Which hosting plan for a catalogue or price-list site without online payment

The short answer: if you show products and prices but the sale is closed by phone, WhatsApp or a quote request, you have a catalogue, not a shop. It is a light site, and one of the first shared plans is fine. You do not need a shop’s weight, nor its obligations.

What weighs, and what does not

Part of the site What to do
Product pages One page per product or family, with photo, description, measurements and, if you wish, the price. Prices and features as text, so Google can read them.
PDF price list Offer it as a download in addition to the pages, not instead of them. A PDF of many megabytes is slow to open on a phone.
Quote request A form that asks the essentials (product, quantity, contact). Test that the e-mail arrives: A contact form that actually reaches your inbox.
WhatsApp A button on each product, with the message already written: Putting WhatsApp on your site.
Images The photo sells. Shrink them and use WebP: Image optimisation.

How to choose, step by step

1 Start with the entry plan. A catalogue makes few simultaneous requests.
2 Choose how you update it: by hand in an editor, or from a spreadsheet for many products. Many products call for a tool of their own, not a hand-written page for each.
3 Put a quote-request button on every product page.
4 Review the plan and the tool if you want to start taking payments on the site: that day it is already a shop.
Showing a price obliges you to keep it right. If prices change often, write “from” or “on request”, and put the date of the last update. An old price on display leads to arguments.
The catalogue in WhatsApp Business can be a good first stage, even before you have a site: Setting up a product catalogue in the WhatsApp Business app.

Want to put a catalogue online and not sure how to organise it? Tell us how many products you have and how you update them.

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SEE ALSO

Setting up a product catalogue in the WhatsApp Business app

An online shop with local payment methods: WooCommerce and getting paid

Which hosting plan for an online shop, and the signs it needs more

A contact form that actually reaches your inbox

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