Sell to the Algarve, from inside the Algarve.
The Circle Shop is a real multi-vendor storefront for local makers, producers and shops: your products, your prices, paid straight into your own Stripe account with 0% commission. It is opening now with a small group of founding vendors, and there is room for you.
Why hand your margin to a marketplace giant?
Selling on the big marketplaces
- Commission and fees on every single sale
- Your customers belong to the marketplace
- Competing globally on price with the whole internet
- Payouts, rules and rankings you cannot control
Selling on the Circle Shop
- 0% commission: buyers pay your own Stripe directly
- You are the merchant of record, with your own customers
- A local audience that wants to buy from the Algarve
- Your shop sits inside your listing, reviews and the feed
Up and running in an afternoon
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Connect your Stripe
Your shop runs on your own Stripe account, connected from your dashboard in minutes. Money goes straight to you: the Circle never holds your funds.
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Add your products
Photos, video, prices, sale prices, stock and delivery estimates, in English and Portuguese. Your products appear on your listing and in the Circle Shop.
- 3
Sell and ship
Orders land in your dashboard with the buyer attached. Mark them shipped and the buyer is notified. Invoicing stays yours, like any sale from your own site.
Everything included, bundled
0% commission
Buyers pay through your own Stripe account by direct charge. The Circle takes nothing from the sale: selling is part of the membership, not a toll.
A storefront inside your listing
Your products appear on your business page next to your reviews, photos and story, and in the Algarve-wide Shop where locals browse by category.
You are the merchant
You are the merchant of record: your payouts, your refunds, your invoices. The Circle is the shopfront, not a middleman sitting on your money.
Real shop tools
Stock tracking, sale prices, product video, free-shipping thresholds, featured products and order management, all from your dashboard.
Local buyers
The people browsing the Circle live here or love it here. A jar of local honey, a print of Benagil, a gift voucher for a spa: this is the audience those products were made for.
Founding-vendor spotlight
The Shop is opening with a small first wave of vendors, which means early shelves and outsized attention. Founding vendors set the tone for the whole shop.
Selling is an Elite feature
Browsing and buying are open to every member. Selling your products through the Circle Shop comes with the Elite plan, alongside the full analytics suite and premium placement.
- Elite: sell products through your own Stripe, 0% commission
- Elite: unlimited photos, premium category placement, sponsored homepage rotation
- Elite: the deepest analytics, with CSV export and API access
- Every plan: your listing, reviews, map pin, events and bilingual content
A shop built for Algarve makers
The Algarve makes wonderful things: sea salt from Castro Marim, medronho from the hills, ceramics, prints, honey, gin, gift vouchers for spas and boat trips. Most of it is sold across a counter or through an Instagram DM, because the alternative has always been a global marketplace that takes a cut and buries you, or the cost and lonely traffic of running your own web shop.
The Circle Shop is the third option: a shared local storefront with real e-commerce underneath. Payments run through your own Stripe by direct charge, so you keep every euro of the sale and stay the merchant of record. Your products live inside your listing, where your reviews and your story already do the selling. The Shop is opening with its founding vendors now: if you make something the Algarve should be able to buy, we would love to hear from you.
Frequently asked questions
How much commission does Algarve Circle take on shop sales?
None. Algarve Circle takes 0% commission on every sale. Buyers pay through your own Stripe account by direct charge, so the money goes straight to you and the Circle never holds your funds. Standard Stripe card-processing fees still apply, as they would on your own website.
Do I need my own website to sell on the Circle Shop?
No. Your storefront lives inside Algarve Circle: your products appear on your business listing, on your own storefront page, and in the Algarve-wide shop where members browse by category. If you already have a website, the shop simply becomes another shelf.
Who handles payments, refunds and invoices?
You do, as the merchant of record. Payments arrive in your own Stripe account, refunds are issued from your dashboard in one click, and invoicing stays exactly as it is for any sale from your own till or site.
Can I sell gift vouchers?
Yes, and they can fulfil themselves. Mark a product as a gift voucher and the Circle issues a unique code with a QR to the buyer the moment they pay, gives them a wallet to keep it in, and gives you a till panel to redeem it against a bill, including partial redemptions. If you already have your own voucher process, you can keep sending them yourself instead.
What does it cost to sell on Algarve Circle?
Selling is part of the Elite membership plan rather than a per-sale toll. Browsing and buying are free for every member. Current plan pricing is always on the pricing page.
How do deliveries and shipping work?
You ship your own orders with any carrier you like, such as CTT, DPD or GLS. Each product carries your delivery estimate and shipping price, you can set a free-shipping threshold, and when you mark an order shipped with a tracking number the buyer gets a live tracking link.