starting a business

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  artisttaylorpost · Member · Jul 31, 2017 at 8:36 pm

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  Hi! I am looking to start a business from scratch selling prints of my artwork but I was wondering if there was a way to change the current free domain into a shop without changing very much and that wouldn’t cost very much money since i am currently a student. Thanks for the help!

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  guicmazeredo · Staff · Jul 31, 2017 at 8:49 pm

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  Hi @artisttaylorpost.

  Here is a link with a step-by-step on how to build a business website:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/tutorials/business-website-tutorial/

  You will find information about the best themes for that purpose and will also know how to use PayPal button to sell your artwork. And the best thing: You don’t have to pay anything to do all of this.

  Although if you want to have a custom domain such “yourgroovydomain.com”, instead of “yourgroovydomain.wordpress.com” you would have to upgrade to the personal plan. You can find more information about plans here: https://wordpress.com/pricing/

  I hope to have clarified everything you need. Let me know you still need more information to build your business website!

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  timethief · Member · Aug 1, 2017 at 11:11 pm

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  @artisttaylorpost

  For an e-commerce (woocommerce) site you require a Business plan upgrade, however, a personal plan will provide a domain name. If you do not purchase a personal plan you can read and act on what follows.

  Provided you are selling only what you yourself make or a providing service that you personally provide on a wordpress.COM site, or you are asking for donations you have two options.

  (1) PayPal – Know that the only instructions that will work for posting a PayPal donation button on a WordPress.com blog are found here http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/
  Note that the PayPal email link is not supported and PayPal customization options are not supported either https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/paypal-button-41?replies=12#post-2517229 This is not likely to be changed any time soon, if at all.

  Some bloggers create a contact form https://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/ on a page and after the people have made a PayPal donation they provide the link to a private page for downloading files. Maybe that will work for you.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-visibility/

  (2) If you set up an eCommerce site somewhere else online you can create a custom menu http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/ and include a custom link to that site in it. http://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#adding-custom-links

  If what I provided above in my first response and in my second one here at (1) and (2) do not suit you, then this guide will explain how to move your WordPress.com site to another hosting platform: Moving to Self-Hosted WordPress http://move.wordpress.com