You Can Run the Whole Stall From Your Phone
Set it up, list a product, flip it open or closed, even reply when the signal drops. The whole stall runs from your phone, free to start.
Most of the people selling on SideStall aren't sitting at a computer. They're out at the gate, in the ute, or at the kitchen bench with flour on their hands. So the app is built to run the whole stall from the one thing that's already in your pocket.
Setting it up is a three-step job
You give the stall a name and a few details, drop a pin on the map so people know where you are, and set your hours. If you get interrupted halfway, it saves where you were, so you can put the phone down and come back to it later.
While you're there you claim your handle, the @ name that becomes your stall's web address. Worth knowing before you pick it: the name and the handle are permanent once they're set, so go with something simple you're happy to keep.
A product in about two minutes
Putting something up for sale is quick. A photo taken on your phone, a name for it, a category, a price, and how much you've got. That's a product live. Add the next one whenever you feel like it. Plenty of stalls start with one thing done well and build from there.
Open, closed, sold out, all a tap
The stall has a switch. Turn it off when you're shut and it stops showing to customers, flick it back on when you're trading again. Sold out of one thing but still open? That's a toggle on the item itself, and buyers see it marked unavailable, so nobody drives out for something that's already gone. You set your trading days once too, one row per day, so people know when to expect you.
It works when the signal drops out
A lot of gates in this country sit somewhere the reception falls to one bar. So if a buyer messages you and you're standing in a paddock with no signal, you can type your reply anyway. It sits there and sends itself the moment you're back in range. You don't have to remember to go back and do it.
That's the whole stall, really. Setup, listings, open and closed, messages, all from the phone in your hand. It's free to start, and there's no monthly fee to take payments on any plan. We only take a small platform fee plus card processing when a buyer actually pays you.
If you've been meaning to get your stall going, this is your nudge. Have a crack this week, and if anything trips you up, email me at hello@sidestall.au and tell me where. I read every reply.
SideStall is free on the App Store and Google Play.
Santo Arabia is a co-founder of SideStall.