How the alternatives compare
| How the alternatives compare, capability by capability | A spreadsheetThe stock list you keep in Excel or Numbers. | One marketplaceEverything run from a single marketplace's own back office. | Your own web shopA product that publishes your own site and nothing beyond it. | WorldwatchOne record per watch, published out to the channels you already sell on. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| One record per watch | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| Sell on several channels | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| Comes off every channel when it sells | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| Margin based on what you actually paid | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| Invoices and shipping docs on every order | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| Reports on what sells and what sits | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
| No commission added on top | 該当なし | いいえ | はい | はい1 |
| Import your existing stock | いいえ | いいえ | いいえ | はい |
One record per watch
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
Sell on several channels
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
Comes off every channel when it sells
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
Margin based on what you actually paid
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
Invoices and shipping docs on every order
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
Reports on what sells and what sits
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
No commission added on top
- A spreadsheet
- 該当なし
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- はい
- Worldwatch
- はい1
Import your existing stock
- A spreadsheet
- いいえ
- One marketplace
- いいえ
- Your own web shop
- いいえ
- Worldwatch
- はい
1A sale on eBay or Wristler still pays their own fee.
The alternatives are named as categories, because what any given platform does changes without telling us and one stale cell discredits the whole table. No rate is quoted here for the same reason. The marketplace commissions Worldwatch can state are on the pricing page.
What switching actually involves
- From a spreadsheet
- We read the spreadsheet you already keep, you tell us which column is which, and you see every watch before any is added. What you gain is a calm, structured feeling and buyers in five places.
- From one marketplace
- Keep it. Connect it, and add the others your buyers use. That marketplace goes on charging what it charges, and Worldwatch adds nothing on top; what changes is that the cost, the supplier and the margin stop living only in your head.
- From a web shop you already run
- Worldwatch does not replace it. Your Shopify or WooCommerce shop stays exactly where it is; what moves is everything behind it.
Who should stay on the free plan
The free plan is the spreadsheet, done properly: every watch, what you paid, photos and papers in one place, for as long as you want. Some dealers should stay there.
- Your stock is small and stays small
- If you turn over a handful of watches a year, retyping them is not what your week costs. Keep your stock on the free plan and leave it at that.
- You sell in the shop and nowhere else
- Listing online is most of what Starter pays for. If buyers walk through the door and nothing goes online, stay free until that changes.
- You sell to a closed book of clients
- Keeping your clients and their history in one place is useful, and the free plan has it. Pay when you want those clients, and new ones, to see your stock online.
