Selling online

Selling online covers a lot of ground: choosing a platform, taking payments, listing on marketplaces, keeping stock in step across channels and getting orders out of the door. This hub brings together our guides for UK businesses that sell on the internet, or want to.

We build and look after Shopify stores for small businesses, so much of what we write comes from that day-to-day work. You will find comparisons of platforms such as Shopify, WooCommerce and Etsy, of payment providers, and of the inventory tools that keep several sales channels in line.

Our guides try to answer the questions that matter before you commit: what it really costs once fees and apps are added, how hard it is to move later, and which option suits the size and type of business you run. Where the answer depends on your situation, we say so rather than picking a winner for the sake of it.