Comment by shomp

Building a donations powered marketplace, zero platform fee: https://shomp.co

Merchants who want to sell on Etsy or Shopify either have to pay a listing fee or pay per month just to keep an online store on the web. Our goal is to provide a perpetually free marketplace that is powered solely off donations. The only fees merchants pay are the Stripe fees, and it's possible that at some volume of usage we will be able to negotiate those down.

You can sell digital goods as well as physical goods. Right now in the "manual onboarding" phase for our first batch of sellers.

For digital goods, purchasers get a download link for files (hosted on R3).

For physical goods, once a purchase comes through, the seller gets an SMS notification and a shipping label gets created. The buyer gets notified of the tracking number and on status changes.

We use Stripe Connect to manage KYC (know your customer) identities so we don't store any of your sensitive details other than your name and email. Since we are in the process of incorporating as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we are only serving sellers based in the United States.

The mission of the company is to provide entrepreneurial training to people via our online platform, as well as educational materials to that aim.