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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "indiemade",
 "name": "IndieMade",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "indiemade.com",
 "category": "E-commerce",
 "task": "E-commerce growth",
 "summary": "Independent online store builder for makers and small sellers, with two-way Etsy sync, unlimited products and no platform transaction fees.",
 "best_for": "makers and small sellers who want their own store, with two-way Etsy sync, and no platform transaction fees",
 "skip_if": "you need a published price before you start, you want a marketplace that brings you buyers, or you sell outside US dollars and need a currency switch",
 "honest_knock": "The pricing page no longer shows plan prices, so you only see the cost at signup. Help articles disagree about whether the AI integration is in Plus only, and we did not check how cancellation works inside the dashboard.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-09 on indiemade.com/plans-pricing) IndieMade lists two plans, Essential and Plus, and every plan starts with a 30-day free trial that needs no credit card. The pricing page now says the live plan lineup is shown at signup, so we cannot quote a current monthly price; an earlier reading on 16 October 2026 showed Essential at $15 a month and Plus at $25 a month, with lower rates billed annually, but that is not on the page today. The page says IndieMade adds no listing fee and no transaction fee on any plan, and that you take payments through your own Stripe, Square or PayPal account, whose processing fees are separate. Hosting is included and every plan supports a custom domain. Unlimited products are included on every plan. The terms state prices in US dollars.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-09",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": [
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Plus",
    "quote": "Plus Everything in Essential, and more $25 / month $20/mo billed annually",
    "source_url": "https://www.indiemade.com/plans-pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   },
   {
    "field": "price",
    "plan": "Essential",
    "quote": "Essential The complete store $15 / month $12/mo billed annually",
    "source_url": "https://www.indiemade.com/plans-pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   },
   {
    "field": "free_trial",
    "plan": null,
    "quote": "30-day free trial. No credit card required.",
    "source_url": "https://www.indiemade.com/plans-pricing",
    "read_on": "2026-10-16"
   }
  ],
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Shopify",
  "why": "Shopify is covered in our directory only through its apps, so we have no direct comparison. Compare the signup price with Shopify and Big Cartel, and add the payment provider fees to both"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/indiemade.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/indiemade-review.html",
  "marketplace": null,
  "vendor_site": "https://indiemade.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=130463&awinaffid=2880219",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "quoted",
  "free_trial": "quoted",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "indiemade:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "indiemade:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "indiemade:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "indiemade:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}