Set the scent and size grid
One product, scents and sizes as variants. Six scents in three sizes is one listing to maintain instead of eighteen.
Candles
Sell candles by scent, by size and by the bundle.
A candle range is a small number of products crossed with a lot of scents, poured in batches and bought as gifts. Set the variants once, keep the batch honest, and let the bundle sell itself.
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New scent$120
Payment received$420
How do I sell candles online?
Set up each candle as one product with the scents and sizes as variants, so a range of six scents in three sizes is one listing rather than eighteen. Give each variant its own stock, and pour in batches you can track, because a scent that sells out is a specific variant rather than the whole product. Publish to your own store and sell the same catalog in chat and on social. Build gift sets as bundles that draw down the stock of the candles inside them, so a set sold in December does not leave you promising a scent you already poured away. Take payment at checkout, and sell at markets from the same counted stock.
How to start selling candles.
Getting started
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Pour and count by batch
Give each run its own count so a scent that sells out closes on its own instead of taking the range down with it.
Build the gift sets
A bundle that draws from the same stock as its contents, so a set sold does not promise a scent you no longer have.
Open the store and the stall
Your own domain online, and the same catalog at the counter, with card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer at both.
What is different about selling candles.
What is different here
Every kind of product has a detail that decides whether the software fits. These are the ones that decide it here.
Scent is a variant, not a product
The range multiplies fast. Holding scents and sizes as variants of one product is what keeps a growing range from becoming forty listings to edit by hand.
You pour in runs
Stock arrives in batches rather than in a steady stream, so counts move in jumps and a popular scent empties long before the range does.
A large share of it is a gift
Bundles, gift notes and a season that does most of the year's volume. A bundle that does not draw down its contents is an oversell waiting for December.
Your buyers are already in a thread.
Where you sell
Candles are bought on a recommendation and on sight. The photograph starts it and a message finishes it, often for somebody else.
In your market that usually means Your store, Instagram and In person.
Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer.
Getting paid
Take card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer online and at a market. Automatic payouts to your bank.
Money from card sales lands in your bank account on a rolling two-day schedule. Nothing to claim, nothing to withdraw.
- Card
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
- Bank transfer
How it reaches the buyer.
Delivery
Glass and wax do not enjoy a long journey in the heat, so pack for breakage and price shipping by zone.
- Set your shipping rates by zone, by weight or as one flat rate, and the checkout works them out for the buyer instead of you quoting in a thread.
- Offer pickup beside delivery. A buyer who is nearby collects, and the order still goes through the same queue and the same stock count.
- Print the order, mark it packed, mark it sent. The buyer gets the update without you writing a message.
- Every order from every channel lands in one queue, so nothing is fulfilled twice and nothing is missed.
What it costs.
One subscription covers the store, the catalog, the order queue, the customer records and the counter. There is no separate charge for selling in chat, and no charge per kind of product.
Priced and paid in US dollars. Every plan opens with a free trial and no card.
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Selling candles, answered.
How do I handle scents and sizes?
As variants of one product. Each combination has its own price, SKU and stock count, so the range stays one listing.
Can I sell gift bundles?
Yes. Build a set that draws down the stock of the candles inside it, so selling the set cannot oversell a scent.
Can I track a pour by batch?
Yes. Give each run its own count, so a batch sells down and closes rather than blurring into the next pour.
What happens when one scent sells out?
That variant becomes unavailable everywhere while the rest of the range keeps selling. The product does not come down.
Can I sell at markets on the same stock?
Yes. The counter draws down the same count as the store, so a market weekend leaves the site correct on Monday.
Can I run a seasonal discount?
Yes. Discounts can apply to a product, a range or a bundle, and they apply the same way in the store and at the counter.
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The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.
