How to sell online without a website

• Somewhere to show products: WhatsApp Status, a WhatsApp catalogue, Instagram or TikTok.
• A way to order: usually just a message.
• A way to be paid: MoMo, cash on delivery, or a deposit and the balance later.
• A record of who ordered what and who has paid.

A full website with its own domain, hosting and payments costs money and takes looking after. Most small sellers don't need that to begin with, and it won't bring customers by itself.

• Your Status is gone in 24 hours, so a buyer can't look back at last week's stock.
• You send the same photos and prices over and over.
• Instagram posts don't show what's still available.
• Orders get buried under other chats.
• New buyers can't tell whether you're a real business.

A store link is one address with all your products, prices and sizes on it, which you can put on your Status, in your bio and in groups. It doesn't replace WhatsApp. The buyer looks through what you have, and the order still arrives in your chat.

Tapstall gives you one for free, with an order book behind it and no monthly fee. It opens in any browser, so your customers don't download anything. Be realistic, though: a link doesn't bring customers on its own. You still have to post, and get people to save your number.

If most of your buyers find you on Google, you take many orders a day from strangers, or you sell abroad, your own website can earn its cost. Wait until you have that problem.