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Benefits for Buyers & Vendors

Benefits for Buyers & Vendors

WITH THE INDIEME MARKETPLACE YOU'LL GET...

A platform built by industry leaders for handcrafted artists and buyers.

Our wholesale platform offers a contemporary and responsive website design to enhance the user experience. 

IndieMe attracts a consistent flow of visitors to its marketplace, providing artists with an opportunity to build their wholesale accounts and expand their reach to retailers across North America.

Buyers can benefit from an exclusive program that allows them to discover and shop from artists, accessing unique and all handcrafted items. The platform boasts hundreds of thousands of 100% handcrafted products, making it easy for buyers to source beautiful items for their stores.

IndieMe has expanded its marketplace to include Artisan Food and The Spa, broadening the range of products available to buyers.

PLUS! Our partnerships with companies like Vistaprint, Constant Contact, and more, help you save money on all your business needs. To learn more about these collaborations become a member today!

Buyer Benefits

What Makes Us Special

Shop

Shop over 250,000 handmade crafts anytime 24/7 with our online wholesale marketplace. Discover new products and new artists with the click of a button! Enjoy various events throughout the year like our Virtual Expo and our wildly popular Coffee & Cocktails. Look for Limited Release drops and New Release drops!

  • Powerful, intuitive search capabilities
  • Fully PCI compliant checkout
  • View recent orders and past orders
  • View tracking details
  • Move wish list items to shopping cart
  • Easily add items to your shopping cart or the wish list of your choice
  • Copy products from your wish list to your cart
  • Leave notes to the artist on individual products
  • View artist consignment terms, drop ship terms and customization terms
  • During checkout leave a special note to the artist
  • View your mini cart on your buyer home page; quickly see all your open carts and the artists you are following
  • Easily view all our printed catalogs with our online gallery

Order Management

View all your orders in one easy click. See what has shipped, what is open and view status updates quickly! Our Virtual Chat makes it easy to quickly connect with an artist.

  • Create unlimited wish lists to organize your shopping all year long
  • Add multiple ship to addresses
  • View all your invoices and print as needed
  • Quickly and easily pay open invoices
  • At checkout easily pick the shipping method that best suits your needs from the options listed by the artist
  • Choose your desired method of payment from the options listed by the artist

Network & Grow

Share and learn among private "Buying Groups". Network with your peers in our exclusive online communities!

  • Follow your Favorite artists
  • Upload store images to your buyer profile, including your logo and bio pic
  • Manage your wholesale show plans
  • Stay up to date with our Artist and Retailer Spotlights
  • Create your own Social Profile and link to your personal social media outlets
  • Stay up to date with articles centered around content to help you grow your business

Specialty Platforms

Shop our new platform Artisan Food. This wholesale platform is exclusive to small batch, handcrafted food and drink makers that are ready to fill your store with delicious products. Be sure to shop on The Spa. This wholesale platform includes handcrafted, all-natural bath, body, and aromatic items to pamper your customer.

Vendor Benefits

What Makes Us Special

Your Own Custom Page

Our low yearly membership fee has payment plans to meet a variety of budgets. Add your branding to your store and make it your own!

  • Add multiple custom headers to showcase your products and your studio
  • Share your artist story, add links to your personal website and social media
  • Add multiple images of you and your studio
  • Upload your line sheet for easy viewing and printing
  • Upload up to 6 pdf's
  • Upload up to 6 high resolution images and be notified when an image is downloaded
  • Share scheduled wholesale trade shows for the year and include booth numbers
  • List your terms including minimum order amount, reorder and payment terms
  • Accept orders and securely process credit card payments online.
  • Accept credit cards and e-checks

Manage Your Products

Upload 100's of products with multiple views and arrange using our new drag and drop technology. View real time inventory. Bulk upload your Shopify or Etsy store quickly and easily.

  • Place your products on hold while you set them up
  • Restrict out of stock products from being placed in shopping carts
  • Quickly place products on sale
  • Upload multiple images to showcase details and lifestyle shots
  • Add unlimited multiple product variances to your products
  • Place your products in several categories for easy searching
  • Tag unlimited related products to any product on your site
  • Drag and drop products placing them in your desired sort order
  • Clone products making it easy to upload new similar products
  • At a glance see what products are marked new, best seller and on hold
  • Provide a full description using our rich text editor, including weight and dimensions
  • Add custom descriptions
  • Share your consignment terms, drop ship terms and customization terms

Manage Your Customers

Our newly redesigned Customer Record System will help you manage your buyers in one easy place. Review each buyers orders and profiles!

  • View a summary report of all your buyers
  • View profiles of the buyers who purchase from you
  • View a detailed Customer Record system where you can view all of a buyers orders
  • See all emails that have been sent and received between a specific buyer and you
  • At a glance view all activity for any chosen buyer
  • Manage and assign terms in one easy step

Order Fulfillment Features

Quickly update order status and see at a glance what is paid and unpaid. With one click email order summaries, invoices and include a link to get paid!

  • Advanced shipping calculator with many otions - get real time rates
  • Quickly update order status and fulfillment details
  • Helpful reports providing insight into your success
  • Confirm and or reject orders
  • Make or add payments using Square, PayPal and more
  • Add a discount quickly to a customer's order
  • Post tracking information including carrier, date shipped and tracking number

Feature Rich Shopping Cart

Our brand new shopping cart will highlight your products in a whole new light. Our products detail page will show multiple images, all your variances and so much more!

  • Buyers will see their mini cart as soon as they visit your store, including any of your items in their cart or wish list
  • Thumbnail carousel on the product detail page allows buyer to select items quickly to view in detail
  • Add a full description to your products using our rich text editor, add custom terms and more
  • Items can be moved to cart, to specific wish lists and from wish lists to cart in one easy step
  • Buyers can view related items and quickly place them in the cart

Network & Grow

Enjoy our exclusive online communities and network with peers. Share, learn and grow! The future is local.

  • Stay up to date with our Artist and Retailer Spotlights
  • Create your own Social Profile and link to your personal social media outlets
  • Stay up to date with articles centered around content to help you grow your business
  • Online Communities to network with peers and private groups

Buyers Register Today

REGISTRATION IS FREE AND ONLY TAKES A FEW MINUTES.

Register today and begin shopping from American & Canadian Handcrafted Artists today!

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Artists Join Now

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