Merchant Program
Merchant Program
For Creator Merchants
The goal of [dephoro] is, and shall always be, to utilize big business as mechanism to bring people together. A creative bastion for humanity. As such, one of the services we offer is the Marketplace Merchant Program, affording independent creators with the ability to participate in a centralized merchandise sales platform. Our fees are delightfully low, and will eternally remain as such. Our team sincerely wants to see you (and the whole independent creator landscape) thrive.
Bountiful Benefits
A Heartfelt Sales Pitch
Unlock your potential with our Merchant Program: An exciting opportunity designed to elevate you into a successful merchant with access to exclusive tools, competitive pricing, and unparalleled support.
Sales Potential
Sales Potential
Low Commission
Low Commission
Drop Shipping
Drop Shipping
Beautiful Aesthetic
Beautiful Aesthetic
Basic Algorithms
Basic Algorithms
By Humans, For Humans
By Humans, For Humans
Important Information
Ensuring Your Success
As with any and every online marketplace that has or will ever exist, participation comes with some very specific fine print. Being as pro-human and transparent as possible, below is an explanation of what to plan for and why. Our goal is to enable and accelerate your success while enabling ourselves to continue to do so.
The Facts: The current sitewide marketplace commission is 7.5% and whereas we intend to (and will) keep it low, it will likely evolve into a category-based system in the future.
The Explanation: Commission is always painfully awkward to bring up, but we need some form of income to keep servers and services running. The commission itself gets split three ways. The first 2.5% goes to any affiliate associated with an order. The second 2.5% goes to [dephoro] Organization to help fund charity campaigns. The last 2.5% goes to us, the Marketplace. If no affiliate is associated with an order, we get 5% instead of 2.5%.
The Facts: We work with a third-party tax service (Avalara) to ensure our marketplace, and the merchants it serves, remain in compliance with the constantly evolving federal tax law.
The Explanation: Legally, online marketplaces are very different than online stores. Marketplaces provide a service to stores, as opposed to being a store. We have to monitor and remit merchant sales taxes on their behalf; hence, we ask merchants to provide tax information. Similarly, tax rates change along several lines like location and product category, so we hired a dedicated team of professionals to help us (and you) navigate this web of regulations.
The Facts: You can opt to use our drop shipping service or handle shipping yourself, but both have fees attached and that’s our concern.
The Explanation: As stated, our goal is to ensure you succeed. Shipping is a vital part of e-commerce, but the fees associated with it cut into profit margins. We want to ensure you account for these charges by planning your product pricing with them in mind. The marketplace itself is integrated with Printful for prints and shipping, but using Printful is by no means required. We are working towards integrating a greater variety of drop shipping solutions for your convenience.
Additional Information
We have compiled an assortment of helpful documentation regarding the Marketplace and its functionality for you to use as you may need it. The Merchant Handbook contains everything from functionality to fees and beyond, all available whenever you need it. We offer a multitude of support options for our merchants, should a problem arise.
Submit An Application
Show Your Interest
If you are interested in becoming a Marketplace Merchant, just fill out the application below! All merchants are manually approved so as to ensure the marketplace maintains its creator aesthetic. If you are an independent creator, regardless of following, we would love to have you join our community.
