Frequently Asked Questions

BazaarSpot is a shopping hub for discovery. We gather local and online shops and their catalogs in one place so you can browse, search, compare, favorite shops, bookmark items, and curate collections to share with friends.

No. We are not the seller. We do not own, stock, ship, or sell the items listed. Every item links to the shop's own website, where you buy under that shop's prices, terms, and delivery policies.

Yes. Browsing, searching, favoriting, bookmarking, creating collections, and every other shopper feature are free. There are no fees and no markups.

Some placements are sponsored, and some outbound links may earn us a commission or referral fee when you click or buy. Sponsored placements are labeled where they appear, and none of this ever changes the price you pay.

From the shops themselves or from their public catalogs. Shops that connect their store keep their catalog in sync automatically. Listings compiled automatically rather than published by the shop itself are labeled as such.

Some parts of BazaarSpot require an account. Pages like About, FAQ, For Shoppers, For Shops, and the blog are open to everyone; the rest needs an account.

General questions and feedback: [email protected]. Account help: [email protected]. Shop owners: [email protected]. Privacy requests: [email protected]. Legal and copyright notices: [email protected]. Every message reaches a real person.

BazaarSpot currently runs separate markets for the United States and Egypt. Each market lists shops from its own country, with prices in that market's currency.

Go to the sign-up page and enter your details, or continue with Google. If you already have an account, just sign in.

Yes. Use "Continue with Google" on the sign-in page.

Verifying proves the address is yours, so we can send password resets and important account notices to the right person. Use the link in the verification email we send after signup.

Choose "Forgot password" on the sign-in page and enter your email. We will send you a link to set a new password.

Go to Account settings and open the login section. You can update your email and phone number there, and change your password.

Go to Account settings to change your name, username, profile photo, bio, country, and language. You can also add social and messaging accounts such as Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp to your profile.

No. It is one person, one account, unless we agree otherwise in writing.

You must be at least 16 years old to hold an account.

Change your password right away, then write to [email protected] so we can look into it and help secure your account.

Browse your home feed, explore categories from the navigation bar, discover new shops, or use search, which covers every shop, item, and category on BazaarSpot at once.

You pick your interests once, and after that every item you open, like, dislike, bookmark, or favorite tunes what surfaces next: new shops in categories you care about and items like the ones you keep coming back to.

Yes. Go to Account settings and update your interests at any time. Your feed is re-ranked to match.

Use the like and dislike buttons on an item. Liking brings more of the same; disliking tells your recommendations to show less like it.

Yes. In Account settings, choose "Reset preferences". Every item and shop you liked or disliked is forgotten, and recommendations start again from your interests. Your interests are kept. This cannot be undone.

We keep catalogs in sync, but prices, availability, and details come from the shops and can change before we pick them up. Always check the shop's own page before you buy.

They highlight what a shop offers, such as cash on delivery, physical stores, free returns, online payment, or Instant Checkout. They come from the shop's own information, so confirm the details on the shop's site.

A sponsored placement is a shop or item a business paid to feature. It is always labeled, and it never changes the price you pay.

On a shop's page, similar shops lists other shops that sell comparable items, so you can compare before you decide.

Use the heart icon on any shop card to favorite it, or the bookmark icon on any item card to save it. Your favorite shops and bookmarked items are available from the sidebar.

A collection is a shelf you build yourself: items and shops grouped around a theme, like a renovation, a wardrobe, or gift ideas for one person. Start one in two clicks from any item.

You decide per collection. Private collections are visible only to you. Shared collections are visible only to the people you send them to. Community collections are public for everyone on BazaarSpot to browse.

Share it with specific people from the collection. It lands in their "Shared with me" page, and they get a notification.

Open "Shared with me". Everything other members have shared with you is collected there.

Community collections are the public kind: other people's taste laid out as shelves you can wander through and borrow ideas from. Publish one of yours to add it.

Yes. You can remove any bookmark or favorite, and edit or delete collections at any time. Copies that other people already saved into their own collections may remain.

Send a friend request from someone's profile. When they accept, you are connected. Incoming requests wait for you on the friend requests page.

Your username, profile photo, bio, and your public collections, reviews, comments, and posts. Your email address, phone number, and saved addresses are never shown publicly.

Type @ followed by their name in a post or comment and pick them from the suggestions. They get a notification, and the mention links to their profile.

Yes. You can rate and review both items and shops. Reviews must reflect your genuine experience, and you must disclose any payment or incentive you received to write one.

Yes. Shops can reply to reviews from their portal, and you get a notification when they do.

Anything unlawful, hateful, harassing, threatening, defamatory, or sexually explicit; impersonation; fake, paid, or coordinated reviews; spam or unsolicited promotion; and anything that targets or exposes another person. See our Terms of Service for the full rules.

Open its ••• menu and choose "Report". Pick a reason, add any details that help, and send it. Reports are private, and our team reviews every one and may remove content or suspend accounts that break our terms. To report a review or a user, write to [email protected] with a link.

Friend requests and accepted requests, likes and comments on your posts, mentions, shop replies to your reviews, and things people share with you.

Go to Account settings and open the notifications section. You can enable push notifications for this browser and switch each notification type on or off.

Check that push notifications are enabled in your notification settings and that your browser allows notifications for BazaarSpot. Push has to be enabled on each browser or device separately.

Use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email. Service emails such as password resets and security notices still reach you.

No. Purchases happen on each shop's own website under their prices, terms, payment, and delivery policies. We send you straight there and stay out of the way.

Yes. We add no markup, and sponsored placements and commissions never change what you pay. If a price looks different, the shop's own site is the one that counts. It may have changed since we last synced.

The cart lets you gather items from many shops in one place, grouped by shop. When you are ready, BazaarSpot opens each shop's own site so you can complete the purchase there.

Some shops support Instant Checkout: add your shipping information once and we prefill that shop's checkout from your BazaarSpot cart, so you don't retype your address. Payment still happens on the shop's site.

Browsers block a site from opening many tabs at once. When that happens, we list the remaining shops so you can open each one yourself.

It removes the selected items from your cart and adds them to your purchase history, so your cart only holds what you still plan to buy. It does not place or confirm an order with the shop.

No. We never take payment. Payment options such as card, cash on delivery, or digital wallets are whatever each shop offers on its own site.

The shop you bought from. Delivery times, shipping costs, warranties, returns, and refunds all follow that shop's own policies.

Contact the shop first, since the purchase is between you and them. Please also tell us at [email protected] so we can look at whether that shop belongs on BazaarSpot.

The shop no longer lists it as in stock, or it was removed from their catalog. Keep it bookmarked if you want to check back later, or look at similar items from other shops.

Prices are shown in the currency of the market you are browsing: US dollars in the United States and Egyptian pounds in Egypt.

BazaarSpot puts your catalog in front of shoppers already looking for what you sell, in personalized feeds, search, categories, and shoppers' collections, and sends them to your own storefront to buy. You keep the customer and the sale.

No. The sale happens on your own site, and we never sit between you and your customer. Where a link earns us a commission or a placement is sponsored, it is labeled, and it never changes the price your customer pays.

Go to "Join BazaarSpot" and choose "Join now". Onboard your store in a few guided steps and connect it so your catalog syncs automatically. You can also suggest a shop from the "Add a shop" page, and we will email you once it is processed.

Shopify and WooCommerce connect automatically. If you run Magento, a custom-built site, or another platform, pick it during onboarding: you join the waiting list and we will onboard your catalog with you.

Choose Shopify during onboarding and enter your store URL as yourstore.myshopify.com. Authorize BazaarSpot in your Shopify admin; we pull your catalog and branding, and onboarding finishes as soon as your first sync completes.

Choose WooCommerce during onboarding, download the BazaarSpot plugin, and install and activate it on your site. Paste the connection key from onboarding into the plugin's settings. Your store then pushes its catalog to BazaarSpot, and onboarding finishes automatically.

Generate a new one by reconnecting your store from onboarding, then paste the new key into the plugin's settings. Keep the key private.

Claim it. Search for your shop on the "Claim your shop" page and prove you control its website. Once your claim is approved, you manage the listing, catalog, and reviews.

Choose one of two methods. DNS TXT record: add the record we give you at your domain's DNS provider, which is best when you control the domain but not the site content. HTML meta tag: add the tag we give you inside the head of your homepage. Then click "Verify now". DNS changes can take up to an hour to propagate.

Yes. Choose "I can't verify this website" and request a manual review. Tell us your role at the shop, a phone number, your preferred contact method, and why you can't verify, and our team will verify your claim personally.

Pending verification: we are waiting to find your DNS record or meta tag. Pending review: our team is reviewing your claim. Approved: the shop is yours to manage. Rejected: the claim was not accepted. Expired: the claim was not verified in time, so start a new one.

Each account can manage one shop, so we can't grant you a second one automatically. Contact [email protected] and we will help you finish onboarding.

Yes. We may list publicly available information about shops that have not registered. If you represent a shop, write to [email protected] and we will correct or remove the listing within a reasonable time, or claim it to manage it yourself.

The Shop Portal is where you run your shop on BazaarSpot once your claim or onboarding is approved: performance analytics, catalog management, review replies, and team access.

Impressions, views, clicks, click-through rate, bookmarks, favorites, shares, and ratings, for your shop and for each item, with trends over time rather than just totals.

A connected Shopify or WooCommerce store syncs automatically. From the portal you can also maintain items, pricing, availability, metadata, and the search fields shoppers find you by.

Yes. Invite team members with role-based access from the portal, and revoke a member or an active session at any time.

Straight to your own website. Every item links to your storefront, so you keep the customer relationship, the data, and the sale.

Our editors curate feed sections that spotlight shops and items worth a closer look. Sponsored placements are also available and are always labeled. Write to [email protected] to ask about either.

Yes. The "Find us on BazaarSpot" badge links your visitors to your shop on BazaarSpot, and it works for visitors who don't have an account.

No. We do not sell your personal data, and we do not share it with advertisers for cross-site targeting. We run no third-party ad or tracking networks.

What you give us (account and profile details, saved addresses, and the content you create) and what we record as you use the site (pages, items, and shops you open, searches, and clicks), which powers your recommendations. Our Privacy Policy lists everything in detail.

Only aggregate counts, such as how many views and clicks their listings got. They don't get your name, email, or contact details unless you contact them yourself or use a feature that says it will pass them on.

No. When you follow a link to a shop, we record which item or shop you clicked so shops know what sends traffic, but we do not follow you onto their site. Once there, the shop's own privacy policy and cookies apply.

Only what the site needs to work: keeping you signed in, remembering your theme, country, and language, holding your cart, and first-party visitor and session IDs. Our analytics runs on our own domain.

Go to your profile, open the "Danger zone" tab, type your email address to confirm, and delete. When it is your only profile, this deletes your whole account right away, including your posts, collections, reviews, and friends. It cannot be undone. If you have replied to reviews on behalf of a shop, write to [email protected] instead.

Yes. Write to [email protected] to request a copy of your data, a correction, a deletion, or a restriction on how we process it.

Your data is encrypted in transit, passwords are stored only as salted hashes, and access to our systems is controlled and regularly reviewed. Use a strong, unique password and tell us right away if you think your account is compromised.

Check the shop's reviews and ratings, its features such as cash on delivery or free returns, and whether it manages its own listing. Always read the shop's own policies before you pay, and use "Report" in the shop's ••• menu if it seems suspicious.

Email [email protected] with the URL, a description of your work, and your contact details. We investigate and remove infringing material where the claim is valid.