For shop owners

Your shop, online, without giving anything away

Rang Bazaar puts your clothes in front of people who are already looking for them. You keep your customers, your prices and your money. Here is exactly how it works, including the parts people worry about.

The short version

The money never passes through us
It goes from the customer's card into your own bank account, in your own name. We could not hold onto it even if we wanted to.
We never see your ID
You give it to Stripe, on your own phone, the same way you gave it to your bank. It does not come to us and we cannot see it.
Your name is on the customer's receipt
Not ours. You are the seller. Your shop name is what appears on their bank statement.
No monthly fee, no contract
We take our share only when you make a sale. A month with no sales costs you nothing at all.
Stop whenever you like
Close the account and we hold nothing of yours. No notice, no exit fee, nothing to sign.

“I already sell on Facebook”

Good. Keep it. We are not asking you to close your page or to stop using WhatsApp, and we never will. Those customers are yours. You found them yourself, and nothing here takes them away from you.

This is for the sales you are not making.

The one already ordering from Dhaka
She is buying online right now, from a website in Bangladesh, and waiting two weeks for the parcel. If it does not fit she keeps it — posting it back costs more than the garment. You have it on a rail, in her size, this week, and she can bring it back to you. She does not know your shop is here.
The one who has never heard of you
Your page reaches the people already following it. Someone who arrived in Sydney last month, looking for a panjabi before Eid, does not know your shop exists. They are looking. They are just not looking on Facebook.
The one who will not send money to a stranger
A customer who knows you will transfer to your bank without thinking about it. A customer who does not know you will not. Paying by card is often the difference between a sale and a conversation that quietly stops.
The sister in Melbourne
She cannot come to the shop and she is not in your local group. She can open a page, see the price, and order it — without either of you typing anything.
The evening you spend answering the same question
How much. What size. Do you have it in blue. Every night, one person at a time. Here the photograph, the sizes and the price are already on the page. Nobody has to ask you.

You pay us nothing until one of those sales happens. If none of them ever happens, this will have cost you one afternoon of having your clothes photographed, and nothing else.

And if all we ever do is sell to the customers you already had, then we are not worth our share. Tell us so, and stop.

And if you never sell a thing

You still end up with all of this, and it still costs you nothing.

A page of your own
Your name, what you sell, where you are, and every garment photographed properly. Most shops we talk to have no website at all. This is one, and it is yours from the first day.
Every garment on Google, not just your shop
Your shop page hands Google your name, phone and street address in a form it can file as a business. More useful than that: every single garment gets a page of its own, with its own price on it, which is what somebody searching for a jamdani saree in Melbourne actually lands on. A photograph posted to Facebook never becomes a page with a price.
The photographs
We take them, and they are yours. Put them on Facebook, print them, send them on WhatsApp. We do not ask for them back and we do not ask you to stop using them anywhere else.
A printed sheet for the counter
Your garments on paper, each with a number and a code a customer can photograph and send to family who cannot come to the shop.

We are not going to tell you how many customers will see it. We are new, and anyone promising you an audience this early is guessing. What we can tell you is what exists the day you join, and that none of it is taken away if the selling turns out to be slow.

What you actually get paid

A real example, on a $215.00 saree. Our share is agreed with you before you start — this one is 10%.

Customer pays$215.00

Card processing, paid to Stripe−$3.96

Rang Bazaar, 10% of the garment−$21.50

You receive$189.54

If the customer chooses delivery, the postage they pay is yours in full — we take nothing from postage, so you are never out of pocket on a parcel.

What happens when an order comes in

You are never asked to hold stock for us, or to promise anything you do not have on the shelf.

A customer orders

Their card is checked and the money is held — not taken. We text you straight away.

You check the shelf

Open the link we send you. Two buttons: you have it, or you don't.

You say yes

Only then is the customer charged. The money starts its way to your account.

You say no

The hold is released and the customer pays nothing. No refund to process, no argument. This costs you nothing and it is not held against you.

The customer is never charged for something you do not have. That is the whole reason it works this way. You are never left explaining a refund, and they are never left waiting for one.

Why you are asked for ID, and who sees it

Anyone in Australia who takes card payments has to prove who they are. It is the law that applies to the money, not a question from us. These are the same checks your bank did when you opened your business account.

What we never see

Your passport, licence or any document you send Stripe
Your Stripe password — we will never ask you for it
Your customers' card numbers
Your bank account details

You type all of it into Stripe's own website, on your own phone. We are not in the middle of it.

Stripe is a payments company used by businesses all over the world. Look them up before you sign anything — we would rather you did.

Will you fill my inbox?

No. You will hear from us when an order arrives and when something needs your answer. That is all. When we set you up, we untick Stripe's marketing emails box in front of you, so the only messages you get from them are about your own money.

What you need to start

Setting up takes about twenty minutes, sitting with you. Have these with you and it is done in one go.

Your ABN
Your bank account details, for the money to land in
Photo ID — driver's licence or passport. Sometimes Stripe asks for it, sometimes not, so bring it either way
A mobile number you actually carry, so we can text you orders
Your clothes, on a rail, ready to photograph

We take the photographs. You do not need a website, a computer, or anything you do not already have.

Come and see it working

There are shops selling on here already. Have a look at what their pages look like, then decide.

See the shops