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Shopsy

About — since 2025

Opening a shop should take an afternoon, not a season.

Shopsy is the part of an online shop nobody should have to build twice — the storefront, the checkout, the order that has to reach you wherever you are. We build it once, properly, so a merchant can spend their attention on what they sell instead of on the plumbing underneath it.

The story

ost people selling online in Lagos, Accra or Nairobi are not short of customers. They are short of a shop. The work goes into a bio link, a photo album, a spreadsheet of who paid, and a conversation that has to be reconstructed every time somebody asks where their parcel is.

The tools meant to fix that were built somewhere else, for somewhere else. They assume a card, a courier and a currency that are not the ones in the room. They take a percentage of every sale, hold the money for a week, and call the delay a feature. And they treat WhatsApp — where the entire transaction actually happens — as an integration to bolt on later.

So Shopsy starts from the other end. You connect the payment gateway you already use, and the money goes straight to you. You pick one of seven designs, each drawn for a different kind of shop, and it is a real shop from the first minute: a catalogue, a cart, a checkout, a tracking page a customer can use without an account. Orders reach you on WhatsApp, because that is where you already are.

We are not trying to be the biggest thing a merchant depends on. We are trying to be the part they never have to think about.

What we hold to

The parts we will not trade away

Each of these costs us something. That is what makes them worth stating.

  1. Your money never passes through us

    You connect your own Paystack, Flutterwave, Monnify or Stripe account. When a customer pays, it settles into your account, on your gateway’s schedule. There is no commission, no split and no payout run — not as a promotion, but because we never hold the funds in the first place. A platform that cannot touch your money cannot change its mind about it.

  2. We do not store an IP address

    You can see how your shop is doing without anyone being followed around it. A visitor becomes a salted hash that is thrown away and regenerated every day, so even we cannot connect Monday to Tuesday. The table has no column for an address. That is a schema decision, not a policy page.

  3. Nothing here is a placeholder

    Every screen in the product does the thing it says it does. We do not ship a tab that opens on “coming soon”, or a setting that quietly writes to nothing. If a feature is not built, it is not in the menu — an absent page is honest in a way an empty one never is.

  4. Your words outlive the design

    Change your storefront design and your writing, your photographs and your prices come with you. Content is stored as a superset of what every design can render and narrowed when it is drawn, so switching cannot delete a paragraph the new design happens not to show. Change back and it is still there.

  5. Built for the phone in your hand

    Your customers arrive on a phone, usually on mobile data, often on a slow connection. So every page is designed at that width first and tested there, and we keep what a shop has to download small enough to open on the network our merchants actually sell on.

How it got here

A short history

  1. 2025

    The question

    A friend selling skincare had two hundred customers and no shop — just a bio link, an album and a notebook. Every tool that could fix it wanted a cut of every sale.

  2. Early 2026

    The first storefront

    One design, one catalogue, one cart. Enough to prove a real shop could be stood up in an afternoon without a developer.

  3. Mid 2026

    Payments, end to end

    Paystack, Flutterwave, Monnify and Stripe, each connected with the merchant’s own keys, each verified on the raw webhook bytes before an order is allowed to move.

  4. Late 2026

    Seven designs

    Not one layout in seven colours — seven separate designs, each with its own type, rhythm and corner language, drawn for a different kind of shop.

Talk to us

There is a person at the other end

Before you sign up, while you are setting up, or at eleven at night when an order looks wrong. Whichever channel is easiest — they all reach the same people.

Or find us here

Before you write

Two kinds of question, two different answers

Most messages are one of these, and one of them we genuinely cannot help with — which is worth knowing before you spend an evening waiting.

You sell, or want to

Setting up, connecting a gateway, moving an existing shop across, or deciding whether this fits what you sell. That is us — write about any of it, including before you have an account.

Or just start a shop

You bought from a shop

Shopsy builds the software the shop runs on — we do not take the payment, hold the stock or pack the parcel, and we cannot see or change your order. The shop you bought from can, and their contact details are in their storefront's footer.

Their tracking page needs only your order number and the email you used — no account.

The best way to judge any of this is to use it

Open a shop, connect your own gateway, and see whether it does what this page says it does. It is free to start, and there is nothing to cancel if it does not.

Create your storeRead the FAQ first