What Can I Sell on SteadGoods?
Steadgoods.com is designed for sellers of handmade or homegrown items produced by or within your own local household or property.
It is the seller’s responsibility to ensure that the local, handmade and homegrown items they are listing abide by local state and municipal restrictions. Users have the ability flag or report questionable items for review by the SteadGoods team. We also reserve the right to remove items that we feel violate the terms of service on our SteadGoods platform.
How Many Products Do I Need to List?
A SteadGoods seller can as many or as few items as they choose. (Up to 100 listings!) You design the amount of product variety that works for your home-based, cottage industry business.
What Should I Know About Listings?
With the monthly subscription, sellers have full access and can create up to 100 listings in one storefront, with further variations available within single listings (i.e. one listing can allow for many color or design variations within it.) There are no listing fees – no matter what your volume, you can maintain your SteadGoods store for less than $20 a month indefinitely. The profits are all yours.
How Do I Get the Goods to My Customers?
Sellers has flexibility to choose the methods that work best for them and their customers. Offer porch pick up, weekly deliveries, shipping or all three options on individual listings. Some of your listings can offer shipping, while others are in person only (hello fresh baked cinnamon rolls!). Plan a farm stand schedule around SteadGoods pre-orders and make your cottage industry business run like clockwork!
What Fees Does SteadGoods Charge?
SteadGoods sellers can try out our 14 day trial for free, and after the trial period, SteadGoods sellers can choose between a monthly and yearly billing cycle for their storefront. All features are included in the single fee, including custom ordering, storefront with flexible shipping and picking options for each item, communication with buyers, and card processing. Billed monthly, the SteadGoods subscription is $17.99/month. Billed annually, the price is $179.88 total, or $14.99/month.
Credit card and digital payment processing fees vary, but are generally a few percentages and are processed by PayPal. SteadGoods does not charge commission fees on orders.
How Are Seller Payouts Handled?
All funds go into a PayPal marketplace seller fund created by the individual sellers. Funds can be deposited into seller's personal bank accounts according to PayPal's withdrawal policies.