Detailed below are the basics you need to know about selling with us
Selection
Increasingly at makers-online we are raising standards and targetting just specific product types. This means that unfortunately not everyone can sell with us or that not all of their products are suitable. Recently our resident expert Karen has become the person in charge of curating the site and she has the final say. However we are not just a shop, if you don't fit what we are looking for but are interesting we may still write about you on our community blog and can list you in our makers directory.
Commission
We try to keep the size of our site down but keep a high standard so that each maker has a better chance of making sales and not being lost amongst thousands of other products. In order to do this we need to charge a higher commission than some other sites.
- Payment fee to our payment provider: 3%
- Our commission: 20%
- Total: 23% is taken from the purchase price and the rest passed on to you
Or put simply, if your product costs £100 and someone buys it on our site, we pass on £73 to you.
Adding products
A member of our team adds the products to the site manually, but before she can do that she needs the following details about you:
- Your name (eg. David Saunders)
- Trading name if different (eg. Dave's Quality Merchandise)
- Some blurb about you - should be a couple of paragraphs detailing who you are and the sort of thing you sell. Ideally write it in the third person like "Dave has been making ..." rather than "I have been making ..."
- Email address
- Phone number
- Postal address
- Delivery estimate - time from receiving the order to the customer receiving the item)
Also for each product we need the following:
- Product title (this should really include some keywords about the product for search engines but be not more than six or so words long)
- Price including commission - so if you give the price as £100, you will get £73 per sale
- Description (should be a paragraph or so long and describe the product, including materials used and maybe the processes used to make it. the descriptions must be fairly unique - you can't use the same description for each product but change only three words.)
- Delivery estimate (if different to the other products)
- Dimensions if relevant
- Images (at least one but ideally three really great images, at least 500px high)