Sell on Handmade Guild!
At Handmade Guild, we make it easy and hassle-free for you to sell your products to customers all over the world. Whether you are a professional seller or just looking to make some extra cash, Handmade Guild provides you with the perfect platform to showcase your products and reach a wider audience.
Our platform is designed to provide you with the tools and support you need to create a successful online business. With a user-friendly interface and powerful features, you can easily list your products, manage your inventory, and process orders.
At Handmade Guild, we understand that selling online can be a daunting task. That's why we offer a range of resources to help you succeed. From seller guides and tutorials to customer support, we are committed to helping you grow your business and achieve your goals.
With Handmade Guild, you can sell a wide range of products, including fashion, beauty, home and garden, electronics, and more. Our platform is designed to provide you with maximum exposure and reach, so you can connect with customers from all over the world.
Join the Handmade Guild community today and start selling your products to a global audience. With our powerful platform and dedicated support team, the sky is the limit for your online business. We don't charge pesky transaction fees, final value fees or high priced monthly membership fees, our pricing is upfront (see below).
| Features for Sellers | Fees | Allowed Products | Signup to sell | Documents |
Features that come with your seller account:
- Your own seller dashboard
- View all sales statistics
- Communicate with buyers through a messaging system
- Add/Edit/Delete products or even just make them invisible from customers and the site
- Manage products stock
- Manage products SKU number or have one generated for you
- Add/Edit/Delete product variations/options with price difference, if applicable
- Add per product return, refund, exchange and cancellation policies
- View all sales and customer information
- Input shipping information for customer orders (Status change and tracking number)
- See how many times a product has been viewed
- View Earnings
- View listing fee charges, invoices and status (Paid, Unpaid)
- View Payouts and ask for a withdraw (no fee withdraws)
- Add/edit/delete coupons and view coupon uses
- View refund requests from customers
- View reviews made by customers, only verified customers can leave a review
- Add/edit your shop settings
- Custom shipping settings
- Custom per product gift wrapping fees
- View any and all fees paid to HMG (Featured listing fees, product listing fees and product relisting fees)
- Customers can add your shop to their favorites with notification sent to customer when a new product is added
- Vacation mode for when you need to get away for a while. You can enable or disable at any time
- Seller Badges, this tells potential customers your business practices and how you handle orders, messages & shipping
- Customers can leaves notes to sellers on checkout about their order or anything they want you to know
- Plus Membership with extra benefits for sellers (Listing credits, featured products & featured shop on our blog)
- Product tags, all product tags will be clickable and show other products with the same tag (Example: handmade, all natural, candles, primitive doll, turquoise) This is beneficial for you and others.
- COMING SOON! Listing credits for all plus membership, no longer a $ amount added to your balance, you can purchase listing credits, the more your purchase the more you save.
All product listing have their own fields, where you can let customers know your return, refund, exchange and cancellation policies for individual products. To learn WHY we put policies in with product details, visit the Help Center.
Our Fees:
Handmade Guild has a $0 unlimited product plan that charges a small listing fee .25 for each product added. When the product sells you pay a 10% commission fee on the product price only, we do not take any fees from your shipping or gift wrapping charges. We have a PLUS membership plan for $10 month that comes with unlimited products with some added perks like listing credits, featured products and a write up on our blog as a featured shop.
Listing Fees
Listing fees are $.25 cents for each product listed. All listing fees are taken from your balance OR if you have a balance owed, you will see an invoice listed in your account each time a new product is added. Once you have logged out and logged back in, this invoice will be active and listed as unpaid. Failure to pay owed fees, will result in suspension of your account until paid in full.
All owed fees must be paid when the balance reaches $10 or more, failure to pay will result in your account becoming inactive until a payment is received. If you owe less than $10, you account will remain active but is suggested to bring your account balance back to $0 or more . You can view your balance on your seller dashboard.
Your balance shows how much you have available for withdraw, for example: You list 5 products and the listing fee is $1.25 for all 5, you currently do not have any money in your balance so your account is now -$1.25, if you make a sale and you earned $20 (after commission fees) your balance will be $18.75 because you owe $1.25.
If you have a positive balance in your account of let's say $50 and you list 5 products @ $.25cents each ($1.25) your balance will now be $48.75, you can view these charges inside your seller dashboard. You can request a withdraw when your balance is $25 or more, You cannot request a withdraw if your balance reaches $25 if part of that balance is for Plus Membership listing credits. You must have $25 after listing credits are counted for.
If you balance is $0 and you list 10 products, your balance will now say -$2.50. Until a sale is made or you pay your balance.
All balances must be paid directly using paypal to admin@handmadeguild.com, always be sure to put in your name and your store name when making a payment to receive proper credit.
Commission
Handmade Guild takes a 10% commission only after the item sells, we don't charge extra for processing transactions or payment acceptance fees, just a flat 10% commission and best yet, we don't charge the commission on your shipping OR gift wrapping charges, those are as a whole added to your balance. Note that if you have a negative balance before the sale (read above), your balance after the sale will be less because it will pay any owed fees and then the remaining balance is yours.
What kind of items can I sell?
Handmade Guild caters to handmade artists and customers looking for handmade goods or downloadable patterns, images, etc, we ask that your products be handmade or at least modified from it's original version. An example would be string lights, if you dipped them in silicone and grubbied them up, they then would be considered handmade. We do however allow the re-selling of handmade goods from another artist (If you are an authorized reseller) for a company or person that makes handmade products. If you are unsure, please contact support.
- We also allow the selling of supplies used to make a handmade product, this includes wicks, wax, burning tools, yarn, buttons, etc...
- We do allow the selling of antiques in particular categories, when listing an antique please provide date made and pictures to prove it's authenticy. Items deemed not antique will be disabled from our website.
We do not allow mass produced items or wholesale pricing of items. If you are unsure if your product is able to be listed, please create a support ticket.
YOU READY TO JOIN US?
Follow these steps to open a store. If you have already registered and verified your email you may skip steps 1 & 2.
- Click on the Register link in the top right hand corner, input your details, read through the terms and conditions, mark appropriate boxes and submit.
- You will receive an email to confirm your email address before your account is active, once you have verified continue to next step.
- Make sure you are logged in
- Click on the [Sell] button at top right hand corner
- Input your shop information
- Submit your request.
All store approvals happen within 24 hours after you have uploaded documents to verify your account (Drivers license or recent bill) and provided pictures of the items you make and will sell on HandmadeGuild.com, if you are unable to upload more than one document/images, please open a support ticket and supply the information there.
Why do we ask for documents?
This is to keep our marketplace free from spam and mass produced items and allow small businesses and individual artists to get the exposure. We cater to handmade products and that includes products that were handmade many many years ago (Antiques). We, you and other artists can make our marketplace the best by providing handmade quality art to customers around the world. You will only have to provide documents when asking to open a store and is only once (unless you close your store and want to open another one later on). Products you list after being verified are shown on the site immediately after completion of listing.
*There are no refunds or prorated refunds once you have paid for product listings, product relisting or featured listing fees.
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