For handmade shops
Show what you make. Take orders the way you already do.
Spanli builds you a proper shop window: your pieces with photos and prices, your story, and one form that turns "is this available?" into an order. No checkout to configure, no cut of your sales, no platform between you and the buyer.
You type “A small ceramics studio in Portland, Maine — made to order, ships worldwide” — and Spanli assembles the site in front of you: opening, available now, in the studio, order enquiry. The changes receipt reads: Added: 4 sections — opening, available now, in the studio, order enquiry.
Sound familiar?
You sell forty things a month at markets and through messages, and it works.
What doesn't work is "do you have a website?", to which the honest answer is an Instagram grid and a hopeful smile. The real store platforms want a monthly fee, a percentage, shipping tables and a checkout — for a business where half the orders are custom and the other half you hand over in person anyway. You want a shop window, not a warehouse system.
How it works
What Spanli does about it
In the demo beside each claim: the pouring jug line being corrected — you click it, type “the jug is 68”, and $74 becomes $68; then the site Spanli built; then new order arriving in the Spanli inbox.
Your pieces are entries you edit like a form
Photo, price, description, publish. Made something new on Sunday? It's on the site in three minutes, from your phone.
Sold out is a switch, not a rebuild
Unpublish the piece and it comes off the site; put it back when you make another.
Orders arrive as enquiries, in one list
Which piece, what variation, where it's going, how to reach them — waiting in your dashboard instead of scattered across DMs and a market notebook.
Everything on it
What your site includes
It looks like your work, not like a store template
Set the whole look with dials — colour, type, spacing, corners, how things move — each one previewing live as you pick it.
Nothing taken from a sale, ever
Your first site is free and no plan takes a percentage of what you sell, because Spanli isn't in the middle of the transaction.
Everything's on by default
You take out what doesn't suit the way you sell.
- An opening with your best piece
- Your products, with photos and prices
- What buyers say
- Your story and how you make things
- An order-enquiry form
- An FAQ for postage, custom work and lead times
Two ways in
Start from what you already have
Describe door
The describe door with your product photos: upload them at the first step with a note about each ("this is the speckled glaze") and they land where they belong.
Make me something like this site
Shop whose feel you love? "Make me something like this site" borrows the mood and none of its products. Old site or a page you outgrew? "Modernize my site" rebuilds from the address.
Make it yours
Before the first build, you set the look.
- Quietly exceptionalElegant & refined
- The story, up frontBold & editorial
- Take a breathSoft & calm
- Built for the nightSleek & dark
- An evening to rememberGlamorous & vintage
- The season, consideredFashion magazine
In case you're wondering.
Can people pay on the site?
No, and that's the deliberate shape of this. Spanli gives you a beautiful catalogue and an order-enquiry form; you take payment the way you already do — in person, by transfer, by whatever link you send. The day you genuinely need a checkout, stock counts and tax rules, you've outgrown this use case, and we'd rather say so than half-build you a store.
How do I add a new product?
Open the dashboard, fill in the form — photos, price, a few lines about it — and publish. Same three minutes every time.
I already sell on a marketplace. Why have this too?
Because on a marketplace your work sits next to everyone else's and the fees follow every sale. Your own site is the link you give people who already want your thing — and you can still link out to the marketplace for anyone who prefers buying there.
Something sold — how do I take it down fast?
Unpublish the entry. It's off the site immediately, and back on when you've made another.
What does it cost?
Your first site is free, permanently, with no commission on anything you sell. Paid plans add your own domain and higher-quality build options.
Ready to see your website?
Describe your business and watch it come to life. Free to start — no credit card required.