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Selling direct, without giving up your evenings

Practical guides for people who sell through DMs on Snapchat, Instagram or WhatsApp: showing the order, tracking the parcel, and making sure the customer stops asking where it is.

GUIDE

How to Track Orders Without an Online Store: A Seller's Guide

When your store is your inbox: how to track every package and keep buyers informed without spending your evenings on it.

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TEMPLATES

Order shipped: 7 shipping update message templates to copy and send

Seven short, ready-to-copy messages for every stage of an order, plus the exact moment to send each one.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

“Where is my order?”: stop answering it ten times a day

The question keeps coming back because the answer lives nowhere but your inbox. Put the information where the customer looks, once and for all.

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PHOTOS

How to Send Order Photos to a Customer Without a Link That Expires

Expired transfer links, compressed photos, shared folders that get messy: a side-by-side look at how to send a customer the photos of their order.

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COMPARISON

A Branded Tracking Page Without Shopify: Your Options as a Small Seller

Five ways to give customers a tracking page in your colors when you don't run an online store, and what each one takes to set up.

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CUSTOMER SERVICE

Package Late, Stuck, or Lost: What to Tell Your Customer, and Which Proof to Keep

Empty tracking, a package that stopped moving, delivered but nowhere to be found: what to tell your customer in each case, and the proof to keep.

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PHOTOS

Order Photos Before Shipping: Show Buyers Their Order Without a Shared Folder

What to photograph before an order ships, how to get it right in five minutes, and why a shared folder always ends up causing trouble.

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CHECKLIST

Checklist: how to run an order sold in DMs, from the sale to the delivery

Every step of an order sold through direct messages, in order, so you never forget a thing and never have to answer the same question twice.

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SELLING

Selling without an online store: what you actually need

You don't need a website to sell through DMs. What actually matters, what can wait, and when it's time to open a store.

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COMPARISON

AfterShip Alternatives for Sellers Without an Online Store

AfterShip is built for online stores. Here are the alternatives for sellers who close their sales in direct messages, compared on verified facts.

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