Trestle — For makers
Visual concept preview of the Marketplace Wholesale template's For makers page: The maker’s half: what you control, when the money arrives, and the honest table of what changes when the ledger does your paperwork. The sections below are a non-interactive composition of open-registry blocks.
You made the work; the terms should not make you a creditor. On Trestle your wholesale price is yours, the money arrives when the order ships, and the chasing is our job.
From studio to shelf in three steps. The application is the only gate — the market stays curated because a shelf full of everything sells nothing.
List once, plainly
Show us the work and name your wholesale price, your minimum, and your honest lead time. We say yes or no within the week, with a reason either way.
Orders come to you
Orders arrive batched on the days you choose. Freight is booked from your door with labels that print, not puzzles.
Paid when it ships
The moment the courier scans it, the payment is queued to you. The shop’s sixty days are our wait, not yours.
A marketplace can quietly become your boss. This one is built not to: the three levers that matter stay in your hands, in writing.
Your wholesale price is yours to set and change. The commission is added on top and shown to you before anything lists — we never discount your work to move it.
Twelve pieces or two hundred — your minimum, stated on the listing. Made-to-order lead times are printed plainly, and a shop that orders accepts them.
Your stockist list is visible to you and cappable by you: by number, by street, or by name. Exclusivity is yours to grant, not ours to sell.
Wholesale on your own against wholesale through the ledger, compared honestly — including the row where nothing changes.
On your own | Through Trestle One flat commission | |
|---|---|---|
| Who sets the wholesale price | You | You |
| When you are paid | When the shop settles | On dispatch |
| Who chases late invoices | You, evenings | The ledger |
| Who books and prices freight | You | |
| Who carries first-order returns | Negotiated each time | |
| Who owns the shop relationship | You | Still you |
The week my kiln element went, three invoices were overdue from shops I liked too much to chase. I listed on Trestle that month. Now the money lands when the box leaves, the chasing is not my name in the inbox, and I have fired more work in two years than in the five before them.
The questions makers ask before showing us the work.
Send the address of your work — a site, a feed, a folder of honest photographs. A person answers within the week.