Sell a website to your client without the handoff headache

Building the site is the part you are good at. The part that eats your week is everything after “it's done”: moving the finished site to the person paying for it, and then actually getting paid. For a freelancer or an agency-of-one, that handoff is dead time — unpaid hours between finishing the work and seeing the money. shiply.now collapses the whole thing into one transaction: list the site, share one link, get paid into your own Stripe account when the buyer pays.

The messy handoff

Picture the usual ending. You export the files into a zip. You hand over DNS and walk the client through a registrar they have never logged into. You hope the nameservers propagate without breaking anything, and half the time the URL changes and the links rot. Then, separately, you send an invoice and wait — sometimes for weeks — for a transfer that has nothing to do with the technical work you just shipped.

Two loose ends, both fiddly. The transfer is a manual chore that depends on the client being comfortable in tools they have never used, and the payment is a second negotiation that happens after the upper hand of an unshipped site is gone. The work was the easy part.

Build, sell, get paid — in one step

shiply.now treats the handoff as a sale, because that is what it is. You own a finished site. You put a price on it and get a single buy URL. You send that link to your client. When they pay, two things happen at once: the site becomes theirs, and the money starts moving to you. There is no DNS handoff, no zip file, and no chasing an invoice — the payment and the transfer are the same event.

This is the one thing shiply.now does that a normal host does not. Other hosts let you build and let you move files around by hand. None of them let you put a price on a live site and transfer the whole thing — slug, files, and live URL — to its new owner in a single transaction. Stating that as positioning, not a competitor fact: it is simply the model the marketplace is built around.

How the transfer actually works

The loop is four steps, and the buyer never touches DNS:

1. Set up payouts once. Before your first sale you connect a Stripe account through Stripe Connect. Stripe runs its own hosted onboarding and verification; you do it a single time and then forget about it.
2. List the site. Put a price on any site you own and write a one-line pitch. You get a single buy URL to share — something like shiply.now/buy/your-slug.
3. Send the link. Your client opens it and sees a live preview of the actual site, the price, and the terms in plain language. They sign in and pay by card through Stripe Checkout. No account chores land on you.
4. Ownership transfers, and you get paid. The moment the payment clears, the site moves into the buyer's account — same slug, same files, same live URL, no migration and no relinking. The payment goes to your own Stripe account, and shiply.now takes no cut by default.

From the buyer's side it is one page and one button. After they pay, the site is in their dashboard immediately, under the URL it has always had. Nothing on the public internet changes address, so nothing they have already shared breaks.

Why it is safe for both sides

Selling a site means moving ownership and moving money at the same moment. The risk in any handoff is the gap between those two — the window where one side has delivered and the other has not. shiply.now closes that gap by design.

The transfer is atomic. Ownership flips to the buyer in the same confirmed step as the payment. There is no point where the buyer has paid but does not own the site, and none where they own it without paying. The change of hands is bound to the payment event, not to a follow-up email you have to remember to send.

There is a refund window. Within 30 days of the sale, you can refund the buyer in one click, no questions asked. The refund returns the money to them and the site to your account — the listing goes back on sale at the same price. That window exists to cut chargeback risk and give the buyer a clean, honest way out, so neither side has to trust the other on faith.

The money is yours, through your own Stripe. The buyer pays into your own Stripe Connect Express account, with your own payouts and your own verification. shiply.now never holds the funds in the middle. You are not waiting on a marketplace to pay you out on its schedule — you are being paid the way you would be paid by any Stripe customer.

One detail worth knowing: once a site is sold, it is locked for edits, and only the buyer can change it from then on. That is deliberate. It preserves exactly what the buyer paid for and keeps the provenance clean.

Who this is for

Freelancers who build a landing page or a one-pager for a client and want the handoff and the payment to be one clean step instead of two loose ends. List it, send the link, and the work and the money close together.

Agencies-of-one shipping sites to order. Each finished site becomes a listing and a link, and the buyer takes it over without a registrar walkthrough or a DNS migration call on your calendar.

Agents that build sites to order. An AI that ships a finished site can put a price on it and hand it to its new owner through the same link, with no human in the loop for the transfer itself.

The short version

You are good at building sites. The handoff and the invoice are where the time leaks out. shiply.now turns a finished site into one shareable link: the buyer pays by card, ownership transfers to them atomically the moment the payment clears, and the money lands in your own Stripe account with no shiply.now cut by default. There is a 30-day refund window if either side needs an exit. Build it, hand it off, get paid — in a single step.