Not because the people running them are not ready. Because getting online has meant a developer, a designer, a hosting bill and a month of waiting — for a shop that sells bags. Weblanda is the short way round: a real shop, at your own address, taking real payments, this afternoon.
A future where anyone with something to sell and a phone can put a real business on the internet — no gatekeeping, no waiting on someone else's calendar.
Take everything that makes selling online hard, and do it for you — so the only thing left is the part you're good at.
0%
Our cut of your sales
₦12,000
A quarter, to start
14 days
Free trial, no card
Lagos
Where it is built
Every one of these costs Weblanda something. That is what makes them worth writing down.
Weblanda takes no percentage of what you sell. You pay for a plan, and the money from an order goes from your customer to your own bank account without passing through us. It is the one commitment here we would have to break loudly, so it is the one worth making.
Most of our sellers will never open this on a laptop. So the dashboard is not a desktop tool made narrower — the screens that matter were laid out for a phone first, and the ones that could not work on a phone were rethought rather than shrunk.
Weblanda's own pricing page once listed twelve features that did not exist. They were removed and the unbuilt ones are now shown struck through, under "on the way". Anything you are charged for on this site is running today.
Plans are quarterly and priced against what a small Nigerian business actually spends in a quarter. There is no monthly option on purpose: a quarter carries you past the month where a new shop is still being set up, which is where people give up.
Weblanda is built by Weblake Technologies, a company registered in Lagos, Nigeria. It is not a large team, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise with a wall of headshots.
What that buys you is directness. The person who answers support is the person who can change the product, so a good suggestion is often shipped rather than logged. What it costs you is that we build one thing at a time, which is why the pricing page is honest about what is still on the way.
The delivery, payments and hosting underneath are not ours and are not pretending to be — Paystack moves the money, real courier companies carry the parcels. Weblanda is the part that makes them work together without you having to.
The things we did not build
We are a software company, not a bank and not a courier. Where something is somebody else's job, we say whose — including in the Terms, where it decides who is responsible when an order goes wrong.
Fourteen days free, no card. If it is not for you, we have written that down too.