Built for your trade
For bookshops & record shops: curation online, community in store.
Independent bookshops and record shops sell taste and community. We build sites that put the staff picks online, sell the signed editions and pre-orders, and make events the heartbeat.
The first problem
You can’t out-catalogue the giants
Curated shelves online — staff picks, signed copies, local authors, pre-orders — rather than a million titles.
The second
Events sell out badly
Author events and listening parties with ticketing, capacity, and the list for next time.
The third
Subscriptions are untapped
A book-a-month or record-a-month subscription, curated by you, billed automatically.
What we’d build
A system the business runs on, from about £13,000
Fixed price agreed after one conversation. A care plan afterwards is about £150 a month — hosting, fixes, updates — and you can stop it whenever you like. You own everything: domain, code, content.
- Curated online shelves
- Pre-orders and signed editions
- Events with ticketing
- Subscriptions
- Gift vouchers
Straight answers
Can we integrate with Bookshop.org or Gardners?
We can link, embed or integrate depending on what you use; we’ll be honest about the fit.
Second-hand stock?
A simple one-of-each listing tool from a phone.
Being found
How bookshops & record shops get found online
Most bookshops & record shops win work from three places: Google’s local results, word of mouth that gets checked online, and the handful of people who search for exactly what you do. A business software built for your trade covers all three — a Google Business Profile that’s complete and reviewed, service pages written in the words your customers use, and a site fast enough that people don’t give up on their phone.
We build the technical side of search into every bookshops & record shop website as standard: proper page titles and descriptions, structured data Google can read, an image on every share, and location pages that are useful rather than spam. The free site check on this site shows you where an existing site stands in twenty seconds.
Your situation, in three taps
What would we actually build for you?
Do you have a website now?
Do customers need to book or buy from you?
Is there admin you’d pay to make disappear?
Proof, not promises
Things we’ve built that bookshops & record shops would recognise
Nearby trades
Sound like you?
Tell us what’s annoying you. You’ll get an honest answer within a working day, and a fixed-price proposal within days if it’s a fit.