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Selling on the internet has never been easier.\n\n- Sell products and services or collect donations and tips\n- Quickly + easily manage orders, inventory, and sell on-the-go\n- Set custom shipping rates or boost sales with free shipping\n- Print shipping labels directly from your order list\n- Sell downloadable content like exclusive streams, recipes, patterns, and PDFs\n- Collect international payments with PayPal\n- Accept Apple Pay directly on your website\n- Create discount codes to increase sales\n- Automatic fraud protection is built into every Universe website\n\nAUDIENCE\nWebsites are the best way to communicate with your audience on your own terms. Universe includes everything you need to grow and manage your audience.\n\n- See how many views your pages get or how many email subscribers your collect.\n- Send custom emails and newsletters to your mailing list.\n- Custom email forwarding address for your domain.\n- Connect to Google Workspace, Fastmail, or any third party email provider.\n- Connect to Simple Analytics for more data without cookies.\n- Connect to Google Analytics for advanced analytics\n\nWEB HOSTING\nYou do not need to be a web master to own a website. Universe automatically publishes your website securely and keeps it online with industry best practices.\n\n- Build name recognition with a custom domain for your website\n- Automatically appear in search engines with built in SEO\n- Ready to scale to millions of visitors.\n- Secure by default. 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