ShopCloseBuy.ca is a shared, Community Ecommerce and Marketing Platform developed to support communities. We believe that strengthening the business community as a whole benefits everyone and results in enhanced community economic development, especially in rural areas.
ShopCloseBuy.ca was created as a versatile Ecommerce platform for business, nonprofit organization, entrepreneurs, artists and farmers. We built in a number of features to support this varied group of vendors including pre-order and promo only listings, and parent/subvendor relationships for membership organizations like Arts Councils and Farmer's Markets.
ShopCloseBuy is committed to supporting businesses to survive and thrive using ecommerce to attract and serve new customers. The shared nature of ShopCloseBuy, which is similar to Amazon but with a local spin, results in shared marketing and cross-promotional opportunities for participating vendors
ShopCloseBuy has been designed to highlight the goods and services of individual vendors or to view the offerings of all vendors through a vendor drop down list. Integrated social media sharing drives traffic back to individual vendor offerings while at the same time cross-promoting other vendors on the platform. As a shared Community Ecommerce platform, ShopCloseBuy promotes all that is available in a given community. It can be a "Shop Local" alternative to other ecommerce platforms that siphon local resources out of the community and/or it can be used to attract tourists to the area and entice non-residents to become customers.
There is no set-up fee to join ShopCloseBuy! If transacting on the site, Stripe will charge a standard transaction fee of 2.9% of sales plus $0.30/transaction in addition to a platform fee of 5%
When a customer purchases something from your shop on ShopCloseBuy, our automatic payment processing system will charge the customer's card and immediately deposit the revenue you've earned directly into your Stripe account minus the standard payment processing fee deducted by Stripe (2.9% plus 30 cents a transaction) and the 5% platform fee.
Revenue earned through transactions on ShopCloseBuy.ca will be transferred to your bank account within 3 business days, minus the transaction fees ($0.25 plus 2.9%) and platform fee (5%).