A website with a shop in it
For a business that sells twenty things, not two thousand. Products, options, a basket, paid by card.
Between “a page with a phone number on it” and “an online store” there is an enormous gap that most small businesses fall into: a few things worth selling, and no appetite for a commerce platform.
The Clay shop is one band on your website. Photographs, a price, options like size or flavour, a basket and a card payment into your own account. Enough to sell the hampers, the prints, the beans or the gift vouchers.
A photograph, a price, and the options that matter
Options are the part most simple shop tools get wrong: a size, a flavour, a finish, each able to change the price. Clay handles those and does not pretend to handle stock rules it cannot.
Most of it is collected, and that is fine
For a real-world business the common case is click and collect, so it is the default. Flat-rate delivery is there; carrier-calculated rates and shipping zones are not — that is a commerce platform's job.
What you get
Basket and checkout
Card payments through Stripe, straight into your own account, with no marketplace fee on top.
Product photographs, processed
Uploaded from your phone, cropped and compressed on our side so the page stays fast.
No monthly fee to start
The shop is part of the site. There is no separate commerce plan and nothing to pay before your first sale.
What you get
How it works
Search your business
Type your name — Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.
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.
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.
Real sites, made with Clay
Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot — so what you see is what it looks like right now.
Questions
How many products can I sell?
There is no hard limit, but this is a browsable list rather than a searchable catalogue. Past about a hundred you want proper filtering and stock control.
Where does the money go?
Into your own Stripe account. Clay takes no cut of a sale.
Can I do delivery?
Flat-rate, yes. Carrier rates and zones, no.
Do I need a business account?
You need a Stripe account, which is free to open and is where the money arrives.
Do I need a business account to take money?
You need a Stripe account, which is free to open, and that is where the money arrives. Clay never holds it.
Can I turn the shop off out of season?
Remove the band and the rest of the site carries on — hours, map, reviews and contact are not part of the shop.
What happens when something sells out?
Mark it sold out and it greys on the page immediately rather than being taken down. There is no live stock count and no till integration.
A website with a shop in it
Search your business and see your site in seconds — free, no signup.