As a seller, you'll get your very own storefront with the built-in ability to accept online payments. It's a lot of work to hire developers and designers to help you maintain a modern-looking website but, with Handcrafted, you'll never need to worry about the digital stuff again.

Have a bunch of extra wood, tools, frog blanks, or anything else taking up space in your shop? List it for sale on Handcrafted to get it in front of the people who actually want to buy it -- other luthiers.

You can easily provide financing to your customers and get paid in full up front while somebody else handles the rest. Buy now, pay later financing through Affirm is automatically provided as a payment method for all orders on Handcrafted up to $30,000. When a customer completes checkout with Affirm, you're paid out immediately just as though they'd paid with a credit card. Simple!

Your in-person customers can now pay for their invoices just like they pay for online orders. That means you can offer $17,500 worth of financing (and get paid in full, up front) for every instrument or bow you sell, or simply give customers the option to pay for smaller purchases pay using bank transfer, credit card, Apple pay, or Google pay. As an added bonus, invoices have lower fees than selling through the marketplace.

It's a big ask for somebody to spend thousands of dollars on an instrument or bow that they've never played with their own fingers. That's why we have created a streamlined home-trial process and standardized gauge of tonal, playability, and other characteristics right on your product pages -- to make it much easier to get your instruments in the hands of those who need them.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, video and audio of your instrument being played must be worth at least a few thousand. Give life to the description and characteristics you've added for your instruments with real video of the instrument being played directly on the product page.

Sell custom specd tools, mutes, horse hair, or anything else? If you want to sell items that require some customer input, that's no problem! You can decide whether any particular item should "allow notes" and customers will be able to add notes for that specific item -- and only that item -- to the order.

All orders automatically calculate shipping costs and sales tax based on the order contents, the customer's shipping address, your store's address. Shipping rates leverage the shipping carriers & methods that you configure for your store. The amount that the customer pays for shipping is then transferred to you, and you can purchase + print a shipping label from your seller dashboard (or manually input a tracking number if you purchase the label off-site).

It is free to create your store and list items for sale. Like traditional instrument shops, there is a fee when an instrument is sold, but Handcrafted rates are even lower.

Traditional Instrument Shop Fees

• Consignment: 20-30% + ~3% for card processing
• Wholesale: 40-50%

Handcrafted Fees

• Online sales: 5% + processing
• Invoices: 2% + processing

Processing fees range from 0.8% to 6%. See our FAQ for more details.

We'd love to service the entire world (and we hope to, sooner than later!), but for right now we are only allowing sellers with stores located in the United States.