How to Manage Craft Orders from Facebook and Instagram
A simple way to handle comments, DMs and Messenger orders for your handmade goods: one record per buyer, a clear total, and payment and posting you can track.
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Practical steps for taking orders, keeping buyers in the loop and getting through a busy market weekend.
How to Run Made-to-Order and Custom Requests
Take made-to-order and custom orders for crochet, jewellery, pottery and more without losing track: clear wait times, agreed details in writing, deposits and fair order.
Read guideSelling at Markets and Taking Pre-orders
Get more from craft markets in NZ: take pre-orders for collection at your stall, keep stock straight between the market and online, and turn browsers into repeat buyers.
Read guideHow to Price Handmade Work in NZ
A practical way for NZ makers to price candles, soap, crochet, jewellery and ceramics: materials, your time, costs, fees and GST, with a worked example.
Read guidePosting Candles, Ceramics and Other Fragile Items in NZ
How to pack and post candles, ceramics, glass and jewellery around New Zealand so they arrive in one piece, plus what to tell buyers about postage and breakages.
Read guideSelling Handmade Crafts Online in New Zealand
Set up a simple online shop for your NZ handmade business: clear product listings, honest availability, postage and pickup, direct payments, and the safety and labelling rules to know.
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