List one garment properly
Add the piece with every size and color as a variant, each with its own stock. Do it once and every channel is now correct.
Clothing
Sell a piece once, in every size, everywhere you already sell.
List a garment with its sizes and colors once and it is ready to sell on your own store, on social and in a chat thread. One stock count sits behind all of them, so a sale in a message never oversells the rail.
14-day free trial. No card required.
New drop$250
Payment received$420
How do I sell clothing online?
Start by listing each garment once, with its sizes and colors as variants, and give every variant its own price and stock count. Publish that catalog to your own branded store, share it on social, and send it into chat threads as a link a buyer can pay from. Because the variants are shared, a sale anywhere draws down the same stock, so a size that runs out shows as sold out on every channel at the same time. Take payment at checkout, then pack against a single order queue rather than a folder of screenshots. Handle returns and exchanges against the original order so the stock goes back where it came from.
How to start selling clothing.
Getting started
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Open your store
Pick a theme, put your label on it, connect a domain. A buyer now has somewhere to buy without asking you the price first.
Turn on checkout
Switch on card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer. Money lands and you get an alert, without you sending account details in a message.
Sell where you already are
Share the same catalog into social and chat. Orders from all of it arrive in one queue instead of three.
What is different about selling clothing.
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.
The size grid is the product
A garment is not one thing to sell, it is fifteen. Sizes crossed with colors, each with its own stock, and getting that grid right is most of the setup.
One stock count or you oversell
Two people buying the last medium within an hour is normal when you sell in three places. Shared stock is what turns that from an apology into a sold-out label.
Returns come back into stock
A size exchange is not a refund. Processing it against the original order puts the returned piece back on the shelf and takes the new one off it.
Your buyers are already in a thread.
Where you sell
Clothing sells on sight. Someone sees the piece on a profile, asks for the price in a message, and wants to pay in the thread rather than open a browser.
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 at checkout. An alert arrives the moment the money lands, so you can pack before you have finished replying. 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
Clothing is light and it is returned more than most things, so the shipping rate and the return route matter as much as the listing.
- 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.
What you would actually use.
The product
Named plainly, and each one has a page of its own if you want the detail.
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Selling clothing, answered.
Can I sell the same garment on my store and in chat?
Yes. You list it once and sell it from your store, from social and from a chat thread. All of them draw down the same stock, so you cannot oversell a size.
How do sizes and colors work?
Each combination is its own variant with its own price, SKU and stock count. A buyer picks a size and only sees what you actually have.
What happens when a size sells out?
That variant shows as unavailable everywhere at once, and the rest of the sizes keep selling. You are not taking the whole product down.
Can I handle exchanges?
Yes. Process the exchange against the original order and the returned size goes back into stock while the new one comes out of it.
Do I need my own website first?
No. A branded store on your own domain is part of Crate, so you can be selling before you have paid anybody to build a site.
Can I take pre-orders for a drop?
Yes. Publish the piece and let it sell past zero if you want to gather orders for a run, then fulfil them from the same queue when the stock arrives.
Selling something else?
Nearby
The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.
