Sell your products on furnish.co.uk

Furnish.co.uk is a single destination for people to shop for fabulous home furnishings. We receive tens of thousands of visitors every month, have traffic increasing at 30% month-on-month, rate excellently on Google for key home interiors search terms and were named in the 2010 top 100 smartest small businesses in the UK. So, if you sell or design gorgeous interiors products, it's likely that we can increase your sales and exposure.

How we can help

• We’ll list and promote your product catalogue to customers who are ready to buy high quality, well designed interiors products;
• We offer flexible pricing plans to suit any budget or way you want to work;
• We'll regularly upload your product information for you, which means little or no effort is needed by you. It also means your product information will remain super-accurate;
• We support independent stores and designers, so let us know a bit about you and we'll do what we can to help;
• You don’t need a website or a physical shop to come on board;
• You'll be joining the finest brands in home interiors.

What we won't do

• We won't tie you in for any period of time or restrict you from selling your products on other websites. We're here to help your sales, not restrain your trade.
• We won't ever expand to list gazillions of products, such that yours end up getting lost in the crowd. Furnish is about great design, fabulous stores/designers and quality hand-picked products. We believe that keeping our catalogue small makes it easier for customers to find what they want and for you to increase your sales;
• We won't ever work with low-end suppliers or list nasty products for the sake of it, which means your product range will only ever sit alongside quality peer brands.

And, because we're relatively new on the scene, we're offering discounts to suppliers who come on board now.

How it works

We’re not a shop. We connect you with new customers and enable them to buy your products or services from you. We can do this in a number of ways:

1. Linking to your site (if you run an online shop)

This is our preferred option. We’ll list your products on furnish.co.uk, with rich information and lovely photos. We can either use a data feed of product information that you supply or automatically scan your website to find the information we need.

Customers link through from furnish.co.uk to the appropriate product page on your website, where they make the purchase.

There are two pricing options that you can choose between; (a) a fixed monthly subscription charge based on the number of listed products and their average price or (b) a cost-per-clickthrough to your website based on the value of the related product.

2. Sell directly from furnish.co.uk (if you don't currently sell online)

We’ll list your products on furnish.co.uk, with rich information and lovely photos. You decide the retail price.

Customers pay you directly for the goods through a Google Checkout account, so you don’t need a website that supports online sales. We charge a commission only on successful resulting sales and no other fees - we invoice after the customer has paid you in full.

3. Lead generation

We appreciate that not all furnishings can or should be bought online, especially bespoke items. But customers shouldn't have to look in one place for standard products and another for bespoke products or services.

We’ll list your bespoke products on furnish.co.uk, with rich information and lovely photos. You may want to include multiple product pages per product, as long as each is a sufficiently different example of the product. When a customer is interested in buying, or wants to order a sample or a brochure (or any such thing), we take their details and automatically notify you by email. You can then securely log on to your own area of furnish.co.uk, retrieve the referral details and contact the customer to discuss their needs.

We charge a cost-per-lead for these qualified referrals.

What we'll need from you

We need detailed information on all of your products. But the good news is that we don't expect you to upload these yourself.

If you already have a website that lists your products, then we'd ask for you to provide an automated product feed containing items' names, descriptions, images, etc in XML or CSV format, and permanently located at a URL something like http://www.yoursite.co.uk/feed.xml. Many ecommerce platforms can be set up to do this for you.

If that's not possible, we can normally automatically scan your website for this product information, which will run every few days.

And if all else fails or you don't have a website yet, we can accept your product information in a spreadsheet, with one product per row. We will then upload this information for you. A Microsoft Excel template is available on request.

You're now ready to register for a merchant account!