A Shop Built Into the Website You Already Have
You can now list things for sale on your actor website. Products, categories, images and descriptions, presented on a page in your own design rather than on a platform somewhere else.
Who this is actually for
Not most actors, and we would rather say so. The people who will use it are:
- Performers with an audience: musicians, comedians, cabaret, anybody who tours.
- Actors selling something adjacent: prints, a book, a recorded class, a self-tape reading service.
- People running a production with merchandise attached to it.
- Voice actors and coaches selling packages rather than physical goods.
If none of those describe you, this feature is not a gap in your site. A shop with two items in it that nobody buys is a page that makes your site look like it is trying too hard.
The page is called Store
A practical detail worth knowing. The public page lives at /store rather than /shop. That is not a stylistic preference: our platform blocks a set of common probe paths that automated scanners hammer constantly, and "shop" is one of them. Anything published under that path gets redirected, which took a while to work out the first time.
In your admin the feature is called Shop throughout. Only the public address differs.
What it does today
Products with images, descriptions, prices and categories, laid out in your template's grid. Purchases go through an enquiry route rather than an on-site checkout: the buyer contacts you, you arrange payment however you already do.
That is a deliberate limit rather than an unfinished one. Taking card payments properly means handling tax, refunds, chargebacks and compliance in every territory your buyers live in, and doing that badly is considerably worse for you than an email exchange.
Where it sits in your menu
Below your work. Reel, photos, credits, then the store. Somebody who came to cast you should reach everything they need before they encounter anything for sale.
Related
Product categories and images covers presentation, and order management covers keeping track of what sold. If what you want is a page about a project rather than a page of products, see My Films.
Create your free actor website and add a store if you have something to sell.
