How it works · Selling online
Sell plants online. One cart, one checkout.
Your storefront is part of your site. Customers add plants to a cart and check out once, in one flow. Payments run through Stripe and money lands in your account.
The flow
Four steps to sell online
The same four steps every BloomSites store goes through to start taking real payments.
- Step 1
Add your plants
Drop in product photos, set prices, write friendly descriptions. The product builder walks you through it.
- Step 2
Turn on checkout
Connect a Stripe account so the storefront can take real payments. We walk you through the setup.
- Step 3
Pick how customers get their order
Pickup, delivery, shipping, or a mix. Choose what makes sense for your garden center.
- Step 4
Go live
Publish your storefront. Visitors see real products and can pay you online from day one.
Your storefront
Plants, organized the way customers shop.
Your storefront is part of your website, not a separate tool. Same brand, same fonts, same navigation. Customers browse plants the way they expect — by category, by season, by what looks beautiful right now.
Each plant gets a real product page with photos, a price, care notes, and a friendly "Add to cart" button.
Real product pages
Big photos, easy to read prices, room for the care notes that help customers feel confident.
Categories and collections
Group plants by family, season, light needs, or anything else that helps customers find what they want.
Search built in
Customers can search for a plant by name and find it quickly.
One cart, one checkout
Customers pay once, for everything.
Your customers fill a single cart and pay once. They never check out twice, never enter their card twice, never get two emails from two different stores. To them it's one easy purchase from your store.
Behind the scenes, BloomSites handles any splits across fulfillment sources (more on that on the next page about the vendor marketplace).
Single cart
A customer can grab a perennial, a bag of soil, and a gift card. One total at the bottom.
Single checkout
One name, one address, one card. Friendly to first-time customers and to returning ones.
Single confirmation
Customers get one branded order email from your store, not three from different places.
Stripe setup
Payments run through Stripe.
Real online payments need a payment processor. BloomSites uses Stripe, the same one most online stores use. You connect your Stripe account once and BloomSites handles the rest.
We walk you through the Stripe setup step by step. When Stripe's verification is done, your storefront can start taking payments and money will flow to your bank account.
Guided setup
We tell you what Stripe will ask for and check that everything is verified.
Real bank deposits
After a sale, money goes to your bank account on Stripe's schedule.
Safe by default
Payments are encrypted and processed by Stripe. We never store card numbers ourselves.
Going live with payments
Take your first real order.
When Stripe says you're ready and your storefront is set up the way you want, flip the checkout on. Visitors can place real orders and pay you right away.
Not ready for online payments yet? Customers can still send you an order request. It's not a confirmed sale, but it lets you follow up and complete the order another way while you finish setup.
One switch
Turn online checkout on when you're ready. Turn it off if you need to pause.
Order requests as a fallback
Customers can still send order requests if online payments aren't on yet. Not a sale until you confirm it.
Every order shows up in your dashboard
See orders, customers, statuses, and emails all in one place.
Ready to sell plants online?
Set up your storefront in the same afternoon as the rest of your site. Take your first order this week.