You can start your profile now by clicking the “Start Now” button on our pricing table. You will be directed to a secure online form that will collect basic information and give you the option of submitting deeper data for your profile, like keywords. The first businesses to submit a profile now will be first invited to go live when we launch.

The Local Search Directory is currently being built and is scheduled for delivery at the end of November at VirtualStorefront.co. As soon as our Directory is live, we will begin filling it with Business Profiles from our pilot region around Cherokee County, North Carolina and new Profiles from across the country.

Business Listings will be added to Virtual Storefronts in the order they are received. The sooner you Get Started, the sooner your profile will be live.

We will contact you for business verification by email and collect payment for your listing. Your profile will go live after we collect payment.

We will contact you for business verification by email and follow up by phone call to finish gathering your deep data, like keywords. Your profile will go live after we collect payment.

We are not collecting payment for profiles until our product is live. We will collect payment for your profile when we go live. If you start a profile before the end of 2020, we will honor our 2020 discounts found on our current pricing table at time of payment.

When the local search directory goes live, we will immediately begin adding profiles at virtualstorefront.co/yourbusiness. When anyone in the country searches for a keyword for your business, your business will appear in search results and anyone will be able to see your Virtual Storefront, your business profile on Virtual Storefronts.

Every business profile will be assigned a permanent profile URL when it is created. When you Get Started on your business profile, you can request a specific URL like VirtualStorefronts.co/BobsSubs. URLs will be assigned on a first come first served basis. In the case you have another Bob’s Subs we will suggest something like “BobsSubsBoston” that differentiates your business.

We give you the opportunity to suggest alternatives or approve our suggested alternatives before your profile is launched.

Note: Your URL and the VirtualStorefronts.co URL are not case sensitive. We use capitalization for legibility.

To start connecting Shop Local Fans with Local Merchants as soon as possible, we are developing our service in two phases. “Search and Storefront” is being developed for right now for immediate release.

“Chat and Checkout” will be an additional optional service available to every business with a VS profile. We are developing for release in 2021. Chat and Checkout will give local merchants the ability to completely virtualize customer relationships and sales so that local merchants can enter the rapidly growing market of ‘curbside customers,’ people who will never set foot in a store to buy something again.

Chat leverages the biggest advantage local shopkeepers hold over the sterile inventory sites that dominate the market, like Amazon. Shopify, Square, Squarespace and other services replicate the same sterile online shopping experience of Amazon, JoAnn Fabrics, AutoZone, Walmart and every other corporate-backed inventory site.

When you’re playing a game where more money, more resources, and more inventory are the metrics for success, Local Business will lose every time. We say, “Local Businesses Have A Monopoly On Service.” Chat shifts the playing field to the advantage of the local merchant by putting the customer relationship front and center – something it’s impossible for mega-inventory sites to accomplish.

Chat and Checkout lets local merchants focus on the two critical aspects of local business: Relationships and Sales. Repeat.

USpace is a privately held company based in Atlanta, Georgia with no venture capital backing; no ties to Silicon Valley and a business model that eliminates ads, social publishing, data mining, and algorithm feeds. USpace is the privacy, safety and security foundation on which Virtual Storefronts is built. We started building our core network in 2018 and released Professional Services, our first product in April 2020.

Our Terms of Service legally obligate our company to respect the data of the people who use our services.

Your business is locally owned; serves a local retail or service clientele directly; and does not significantly benefit from nationally franchised brand marketing (i.e. McDonald’s).