Stocking with us.

Do you want to take your small business a step further by stocking your handmade items and crafts in a shop? Rent a shelf is a fantastic option to promote your work, business and have a physical micro shop without having the cost of owning your own shop. We are basically a mini market based at a market!

We currently support 65+ small businesses promote and sell their handmade crafts and items. We stock anything from jewellery, home fragrance and confectionary to bath & body cosmetics, children/baby clothing and photography. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Please take a look below to find out more about how rental spaces works.

• The shelf spaces are of various sizes and the monthly rental costs reflects this. Shelf spaces vary in cost ranging between £10 and £25 a month.
• Wall spaces are available to rent at a monthly rental cost of £12.50 a month.
• There are 9 greetings card racks (4 wall mounted & 5 on a rotating card display). The monthly rental cost of these are £10 and in each rack are 8 slots for cards. Each slot hold 2-3 A5 or 10cm x 10cm cards depending on the thickness.
• There is an option to have your items listed on our website for online sales. This is optional and an additional monthly fee of £5 is required on top of your monthly shelf rental fee. This monthly £5 fee is an introductory offer for while we get the website sales up and running (The owner of Devon & Somerset Craft Collective reserves the right to increase this monthly fee to a maximum of £10 a month with written notice). This fee covers the time taken to photograph products, upload them to the system, packaging and shipping orders. You can op in to this anytime as long as I have at least one months notice to photograph and upload your products to the website. If you decide that you would like to remove your products from the website, I will require at least one weeks notice before the end of the month.
• All shelf/floor/greetings card column spaces are to be rented for a minimum of six months. You cannot terminate your contract within this 6 month period.
• Shelf spaces are a blank canvas. No display stands, etc are provided. You as the trader will need to provide these ensuring they are labeled with your business name.
• No commission is taken from sales. However, you will be responsible for covering the cost of the card transaction fee if your sale is made via a card payment. This is currently 0.99% (approx 5 pence for every £5 taken on the card machine).
• All stockists are allocated a trader ID.
• Before stocking the space agreed, you must sign a contract agreeing to the terms and conditions.
• Any spaces that are available will be available to fill on the first of the month and must be fully stocked within the first week of the month.
• Postal stock is accepted.
• Our footfall is generally good, factors like the season/weather can affect this. For example school holidays maybe slightly quieter than usual. Tiverton Pannier Market where we are situated host various types of events throughout the year which increases our footfall.
• If you wish to terminated your contract after the minimum period of six months rental, you are required to give four weeks notice on the first of the month.
• If when you enquire about a space with us and there are not any available, you will be put on a waiting list and will be contacted when a space becomes available that is suitable for you. As we would like there to be as much of a variety as possible, we do not tend to stock more than two of the same type of work.
• The large shop unit we are based in at Tiverton Pannier Market is lockable and secure. There are 2 locks on the door (1 padlock & one main lock). There is also CCTV within the shop and at the market as well. No monies is left on the premises overnight.
• The shop is run entirely by the owner, Deanna (also owner of Dee's Scents & Creations). Cover will be asked for by traders if the owner has prior commitments, for example, family events or holidays. There is no obligation to cover the shop, but this would be a massive help and this would also mean the shop doesn't need to close. If a trader is able to cover the shop, full training will be given.
• All sales are recorded twice using the POS system and a physical sales book.
• Cash and card payments are taken for sales.
• A sales list will be sent to the trader on the first of every month. If no sales have been made, then no sales list will be sent.
• Any monies owed to the trader for any sales made will be paid in the stockist bank account between the 1st and the 10th of the following month. For example, May sales are paid between the 1st and the 10th of June.
• Although advertisement and marketing of the shop and items will be done by the owner via Devon & Somerset Craft Collective's social media and website, we do ask you, the stockist to help with that advertisement and marketing by promoting that you are renting a space within Devon & Somerset Craft Collective and sharing social media posts from Devon & Somerset Craft Collective.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

You, the trader will be responsible for the following;

• Delivery of stock to Devon & Somerset Craft Collective, Unit 5, Tiverton Pannier Market, Tiverton, Devon EX16 6NH. If you are posting your stock, please send your stock to my home address (this is to ensure that stock is delivered safely and on time even outside of the opening hours. Please ask for my home address before posting).
• Ensuring your items are labelled correctly with the price and trader ID.
• Ensuring you have up-to-date public liability insurance to cover your products and supply a copy of this.
• Provide correct and up-to-date contact details and bank details for you, the trader.
• Provide an inventory of your stock each time you deliver new stock which includes a short description of each item and the price.
• To pay the required amount of monthly shelf rental costs on time, on the first of the month by standing order. Cash is not accepted, unless paying for at least six months up front.
• To rent your space for a minimum of six months. You cannot terminate your contract within this 6 month period.
• To give four weeks notice to terminate your contract to vacate your rental space on the first of the month. Failure to give notice will mean that the rent is due for that month.
• Failure to pay the monthly space rental costs on time will create a debt payable by the stockist to Devon & Somerset Craft Collective. If you are unable to pay on the first of the month, please advise me of this and the due date can be extended by 5 days. Failure to pay rent once the 5 days has expired will result in stock being removed from the rental space or Devon & Somerset Craft Collective may choose to take 30% of sales until the rent is paid.
• To remove stock from Devon & Somerset Craft Collective on the agreed date, unless alternative arrangements have been made, for example, arranged for stock to be posted back to the trader.
• All postage costs must be covered by you, the trader.
• Marketing on all your social media channels for your time within Devon & Somerset Craft Collective. Whether this is sharing posts from the main social media channels (facebook & instagram) of Devon & Somerset Craft Collective or creating your own posts advertising your stock and space tagging Devon & Somerset Craft Collective social media channels.

We, Devon & Somerset Craft Collective will be responsible for;

• Recording all sales and uploading them to a spreadsheet.
• Keeping a record of all sales and monies owed to the stockist.
• Ensuring any money owed is paid to stockist within the stated time framed stated above and in the contract.
• Ensuring that the shop is safe and securely locked at the end of the day.
• Devon & Somerset Craft Collective will be open at least four days a week for between 4-6 hours a day. There may be occasions when the shop has to shut. If this occurs, the all traders will be notified as soon as possible. We will do our absolute best to ensure this doesn't happen.
• Marketing the shop on social media and website and ensuring that customers are able to browse the products with ease.

We have a limited amount of shelf spaces of various sizes available. Please get in contact with us to find out more via Facebook, email or by using the ‘contact us’ form at the top of the page.