List the product with its label
Size, ingredients, what it is for and how it is used. This is the information a skincare buyer checks first, so publish it rather than answering it.
Skincare
Sell skincare with the batch and the shelf life accounted for.
Skincare is made in batches, it expires, and it is bought again by the same people. Publish the ingredients where a buyer looks for them, sell the batch you actually have, and keep the repeat customers you earn.
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New batch$120
Payment received$420
How do I sell skincare online?
List each product with its size, its full ingredient list and what it is for, because a skincare buyer reads the label before they read the description. Track what you sell by batch, so a run that is close to its date can be sold down or withdrawn without touching the rest of the product. Publish to your own store and sell the same catalog in chat and on social, with one stock count behind all of it. Take payment at checkout and pack from a single order queue. Skincare is repeat business more than most categories, so keep every order attached to a customer record and let a restock message go to the people who already bought.
How to start selling skincare.
Getting started
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Sell the batch you have
Use variants or stock counts per run so an older batch can be sold down and closed off instead of blurring into the next one.
Open the store and checkout
Your own domain, your own look, and card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and bank transfer at checkout so a repeat buyer never has to ask how to pay.
Keep the customers
Every order attaches to a customer record, which is what a restock announcement is sent from.
What is different about selling skincare.
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.
It has a date on it
Stock that ages is not the same as stock that sits. Selling by batch is what lets you clear the older run deliberately rather than discovering it later.
The claims are the product page
Ingredients, quantity and use are what the buyer reads. Publishing them properly removes most of the questions and all of the ambiguity.
The second order matters more than the first
A working routine is bought again in six weeks. The customer record and the order history are what make that predictable rather than lucky.
Your buyers are already in a thread.
Where you sell
Skincare is recommended in messages. A customer tells a friend, the friend asks in a thread, and the sale happens without either of them opening a search engine.
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. Money from card sales lands in your bank account on a rolling two-day schedule. Nothing to claim, nothing to withdraw.
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
Liquids leak and glass breaks, so pack for the journey and set shipping by zone rather than one flat guess.
- 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.
Online store
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Orders and inventory
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Selling skincare, answered.
Can I track stock by batch?
Yes. Hold each run as its own variant or its own count, so an older batch is sold down and closed rather than mixed into the next one.
Where do the ingredients go?
On the product page, where the buyer looks. You can also add a policy or a page for anything that applies across the range.
Can I sell sample or travel sizes?
Yes. Each size is a variant with its own price and stock, so a sample can be sold or bundled without being a separate product.
How do I tell customers a restock has landed?
Every order is attached to a customer record, so the people who bought the last run are the list you announce the next one to.
Can I sell at a market as well as online?
Yes. The counter and the store share one stock count, so a jar sold at a stall is gone from the site immediately.
Do I need my own website?
No. A branded store on your own domain is part of Crate, which also gives the ingredient and policy pages somewhere permanent to live.
Selling something else?
Nearby
The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.