Take cash, Cash App, and Bitcoin at checkout, let customers pay on pickup, approve who can buy, and run private, invite-only group-buy drops — on a storefront made for the merchants mainstream platforms keep turning away.
A white-label catalog with search, category filters, specials, variants, low-stock cues and a cart that remembers — on your colors, fonts, logo and domain. The screen above is a real Sidecar storefront, themed end to end.
The catalog is dynamic — categories, specials, bundle pricing and variants all flow from your admin. Customers browse, filter, and check out for pickup or delivery in a few taps.
Run limited campaigns where customers pledge a quantity at tiered per-person pricing. A shared goal bar tracks pledges toward your minimum — so you only order what's already spoken for.
Sidecar's admin is forward-looking: it reads off your order queue, not the wall clock. See what's coming up, what needs you, and where the day's revenue stands — all in real time.
Real-time in-app + push notifications, customer approval gates, a drops pipeline with projected revenue, and a full sales dashboard. The busywork runs itself so you can run the shop.
Self-service orders, verified reviews, real-time alerts, flexible payments, and broadcasts. The quiet features that turn a first order into a regular — no plugins, no add-ons.
Reschedule, edit items, or cancel a pending order from the confirmation page — no text-message back-and-forth. Stock and slots free up automatically.
1–5 star reviews gated on a real purchase and approved before they post — with schema.org markup so ratings surface in search.
In-app, push, and email fire the moment an order changes status, a drop funds, or a broadcast goes out — delivered instantly, no refresh.
Cash, Cash App, Bitcoin, whatever you take. Each method can carry its own discount, shown right on the button at checkout.
Send Markdown announcements to every approved customer. Pin the ones that matter, attach an image, and track who's read them.
Per-variant counts or a shared gram-pool that feeds every weight variant. Sales decrement automatically; low-stock badges appear on their own.
New registrations need admin approval before they can place an order. Run a members-only shop — no strangers at checkout.
One toggle hides the storefront from anyone who isn't signed in and approved. Browsers without an account see a members-only splash, nothing else.
Replace the entire public site with a launch-countdown splash while you get ready. Automatically marked noindex,nofollow so search engines stay out.
Customers choose an available pickup or delivery date and time slot at checkout. Add single slots or bulk-generate a week — changes sync to every open order.
An RLS-gated catalog visible only to flagged, approved shipping clients — fulfilled by mail at a flat shipping fee. Slotless, no appointment, no storefront exposure.
The customer prepays at checkout; you source the item. Pickup opens at an expected-ready date — today plus your lead days. Pickup-only, no appointment slot required.
Swap colors, fonts and entire layout languages from the admin — with live preview before you publish. Light, dark, Pride and holiday palettes; The Cut runs the Bloom theme on the Original pack. Yours can look like anything.
Mainstream platforms can freeze payouts and close accounts. Industry platforms take a cut of every order and keep your store on their domain. Sidecar does neither.
The questions merchants in restricted categories always ask — answered plainly.
Sidecar is a commerce platform, not a legal advisor. We build the tools — storefront, checkout, inventory, drops — so your shop runs. Staying compliant with the rules in your jurisdiction is on you and your counsel. What we do is make sure the platform itself doesn't ban you for being in your category.
Private Mode puts a login wall in front of your entire storefront — no one who isn't signed in and approved can see your catalog, prices, or products. Members-only access by default. You control who's approved.
Sidecar is built for businesses that need a stable home online — you won't be cut off here for being in your industry. Where mainstream platforms restrict whole categories under their acceptable-use policies, Sidecar welcomes them. We're built to serve the kind of shop you run, and we're here for the long haul.
You do. Your storefront runs under your brand and domain. Your customer data is yours — we don't sell it, share it, or hold it hostage. If you ever leave, you leave with your data.
Right now Sidecar is invite-only — every store is set up manually by our team. When you join the waitlist, we reach out directly to learn about your shop and get you set up. Self-service onboarding is on the roadmap; for now, you get a hands-on setup.
Two flat numbers. One waitlist request.
A branded storefront on your own domain — replaces juggling DMs and a Linktree with a store that actually makes you money.
A freelancer charges $1–2k to build the same store. We build it, host it, and keep it running.
Mainstream platforms turn away restricted merchants. Sidecar doesn't. Join the waitlist and we'll set up your store — your brand, your domain, your rules.