Start your store in less than 30 seconds — for free, and no monthly fees.

Connect your payment gateway and start selling. You really only need two things: something to sell, and a store that doesn’t get in the way. The Zum is that store — free, up in the time it takes to make coffee.

Minutes from now you can be looking at your own shop. Name it, pick a look, add what you sell. It’s live before you’ve finished your first coffee. That is what “start today” actually looks like.

Free means free

No monthly fee. No setup fee. No commission on your sales. If you just want to try this whole “sell online” thing without spending a single riyal, you can — completely. And the store itself stays yours.

Already on another platform? Bring your store home.

If you started somewhere and the invoices keep coming — a monthly fee peeling off your sales — move everything here. Same storefront, same dashboard and products, without the repeat bill. What you build is yours: it shouldn’t have to live on a street you don’t own.

Why this store exists — a short story

I built The Zum the night I couldn’t find it anywhere else, and this is the honest story of why.

I started like most people: launched a store on one of the big platforms. For a while it went well. Then I noticed something I can’t fully explain: the products that were selling well in my store began to appear on stores I never opened — same items, same style, same price. I can’t prove it, and I won’t pretend I’m sure. But somebody’s information made its way out, and shortly after, without a reason I was ever given, my store was closed down.

I moved to one of the big store builders, hoping it would be better. After two sales, my payment gateway was stopped — I could no longer accept payments. Because I lived outside Europe and America, I got marked “high risk,” and no explanation was enough. It was the same with every gateway I tried after that — they needed any excuse to label my business as a risk. Go read the reviews on Trustpilot and you’ll find this exact story from sellers, repeated for years.

So I started building The Zum: the store that never depends on some layered giant so it can’t be shut down like mine was. Because if you don’t own your store, and you don’t control the way you get paid, someone else decides one day whether your business still exists. I decided that shouldn’t be built in — it should be destroyed from the start.

Three problems I built it to stop

1. Hackers and spam. I used to run a store on the other really popular open-source store software, and I got hacked — more than once — and had to rebuild the whole store from scratch each time. The more general the code a store runs, the more cracks exist for a spammer to slip through, and hackers know exactly where they are. So the Zum store is deliberately light and doesn’t execute code it doesn’t need — there is far less attack surface for anyone to break through.

2. The endless fees. These platforms are great at two things: renting you software that is very basic (honestly, you could build it yourself), and skimming a monthly fee off money that should be yours. Why pay for hosting and monthly fees before you’ve even made a single sale? A free-forever store is not a special offer — it’s the default, because no one should rent you your own income.

3. Being slow. A store that catches you at every step kills the first-time selling experience. The Zum is light by design — it loads fast, stays out of your way, and lets you do one thing: sell.

And one protection I can promise without reservation: everything is encrypted. Even our backend can never see your vendor’s data, and if someone somehow did break the backend, everything they find is still encrypted — they won’t benefit from anything.

No pressure to start

Worried you’re not ready? That’s how most people feel the first time — and it’s the wrong reason. Create the store free, add your first few products whenever you like, and take as long as you need. There is no clock, no expiry, and nothing to cancel later — because there’s never a bill on the way.

And when the first order arrives

The money doesn’t pass through our hands — it goes to your account, through your own gateway. You keep 100% of every sale. After that, the store only gets better: dashboard, orders and shipping rates inside, all at no extra cost.

The last step is yours, and it’s two minutes long. If you’ve been putting off a store you really want to start — this is the smallest risk you’ll ever try: free, fast, and entirely yours.