Websites
A bookshop you own outright
The marketplaces rent you shelf space and take a cut of everything on it. Your own site is the one place a sale is worth full margin, the customer is yours, and nobody changes the rules on you in a quarterly email.
Website setup
Template or custom
Both come with the full storefront and BookRouter™. The difference is how much of the design is built around you.
Octavo Quickstart
A storefront built on our templates, with your logo, colors, and pages in place. We move your domain, connect your checkout, and launch it, then train you to run it yourself.
Folio Custom
Everything in Octavo, with a storefront built to your design or to your own designer's. Custom features are quoted before work starts, including bringing in book data from your own Ingram account if you have one.
Searching a bookshop
Search that knows what a book is
General shop software searches a product name and a description. Yours searches author, title, publisher, keywords, ISBN, and year, and narrows by price, first editions, signed copies, and dust jackets.
Categories and online catalogs give browsers somewhere to wander when they are not looking for anything in particular.
Yours to change
Edit your own site
Pages, text, images, events, and the home page carousel are all yours to edit. Put up a fair announcement on the morning of the fair. Turn on a vacation message before you go rather than emailing support from the airport.
We train you on it at setup, so small changes never have to wait on us.
Under the hood
Infrastructure you should not have to think about
The technical half of running a shop online. It is included, and we keep it current.
Sitemaps and structured data
Sitemaps, rich snippet markup, and structured data are generated and kept current, and Google Analytics connects in a couple of clicks. Your books get indexed as books.
DNS and email, set up properly
We manage DNS for hundreds of bookseller domains, whether the records live on our servers or somewhere else. A, CNAME, TXT, MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, so your site loads and your mail arrives.
Accessibility and GDPR
Platform updates are reviewed for WCAG accessibility, cookie consent is built in, and a privacy policy generator covers the GDPR basics. The rules keep moving and keeping up with them is our job.
Your shop first
List on your website before the marketplaces
Set a delay for each marketplace, and your new listings go live on your Bibliopolis website first, for as many days as you choose. The customers who follow your site get the first look, and your new arrival emails reach them while those books are for sale only on your site.
Try it for yourself
We will set you up with a demo login so you can see how a Bibliopolis website is managed. Or browse the gallery to see what other booksellers have built.