Products with variants and stock, collections, discounts, a cart that chases itself when it is left, reviews under the product, and the ways your customers actually pay: card through Stripe or PayPal, bank transfer, cash on delivery. Money goes to your own account, never through ours.
Cart, checkout, receipts — and the ways your customers actually pay: card through Stripe or PayPal, bank transfer, and cash on delivery where your market uses it. A cart left behind gets a nudge. Reviews sit under the product.Cart, checkout, receipts. Card via Stripe or PayPal, bank transfer, cash on delivery. A left cart gets a nudge; reviews sit under the product.
On Shopify you pay for these every month. Here they are part of the plan.
| What it does | On Shopify | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Product reviews | an app | built in |
| Abandoned-cart recovery | an app | built in |
| Back-in-stock alerts | an app | built in |
| Discount codes and rules | built in | built in |
| Refer-a-friend | an app | built in |
| Welcome, win-back and post-purchase emails | an app | built in |
| Forms with an inbox | an app | built in |
| Members-only pages and memberships | an app | built in |
| Bookings for services | an app | built in |
| Analytics with a click map | an app | built in |
“An app” means an add-on from Shopify’s app store, most of them with a monthly price of their own. Their apps are good. The bill is for the seams between them.
A shop with variants, stock, discounts, a cart that chases itself when it is left, and reviews under the product. Card and PayPal through your own accounts, bank transfer, cash on delivery.
Sell products → TimeClinics, salons, studios, trades. A booking page that takes the appointment while you are with somebody else, and a site that makes the phone ring for the rest.
Take bookings → Other people’s thingsA shop built for margins, not dreams: landing pages that load fast, a cart that recovers itself, and the numbers of what actually sold. The maths, not the millionaire.
Dropship, with the maths → SoftwareYour product stays where it is. The site in front of it — pricing, changelog, the articles support keeps linking to — stops being a deploy and starts being an edit.
For software companies →You set them yourself: a rate per country, or a flat rate for everywhere, and free once the order reaches an amount you choose. The customer sees the cost in the cart before they pay, not as a surprise at the end.
You add a rate, say which countries it applies in, and say whether your prices already include it or it is added at checkout. It prints on your customer’s invoice with the name you gave it. If you also charge it on delivery, there is a switch for that.
Stock is counted per variant, so the blue one in medium can run out on its own. When it does, that option stops being buyable instead of taking an order you cannot fill.
One email goes after one cart — never to somebody who has already bought, never about a cart that has gone stale, and never twice. It is the one follow-up most shops never get round to writing.
Your card is charged for the plan you chose and your site keeps running — $12 on day 46 if you started on Starter, and on day 15 on the other plans. The date is printed on your dashboard from day one; cancel any time before it and nothing is charged. You can move up to Growth, Dropship or Business on any day.
So that a site you spent weeks building does not switch off by accident the day your free period ends. It also keeps out the people who were never going to use it, which keeps the themes and the help for the people who are.
Yes, on any plan. Point it here from wherever you bought it; the screen shows you the two records to add, and checks them for you. www comes with it.
Card through Stripe or PayPal, wherever each of them operates — you connect whichever you already have, or both; bank transfer everywhere; cash on delivery where your market uses it. Money goes to your own account, never through ours.
Half of it, today — said plainly. A mailbox add-on (from $2.49, 20 GB, a web inbox next to your site) can send from your own domain once its records are verified. Receiving on your own domain is not switched on yet; until it is, do not print the address anywhere. We will say here the day it works.
Yes. Export everything, any time, no fee. Cancelling stops the next charge; you keep the month you paid for.
Yes. WordPress and Shopify connect directly; any other site is read page by page. About an hour for a typical small site, and nothing is imported until you confirm.
Every plan starts free on a card — 45 days on Starter, 14 on the others. A site on the free plan shows a small Kala Sites badge; a paid one carries none. Your own domain works on any plan.
Pick a theme, let Kala write the first draft, change what you want, publish.Theme, first draft, your changes, publish.
Card on file · 45 free days on Starter, 14 on the others · export everything, any time, no fee