How the alternatives compare
A spreadsheet, one marketplace, a web shop, or Worldwatch. Compared on what actually costs you time.
Luxembourg Gardens
1906
William James Glackens
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 | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| Sell on several channels | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| Comes off every channel when it sells | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| Margin based on what you actually paid | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| Invoices and shipping docs on every order | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| Reports on what sells and what sits | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
| No commission added on top | Não aplicável | Não | Sim | Sim1 |
| Import your existing stock | Não | Não | Não | Sim |
One record per watch
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
Sell on several channels
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
Comes off every channel when it sells
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
Margin based on what you actually paid
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
Invoices and shipping docs on every order
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
Reports on what sells and what sits
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
No commission added on top
- A spreadsheet
- Não aplicável
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Sim
- Worldwatch
- Sim1
Import your existing stock
- A spreadsheet
- Não
- One marketplace
- Não
- Your own web shop
- Não
- Worldwatch
- Sim
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.
Ponha o seu stock a trabalhar
Bring in what you already hold, connect a marketplace, and see what moves. Free to start, no card needed, and selling to other dealers here costs no commission.
Perguntas primeiro? Pergunte-nos e percorremos isso consigo com o seu próprio stock.