Shops Overview

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Benefits of creating a shop

Marketing Shops

Pop-Up Shops

Company Shops

Connected Shops

Shops Wizard

Shop fees

FAQ

Benefits of creating a shop

Shops are the effortless way to build the most profitable online store for you and your client! No complicated inventory. No complicated purchasing methods. A frictionless experience that eliminates communication hassles, complicated ordering, and multiple data entries. 

Key benefits available to all shop types include:

1. Easy product selection: No more wading through PDFs and cumbersome back-and-forth with the customer.
2. Easy to build: Set-up in minutes by anyone, no tech background required, make a presentation, and, with a click, you can create a shop!
3. Easy to promote: Easily embed in your site, easy to share with customers.
4. Easy control, easy approval: Your client chooses from pre-approved products with pre-approved artwork.
5. Easy to order: Sales orders are created the instant the shopper places an order. No re-keying!

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Marketing Shops

This shop helps attract new business and serves as a product search on your website. It allows the customer to upload their artwork, enter their shipping info, and create a sales order at their convenience.

You can create a Marketing Shop

1. around a common theme, like tech items or eco-friendly products
2. for a particular industry, like restaurants or hospitality
3. with your brand messaging and share branded merch to your partners

Share a Marketing Shop by

1. adding the shop link to your email signature or including it in an e-blast
2. embedding the shop on your website

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Pop-Up Shops

This shop allows you to combine low quantity orders into a single sales order that meets supplier minimums.

Some unique features of Pop-Up Shops are that they

1. don't require you to enforce minimum quantities
2. allow you to set a single retail price for each product
3. enable shoppers to pay by credit card

You can create a Pop-Up Shop for:

1. Employee apparel programs - Employees place their low quantity apparel orders, then you can combine them into one easy-to-produce sales order.
2. Celebration gifts - Gift employees one item or allow them to order multiple items and pay for their checkout by credit card.

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Company Shops

This shop features products that meet supplier minimums and are shipped to a designated location or the shopper's requested location.

Some unique features of Company Shops are that they

1. enforce minimum quantities
2. can have pre-defined billing and shipping details
3. allow shoppers to pay by credit card

You can create a Company Shop for

1. Head offices that want to offer a set of pre-approved products for multiple departments or locations to order
2. companies that want control of products offered to their colleagues or partners
3. HR departments that need easy access to restock items, like welcome kits

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Connected Shops

This shop features products that match those in your Shopify store to streamline processing in commonsku. 

Some unique features of Connected Shop are that they

1. Functions like a Pop up shop and you will get checkouts
2. You will have the ability to aggregate checkouts into a sales order
3. Download a CSV file of orders

You can create a Connected shop for

1. To connect your Shopify store and process your orders easily through commonsku

 To learn more about how to create a Connected Shop and the Shopify Integration click here.

Shops Wizard

Not sure what shop is right for your client? Click here!

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Shop fees

• Volume Tiered fees per shop
• Shopify Integration fee
• What are the Shop types and when fees are charged?
• How fees are calculated for Pop-Up Shops?
  
  
  

Volume Tiered Fees per Shop

With the new pricing structure, shop fees are based on volume, so your effective rate decreases as your total shop sales increase. For each shop, the following tiers apply:

• 2.5% on the first $25,000 in sales ((i.e., from $0 to $25,000)

• 2% on sales between $25,000 and $50,000

• 1.5% on sales between $50,000 and $100,000

• 1% on sales above $100,000

 

Shopify Integration Fee

There is a  1% fee charged on all Shopify imported checkouts

 

What are the Shop types and when fees are charged?

Because each shop type is used differently, the fee is applied at different stages of your workflow:

Pop-Up Shops

1. Fee is charged at checkout.
2. There is a 7-day grace period before the fee appears in your billing report.
3. If the checkout is exported or aggregated within that window, the fee is captured immediately.

Company Shops

Fee is charged immediately at checkout, since checkouts are instantly converted to sales orders.

Marketing Shops

Fee is charged when an order is assigned to a client and converted to a sales order.

Shopify Connected Shops

1. Fee is charged when the order is imported from Shopify.
2. There is a 7-day grace period before the fee appears in your billing report.
3. If the checkout is exported or aggregated within that window, the fee is captured immediately.

 

How fees are calculated for Pop-Up Shops?

For Pop-Up Shops, the fee is calculated on the higher of the client value or the retail value. Both values are calculated before shipping and tax (price × quantity only).

Retail value is the shopper-facing price, before any discounts.

Client value is your client’s wholesale price.

In many cases, the retail value will be higher. However, for free-item (giveaway) shops or pop-ups that use coupons, the client value is often higher. To ensure fairness, we compare:

 (retail price discount coupon) vs. (client wholesale price)

The fee is then applied to whichever of these two values is higher.

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FAQ

• Can I embed a shop on a website?
• What happens when a sales order is deleted in a shop,will I receive a credit?

Can I embed a shop on a website?

Yes, you can! Copy the shop's URL (in the Shop, click Actions > Preview Shop > copy the URL) and insert it into the website using an iFrame.

 

 

What happens when a sales order is deleted in a shop, will I receive a credit?

 

No. Once a sales order is generated, its value is captured and the associated fee is not credited back if the order is later deleted. For checkouts in a Pop up shop, however, you have a 7-day grace period to delete any unused checkouts before the fee is charged.

 

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