Whatever it is you run.
A salon, a garage, a bakery, a bookstore, a magazine, a plumbing round. sparx is not a shop with extras bolted on. It is fourteen separate parts, and you switch on the ones your week actually needs. Here is what that looks like for a business like yours.
Separate parts. Turn on what you need, ignore the rest.
Per person. Put the whole team on it at no extra cost.
Taken from what you sell. Your card fee is the only other cost.
Switch something off. There is no contract to escape.
Written for your trade.
Six pages, each one about a single kind of business: what it needs done, what that adds up to every month, and what the same tools cost bought separately. No jargon and no starting-from figures.
Beauty & salons
hair salons · barbershops · nail bars · spas · lash & brow studios
What salons pay →Auto shops
repair shops · service centers · tire and exhaust · body shops · mobile mechanics
What auto shops pay →Tattoo & piercing studios
tattoo shops · piercing studios · permanent makeup · body art · resident and guest artists
What tattoo studios pay →Restaurants & cafés
cafés · bakeries · bars · food trucks · caterers
What restaurants pay →Trades & home services
plumbers · electricians · heating & cooling · landscapers · cleaners
What trade and home-service businesses pay →Boutiques & local retail
clothing shops · gift shops · bookstores · home goods · florists
What boutiques and local shops pay →However you operate.
Underneath the trade names, most businesses are one of a handful of shapes. Find yours and you can see which parts you would switch on, whatever it is you happen to sell, publish or book.
You publish
Words, pictures and an audience, with no cart anywhere in sight. Publish on your own domain, send the newsletter, and keep the list. Selling is a thing you can add later, not a thing you have to accept now.
You sell things
Products, a checkout that does not lose people, and one customer record that ties every order to the emails they opened and the question they asked. One system rather than four with a spreadsheet taped across the middle.
You book time
Your day is a calendar, not a catalog. Appointments, classes, tables, rooms or vans: booked by the customer, held with a deposit if you want one, and never double-booked.
You supply the trade
Agreed prices per account, purchase orders, payment on terms and requests for quote: wholesale the way it actually works, built into the platform rather than sold as a five-figure upgrade.
You run several businesses
More than one site, brand or client, each with its own name, look, domain and content: managed from one place and billed on one invoice, without a separate account per site.
You want to build on it
Everything is an interface first, so you can drive the whole platform from your own code, or point your own AI assistant at your live business data with a key you issue and can revoke.
Before you decide.
The four things people ask when they are working out whether a platform built for everyone is built for them.
Yes, and it is not an afterthought. Selling is one capability out of fourteen, and plenty of businesses here never turn it on: a publisher runs the site, the writing and the newsletter; a consultant runs the site, the calendar and the invoices. You pay for the parts you switch on and nothing else, so a business that does not sell is never subsidising a checkout it does not use.
Twenty more, already built
A blueprint is a finished site for a particular kind of business (the pages, a starter catalog, a few articles, a welcome email sequence and a matching look) and installing one takes a click. These do not have a page of their own yet; they have something better, which is a working site waiting for your words.
- Schools & tutoring
- Clinics & wellness
- Hotels & short stays
- Accountants & law
- Publishers & newsletters
- Photography & design studios
- Music, theatre & ticketed events
- Florists, weddings & events
- Wine, beer & spirits
- Farming & landscaping
- Freight, trucking & equipment rental
- Consulting & B2B agencies
- Fabrication, carpentry & trade
- Artists, makers & portfolios
Yours goes here.
Open an account and try it on the business you actually run. Nothing is charged until you decide to keep it, no card is needed to find out, and if what you do does not fit any of the shapes above, that is the interesting conversation. Tell us about it.