A sale in the hand.
A live merchant feed puts you into Google Shopping and everywhere else that compares, so you are in the reckoning and the sale still lands in your own system, at your own prices, with the customer attached to it.
Selfe keeps the sale direct with you, even when an agent found you first.
Compared, then completed, without a page load
The surface is comparing you against everything else, and the sale closes inside it. Nothing opened, nothing redirected, and it lands in your own system with your own reference.
A surface comparing you against everything else, which is the moment most businesses hand the sale to whoever is cheapest and easiest for a machine to read quickly.
The biggest shop window sends people to you.
Google's shopping surfaces are where most people who have said what they want get shown who has it. What comes out of them arrives on your own site, at your own price, and the customer arrives with it rather than staying somebody else's. Rooms work the same way.
All of it runs on a merchant feed, which most businesses either do not have or have not looked at since it was set up. It is also what Google's AI reads to answer a shopping question and what it works from to complete a checkout.
And the shape that feed has to be in belongs to nobody. Catalogue, then basket, then checkout, then order, set out once as a sequence anything can follow. Google is the largest place it runs rather than the owner of it, so the work that makes you buyable there makes you buyable everywhere.
What your Selfe keeps right.
Selling direct against the marketplaces means being in the comparison with everything filled in.
The feed, kept live.
Every product, rate and change out of the system you already run, as it stands this morning.
The fields nobody fills in.
Availability, condition, identifiers, and the attributes that decide whether you come up for a size 12.
Your rates beside theirs.
Your own price in front of an agent next to whoever else sells it. Being in the comparison is the win.
Ready for a checkout that completes.
What it costs, what is left and what the terms are, all three true at once.
The customer lands with you.
Their details and what they wanted go into your own system, which is what makes a second visit askable.
Tractors & Cream
Cranstons Cumbrian Food Hall
The margin you keep is the cheapest margin there is.
A sale that comes to you directly is worth more than the same sale arriving through somebody else, by a distance that decides things where the margin is thin. That has always been true and it has always been hard to act on. What makes it actionable is that the surfaces doing the comparing hand the customer over. You are not renting a pitch on somebody's marketplace, you are being listed and then getting the visit, the basket and the card details.
And what you end up holding is a customer, not a reference number. Who they are, what they wanted and what they said afterwards, which is the part that pays for years instead of once.
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Whether you just want to get on with it or learn more about agentic commerce, there is a route to get started with Selfe that's just right for you. All you need to do is click.
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- Website
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- Payment details
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- Multi-site pricing
- Custom booking rules
- Payment routing
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Assisted
For larger or more complex places. Talk to us first, there's usually setup work a conversation surfaces before you're ready to go live.
Get started - The cohort
A dedicated milestone every week, until you're live.
Week 1 of 10
from £5,000
Guided
Ten weeks with us, learning agentic commerce properly as you build it. Built for enterprise and large curators, private deployment if you need it, and open to anyone who wants that route.
Guided
What is a Selfe?
Your business's own AI agent, adapting you to the new world of agentic commerce. It knows what you sell, answers for you when AI comes asking, and can take the sale on your terms. Every business that connects gets one, and it runs on the systems you already have.
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