The new Square shop is live!

I'm very excited to announce that I've successfully made my very own little Square shop. It's similar to Etsy, but I can manage everything, and they only take commission on sales, not have a monthly fee likes other online marketing tools.

It was a not much of a challenge to make the website and the phone app all sync and get the stock to be the same and learn how to manage it with my own mobile hotspot. A few little hiccups, but easily navigated. It has a great little card reader, so now for the first time, people can use their credit cards to buy things!

I did have trouble with the shipping estimator, but since I have prices for shipping from my post office, the best work around for me was to create multiple listings INCLUDING the postage to different countries. The shopper just needs to select the item with the right country flag on it and they can pay for the item plus shipping. It's a small problem if someone wants a few heavy things in the one package, but they can contact me directly if it's over a certain weight and I can work around there.

I don't have so many sales myself that I can't make this a workable solution, so it's working great for me!

I used photos of my niece, who has been very kind about letting me use her face on things and I love the colour scheme and clean look of the site. I've been able to link my Things For Sale on my regular Rosalie's Medieval Woman website to the shop and so far, that's worked well too, so that all my old links remain in place but point here.