Your online store, without the hard part.
You already sell online, through messages and wherever your customers find you. Zoctus turns that into a proper store, your way: with or without shipping, with or without online payments. We guide every step and take care of the technical and legal side. You bring the products. We bring the rest.
Few min
to get your store ready
No red tape
we handle the legal side
No lock-in
cancel whenever you want
Human support
real people, no bots
Sound familiar?
It's how a lot of small businesses start selling online. It works, but sooner or later you want it organized and truly yours.
Today
- Orders lost between messages and comments.
- Payment screenshots buried in the chat.
- Stock tracked in a notebook or in a spreadsheet.
- Customers waiting hours for a reply.
With Zoctus
- Every order in one place, sorted by status.
- Online or pickup payments, automatic and secure.
- Stock updated on every sale, so you never sell what you no longer have, with a full history.
- Instant notifications for you and the customer. Nobody gets forgotten.
Your store, your identity
Custom colors, logo and style. Customers see your brand, not ours.
- You pick the primary and accent colors of the store.
- You upload the logo in compact and full versions.
- Light or dark theme, your choice.
- Your own web address (yourshop.zoctus.com).
- Customisable legal pages (terms, privacy, returns).
Zoctus's 8 tentacles
Everything boring, technical or legal goes to Zoctus. You only think about products and customers.
Domain
Your store gets its own web address (something like yourshop.zoctus.com), with nothing to buy or configure.
Hosting
Your store is always online, fast, no servers to manage. Works in Portugal, works anywhere.
Security
Green padlock in the browser, protection against attacks, automatic backups. You don't have to touch a thing.
GDPR
Data requests, cookie consent and customer rights handled inside the platform. You don't have to worry about the technical side.
Payments
Online via Stripe (card, MBWay, Multibanco) or on pickup (customer pays you directly in cash, MBWay or card). You enable whichever makes sense.
Legal documents
Terms, privacy policy, returns and the complaint book link. Included and ready to use.
Updates
New features land in your store on their own. No maintenance windows, no migrations, no headaches.
Human support
Real people on the other side. We reply as fast as we can, no bots passing the problem along.
Fits your business, exactly as it is today
No structure, no logistics, no online experience required. Zoctus shapes itself around what you already have, and you choose how far you go.
You have a shop or physical space
You showcase products online, the customer orders and picks up at your place. No shipping, no carriers, no logistics. You sell with what you already have.
You already ship or want to start
You accept online payments, receive the order, and ship at your own pace. Setting shipping methods and timeframes is simple.
You just want to showcase products
You use Zoctus as a digital storefront. Customers see what you have and contact you directly. No cart, no online payment. Just visibility.
You work with regular or invite-only clients
You create a private store. Only people you approve can see your products and place orders. Perfect for resale, wholesale or business clients.
Bakeries & Pastry Shops
Daily orders and pickup
Grocery & Local Shops
Your shelves, online
Artisans & Makers
Handmade, made visible
Fashion & Accessories
Your collection, your store
Beauty & Wellness
Products your clients love
Sell with pickup only, ship when you want, or just show a catalog. Open to the world or private for invited clients. However you sell today, Zoctus fits.
Everything you need, in one place
Everything together, so you're not juggling a dozen apps or piling up subscriptions.
Products
Photos, prices, variants, categories. You organize the catalog your way.
Orders
Clear statuses, automatic or manual approval. You decide.
Payments
Online, on pickup, or both. Card, MBWay, Multibanco.
Shipping & Pickup
Set methods by region or offer store pickup.
Stock control
Always know what you have. Movements in and out, full history of every change.
Users
Team, customers and permissions in one panel.
Dashboard
Products, orders and settings, all in one simple panel.
Your brand
Colors, logo and theme. Your store with your identity, not ours.
Discount coupons
Percentage, flat value, expiry date and usage limits.
See Zoctus in action
The management dashboard, the storefront from the customer's view, and everything on mobile too.
Management dashboard
The store from a customer's view
Everything on mobile too
Get started in four steps
Guided from start to finish. No installs, no code, no mystery.
You create the store
You pick a name, colors and logo. Takes a few minutes.
You add products
Photos, descriptions and prices. From your computer or from your phone.
You set up payments and shipping
You tune everything to fit the type of business you have. No headache.
You publish and sell
You share the link with customers and orders start coming in.
You create the store
You pick a name, colors and logo. Takes a few minutes.
You add products
Photos, descriptions and prices. From your computer or from your phone.
You set up payments and shipping
You tune everything to fit the type of business you have. No headache.
You publish and sell
You share the link with customers and orders start coming in.
Without Zoctus vs With Zoctus
To run a proper online store, you'd have to take care of all of this on your own or pay someone to do it for you.
Without Zoctus
- Buy the domain every year and renew it on time.
- Contract hosting and manage traffic and storage limits.
- Request and renew the SSL certificate so the store has the green padlock.
- Pay a developer to set up and maintain the store.
- Handle the technical side of GDPR: cookies, encryption, data requests.
- Display the complaint book link on every page, as required.
- Integrate Stripe, MBWay and Multibanco and wire it all into your store.
- Update the store every time there's a bug or a new feature.
- Ensure backups and a recovery plan.
None of this. You focus on your products and customers. The rest is handled.
Security and compliance, explained for real
You'll see these names everywhere. Here's what each one actually means for you.
Payments via Stripe
We never touch your money nor your customers' cards. Stripe is the world's largest company doing this, regulated by European banks.
Protected by Cloudflare
Bot attacks and attempts to take your store down are blocked before they reach it. You don't have to do anything.
Encrypted connection (SSL)
That's the green padlock next to the address in the browser. It means everything the customer types is scrambled between their device and your store.
GDPR compliant
When a customer asks to see or delete their data, it's handled. The European personal-data rules are baked into the platform.
Encrypted data
Names, emails and addresses are stored in a form nobody can read without the key. Including us, even if someone tried.
In your language
Zoctus speaks Portuguese and English. The dashboard, the store, everything translated. More languages are on the way.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Zoctus adapts to what you already have. If you have a physical space, customers can order online and pick up at the shop, no shipping and no carriers. If you only want to show what you sell, use it as a digital storefront. You start with what you have.
No. Zoctus was built for anyone. You don't need any programming, design or IT skills. You follow the steps and the platform guides you through.
Yes. You use Zoctus only to display products, with online payments turned off. Customers browse the catalog and contact you directly to order.
No. The store lives on our servers with its own web address (yourshop.zoctus.com). You don't buy anything extra.
Yes. You can make the store private. Only the users you approve can see your products. Ideal for wholesale or specific customers.
Two ways. Online: the customer pays in the storefront (card, MBWay, Multibanco) via Stripe, securely. On pickup: the customer pays you directly when collecting, however you agree (cash, MBWay, card on your terminal, bank transfer). You enable one, the other, or both at the same time.
On pickup sales, you receive directly from the customer and Zoctus takes nothing. On online sales, Stripe processes the payment (charges its usual rate, around 1.4% plus a small fixed amount) and Zoctus adds a small percentage on top, between 1% and 2% depending on the plan. Everything else is yours, transferred to your bank account at the schedule you choose.
Yes, when applicable. Zoctus keeps the order data so you can issue invoices in your usual billing software. The tax obligation is yours, as in any sale.
Zoctus ships with a base returns policy you can adapt. The customer files the request in their account and you approve or refuse. All tracked, no lost messages.
Yes. No lock-in. You cancel your subscription whenever you want. The store stays active until the end of the period you've already paid for.
You start with what you have. Phone photos work for most businesses. When you can level up, you do. Zoctus doesn't require professional photos to start selling.
No. When you create your store, it starts in setup mode. Only you and your team can see it. You have all the time you need to add products, set up payments and customise. You only publish when you're ready.