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September 4, 2026

September 4, 2026

Price Rules: Minimum Listing Price & Maximum Order Value

Card payments carry a fixed fee per transaction on top of the percentage. On a $3 fabric remnant, Stripe's fee plus your commission can leave the seller with almost nothing, and a $0.20 listing is a support ticket waiting to happen. At the other end, a buyer places a large order, the seller ships it, and weeks later the buyer disputes the charge with their bank - the tracking number usually wins, but the cash-flow hit in between can hurt a small seller.

Two new price rules bound both ends. A minimum listing price is a floor per listing type: sellers cannot save a listing below it, on create, on every later edit, and on CSV import. A maximum order value caps how much one order from a single seller can total, with a store default you set and an optional per-seller override.

Owner sets the floor per listing type, sellers hit it in the form

Listing Form → Fabric & Remnants

Minimum Listing Price

5.00
AUD

Applies to every seller and to your own listings. Leave empty for no owner minimum.

Payments → Maximum order value

Seller → New listing

Price

3.00

Minimum A$5.00 for this listing type.

Seller → Settings → Maximum order value

Use the marketplace default (A$350)

No limit

Set my own limit

The seller card only appears once your store default is on. Until then no cap applies anywhere.

Stripe's minimum is the hard floor

Even with no owner minimum, a paid listing cannot go below Stripe's minimum charge for your currency ($0.50, €0.50, £0.30, 2,50 kr). Your minimum sits on top. Free listings stay allowed where the type permits them.

Every price on the listing counts

Headline price, daily rates, variant prices and per-person prices must all clear the floor. Live listings already below a new minimum keep selling and hit the floor on their next edit.

The cap is per seller, per checkout

Item subtotal before shipping and coupons. In a multi-seller cart each seller is checked separately, and the buyer is told which limit they hit. Bookings, custom offers and approved requests are not capped - the seller already set that amount.

Why this is smart

  • Fewer fee-eaten sales. A floor per type means the $0.50 button and the $500 loom get the rule that fits them, and sellers see the minimum right under the price field instead of finding out at payout.
  • Bounded worst case. Set the order cap around the value where a single chargeback would genuinely hurt your typical seller. Sellers who routinely take big orders raise or remove their own limit; the default protects the ones who never think about it.
  • Nothing changes until you turn it on. Both rules are off by default. Leave the minimum empty and the cap off and your marketplace behaves exactly as before.

Available on Pro and above. Minimum price per type in Store Settings → Listing Form, order cap in Store Settings → Payments. Price Rules docs

Commission per Listing Type

Until now one commission rate, set under Payments, applied to every sale in your marketplace. That is fine when everything you sell has the same economics - and wrong the moment it doesn't. A horse marketplace that takes 10% on a £40 saddle pad cannot take 10% on a £5,000 horse. A crafts marketplace may want nothing on workshop tickets and a normal cut on finished goods.

Each listing type now has its own optional commission rate, set right under Type Details in the Listing Form settings. Enter a percentage, enter 0 for no commission on that type, or leave it empty to keep using the store-wide rate. With the shopping cart on, a single checkout can hold items of different types - each line is charged at its own type's rate and the seller sees one combined platform fee.

Which rate wins: the most specific one that is set

Per-seller override

Managed Sellers

Plan commission

Seller subscription plan

Listing type rate

New

Store default

Payments

Left to right, the first rate that is set wins.

One cart, 10% store default, Tack 6%, Lessons 12%, Horses 0%
LineRateWhyFee
Saddle, £200 (Tack)6%Tack has its own rate£12.00
Lesson, £50 (Lessons)12%Lessons has its own rate£6.00
Horse, £5,000 (Horses)0%0 is a real rate, not “unset”£0.00
Saddle, £200, seller with a 4% override4%Per-seller override beats the Tack rate£8.00
Who versus what

Seller and plan rates describe who is selling; the type rate describes what is sold. A special rate you gave one seller means “this seller pays X% on everything”, so it is never silently replaced by a per-type rate.

Per type, not per category

Categories inside a type share the type's rate. If two groups of listings need different rates, make them separate listing types.

Bookings and offers included

Buy now, cart, custom offers, approved requests and booking payments all resolve the type rate, and the Manage Bookings earnings estimate shows it per type. Existing orders are never recalculated.

Available on all plans. Set per type in Store Settings → Listing Form. Commission per type docs

Sellers Arrange Their Listings on Their Profile

A seller's public profile used to show their listings newest first, full stop. The piece they most want a visitor to see was often three rows down behind whatever they uploaded last. Sellers can now drag their listings into the order they want on My Listings, and that is the order buyers see on their profile.

Grab a listing by its grip handle and drop it where it belongs; on mobile, use the up and down arrows. The order saves automatically with a status next to the list, and a View profile link sits right there so sellers can check the result.

Seller drags on My Listings, buyers see the order on the profile

Dashboard → My ListingsOrder saved
Hand-thrown stoneware teapot
Speckled glaze mug set
Raku vase, blue
Seconds: chipped bowls (3)
Public profile → Ella Ceramics

Ella Ceramics

⭐ 4.9 (24) · 12 listings

1. Hand-thrown stoneware teapot

2. Speckled glaze mug set

3. Raku vase, blue

4. Seconds: chipped bowls (3)

Unarranged listings follow

Anything a seller has not placed appears after the arranged listings, newest first - so a new upload never silently jumps to the top of a curated profile.

Appears where it makes sense

The controls show on the All tab with no search active, and only when your marketplace has seller profiles enabled and shows listings on them.

Duplicates start fresh

A duplicated listing does not inherit the original's position; it lands with the unarranged ones until the seller places it.

Available on all plans, in every storefront language. Seller Dashboard docs

Messaging: Unread Badges, Live Inbox, Your Theme Colours

Buyer-seller messaging is where a lot of marketplace deals actually happen, and it had two gaps: nothing in the dashboard told a seller a new message was waiting, and the inbox only updated when you reloaded it. Both are fixed, and the whole thread UI now follows your store's theme colour instead of the default teal.

Seller dashboard → Messages

Overview

My Listings

Messages3

Orders

Maya K. · Hand-thrown stoneware teapot live
Is the teapot still available?
It is! I can ship tomorrow.
Perfect, ordering now 🎉
Unread badges

A count on the Messages entry in the seller and buyer dashboard sidebar, a dot on the mobile menu, and a per-thread badge in the inbox. They refresh on their own and clear as soon as the thread is opened - including from an email link.

Live inbox

The conversation list and the open thread refresh every 15 seconds while the tab is visible. New replies appear in place, without a reload and without disturbing a message you are still typing.

Your theme colour

Sent bubbles, chips, timestamps and badges use your store's primary colour with contrast-aware text. The selected thread is a tinted card instead of an edge bar that blended into the sidebar.

On every plan, for buyers and sellers. Custom-domain dashboards also show a loading skeleton immediately instead of a blank page, and a message link that needs sign-in now lands on the right thread after login. Messaging docs

More Improvements

Other things shipped this week.

Improvements This Week
  • The Subscribers table in store settings now has an Extra listings column showing each seller's lifetime extra-listing purchases, with a per-currency total at the bottom
  • Admin-only custom fields can be hidden from sellers entirely, and any custom field can be copied to another listing type in one click - same-name fields across types is what lets Featured Listings and listing-page filters span types
  • Hero quick-search pills have an Opens picker in the editor, so each pill can open a text search or a specific listing type - pills pointing at a renamed type are flagged in amber
  • The visual editor's desktop preview renders at a fixed 1280px width scaled to fit the pane, so listing grids show the real 3- and 4-column desktop layout even on a narrow screen, and the phone and tablet previews match the live breakpoints exactly
  • The seller dashboard's My Sales and Wishlist pages follow your store theme colour, and money icons match your store currency (£, €, ¥ and so on)
  • Copy-to-clipboard buttons on each DNS record in the sender-email setup, so you paste the exact value into your DNS provider
  • The listing form shows recommended image specs under the upload button

Bug Fixes

Bug fixes shipped this week.

Fixes This Week
  • Text with an ampersand typed in the editor sidebar (like "Tack & Saddlery") now renders correctly on the live page instead of showing the raw & code
  • Listing-type and custom-field pills, and theme buttons in general, now pick black or white text by real contrast ratio, so light and mid-tone brand colours stay readable
  • Logo cloud per-logo sizing now applies on the live site, not just in the editor, and a hidden section heading no longer leaves an empty gap above the content
  • The hero search input can be selected in the editor again, and style and delete edits on the quick-search pills persist after saving
  • Transactional emails now use the logo from your Theme tab rather than the header logo, and links use an accessible blue

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