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How to Sell Physical Products From Your Link in Bio (2026 Guide)

Jules Agar
How to Sell Physical Products From Your Link in Bio (2026 Guide)
Mobile storefront showing a physical product listing with size and color variants on Paage

If you're a creator, artist, or small business selling anything that ships — merchandise, prints, handmade goods, food, accessories — your link in bio can become a full storefront instead of just a list of links. This guide walks through exactly how to set that up: creating your first physical product, adding variants, tracking inventory, setting shipping rules, and getting through checkout — plus how this compares to doing the same thing on Stan Store or Beacons.

Your social profiles already send visitors somewhere every day — the question is whether that visit ends in a sale or just a scroll. A bio link with a real storefront turns that existing traffic into a transaction without redirecting people through a separate website, marketplace listing, or DM negotiation. For creators with branded merchandise, artists selling prints, or small businesses fulfilling local orders, that shorter path from "saw it on Instagram" to "bought it" is the entire point of selling from a link in bio rather than a standalone store.

The setup below assumes you're starting from scratch, but the same steps apply if you're migrating an existing shop from another platform — you'll just be re-entering products you've already photographed and priced.

What You Need Before You Start

  • A Paage account (free to create)

  • Product photos (at least one clear image per product; more for variants)

  • Your shipping policy decided in advance: which countries/regions you'll ship to, and roughly what it costs

  • A connected payment processor (Stripe or PayPal) to receive payouts

Step 1: Create Your Product Listing

From your Paage dashboard, choose Physical Product as the product type. Add:

  • Product name and description — be specific about materials, sizing, and what's included

  • Photos — Paage recommends multiple images per product; product cards display best with clean, well-lit photos

  • Price — set your base price before variants (some variants can carry price adjustments)

Paage new product screen showing name, description, and photo fields for a physical product

Step 2: Add Variants

Most physical products come in more than one option. In the product editor, add variants for:

  • Sizes

  • Colors

  • Materials

  • Custom variations or limited editions

Each variant can carry its own image, so buyers can see exactly what they're choosing before checkout — this alone reduces returns and pre-purchase questions.

Step 3: Set Up Inventory Tracking

Under the Inventory tab, set stock levels per variant (not just per product). Paage will:

  • Automatically mark a variant as Sold Out when stock hits zero

  • Let you set a product as unlimited if restocking isn't a concern

  • Update your storefront in real time as orders come in

This is the step most link-in-bio tools skip. On platforms without native inventory tracking, you're stuck manually checking a spreadsheet before confirming every order — which doesn't scale past a handful of sales a week.

Paage inventory tab showing per-variant stock levels and an automatic sold-out toggle

Step 4: Configure Shipping Rules

Under Delivery, set your shipping logic:

  • Choose which countries, regions, or shipping zones you'll serve

  • Offer local pickup or local delivery if relevant to your business

  • Set different rates for different zones (domestic vs. international, for example)

Customers only ever see the shipping options that apply to their own location — so someone browsing from outside your shipping area won't hit a confusing checkout error.

Step 5: Review Checkout and Publish

Preview your checkout flow before publishing:

  1. Customer selects the product and variant

  2. Customer enters shipping information

  3. Customer completes payment

  4. You receive the order in your dashboard, ready to fulfill

Once you're happy with how it looks on mobile (most of your traffic will arrive from Instagram, TikTok, or YouTube bios), hit publish.

Step 6: Fulfill and Mark Orders as Shipped

When an order comes in, update its status from your dashboard: mark it shipped, add a tracking number and carrier, and Paage keeps the customer informed automatically. Clear fulfillment communication reduces support messages and builds repeat-buyer trust.

Paage sales dashboard showing recent orders with fulfillment and shipping status
PlatformPhysical product support
PaageNative: variants, per-variant stock, auto sold-out, shipping rules by zone
Stan StoreWorkaround only — generic "Custom Product," no inventory or shipping automation (details)
BeaconsWorkaround only — listed under "digital download" category, manual shipping (details)
Lnk.BioBasic listing, limited variant and inventory depth

If your catalog is only digital, this distinction won't matter. The moment you add anything that ships, it becomes the deciding factor between platforms.

Start Selling Physical Products Today

Whether you're launching your first product drop or moving an existing shop into your bio link, the setup takes minutes, not days. Create your free Paage store and add your first physical product.

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