Design study
Buy nowNot a live shop. Prices are placeholders, the checkout button is disabled, and this page is not linked from the site or indexed. It exists so we can look at a self-serve counter before deciding to build one.
Four things we could sell before lunch.
The rule for a buy button is that we can deliver the moment someone pays. That means software and fixed-fee remote work. A machine we would have to source never gets one, because taking money for stock we do not hold is how a supplier loses a market.
What this would take
- Merchant of record, not raw Stripe. Polar or similar takes roughly 5% and absorbs global VAT registration. Stripe direct is cheaper per transaction and leaves us personally liable for tax in every jurisdiction a customer sits in.
- Card details never touch our pages. Stripe Checkout is a hosted redirect. That is the whole reason to use it, and it is why the button above stops where it does.
- Delivery has to be automatic. A licence key or a scheduling link, issued on the webhook. If a human has to do something before the customer gets value, it belongs on the RFQ desk instead.
- Refunds and VAT invoices are the real work. Not the checkout. Decide the policy before the first sale, not after the first complaint.
- UAE display obligations attach to selling online. The trade licence question we parked comes back the moment a real buy button ships. Check it first.