Introducing Events Features

Introducing Events Features

A major part of the handmade economy is in-person events, in the form of craft fairs and art shows. As seamless as online shopping has become over the last decade, nothing quite beats the experience of shopping for handmade products in person. However, this aspect of the handmade economy is often left out of the online marketplaces that help crafters sell their products online.

This isn’t entirely surprising, as most online marketplaces are incentivized to encourage online sales over in-person sales because they earn more in transaction fees each time a sale is made online.

In a recent update, we’ve added an event system to our site to handle the tracking of events relevant to buyers and sellers of handmade products. Like the products on our site, the events we have listed are reviewed to ensure they are run by reputable organizers.

Our hope is that by displaying these events, we can make it easier for potential customers and vendors to find the arts and crafts related events happening in their local community more easily. We know many of our vendors use these in-person events for selling as well, and want to ensure that we can help market the events they will be attending as well.

Currently, customers and sellers alike can add new events to the calendar by submitting an event using this form here.