Create your account and your first shop

Sign up with an e-mail, then create a shop — free until you are ready to sell.

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Building a shop costs nothing. You add products, colours and a logo and look at the result first. You only pay for a plan when you want to open the shop to customers.

  1. 1Open Create an account, enter an e-mail and choose a password
  2. 2Open the e-mail from LaoCart and type its code on the page that is waiting — or tap the button in the e-mail
  3. 3Sign in and press “New shop” on My shops
  4. 4Enter the shop name and choose the shop's link
The sign-up page: the Google button at the top (no password needed), or your name, e-mail, WhatsApp number and a password, then the green button.
The sign-up page: the Google button at the top (no password needed), or your name, e-mail, WhatsApp number and a password, then the green button.
The “Check your e-mail” page: the address the e-mail went to, and the box for the code it contains.
The “Check your e-mail” page: the address the e-mail went to, and the box for the code it contains.

Rather not wait for an e-mail? Press the Google button on the sign-up page: no password, no code. No e-mail? See I did not get the confirmation e-mail. Once the shop exists, the setup assistant walks you through the logo, the colours, the first products and your payment QR, one step at a time — see The setup checklist.

Creating a shop: its name, its address (…laocart.com), what it sells and a referral code if you have one. Everything can be changed later.
Creating a shop: its name, its address (…laocart.com), what it sells and a referral code if you have one. Everything can be changed later.

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Want us to do it for you — enter your products, design your covers? That is an optional service, billed separately. See the optional services

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