Opening a shop

A shop is a page with its own link and its own catalogue. Set up payouts first — you cannot list without them.

The order these steps go in matters

  1. Set up how you get paid. This comes first because listing is blocked until it is done.
  2. Name the shop and give it a look. A shop with no name cannot be published.
  3. List something.
  4. Publish the shop. Until you do, its link does not work for anybody but you.
Payout setup is the step people leave until after their first sale, which is the worst time to discover it. Money accrues against your account, but nothing can be released to you until there is somewhere to send it.

Publishing is its own decision

Creating a shop and opening it to the public are two different acts. It used to be that a shop went live the moment its name happened to be filled in, which handed sellers links that did not work. Now you open it on purpose.

Before you publish, look at the page the way a stranger would. It is the fastest way to catch a missing cover photo or an address you meant to fix.

More than one shop

You can own several. Each has its own name, logo, description, hours, location and catalogue — they are separate storefronts, not one shop with filters over it.

What stays attached to you rather than to a shop is the part that is genuinely about the person: your account's verification and its age. So a long-standing seller opening a brand-new shop shows honestly as both — established as a person, new as a storefront.

Claiming a shop that is already listed

If your business already appears here as an unclaimed place, claim it rather than starting again. The page, its photos and everything already on it stay; what changes is that it becomes yours and can take orders.

Claiming must never make a page worse than it was. If something you had before disappears after a claim, that is a bug worth reporting, not the expected trade.
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