Trestle — Wholesale between makers and shops
Visual concept preview of the Marketplace Wholesale template's Home page: Splits the reader in half on arrival — the shopkeeper’s pitch and the maker’s pitch side by side, with the ledger of terms both sides share. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
Trestle is the wholesale market between independent makers and independent shops: 388 studios, 1,145 shelves, one order ledger, and terms that treat both sides like adults. Say which one you are and we will take you to your half.
Stocked this season from
The pitch to the shopkeeper, in the order a shopkeeper asks: what will sell, what it costs to find out, and what happens if it does not.
Stock nobody else has
Work you cannot get from the big catalogues, from studios that cap their stockists — so the shop two streets over is not selling the same shelf.
Terms that respect your cashflow
Sixty days to pay on every order, not just your first. Sell it before you owe for it.
Returns on first orders
A first order that does not sell goes back within sixty days, freight on us both ways. Trying a new maker costs you shelf space, not money.
The pitch to the maker, in the order a maker asks: who sets the price, when the money arrives, and who does the chasing.
You set the price
Your wholesale price is yours. We add one flat commission on top, shown before you list, unchanged since the first year.
Paid on dispatch
We pay you when the order ships, not when the shop settles. The sixty-day terms are our risk, not yours.
The boring parts, done
Freight booked from your door, invoices chased by us, and a stockist list you can see and cap — your work goes where you say it goes.
A marketplace is only as honest as its ledger. Here is ours, counted the boring way.
The ledger is the whole company: every order, both sides’ terms, and who owes what to whom, kept plainly enough that nobody has to trust us on faith. These are last year’s numbers.
- independent makers listing
- 388
- shops ordering on terms
- 1,145
- of first orders lead to a reorder
- 7 in 10
- days to pay, on every order
- 60
Trestle is the first wholesale platform we have covered that both sides recommend to us unprompted. The shops talk about the terms; the makers talk about being paid on dispatch. Nobody talks about the software, which is the highest compliment there is.
I threw pots for nine years and spent a third of every week invoicing, chasing, and boxing. Trestle took the third back. My work is in eighty shops I chose, the money arrives when the van does, and I have not written a chasing email in two years.
The four questions Dolly answers most, from both sides of the counter.
Shops open an account in an afternoon. Makers show us their work and hear back within the week — from a person who has stood behind a counter.