The short answer: if you show products and prices but the sale is closed by phone, WhatsApp or a quote request, you have a catalogue, not a shop. It is a light site, and one of the first shared plans is fine. You do not need a shop’s weight, nor its obligations.
What weighs, and what does not
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What to do |
| Product pages |
One page per product or family, with photo, description, measurements and, if you wish, the price. Prices and features as text, so Google can read them. |
| PDF price list |
Offer it as a download in addition to the pages, not instead of them. A PDF of many megabytes is slow to open on a phone. |
| Quote request |
A form that asks the essentials (product, quantity, contact). Test that the e-mail arrives: A contact form that actually reaches your inbox. |
| WhatsApp |
A button on each product, with the message already written: Putting WhatsApp on your site. |
| Images |
The photo sells. Shrink them and use WebP: Image optimisation. |
How to choose, step by step
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Start with the entry plan. A catalogue makes few simultaneous requests.
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Choose how you update it: by hand in an editor, or from a spreadsheet for many products. Many products call for a tool of their own, not a hand-written page for each.
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Put a quote-request button on every product page.
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Review the plan and the tool if you want to start taking payments on the site: that day it is already a shop.
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Showing a price obliges you to keep it right. If prices change often, write “from” or “on request”, and put the date of the last update. An old price on display leads to arguments.
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Want to put a catalogue online and not sure how to organise it? Tell us how many products you have and how you update them.
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In our plans
| Situation | Plan | Why |
| A catalogue with quote requests by form or WhatsApp | Pro | 1 site, 10 GB SSD NVMe, and unlimited e-mail accounts on your own domain for the sales team. |
| Several brands or product lines, each with its own site | Plus | 6 sites and 20 GB SSD NVMe. |
| A big catalogue, with many photographs and PDF price lists | Ultra or Business | Unlimited sites and 30 to 200 GB SSD NVMe. |
When to move up: move up when the photographs and the PDF price lists start to fill the disk, when you want a separate site for another brand, or on the day you start taking payment on the site, because then it is a shop (see Which hosting plan for an online shop). Moving up can be done at any time without losing the site, and every plan has an automatic daily backup with free restores.
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