Trestle — For shops
Visual concept preview of the Marketplace Wholesale template's For shops page: The shopkeeper’s half: what stocking through Trestle looks like from the first browse to the first reorder, and the terms in full. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
A shop lives or dies on what is on the shelf and when the invoice lands. Trestle exists to make both easier: work nobody else stocks, and sixty days to sell it before you pay for it.
From first browse to first reorder, the whole thing. The only paperwork is the account application, once.
Find the work
Browse by shelf, not by keyword — tableware, textiles, pantry, print. Every listing states the maker’s minimum and lead time before you build a cart.
Order on terms
One cart across any number of makers, one invoice at the end of it, sixty days to settle. Freight is booked by us and lands on the invoice as its own plain line.
Sell it, or send it back
Sell it, reorder in two clicks, and the maker knows your shop by name. If a first order does not sell in sixty days, send it back — freight on us, both ways.
Four shelves shops are building from this season. Each is a dozen studios curated to sit together, so a small shop can stock a coherent shelf in one order.
The long table shelf
Stoneware, oak boards, and linen from eleven studios that fire, cut, and weave to sit together on one table.
The pantry shelf
Small-batch preserves, teas, and dry goods with labels worth facing outward. Pantry minimums start at twelve.
The paper shelf
Prints, cards, and bound notebooks from nine presses. The reorder rate on this shelf is the highest on the market.
The textile shelf
Throws, cushions, and dyed lengths from six weavers. Lead times are honest — these are made when you order them.
The terms exist so that trying something new is a merchandising decision, not a financial one. Here is the whole deal, and the numbers it produces.
Sixty days on every order, not a teaser rate for the first one. The terms are the product; they do not expire.
A first order from any maker can go back within sixty days if it has not sold, freight paid both ways. After the first, orders are firm.
One invoice per cart, however many makers are in it. Your bookkeeper gets one line of freight, not eleven.
Every listing shows the maker’s stockist map. If the shop across the road already carries it, you will know before you order.
- 60 days to pay, every order
- 7 in 10 of first orders reorder
- 12 pieces, the smallest minimum
- 1 invoice per cart, any number of makers
From shopkeepers this year, unedited.
I stocked my opening shelf entirely through Trestle because the sixty days meant I could open the doors before I owed anyone. Two years on, half that shelf is still reordered monthly.
The returns policy made me braver. I tried a ceramicist I would never have risked wholesale-blind, she outsold everything that quarter, and now her shelf has her name on it.
Four stars because the textile lead times test my patience — but they are stated honestly on the listing, and what arrives is worth the wait every time.
The practical ones, before you apply.
Tell us the shop’s name and where it stands. Dolly reads every application and answers inside two working days.