Open your shop free for 7 days, with real customers

Want to try selling for real before paying? The LaoCart team opens your shop to real customers for 7 free days: customers reach it through your link, order and pay straight into your QR, exactly as in a paid shop. No card, nothing to pay first. No rush: building the shop is free with no time limit, and the 7 days start only on the day the team opens it — make it ready to sell first, to get the most out of the 7 days.

1. 1Add at least one product with a photo — three or more is better: customers buy from a shop that gives them a choice
2. 2Add a way to be paid (payment QR, bank account or cash on delivery) in “Settings” → “Payment”
3. 3Your shop's home page then shows a green card “🎉 Your shop is ready to sell”: press “Ask on WhatsApp: open my shop 7 days free” — the message is already written, with your shop's name, just send it
4. 4The team looks at your shop and tells you what to improve before opening (photos, descriptions, delivery fees…), then opens it — the 7 days start that day, and you get a notice once it is open

For those 7 days the shop is open at its own address (yourshop.laocart.com). Your shop's home page shows the days left, the orders and the paid orders. Press “📣 Share the shop's link” and share it on Facebook and TikTok to get your first orders.

Customers never read the word “trial”: the shop looks like any other. The only difference is a small LaoCart box under your products on the home page, until you pay. During the trial the shop is not shown on Google.

After the 7 days the shop goes back to “being built”: customers see the “not open yet” page until you choose a plan. Your products, orders and customers are all kept. You get a notice 2 days before the end, and another one at the end with the week's figures.

Want to keep selling? Choose a plan and pay — during the trial or after it. As soon as the team confirms the payment, the shop is open again with no order limit. Read How the plans differ and How to pay.