For independent bookshops
A website for your bookshop,built in a minute.Changed by WhatsApp.
Type your bookshop's name and we build it from your Google listing and your website. Then an author evening, a signed copy or this month's staff picks are one message away.
- Built in a minute, from what's already online
- “Book club Thursday at 7, new members welcome” by WhatsApp
- Events take themselves down once they've passed
14-day free trial.
£49 a month if you choose to carry on.
Cancel any time.
Sound familiar?
“We run an event most weeks, and getting people to hear about it is the hard part.”
Send the author, the date and the price, and it's on your site and your home page. Each one takes itself down the morning after.
“We've got a Bookshop.org page and an old website, and no time to keep either up to date.”
Keep your Bookshop.org shop; your site links to it. Hours, events, staff picks and what's just come in change by message, between customers.
“People turn up when we're shut, because the hours online are wrong.”
“Open till 7 on Thursdays now” or “back on Tuesday” by message, and your site is right before you've put the phone down.
“We'd love staff picks on the site. We never get round to it.”
A photo of the table and a line from whoever chose each book. Change it when the table changes.
“People don't realise we can order any book in print.”
“Any book in print, usually next day” on every page, with your number beside it.
Change it between customers
Send an author evening, a signed copy that's just come in, or this month's staff picks. You see a preview first, then tap Publish.
- Nothing goes live until you say yes
- Change your mind? “Put it back” undoes it
- Your staff can update it too
Found on Google, and by AI assistants
People ask Google, and now ChatGPT and the rest, the same questions: open today, dog friendly, what's the menu. Your site answers them in the form each one reads.
- The structured data Google reads on every page: hours, menu, prices, where to book
- A sitemap and an llms.txt, the file AI assistants read, built from the same words
- Change your hours by WhatsApp and the search engines get the change in the same publish
- Your own domain name, with your town in the title
We cannot promise where you appear in a search. We can promise that what Google and the assistants read about you is right, and that it stays right.
Already have a website?
- We bring your events, photos and words across
- In your own colours, with your logo
- Keep your domain name: we connect it for you
- Then you can cancel your old hosting and web support
Your email stays where it is. If it's with the company that hosts your website now, check with them before you cancel.
See an example
The Leaning Shelf is an example we made to show what yours could look like: a signed copy at the top, staff picks, storytime, the book club and an author evening, and opening hours that are right.
Free 14-day trial
- Free 14-day trial, then £49 a month
- No setup fee, cancel any time
- A reminder before your first payment
- Keep your Bookshop.org shop: we link to it