While there are a few differences between Premium and Basic sellers, there a lot of benefits both accounts share, just by being a seller at CraftIsArt.com, you have access to an ever-growing list of tools and features that allow you to get your products exposed to thousands of shoppers online every day.

Craft is Art is known for its usability, both sellers and buyers find it very intuitive and easy to use, for instance, buyers can easily buy your products without even having to be a member, they can add your products to their shopping cart while browsing a category, searching for a product or viewing one, and when ready to checkout, follow a simple two-step checkout process to finalize their purchase and get you paid.

Unlike other venues that offer Premium plans for a monthly fee, Basic sellers (also known as Pay-as-you-go) have access to the same features Premiums do; the difference is that Premium sellers pay a fixed monthly fee for unlimited ⁽¹⁾ access to these features, while Basic sellers can pay for such features as they need them ⁽²⁾.

Another difference is the sales commission sellers pay, Premium Sellers do not pay any fees for selling their items, while Basic sellers pay a small percentage ⁽³⁾ for every order processed.

Other venues give preference to Premium items when it comes to search results, here at Craft Is Art, your items are treated the same whether they are Basic or Premium, they are processed the same way so that search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. can find them quickly and index them properly so that they are ranked on the first spots of results pages, the same goes for when shoppers are searching for products using Craft Is Art's search engine, results are sorted out using different algorithms that take into account many different factors, but do not give priority to Premium items, with the exception of “Sponsored Items” where Premium Items do have priority over Basic.

Our fees are low and very competitive, in fact, our Premium fee is the lowest in the market, this is why we do have advertising on items from Basic sellers, so that we can continue to provide a free account and at the same time keep our fees low.

Ads can be removed by adding credit to your account, and they will be off your items for as long as you keep available credit in your account.

As you can see, the choice of being a Premium or a Basic seller is a matter of convenience, paying a low monthly fee for unlimited access to features and listings so that you do not have to worry about adding credit to your account to use features you need on a daily basis such as Coupons, On Sale and Free Shipping tags, etc.

(1). Some features may require to have available credit (even for Premium Sellers)
(2). Account Credit must be available
(3). Fess may vary