Shopify ShopStable
Built to sell and ship products Built for quotes, bookings, and local jobs
Hours of setup and theme tweaking A professional site in an afternoon
Monthly fee before you add anything Free to start
Booking and CRM need paid apps Quote inbox and CRM included
You drive all your own traffic Found in the local marketplace
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Wix ShopStable
A blank canvas to design yourself Prebuilt for local service businesses
Advanced lead tools cost extra Quote inbox and CRM included
A website, but no local marketplace A website plus a local marketplace
You drive all your own traffic Found by nearby customers
Add-ons stack up your bill The essentials in one plan
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Angie's List ShopStable
A directory profile, not a website A real website on your own domain
Lead prices vary by trade and season One flat rate per lead
Annual contracts to cancel Free to start, no contract
Your brand lives on their site Your brand, your storefront
No website builder Full website builder included
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Thumbtack ShopStable
Lead prices set dynamically One flat rate per lead
A profile on their platform A real website on your own domain
Built around their marketplace A website plus a local marketplace
They keep your reviews and data Your customers and reviews are yours
No website builder Full website builder included
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Troubleshooting

A business isn't selectable on the consent screen

The Website Assistant is in open beta for every business, so the usual reason a business is greyed out is that your role doesn't include website editing for it. Ask an owner or admin to grant you website access, then reconnect. (If ShopStable has closed the beta and moved it to a paid plan, a business also needs that plan — its own can retry once upgraded.)

The import says my site blocks automated visitors

Many small-business hosts ship a blanket "no robots" rule. Since it's your website, you can authorize the import yourself: open your workspace when the assistant asks, and confirm the attestation ("this is my website and I authorize this import"). The assistant cannot confirm this for you — only you can, and the confirmation is logged.

"The draft was changed by another editor"

You (or a teammate) edited while the assistant was working — this is the conflict guard doing its job. Nothing was lost: the assistant refetches and re-applies its change on top of yours. If you see this in your editor after the assistant restored a checkpoint, reload to pick up the latest draft.

The assistant says it can't publish

Correct — it never can. Review the draft preview link, then click Publish in your editor yourself.

My connection stopped working

In likely order:

  1. Revoked or expired? Check Account → Connected apps — reconnect if it's gone or past its expiry.
  2. Password reset recently? That revokes all connections, by design.
  3. Role changed? You need website-edit access on the business; ask the owner.
  4. Rate limited? Sustained heavy building can hit per-minute limits; the assistant waits and continues automatically.

The preview link expired or says the draft was published

Preview links last 24 hours and are pinned to one draft. Ask the assistant for a fresh one — and if the draft was published in the meantime, the notice links you to the live site.

Something else?

Contact support from the Support page — include the business name and roughly when it happened; the audit log lets us see exactly what the assistant did.

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