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An alternative to marketplace fees

Keep the marketplace for discovery. Stop paying it for the buyers who already know your name.

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Feature Webkio Selling marketplaces
Fee per order None - a flat plan plus card processing A share of every order
Listing fees None - a product is a product Common, and charged whether it sells or not
Who holds the buyer record You - name, email, order history The marketplace
Reach to people who have never heard of you Your own marketing Its whole value
Your prices, photos and descriptions Yours to set Within its rules
Search results your listing sits in No competitors beside you Shared with everyone selling the same thing
Being ranked, throttled or suspended Not applicable - it is your site Its decision, on its terms
A website, a blog and your own domain Same platform Not included

Comparison reflects Webkio's built-in capabilities; competitor features vary by plan and available apps. Always check each provider's current plans.
Last reviewed 9 September 2026.

A selling marketplace charges for the sale, not for the shop. That is a fair deal for the buyer who found you on it and a poor one for the repeat customer who typed your name into a search box and ended up there anyway. Your own shop does not replace the marketplace; it gives you somewhere to send the people who were already coming, and it keeps their name, email and order history where you can see them.

The verdict

Keep the marketplace for discovery, and run your own shop alongside it for the buyers who already know you. Put your own address on the packing slip, the label and every profile you have. The fees you avoid on repeat orders are the whole return, and you can work out what that is worth on the marketplace fee calculator before you build anything.

When to choose them instead

A selling marketplace is a search engine with a checkout attached, and it is very good at putting your work in front of someone who was looking for a thing rather than for you. A new shop with no audience gets discovery from it that no website can manufacture, and a fee on a first order from a stranger is a marketing cost rather than a loss. The argument here is about the second order.

Frequently asked questions

Almost certainly not. It is how strangers find you, and that is worth paying for. The argument here is about the orders that did not need finding - your repeat buyers, and the people who came from your own social accounts and went to the marketplace only because that is where the link pointed.

That depends on your order volume, your average order value and your effective fee rate once listing fees, payment charges and any advertising are included. Rather than quote you a figure, the marketplace fee calculator takes your own numbers and works it out - including what a direct order costs, so the comparison is honest.

Tell the ones who already bought. Your own address on the packing slip, the label and the care card, and on every profile you control. Marketplaces vary in what they permit inside their own messaging, so keep it to what goes in the parcel and what you own.

The ones on the marketplace stay there, and they keep working there. Your own shop collects its own - a rating, a title and a written review per product, marked as a verified purchase when the reviewer actually bought it, and held for your approval before it appears.

The catalogue is the part that takes an afternoon, and it can be imported from a spreadsheet rather than typed. After that it is settings: shipping rates, tax, and connecting Stripe so the money arrives in your own account.

Some will only buy on a marketplace, and that is exactly what it is there for. Nothing about running your own shop takes that option away from them - it is a second channel, not a replacement.

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