FreeVocals.com stopped maintaining a store and went back to making samples.

The founder of FreeVocals.com had run several WordPress storefronts and knew the pattern well. Tax calculation, international compliance, and secure transactions were all handled separately, and each one added something to keep track of.

The running costs were the visible part — plugin subscriptions, hosting, security add-ons — but the real cost was time. Updates, troubleshooting, and customisation kept pulling attention away from making and curating samples, which is the actual business.

Fungies replaced the stack with one platform. The no-code store builder means there is a front-end editor rather than a theme and a set of plugins, so changes do not require code or a third-party extension.

The store uses embedded search so producers can find a specific sound quickly, and a three-step checkout that keeps the distance between wanting something and owning it as short as possible. Files up to 50 GB are hosted and delivered directly, which matters for full-quality audio.

Google Tag Manager and Trustpilot are wired in for campaign tracking and social proof, and a single dashboard covers users, orders, and customer questions — replacing the separate CRM that used to sit alongside the store.

There are no more plugins to update, no tax returns to prepare by hand, and no hosting or security issues to chase down. As Merchant of Record we calculate, report, and file international tax on their behalf.

Costs now move with revenue: 5% + 50¢ per sale rather than a stack of subscriptions that charge whether or not anything sold. That is a more predictable expense and a smaller one for a business this size.

As the founder puts it, the only limits left are imagination and the time to create.