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Cornerrr in the United Kingdom
An online store builder for UK shops that sell in pounds
Describe what you sell and Cornerrr builds an online store priced in pounds, with product pages, delivery rates and a Stripe checkout. Below are the VAT, consumer and data rules a small UK shop should know before the first order.
- Free to build and preview
- Payments by Stripe
- No transaction fees from Cornerrr
Selling online in the United Kingdom
- Currency
- pound sterling (GBP)
- Standard VAT rate
- 20%
- Popular ways to pay
- Credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- Web address
- Free yourname.cornerrr.com, or your own .co.uk
- Language
- English
- Payments
- Your own Stripe account
Payments
How people in the United Kingdom pay online.
Most UK shoppers pay by debit card, often through Apple Pay or Google Pay on their phone. Buy now, pay later is well known through Clearpay and Klarna. Pay by Bank lets customers approve a payment in their banking app without a card, Revolut Pay suits people who bank with Revolut, and Bacs Direct Debit fits regular payments from UK bank accounts. PayPal is familiar to UK shoppers, but it isn’t available through Cornerrr’s checkout today.
Before you start
Selling online in the United Kingdom: what to know.
VAT registration at £90,000
You must register for VAT when your taxable turnover over the last 12 months goes above £90,000, or when you expect it to within the next 30 days. Below that you can register voluntarily. Businesses based outside the UK that sell to UK customers usually have to register from their first sale.
Show the full price, VAT included
Prices shown to consumers must include VAT, and since April 2025 any fee every customer has to pay belongs in the headline price too. Make delivery costs clear before checkout. Stripe Tax’s automatic setting treats pound prices as VAT-inclusive.
14 days to cancel
Under the Consumer Contracts Regulations, online customers can cancel within 14 days of receiving their goods, and you refund within 14 days of getting them back, including standard delivery. Personalized items, perishables and unsealed hygiene products are exceptions. Say who pays for return postage, or it’s you.
Say who you are
The E-Commerce Regulations ask you to show your business name, a geographic address, an email address and your VAT number if you have one. Limited companies also show their registered number and registered office. Put them on your Contact page; you can add any page you need on Cornerrr.
UK GDPR and the ICO fee
UK GDPR covers the customer data you collect. Publish a privacy policy (Cornerrr’s AI drafts one for you to review), collect only what you need, and use the ICO’s online check to see whether you must pay its yearly data protection fee; most businesses that handle personal data do.
Selling to the EU is exporting
Since Brexit, parcels to EU customers are imports at their end. Unless you register for the EU’s Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) for parcels worth up to €150, your customer may pay VAT and a handling fee on delivery. Say so on your delivery page, or ship within the UK at first.
General information, current as of October 2026, not legal or tax advice. Rules and rates change, so check them with an accountant or adviser, or the official sources, before you rely on them.
Cornerrr
Built for businesses in the United Kingdom
Prices in GBP
Set your store’s currency to GBP and your products, shipping rates and checkout use it. Cornerrr works with about 140 currencies, one per web address.
VAT at checkout
Turn on Stripe Tax in your Stripe account and Cornerrr asks it to work out VAT for each order at checkout, on any paid plan. You can collect business customers’ VAT numbers too.
Words written for your customers
Describe your business and Cornerrr writes every page in plain British or Irish English, then you change anything by asking.
Local ways to pay
Checkout is Stripe’s own, so the local payment methods you turn on in Stripe show up for the customers who can use them, next to cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Local tips
Make it feel local
Name your carrier and delivery days
Royal Mail, Evri, DPD and Parcelforce are the usual choices for small shops. Say which one you use and your dispatch days, and if the Highlands, islands or Northern Ireland cost more to reach, say so. Add a Royal Mail or DHL tracking number and the shipping email links straight to tracking.
Plan around UK dates
Mothering Sunday falls in March in the UK, weeks before the US Mother’s Day, and Royal Mail publishes last recommended posting dates before Christmas each year. Put your own order cut-off dates on the home page a few weeks ahead.
Describe your delivery area by town and postcode
If you deliver locally, name the towns and postcode areas you cover, such as “Leeds and LS postcodes”. People search with their town, and a clear area saves you emails asking whether you deliver to them.
Put Clearpay where baskets are bigger
Customers buying furniture, clothing bundles or art often like to spread the cost. Turn on Clearpay or Klarna in your Stripe Dashboard and they appear at checkout for eligible orders, while Stripe pays you the full amount.
How it works
From a few words to your website, live.
Step 1: Describe your business
A sentence or two is enough: what you do, who it’s for and how people buy from you.
Step 2: We build it while you watch
Cornerrr writes your pages, adds your products or services, and picks the colours, fonts and look. It takes about a minute.
Step 3: Connect payments
Link a Stripe account, or create one in a few minutes. Your customers pay you directly.
Step 4: You’re live
Publish on your free Cornerrr web address, or use your own. Change anything later by asking.
Pricing
Free to build. Simple plans to go live.
Build and preview for free, no card needed. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial, and Cornerrr adds no transaction fees. Plan prices are in US dollars; your customers pay you in GBP.
Starter
Go live and start selling.
$19a month
Most popular
Growth
For growing businesses with subscriptions and deliveries.
$49a month
Pro
For several stores and bigger catalogues.
$99a month
Questions
Good to know
Do I need to register for VAT to sell online in the UK?
Not until your taxable turnover passes £90,000 over a rolling 12 months, unless your business is based outside the UK. Once you’re registered, Stripe Tax can work out the VAT on each order at checkout on any paid plan. This is general information; check with HMRC or an accountant.
Can I take Clearpay and Klarna on my shop?
Yes. Both are available to UK Stripe accounts: turn them on in your Stripe Dashboard, with Pay by Bank, Revolut Pay or Amazon Pay if you like, and Stripe Checkout shows each one to the customers who can use it. PayPal isn’t available through Cornerrr’s checkout today.
Can I sell to Ireland and the rest of Europe?
Yes. Choose the countries you ship to and set up to five fixed delivery rates with delivery estimates. Remember that EU parcels count as imports for your customer, so explain any VAT or fees they may pay on delivery.
Which policy pages does a UK online shop need?
At least a privacy policy, delivery and returns information with the 14-day cancellation right, and your terms. Cornerrr’s AI drafts privacy, refund, shipping and terms pages for you to check and edit. They’re drafts, not legal advice.
Do I need any technical skills?
No. You describe your business in your own words and Cornerrr builds the website. Afterwards you change things by clicking, or by asking the assistant in plain words.
How much does it cost?
Building and previewing your website is free, with no card needed. To go live and take payments, choose a plan from $19 a month. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial; a card is needed to start it.
Payment methods used in the United Kingdom
- Credit and debit cards
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Klarna
- Afterpay and Clearpay
- Pay by Bank
- Revolut Pay
- Amazon Pay
- Bacs Direct Debit
Start your website in the United Kingdom.
Describe your business and see your website in about a minute. It’s free until you go live.