Web Design in St. Louis for Resale Shops That Buy From the Public

Updated November 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

When a gold buyer in the City of St. Louis pays for a chain at eleven in the morning, the online store cannot list it by lunch: the City’s secondhand dealer chapter holds jewelry and precious metal for 48 hours before it may be sold, traded or melted. The same chapter asks for a photograph, a copy of the seller’s ID and a thumbprint at the counter. Web design in St. Louis for a resale, vintage, gold or phone buying shop puts those rules on the sell page and inside the store’s stock records. Progression’s team works from New York, builds for St. Louis shops remotely and comes to the counter for planning sessions on request.

The chain bought at eleven on a Tuesday

A buyer behind a St. Louis counter pays for a gold chain on a Tuesday morning. By noon the shop’s online store has a spot for it, a social post is half written, and the marketplace feed is ready to pick it up.

The chain cannot be offered online until Thursday at eleven. Nothing in the website is wrong, but it was built without the counter’s clock. The fix is a field in the stock record, not a note on a sticky pad.

• The counter starts the clock when the purchase is made.
• The stock record carries an available-from line.
• The online store, the feed and social posts read that line.
• A person can see which items are held and until when.

Web design in St. Louis under the secondhand dealer chapter

Under Chapter 8.82 of the Revised Code of the City of St. Louis, as Ordinance 69332 amended it, a secondhand dealer is any person doing business in the City who purchases or sells goods of any kind once used or transferred from the manufacturer to the dealer and then received into the possession of third parties.

The chapter’s list runs from cloths, carpets, clothing, furniture and household utensils to electronics, computers, cellular phones, jewelry of any kind, items made in whole or part of gold, silver or precious metals or gemstones including bullion, and coins.

The License Collector’s Businesses With Additional Requirements page says the application goes to the St. Louis Police Department for approval and again at each annual renewal. Every secondhand dealer keeps a record of purchases on the Secondhand Dealer Resale Purchase Form, and some purchases are entered into the Law Enforcement Agency Data System, known as LEADS.

The chapter covers businesses in the City of St. Louis. A shop in a St. Louis County municipality asks that municipality what applies. Read the chapter with counsel before a sell page promises anything.

Which shops count as secondhand dealers in the City?

Anyone doing business in the City who buys or sells used goods of the kinds the chapter names, including clothing, furniture, household articles, electronics, phones, jewelry, precious metals, bullion and coins.

Four buying lanes, set against the chapter

A buying shop runs up to four lanes at once, and each one meets the chapter differently. Website development in St. Louis for such a shop starts with the lane table, because every field on the site comes from one of its rows.

A sell page that tells the seller what to bring

The page lists the ID the chapter asks for: a copy of the seller’s driver’s license or, if not available, military identification, a passport or other approved State identification. It tells the seller about the photograph and the thumbprint before the trip.

Quote forms that ask about the item, never the person

An online quote asks what the item is, its condition and any serial number. The copy of the ID, the photograph and the thumbprint are completed at the counter at the time of the transaction.

An available-from date on every bought item

Each record in the stock system carries a date and time from which the item may be offered. The website, the marketplace feeds and social posts read that field.

Serial numbers shown before an offer is made

For goods that carry a manufacturer’s serial number, the chapter’s rule is that the number is plainly visible. The sell page asks the seller to have it visible before the visit.

What a buy and sell site costs in the City

Pricing depends on scope and is set in the written proposal, and published prices are subject to change. Website design in St. Louis for a buying shop is priced by the lanes it runs and the stock system it connects to.

Progression’s own build prices, as published

These are the prices on our website design and development page, in its fixed scope table, in the column headed price from.

The 48 hour shelf for gold, silver and jewelry

It is unlawful for a secondhand dealer who buys or sells jewelry, or items made in whole or part of gold, silver or precious metals or gemstones including bullion, or coins, to sell, trade, melt down, dispose of, alter or destroy them until 48 hours after the date of purchase. On written notice that the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department has cause to believe an item is stolen, the dealer keeps it for an additional ten days.

A hold flag in the stock record keeps the item off the online store, the marketplace feed and social posts until the hold ends. No just-in post goes up for bought gold before release, and nothing is melted or altered during the hold. See our jewelry website design page for the store side.

• Every jewelry and precious metal record gets a hold flag at purchase.
• The flag clears by date and time, not by hand.
• The ten day extension is a second state of the same flag.
• A report lists held items so the counter can see them.

Does the 48 hour hold apply to every item the shop buys?

No. It applies to jewelry, and to items made in whole or part of gold, silver or precious metals or gemstones including bullion, and to coins. Other lanes follow their own lines in the chapter.

Phones, trade-ins and the sixty day hold

Under 8.82.065, a dealer who buys a cellular phone or other electronic communication device enters a complete description, including any serial number, and the seller details into LEADS at the time of purchase. No dealer buys from a person not of legal age, and when an officer places a hold notice on a device believed stolen, the dealer holds it sixty calendar days unless released sooner.

The ordinance’s Section Seven describes a mobile service company regulated by the FCC that takes devices for a non-cash account credit and meets its listed conditions. A resale shop’s trade-in page is written as a purchase under the chapter. Web development in St. Louis for a phone buyer asks the device page for model, condition and carrier lock status, never for the owner’s ID.

• State the legal age line on the page.
• Ask about the device, not about the person.
• Show that the shop enters each phone in LEADS at the time of purchase.
• Describe the hold plainly if a device is flagged.

What changes on a phone trade-in page?

The page reads as a purchase under 8.82.065: entry in LEADS at the time of purchase, the legal age line and the possible 60 day hold.

Is a phone held for sixty days after every purchase?

No. The sixty calendar day hold applies when an officer places a hold notice on a device believed stolen, and the device is released sooner if the officer says so.

House calls, estate buys and the auction exception

The photograph and thumbprint requirement does not apply to a purchase or trade-in at an auction or in the private house or office of the person selling, but every other requirement stays. An estate buying page says the ID copy and the form still happen at the house.

St. Louis website design for an estate buyer keeps that sentence near the booking form. Mail-in or ship-to-us buying is a question for counsel or the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department before the site offers it.

• Say what is collected at the house and what is not.
• Keep the booking form free of ID fields.
• Send mail-in buying questions to the License Collector, the Police Department or counsel before the site offers it.

Web design in St. Louis, MO, for records that stay off the website

The photograph and form are kept one year from the transaction. At least sixty days before destroying them, the dealer notifies the police department in writing.

The LeadsOnline QuickStart the License Collector posts says a business registers as a business, enters each ticket in Ticket Assistant when it has no point of sale software, or creates a police report file and uploads it when it does. Store Monitor under My Account shows errors and alerts.

Where do ID copies and thumbprints live?

In the counter system, and never in the website, its form inbox or email. The photograph and the form are kept one year.

ID copies, thumbprints and seller photographs live in the counter system and never in the website, its form inbox or email. The site’s database holds item records and the hold flag only.

• No ID fields in any form on the site.
• No attachments of IDs in the contact inbox.
• No seller photographs in the CMS media library.
• Item records and hold flags in the store database only.

The counter notice, said once more online

Every dealer displays a notice in a prominent place telling customers that city ordinance requires the dealer to photograph and fingerprint every person selling or offering an item as payment.

The sell page repeats it in plain words so no seller is surprised at the counter. St. Louis web design for a buying shop writes the line for people who use screen readers as well, with real headings and short sentences.

• Repeat the notice on the sell page and the estate page.
• Use plain words and a real heading.
• Keep the line short enough to read aloud.

Ready for the first walk-in seller

The card below holds the items to tick off before the counter opens to the public.

For online selling across the whole store, see our ecommerce website design page. For the city’s wider marketing work, see our marketing agency in St. Louis page.

What does a buying shop’s stock system need to track?

Four fields carry the chapter into the website: the date and time of purchase, the available-from line, the lane and the hold state. The point of sale export carries them out to the store.

• Date and time of purchase.
• The available-from line, set by the lane.
• The lane: gold and jewelry, phones, serial numbered goods or other.
• The hold state, with a reason when a hold is extended.

Accessible forms for sellers

A seller who uses a screen reader or a keyboard needs the same clear sell page as anyone else. Forms have labels, errors say what went wrong, and the page reads in order.

• Every field has a visible label.
• Error messages name the field and say what to change.
• Headings follow the order of the steps at the counter.
• Contrast and text size stay readable on a phone.

Frequently asked questions