Comparisons
Instagram can get you the message. It will not keep the hours honest when the app changes.
An Instagram-only business is a real pattern: DMs, stories, a link in bio. It works until the algorithm hides you, the bio link is a mess, or a customer wants a URL that is not an app. A Bizzit site is the page you still own when the feed is loud.
Stay Instagram-only if DMs are the whole sale and you accept the platform risk. Add a Bizzit site when you need hours, prices, and a URL that is not rented from a feed. We do not run your Instagram.
What Instagram-only actually is
Your catalog is posts. Your checkout is DMs or a third-party link. You do not control ranking, outages, or whether a screenshot of a story is still true next month.
What a site adds
A site is a stable offer: hours, from-prices, photos that are not a chat screenshot, a slug you can print. Free is enough to test. Pro is $12 when you want the domain and unlimited Cipher.
Who should stay in the app
Stay if you have no hours to publish, you sell only through DMs on purpose, and you are willing to lose the graph if the account goes down. That is a choice. Write it down.
Who should add Bizzit
Add a site if people ask the same five questions in DMs (hours, price, where, when, how to pay). Put the answers on a page. Keep Instagram as the megaphone.
What we will not pretend
We are not Instagram, a scheduler, a shop scraper, or a growth agency. No fake follower counts. No "we will get you on Explore."
Link in bio without a circus
One URL. The Bizzit slug, later the custom domain. If you still use a bio-link tool, first button is the site. UTM the Instagram button if you buy ads later, not on day one.
A table, not a slogan
Empty cells stay empty. We name our prices. We do not invent theirs.
| Job | Instagram-only | Bizzit site |
|---|---|---|
| Who owns the URL | Meta's app | you.bizzit.io, then your domain on Pro |
| Hours of record | A story that expires | A page you can keep true |
| Our product price | N/A | $0 / $12 |
| We run your account | No | No |
Limits and caveats
This is not anti-Instagram. It is anti-pretending a grid is a business system. Ads on Instagram are a separate cost from Pro.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or Comparisons. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Can Cipher post to Instagram?
Not as a shipped social suite. Overnight jobs are from the brief on the site. Empty cells stay empty.
Do I delete Instagram if I make a site?
No. Point the bio at the site.
Will a site replace DMs?
Only if you put a real action on the page. Many shops still close in DMs. That is fine. The site answers the FAQ.
Is the free slug OK to put in the bio?
Yes. Upgrade when you want the .com on the card.