Hi @TwiLdCapitHog how is shopify going, you have been there a couple of months now? how is the traffic and sales?
Hi all! I'm about to go and close my Etsy account - it's been a long time coming! But first I wanted to stop by and wish you all the very best. I hope that you find good solutions for selling. (I can still be found at my blog: annmackay.blog - still haven't set up my FAA shop but am doing some industrial photography for the next few weeks...)
I don't know if I've already mentioned this site: https://foltboltshop.com/ It is a beautiful-looking handmade selling site that deserves to be beter known and might be worth a look. If I start selling small arty items again, I'll probably set up there.
I used to enjoy the community on Etsy and will miss the original forums and teams. Without it, I really don't want to stay - it feels sad!
Good luck everyone! Best wishes to you all, Ann.
Foltbolt looks beautiful. I might give it a try.
Storenvy has a beautiful new theme called Cooper. I loaded that up and my icky storenvy site suddenly became beautiful. I deletet my tictail shop and am moving on.
https://kristismart.storenvy.com/
Hi! Good luck in your store- Is Storenvy similar to Tictail in how it works? I can't find info on the site for what the fees are, can you elaborate at all? x
Hi @ManicManx I looked Storenvy up on the web and it has some terrible reviews, a lot of people have been saying that is's a scam front for overseas stores who will never send your goods. How have you found it being on there, are you getting traffic and sales ? Is the whole idea of it with the "envying" working to help your items get seen by a larger audience ?
Im sure there are scammy people on storenvy the same way there are scammy people on etsy or any other selling platform.
The way storenvy works is that you have the option of having two shops. One is called your marketplace shop. What that means is that it is visible on their website and in their search engine. Its a lot like etsy. If someone uses their search engine and you have clicked the option of being visible on their site, then they will take 10% of your sales since they generated that sale for you. You do not have to click the option of having your shop visible on their market place. I only just clicked that option and dont have anything to report about it.
When you dont click that option, your site is seen as your stand alone shop. You have to drive your customers to it. All your sales are yours and I believe they take a low percentage of the sales. I think 3% but dont quote me on that.
The sales I have gotten are because my personal website is linked to my storenvy shop through my "Shop Here" button. I am now driving my customers to it.
I had my link directed to my tictail shop but had to stop that. Their policiy of shutting down any shop that didnt log into their dashboard every days was harmful to my sales. My sales are low but they can be high ticket items.
Tictail shut down my shop at the moment my customer was trying to purchase an item for $1,050. When she went to buy the item from my tictail shop, they had just shut it down on day 30 and she found the item in my storenvy shop on day 31 She purchased it from there. I was really happy with the low commision fees.
One thing storenvy does that i do not like is they charge our customers a sales $1 fee for I dont know what. Its really annoying and a surprise to the customer. If somoene is buying a $300 coat its not too much of an issue. If they are buying a $5 pair of earrings, it can break the sale. Im hoping they change their policy on that.
So here are some links.
https://support.storenvy.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2174447-what-fees-does-storenvy-charge-merc...
Well I recently heard some new things about Zibbit - that may be another community option.
Zibbet offering a Community store, Website, and going Multi channel, that's amazing for the
price they are offering.
I received an email from Zibbit about the stores.
I took a quick look and it looks like it's for Crafts/Handmade and Antiques for ? $5/month ?
I would think about it if they would include the "kitchen sink". (Since I sell clothing, knick knacks, collectibles, crafts, handmade and such.)
I think you can put whatever on your website space there, Quilt !♥ 4.00 per channel... so with both 8.00