After a very long wait, it’s finally here! Version 1.0 (beta) of our Sellers Marketplace, where you can sell your skateboard designs and make money as a skateboard designer with no upfront costs (zero). We handle inventory, drop shipping, customer service, everything. This way you can focus on the fun part, your artwork! We hope this can be a great way for skateboarders to earn some side cash from the sport they love, and getting paid for their art.
How to Join
To become a seller, all you have to do is log in to your free Whatever Skateboards account, and then go to the Vendor Registration page from the My Account menu. The Seller/Vendor Registration can be found under the My Account menu in the header, or by clicking the “SELL” button on any of your own designs (you have to be logged in as the author of the design to see the sell option).
How to Start Selling
Once your Seller’s Account is registered and approved, you will have the ability to create products for sale and list them in your own storefront on our website for free. Go to any of your saved designs and click “SELL” and then the Add Product forms will be auto-filled in with your design title, content, and image.
Add Your Content & Submit for Approval
You can then set your own pricing, edit the info (title, description, etc), and submit it for review. Our team will then review it for approval and publish it to our website, usually within 1 business day.
Mark your design private, and make your product listings public.
Keep in mind if you put something up for sale, be sure to mark the original design private in your gallery, so that people can’t customize the original and have to purchase the official version from your store.
How Much Commission?
- Total Commission Potential: 20%
That’s 20% total if you both send the clicks and make the sales! This is actually 2 commissions:- Artwork Commission 10%
- The commission for any seller’s design is 10%
- No matter where the customer came from (our traffic included)
- If your design sells you get paid!
- Link / Affiliate Commission 10%
- Get an additional 10% from the affiliate commission when people click your link and make a purchase within 30 days (any purchase, not just your designs!)
- Even if someone else’s design or our designs sell, you get paid, even if it’s weeks later!
- Artwork Commission 10%
Making Commissions on All Sales (not just your designs)
Otherwise, if someone buys your design randomly that you didn’t send from one of your links, you’ll still get the base 10% commission. Additionally, if you do send traffic but they end up designing their own instead, or buying a different deck besides yours, you will still get the 10% affiliate commission. So, lots of ways to earn 10% commissions on your own designs and any other products, and 20% when you sell your designs with your traffic!
Set Your Prices
You can sell your designs on our boards at our regular retail prices, or you can set the price higher than that as you like. If your art is popular for example, you can sell above retail.
High Volume Sellers
If you establish regular and substantial sales, we will work with you to pre-produce an inventory of your best sellers and decrease your base price, and increase your profit margins significantly. This is only available to customers who can sell 50-100 decks to meet bulk manufacturing minimums. If you want to bypass the established sales requirement, you can pre-purchase your own inventory up-front and we can store and dropship your pre-made inventory to increase margins significantly. The minimum spend for pre-made inventory (for non-established sellers with no sales history) as of this writing is $1500.
Payouts
The minimum payout is currently $25. You can link your PayPal account for payouts and you can manage this and view your payout history from your Sellers Dashboard. This is usually achieved after only 2 or 3 sales.
Cannot Click Your Own Affiliate Links for Commission
You can get 10% off any purchase as the artist by purchasing your own designs that are for sale (10%), but Affiliate linking commissions cannot be paid out to you for clicking your own links.
Residual Income Stream
If you can push traffic from your social media account(s) – ie put your affiliate link to your Whatever Skateboards storefront in your social profiles etc – and that traffic generates sales regularly, we handle everything else, so that you can sit back and enjoy the residual income / payouts while we handle all the fulfillment and customer service.
Beta Live Now
The program is live now so go ahead and sign up and start getting your store set up!
Qs?
Hit us up on Chat if you have any Qs or need any help getting started.
LFG!
We know a lot of you have waited patiently for this, so we look forward to building this community with you, and helping artists & skaters get a little more money in their pockets to support more art and more skating, our two favorite things :)
Happy Selling!