Turn WhatsApp into a real shop: a catalog people browse, then order in chat

You probably already sell on WhatsApp. It’s where your customers are, where they message you, and where the deal actually closes. What’s missing isn’t the chat — it’s a place to show what you sell. So you send photos one at a time. You retype the price for the tenth time today. Someone asks “is this still available?” about a picture three screens up, and the order quietly slips down the scroll and out of sight.

whacka fixes the half that WhatsApp was never meant to do. You build a real shop — a catalog your customers browse at a single link — and you keep doing the part WhatsApp is brilliant at: talking to people and taking the order. Every product in your shop has an Order on WhatsApp button, and when a customer taps it, their chat with you opens with the order already typed out.

How a WhatsApp shop works

You don’t design a store or wire up a “buy” flow. You describe what you sell, and whacka builds the shop around it:

• Describe your shop. “A shop for my abaya boutique — photos, prices, sizes and colors, with an Order on WhatsApp button on every item.” One sentence like that is enough to start.
• Fill your catalog. Add products with photos, prices, a short description, and options like size or color. Group them into categories so a long list stays easy to browse.
• Point orders to your number. Tell whacka your WhatsApp number once. Every Order button now opens a chat to you — carrying the product name, the options the customer chose, and a friendly opening line, already written.
• Share the link. You get one address — yourshop.whacka.app — to put in your WhatsApp status, your bio, your broadcast list, anywhere. That link is your shop.

The sale still closes where your customers already are

This is the part we think about most, so let’s be plain about it. whacka is not trying to become your checkout, your bank, or your inbox. The payment, the back-and-forth, the “can you deliver by Thursday?”, the regular who always asks for a small discount — all of that belongs in WhatsApp, and that’s exactly where we leave it.

Your shop’s job is the one thing a chat can’t do well: lay everything out clearly, so a customer can look without having to ask. The moment they’re ready, they’re back in your chat in a single tap — and you close the sale the way you always have, paid the way your customers actually pay. whacka takes no cut of anything you sell.

What goes in your catalog

A shop is only as good as what’s in the window. Yours can hold:

• Products with real photos and prices — the things people want to see before they ask.
• Options that shape the order — sizes, colors, flavors, add-ons — so the message that lands in your chat already says exactly what the customer wants.
• Categories and search — so someone scanning fifty items finds the one they came for.
• Whatever “sold out” means for you — mark an item unavailable instead of fielding the same question all day.

Built for the way small shops really sell

Once there’s a real shop behind the link, you notice how many businesses were running on screenshots and good memory:

• A boutique or clothing seller showing this season’s pieces with sizes and colors, taking orders by chat.
• A phone and gadget shop listing what’s in stock today, so customers stop asking “do you have…?”
• A home kitchen or baker posting the week’s menu and taking orders for the weekend.
• A cosmetics or skincare seller with a clean catalog instead of a camera roll of product shots.
• A florist, furniture maker, or second-hand seller — anything visual, where seeing it is most of the sale.

It works in your language, Arabic and other right-to-left scripts included, so your shop reads the way your customers expect.

Your catalog, side by side

One link, every phone — no app store

Your shop opens in any phone’s browser, instantly, with nothing to install. Customers can add it to their home screen so it sits there like an app — but they never have to. And because orders open through a normal web link, they work even when someone taps your shop from inside Instagram or Facebook, where flashier “open WhatsApp” tricks often fail and leave a customer staring at a blank screen. We use the reliable link on purpose, so an order never dead-ends.

The honest details

A few edges, up front, as always:

• You take payment your way. whacka opens the order in WhatsApp; how you get paid — cash on delivery, bank transfer, mobile money, in person — is between you and your customer. If you’d rather collect for something digital inside the app, whacka can take one-time payments through your own PayPal — and still takes no cut.
• A shop is a chat away, not a checkout. There’s no cart that charges a card and no stock that counts itself down. It’s a clear, browsable catalog that hands a ready-made order to WhatsApp — which, for most sellers here, is exactly the point.
• The AI building runs on your credits, like everything in whacka. Sharing your shop and taking orders through it costs nothing.

Questions people ask

Do my customers need an account, or an app?

No. They open your shop from the link in any browser, and they order through their own WhatsApp. Nothing to download, no sign-up — that’s exactly why a link works so well.

What does the message look like when someone orders?

Their WhatsApp opens a chat to you with a friendly line and the order already written — the product, and any options they picked, like size or color. They can add a note and hit send. You reply like you always do.

Can I use my own domain instead of whacka.app?

Yes. On the Pro and Ultra plans you can put your shop on your own domain — yourshop.com — and the Order on WhatsApp buttons work there exactly the same.

Does whacka take a percentage of my sales?

No. Because the sale happens in your WhatsApp, paid your way, whacka never touches the money and takes no cut. You pay for whacka itself — not for selling.

You’ve had the customers and the conversations all along. What you were missing was the shop window. Describe it in a sentence, fill it with what you sell, and drop the link in your next WhatsApp status — your shop is open.