An Online Store in Slatina That Takes Orders on Sundays Too
One of the oldest mentions of Slatina shows it as a customs point on the Olt, where merchants crossed the river with their goods. The town grew, in other words, out of a trading crossing: a place everyone passed and where anyone with something to buy stopped. For a Slatina retailer, the question from back then still holds — where do the people who might buy from you pass today?
Part of that passing now happens online, and that crossing pays no attention to opening hours. It stays open on Sunday, when your shutters are down, and it's where purchases for Monday get decided. For Slatina retailers, MPO Web Studio builds online stores that keep welcoming people even on the day the shop door is shut.
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How it works
- 1We build you a free demo of your site
- 2You tell us what to change
- 3You pay only if you love it
In Slatina, a shop keeps the hours of the person who runs it
Many small shops in Slatina have no Sunday shift, and couldn't have one: they're run by one person, two at most, and the day off is the only one when the owner isn't behind the counter. Opening on Sundays too would mean another wage, or another working day for you, for a few customers who may or may not turn up. The trouble is that the buyer's week runs the opposite way to yours. On working days, people in Slatina are at work — on the industrial platform, at the county institutions, in an office in the centre — and running around after the children; on Sunday they finally have time to think about what's missing at home, a present, a part that broke. That's when they search. If all they find at yours is a closed door and a page with no prices, by Monday their idea has landed in someone else's basket, and you never learn it existed.
Monday's need is decided on Sunday evening
On Sunday evening, someone realises that their child needs something for school, that they need a tool at work or that there's a birthday on Tuesday. The need is for Monday morning, and Monday morning is when people in Slatina have the least time of the whole week: kids to school, the trip to the industrial platform or to an office in the centre, a working day that starts early. There's no time to search through three shops; at most there are ten minutes to stop at a single one, knowing in advance that they'll find what they need. If on Sunday evening they see on screen that the product is on your shelf and that they can pick it up on Monday, from opening time, they grab it on the way. If they see nothing, the need gets postponed or solved some other way, and on Monday morning they walk past your shop window without knowing you had exactly what they needed.
Sunday's orders, lined up for Monday morning
We build the store so that Sunday runs without you. The buyer picks the product, sees it's in stock and ticks Monday collection or delivery; the ordered item comes off stock on the spot, so that when you open on Monday you don't sell it over the counter to the first person through the door. The confirmation the buyer receives states the day their order will be prepared, not just that it was received, so they aren't left waiting for a reply from you. You set the time on Monday from which collection orders are ready, and that time appears in the confirmation, so the customer can plan their Monday route around it. We make the demo for free, with your products, and send it to you on WhatsApp — you can open it on a Sunday, from the armchair, like a customer. Then you get a single round of revisions, the store goes live within a few days, and the first 7 days after launch are under warranty. We work remotely, from Cluj-Napoca.
Frequently asked questions
Some people change their minds before Monday. Can they cancel their Sunday order themselves?+
Yes, as long as you haven't started preparing it. The confirmation email has a cancel button, and the item goes back into stock on its own, so you can sell it at the counter on Monday. Once you mark the order as prepared, the button disappears, and any change can only be made by talking to you. That way you don't prepare an order for nothing that the customer no longer wants.
What if more orders come in on Sunday than I can prepare by Monday morning?+
You set how many collection orders you can prepare by the chosen time. Once that many have come in, the next customers see Tuesday, not Monday, as the collection date, right in the basket, before they pay. You don't promise what you can't manage, and the customer decides for themselves whether that suits them or chooses delivery instead.
Lots of customers ask me to gift-wrap things and add a card. Can they request that straight from the basket?+
Yes, as an option ticked at the end of the order, with the wrapping price shown next to it if you charge for it, and a short field for what should go on the card. The order reaches you with the request in plain view, so you can have it ready by the time the buyer arrives. On busy days you can switch the option off temporarily if you have no time for wrapping.
I also sell goods by the kilo or by the metre. Can people order that way online?+
Yes. The price is shown per unit, and the buyer chooses the quantity in steps you set — in halves, for example. For goods whose weight never comes out exact, we note on the page that the total is adjusted at weighing, so the buyer knows from the start. The order reaches you with the exact quantity, ready to cut or weigh.
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