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.
Revenue and orders over time, average order value, cancellation rate, your top products, and your busiest hours — the kind of dashboard you usually pay extra to bolt on. Here it's just included, and it updates as orders land.
Every KPI shows how it moved against the last 7, 30 or 90 days — not just a number.
See what actually pays the bills, ranked by dollars — not just unit counts.
Staff and stock for when customers actually show up, with a pickup-vs-delivery split.
Coupons, specials, bundle pricing, delivery windows, verified reviews, broadcasts and more — the revenue and marketing tools mainstream platforms make you bolt on. 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.
Order, confirmation, cancellation, reschedule, approval, welcome and password-reset emails go out on their own — plus in-app and push alerts the moment status changes. Included, no add-on.
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.
Percent or fixed-dollar codes with min-order thresholds, usage caps, and scheduled start/end dates. Redemptions are validated server-side and tracked for you.
A flat sale price or percent off, scheduled to start and end on its own. A sale badge shows on the storefront while it's live, then clears itself.
Set quantity tiers — 1 for $40, 2 for $60, 3 for $90 — and the cart does the math at checkout. An optional toggle pools variant quantities toward the same tier.
Set per-weekday delivery windows and a minimum order to unlock delivery. A travel-time buffer blocks slots you can't make — checkout only offers windows you can actually hit.
A theme swaps your colors. A layout pack swaps the whole language of the store — typography, density, grid, even the voice of the buttons and nav. Mix any of the 22 themes with any of the 7 packs from the admin, preview it on your own store, and ship when it looks right.
Same catalog, same data — two of seven layout packs. Swapped from the admin, previewed live, then applied when you say so.
Pick a display, body and monospace font from a hand-picked catalog. They swap at runtime, with live preview.
Drop in a single brand color and the whole store retones around it — no theme editing required.
See any theme or pack on your own storefront first. Customers keep the current look until you hit Apply.
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.
Verified-buyer reviews don't just sit on your site — every product and review page ships schema.org markup, so Google can render your rating as gold stars right in the search results. More clicks before anyone even lands on your store.
Product pages, /reviews, and every review permalink emit JSON-LD automatically — nothing to configure.
Product reviews are gated on a fulfilled purchase and moderated before they post, so the rating you show is honest.
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 complete storefront on your own domain — plus the whole back office behind it: analytics, scheduling, payments, reviews and broadcasts. One platform, one flat price.
A freelancer charges $1–2k to build a fraction of this. 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.