — free, no signup.