Online ordering for antiques dealers
Your a collector anywhere in the world places the order at 9pm on a phone instead of ringing at 8am, sees their own prices, and reorders from history. The order lands in your system, not in someone's inbox to be retyped.
What is included
- Trade accounts with per-customer pricing and minimums
- Catalogue and live stock from your back-office system
- Reorder from history, saved lists, delivery or collection
- Integration to your accounts package
In practice, for antiques dealers
For a showroom, ordering online is about the ranges that suit it: clearance, accessories, samples, the smaller pieces. We build a checkout for those, with click-and-collect and delivery quoted by postcode band and item size, and leave the big-ticket items to enquire, reserve or book a visit. Payment through Stripe, returns handled in the shop.
Why antiques dealers in particular
- Each piece is unique, so each one needs its own page, and you have a gallery.
- Marketplaces take a commission and hide your name.
- Sold pieces are your reputation and they vanish from the site.
Typical ticket in your trade: €100 to €50,000. One enquiry that comes to you instead of to the antiques marketplaces covers a lot of website.
Questions antiques dealers ask about this
- We do not want to become an online shop.
- You do not have to. Sell the ranges that suit it online and keep the rest for the showroom; the site does both.
- Delivery of large items.
- Quoted by postcode band and size, with white-glove and collect-only options.
Check your own site first
Free, on screen in about ten seconds, no call. We fetch your homepage once, the way a visitor's browser does, and nothing else.
Fixed price, fixed date, in writing
Fifteen minutes about what you sell and how your stock moves today. A quote within two working days.