For record stores
Six months free, for founding stores.
VinylSonar is a new Canadian app for record collectors. It catalogues a collection and values the specific pressing someone owns — year, country, label, catalogue number — rather than pricing the album as one thing.
The marketplace side only works if there are shops on it, which is why founding stores get a Store account free for six months: your own storefront, unlimited listings, and your shop shown to collectors browsing your area. No card, no obligation when it ends.
Email us to set it up See the app
Print for your shop
Both carry a QR code that opens VinylSonar. Use them, change them, or ignore them — none of this is a condition of the free account.
Printing larger than the sizes above will look soft — these are sized to the resolution the artwork actually carries. Ask us if you want a bigger version and we'll have one made properly.
Badge for your website
If you have a site and want to show you're on VinylSonar, paste this wherever you keep your footer or links. It links back to us — but please don't add it because you feel you have to. It makes no difference to your free account.
<a href="https://vinylsonar.ca"
target="_blank"
rel="noopener noreferrer"
title="Find us on VinylSonar">
<img src="https://vinylsonar.ca/assets/vinylsonar-partner-badge.png"
alt="Proud VinylSonar Partner"
width="220"
style="max-width:100%;height:auto;border:0;">
</a>
On Shopify, Squarespace or Wix, add it in a page or footer block set to “custom HTML” / “embed code”. If that's not something you do, send this to whoever looks after your site — or reply and we'll help.
We link back to you
The other half of the badge above. Put it up and your shop goes on our partners page with a link straight to your own website — not to a page inside our app. No fee, no exclusivity, and either of us can stop at any time.
What a Store account gives you
- Your own storefront in the app — your shop's page, browsable by collectors.
- Unlimited listings, rather than the cap on a free personal account.
- Local visibility — collectors near you see your stock when they search nearby.
- Direct messages from buyers, in the app.
Honest caveat: VinylSonar is new, and there aren't many collectors on it yet. Founding stores are how that changes, and what you tell us shapes what gets built next.