Only Approved Guild Members can List Products

In order to gain access to your vendor Dashboard, you must first work through the shipping tutorial, and successfully complete this process. All of the information you need can be found in our Seller onboarding course, which walks you through everything step by step..

How to Access the Academy

The Academy is located on the website. Simpply log into your approved vendor account, and knock on the Secret Door, at the bottom of the home page.

Finding your Vendor Dashboard

As soon as you've been approved as a Guild Member, you will be able to access user protected content on the Silk Purse Guild.

You WILL NOT be able to list products until you have worked through the SHIPPING TUTORIALS and can correctly set up your shipping formulas. These tutorials for this and so much more are included in your onboarding course.

Let us know how you have calculated your shipping formulas, by email or EVEN QUICKER, in the Facebook Group, and once we are sure you've got them worked out correctly you'll be given access to your own Vendor Dashboard. This is where you can control all areas of your store on the Silk Purse Guild.

Listing Products once you have unlocked your Vendor Dashboard

Firstly, go to DASHBOARD which is located in the drop drop menu, top right of the screen under MY ACCOUNT

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The DASHBOARD itself is a place to keep a record of all of your purchases, because of course you're bound to be tempted by the fabulous products listed by fellow Guild Members! To access the VENDOR DASHBOARD, follow the link

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Don't panic! The VENDOR DASHBOARD can be a little overwhelming at first, but once mastered it will be a valuable tool for your business. You will find walk through videos in the Academy too!

Question 2

What are the guidelines for product photography?

Accepted Answer

ALL PHOTOGRAPHS MUST BE DIFFERENT

Endless images that are all the same is a sure fire way to bore the pants off your customers!

The website pays to optimise all images uploaded to site, so please only ever upload images that meet our requirements. Failure to do so could result in account closure.

Perfect Product Photography Guidelines

When selling your work online, the product photos you create are as important as your actual products. Unlike a physical craft fair, it is your product photography that will sell your work for you, making them the most important assets of your online business.

The days of taking pictures of your products on the kitchen table are long gone. The bar has most definitely been raised, but this does not mean than you have to rush out and buy expensive equipment, and spend hours setting up studio lights.

There are some awesome sauce software products that can help you to take amazing shots in minutes, using nothing but your phone. You'll find a tutorial in the seller Academy, showcasing what we feel is the very best, free app to do this. Here is an example of what you can achieve in minutes!

LEFT Original - RIGHT edited in minutes!

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The original shots are on the left and yes, these are BOTH THE SAME PHOTOGRAPH!. You can achieve these results in minutes, just check out the tutorial in the seller Academy for all the info and instructions.

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Format Matters

Brand consistancy is a term that I'm sure you've heard, as a small business owner. Please try to remember that the Silk Purse Guild is also a small, Handmade business, just like yours. To keep our brand voice consistant, we ask that all product photos be of your products ONLY. We will not approve collage images, computer generated templates, watermarked images or framed photos. We do NOT support video or MP4 files, we are not Tik Tok!

NOT APPROVED on the left YES PLEASE on the right.

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Attention to Detail

Obviously, images should be in focus.

Question 3

Documents are Password Protected

Accepted Answer

Password protected content

As you work towards opening your shop, you may run into documents and trainings that are password protected. This is to ensure that only Guild Members are able to access members only content. You will need to be logged into your Silk Purse Guild account to access protected content.

The password for these documents can be located in the Academy, just look for Harry ;)

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