Pocket what the marketplace skims
Sell your handmade pieces direct, in USDT and USDC. The money credits your Paymos balance instead of a marketplace balance, and once an order clears nobody can reverse it — no transaction cut, no listing renewal, no chargeback on a piece you already mailed.
The maker's quiet margin leak
Why does a marketplace cost a maker so much?
Four drains on a handmade margin: a stacked cut, forced ad attribution, per-listing churn, and a new-shop hold the day you go direct.
A stacked cut on every sale
A craft marketplace rarely charges one fee. A transaction percentage, payment processing, and per-listing costs stack up to close to a tenth of a sale before ads enter the picture. On a piece carrying real material cost and hours of work, that combined bite lands on your thinnest margin.
Forced ads skim sales you already earned
Cross a sales threshold and the marketplace can enrol your shop in offsite ads, then take a further double-digit cut of any order it attributes to one. The buyer who searched your name and bought anyway still triggers the fee. Sell from your own page and no ad auction runs over your storefront.
One-of-a-kind stock means endless listing churn
Most handmade pieces are unique. Sell one, list the next, pay another listing fee — a steady drip for a maker shipping dozens of pieces a month. A direct payment link carries no per-listing charge: one link, one sale, on to the next piece.
A card processor holds your first months
Leave the marketplace for your own store on a card processor and it often holds back a slice of your first months of revenue while it sizes up a new account. That is working capital you can't touch at the exact moment you're buying materials to grow.
What direct selling looks like
What does selling direct look like on a wallet?
Four things that go right once a maker sells direct and settles in stablecoins.
The marketplace's cut stays with you
Sell from your own page and the slice that fed the marketplace — its transaction fee, processing, listing charges, and ad attribution — stays in your hands. Against a near-tenth platform take, Paymos charges one flat fee on settlement. On a typical order that gap is often the materials for the next piece you make.
No listing fee, no listing churn
Post a piece on your social profile, your fair page, or a simple storefront, then generate a payment link in seconds. Nothing renews and nothing expires while it waits to sell. The link is single-use — when it's paid, the sale is done.
A commission deposit can't be clawed back
A buyer commissions a custom piece and pays a deposit. On cards they could dispute it weeks later — “it wasn't what I expected” — and pull the money back mid-build. On a stablecoin rail the deposit is final once it clears. You can still refund it yourself, but the choice is yours, not a card network's.
A pop-up till in any browser
At a craft fair, market stall, or gallery show, open the Paymos terminal in your phone's browser and the buyer pays from their wallet. No reader to rent, no card-present surcharge, and the funds credit your Paymos balance before they leave the table.
Three ways to get paid
Which integration fits a handmade maker?
A payment link to start, a browser terminal for fairs, and a store plugin when you outgrow links.
Payment links — the maker's bread and butter
Photograph the piece, name a price, and generate a payment link from the dashboard in under a minute. Drop it into a direct message, your bio, or an email reply. No code, no plugin, no listing fee — the shortest path to a direct sale.
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Browser terminal — fairs and pop-ups
Open the Paymos terminal on a phone or tablet at your fair table, key in the amount, and the buyer pays from their wallet. Confirmation lands in seconds and the payment is the record. Nothing to carry, nothing to rent, no reader to misplace.
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Store plugin — when you outgrow links
Built a proper WooCommerce or OpenCart site? The plugin slots into your catalogue, variations, and search. Open the current Paymos project, click Connect Paymos, and approve the store URL and project so Paymos can securely provision the credentials and exact webhook. It settles at the same flat rate as a payment link, so growing into a full store leaves your economics unchanged.
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Which handmade models run cleanly on a wallet?
Four flows makers already run: made-to-order, limited drops, deposit commissions, and fair sales.
Made-to-order pieces
A buyer describes what they want, you quote it and send a payment link, they pay, and you begin. Weeks later you ship — no platform cut skimmed off the top, and no dispute window hanging open the whole time you're at the bench.
Limited-edition drops
A short run announced for a set time. Generate one link per piece, post at the drop, and the first to pay claims it. No per-listing renewal across the run, and each sold piece is final the moment its payment clears.
Deposit-and-balance commissions
A bespoke piece, part paid upfront. Send one link for the deposit, a second on completion. The deposit reaches your balance the same day it clears, so materials get bought without a multi-day hold sitting between you and the start of the work.
Craft-fair pop-up sales
A Saturday market, a table of pieces at different prices. Run each one through the Paymos terminal on your phone — no hardware, no card-present surcharge, and no end-of-day batch to wait out before the money is yours.
Maker questions
Frequently asked questions
Do my social-media buyers hold crypto wallets?
How does a refund on a custom commission work?
Can I keep a marketplace for discovery and add Paymos?
How do I handle sales tax as a small maker?
Can I take stablecoins at a physical craft fair?
Which stablecoins and networks do handmade buyers use?
Honest disqualifier
When NOT to use Paymos for handmade
A direct stablecoin rail isn't right for every maker. Skip it if any of these fit you.
Your buyers are gift shoppers with a card
Many handmade purchases are gifts from people who have never opened a wallet, and they won't install one for a single ceramic mug. Paymos earns its place with repeat collectors, commission clients, and cross-border buyers. Keep cards and the marketplace checkout for everyone else.
You sell a few pieces a season
At hobby scale the fees you'd save are small in absolute terms, and any new rail costs attention you'd rather spend at the bench. Revisit when commissions and repeat orders turn into steady monthly income — that's when a 1.0% direct rail starts to pay for the setup.
Buyers trust the platform, not you yet
On a marketplace, purchase protection and a review history do the trusting for you. A direct stablecoin sale is final and rests on your name alone. Until your own reputation carries a sale, take direct payments from collectors who already know you, not from strangers.
You need craft income as bank money
Paymos settles in stablecoins to your Paymos balance; it doesn't convert to your local currency or touch a bank account. If materials, rent, and tax all leave a bank balance, the exchange step is yours to run. At small volumes, weigh whether that extra step is worth it for you.
Related flows
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Pricing
1.0% per settled sale. No listing fee, no ad cut
One flat 1.0% on every paid link, terminal sale, or storefront order — nothing renews, and no ad attribution skims a sale you earned. Against a marketplace's near-tenth stacked take, or roughly 3% all-in on cards, far more of each piece stays with you. Makers running meaningful monthly direct sales can ask about 0.3%.
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