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The first move is not a software comparison. Email your market manager and ask whether pre-paid pickup at your stall is allowed and how it affects your fee. That answer is free and it can change the w

At this volume card processing is roughly seven times the subscription, so price is not the decision. Choose on quantity caps, pickup cutoffs, and whether you can enter an order yourself.

'You need a website' is advice for businesses that have to persuade strangers. If your customers come from Instagram, a market, or a recommendation, the persuading already happened. What they need is

Two systems means your stock is wrong in both, and the error only surfaces when a customer arrives to collect something you already sold at the stall.

Pre-orders is five capabilities wearing one word, and the answer changes the price by an order of magnitude. Number what you actually need before you shop.

A split system is worse than either system alone: two stock counts, two pick lists, and the reconciliation you bought software to stop doing. The fix is one feature most comparisons never mention.

Two structures exist: you own the processor account, or the platform runs payments and decides when you get paid. Only one of them can delay you, and paying for speed costs roughly 2% of revenue.

Every platform lets you type in more than one pickup point. The question that separates them is whether each one can have its own day, its own cutoff, and its own products.

Every question a customer sends before ordering is a defect in your product page. Answering it individually costs minutes each time; the page could have answered it once for everyone.