Sellfy is an e-commerce platform focused on selling digital products, physical goods and subscriptions online.
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If you are into the business and tried some of the ecommerce CMS's, you'll know that Sellfy is one of the best alternatives to Shopify, Amazon, Bigcommerce or Sendowl. It is undoubtedly a very effective alternative, since in less than five minutes you will be able to upload and start marketing your products online, either through your website or social networks.
No wonder more than 20,000 users use it.
Sellfy features
Creating an online store has never been so easy, and the truth is that the benefits provided by Sellfy are many, and all this is thanks to the many services it offers.
Among the services provided by this platform we can highlight the following:
Sell your products online
The main service offered by this platform is the possibility of adding and selling products or digital content.
In addition, it is also possible to create subscription products to charge customers on a daily, monthly or annual basis.
Payment gateways
By default, there are 2 payment gateways:
- Paypal
- Stripe
Embed your purchasing buttons
Another amazing feature you can find on Sellfy is adding your “add to cart” buttons anywhere.
You can do this on your entire store, on your website, on your blog, on a widget… just use the custom code and feel free to add them wherever you want.
You can embed Sellfy also on Youtube cards and screens, so you can maximize your traffic and purchases.
Customization & personalization
With Sellfy your business will be totally personalized.
Store customization
- brand your store: add a logo and change colors
- design your store: create a design that resembles your brand or use one of their multiple pre-built templates
- custom domain: add your own domain to strengthen the brand and make it recognized
In-store personalization
- Shopping cart: customers will be able to add one or multiple products and you will be able to embed your shopping cart anywhere on the internet
- Multiple languages: Customers will be able to view a translated version of the store interface based on where they are located
- Mobile optimization: Sellfy is optimized for any type of device, whether it is a mobile phone or a computer
Marketing tools
One thing users certainly appreciate is that Sellfy has advanced marketing features.
These functions include the following:
Email marketing
Email existing customers about product updates or send them an offer.
You can do this directly from your store's dashboard, so you won't need an external service.
Upselling & discounts
Create sales codes and product discounts as well as upselling offers to raise your average order value.
Tracking pixels
Add ad pixels on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
This is effective because you can create advertising for the store and track the store's performance. Or you can use them for remarketing campaigns.
Security
Payments are 100% secure, as Sellfy hosts it's own PCI-DSS-ready payment gateway.
If you are selling infoproducts, you can PDF stamp them and limit their downloads by issuing unique download links and limited download attemps.
Store analytics
Get real time reports and insights on your store's performance. Find data such as:
- Visits
- Purchases
- Conversions
- Revenue
- Products views and revenue
- Order analytics
- Subscription purchase analytics
- Customers data
- Traffic sources: direct, organic search, Instagram, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, PPC campaigns…
- Geographic analytics: find where are your customers located
- Etc
Countless integrations
You can integrate lots of tools with Sellfy so you can get better data insights and automatise tasks. Some of their most used integrations are:
- Audio and video file embedding: Youtube, Vimeo, Soundcloud…
- Zapier (that means being able to connect and automatise more than 1.000 apps)
- Facebook live chat
- Google Analytics
- Etc
Pricing
In order to take advantage of the benefits offered by Sellfy, it is necessary to contract one of its plans at very affordable prices.
His plans are as follows:
Starter: $29/month ($19 / yearly)
This plan is ideal for starting your business, as it costs $29 per month, and includes the following:
- Up to $10k in sales per year
- 0% transaction fee.
- Unlimited products.
- Personalization of the shop.
- Discount codes.
- Personalized domain.
Business: $59/month ($39 / yearly)
The business plan is a little more expensive than the previous one, but includes some additional things. It's priced at $59 a month and offers the following:
- Up to $50k in sales per year
- 0% transaction fee.
- Unlimited products.
- Personalization of the shop.
- Discount codes.
- Personalized domain.
- 10,000 email credits.
- Product upselling.
Premium: $129/month ($89 / yearly)
Users can also purchase the premium plan, which costs $129 per month, and take advantage of the following services:
- Up to $200k in sales per year
- 0% transaction fee.
- Unlimited products.
- Personalization of the shop.
- Discount codes.
- Personalized domain.
- 50,000 email credits.
- Product upselling
- Priority support.
- Free migration.
Sellfy trial
Each of the payment plans has a free version for 14 days that allows you to try the service without having to pay anything.
Sellfy review
Pros
- Cheap
- Ease of use
- The speed with which products can be uploaded
- Diversity of tools available
- Ability to customize it in various aspects
- Its customer service that works to facilitate and resolve any doubt
Cons
- Not as many apps as Shopify
- Not as many templates as Shopify
- Sometimes customer service's answers may take time to arrive
- The limited options for product descriptions
- The limited options on payment methods
Our score
- Number of features (5)
- Pricing (5)
- Learning curve (5)
- User friendly (5)
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About the author
Jordi Ordonez
I work as an independent eCommerce and Amazon consultant.
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