StayCraft for Local sellers & makers

For weavers, potters, woodworkers, metalworkers, tailors and clothing labels, co-operatives and small craft shops that want to sell their pieces online. You get your own shop website with a basket and checkout, an admin that runs orders from payment to parcel, GST bills, and pings on your phone. Choose it because buyers pay your own UPI, you approve before anything leaves the shelf, nearby homestays can sell your work too, and nobody takes a commission.

What every site gets

These are on every plan, from the smallest up, and never switch off while your plan is paid.

• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences directory (staycraft.co.in/experiences), which links to your own site, once your plan is active.
• Your own shop website at yourname.staycraft.co.in, in one of seven designs: Loom (the pieces first, for a shop with a wide range), Kiln (your story first, for a maker whose work sells because of who made it), Apothecary (your product and your certificates first, for a maker brand that sells on proof: Ayurveda, wellness, saffron, honey) Pantry (your jars first, warm and homely, for honey, preserves, pickles and teas) or Debut (one product you are launching: it sells it and shows a Kickstarter backer you are real, with a waiting list, a countdown and your tiers, and the proof behind it: your awards and the people who have seen it, your films, your research with the study named, and your journey in photos) or Atelier, a premium design on Pro or by quote (clothes: your collections as the menu, tall photographs that turn to a second one, each piece chosen by colour and size with your size chart and "Find my fit", the pieces to wear with it, a lookbook, and your own announcement bar for offers, delivery and returns), or Brew, a premium design on Pro or by quote (one tea, spice mix, honey or coffee sold on the first screen: its types, its packs with the price of 100 g and what a bigger pack saves, Add to basket, cash on delivery and free postage, then buyers' photos, where it comes from, how it compares and how to brew it). The site moves a little: the first screen opens with a slow push-in, and headings and photos rise as a visitor scrolls. Still for anyone whose phone is set to reduce motion.
• Products, on every plan. Each piece has a name, its story, photographs, its kind, its options (a size, a colour, a glaze) with their own price and stock count, and how it travels.
• For clothes (on the Atelier design): a size and a colour per option with a swatch to tap, your size chart (chest, waist, length) with "Find my fit" from the buyer's own measurements, collections that become your menu and their own pages, "Complete the look" with up to three pieces worn together and what they come to, and your returns and exchanges line beside every buy button. Buy the look: a set price or a percentage off when every piece of a look is in the basket, taken off at checkout and shown on the order and the bill, with GST on what was paid.
• A basket and checkout. Buyers add several pieces, see the total, and pay you the full amount by UPI with one screenshot.
• Orders, from payment to delivery. Approve, pack, post with a tracking number, or deliver yourself, step by step.
• Bills for goods. A numbered bill for every approved order, and a GST tax invoice if you are registered.
• Your own local delivery, with your places, fees and minimum orders.
• Selling through homestays. Offer a piece to homestays on StayCraft at a share you set, and they sell it to their guests.
• Enquiries, a blog, and SEO & Google tools with a health score and a checklist.
• Monthly report by email: on the 1st, last month's visits, enquiries and (where your plan has them) bookings, payments, QR scans, reviews and top Google searches, against the month before, with one tip and your SEO score. A "Last month" card on the dashboard shows the same. You can switch it off in Settings or with one click from the email.
• Enquiry follow-up: every enquiry moves through New, Replied, Quoted, Won or Lost, with a day to follow up on, a "Follow up today" tab, and one morning ping on your phone when something is due. On every plan.
• A listing on the StayCraft Experiences page under Local crafts, with the price of your cheapest piece, linking to your shop.
• Google review cards and QR landing pages you design and print yourself.
• Social posts: turn a review, an offer, a nearby place or a festival into a finished picture and caption in your own colours and fonts (a post, a story or a square), in English or Hindi, and share it to your WhatsApp status from your phone. On every plan; nothing is posted for you.
• Visitor numbers: traffic, top pages, and where your enquiries came from.
• Backup: download your whole site whenever you like.
• Staff logins for an orders desk and a packer (how many depends on the plan).
• No commission on any order, on any plan.

Plans and prices

Makers buy from the same six plans as homestays. Prices are per year. Your products, basket, orders, bills and delivery work the same on all six.

Plan	Price per year	Who it suits	What it adds over the plan below
Website	₹9,000 (₹750 a month, billed yearly)	A single maker selling their own work	Everything in "What every site gets", plus the WhatsApp button, reviews on your site, and nearby places for your area guide. No staff logins, 1 management user (you). Three designs made for your kind, 1 design change a year. 1 GB.
Basic	₹12,000 (₹1,000 a month, billed yearly)	A workshop with someone answering orders and someone packing	Your own brand colours on the site. 3 staff logins, 2 management users. Every standard design, 2 design changes a year. 2 GB.
Growth	₹15,000 (₹1,250 a month, billed yearly)	A co-operative or shop that wants to see how buyers find it on Google	Search insights from Google. Marked "Most popular" on the pricing page. 5 staff logins, 2 management users, 2 design changes a year. 3 GB.
Plus	₹18,000 (₹1,500 a month, billed yearly)	A shop selling to buyers abroad, on its own web address	Your site in 8 languages and your own domain. 8 staff logins, 2 management users, 3 design changes a year. 5 GB.
Team	₹25,000 (₹2,083 a month, billed yearly)	A co-operative run by a team of managers	10 staff logins, 3 management users, 4 design changes a year. 10 GB.
Pro	₹30,000 (₹2,500 a month, billed yearly)	A large craft house	Alerts on your phone for every new order and enquiry. Change your design any time. 20 staff logins, 5 management users. 25 GB.

GST. Plan prices are what you pay. StayCraft is not GST-registered, so no GST is added.

Add-ons. The 8 languages, your own colours, Search insights and your own domain can be added to a smaller plan as add-ons. There is no public price for them: ask us and we quote for your business.

How paying works. No free trial and no card up front. We agree the plan and the price with you first. You pay by UPI or bank transfer to the account we send you, and we switch the plan on the same day the payment reaches us. A plan does not renew by itself: you choose to renew, and we remind you before it ends.

Changing plan. You can move up at any time and pay the difference for the time left. A move to a smaller plan waits until your current year ends.

Staff logins are counted without the owners. A login you switch off takes no place.

A note on the pricing page. The comparison table is written for homestays. Several lines on it do nothing for a maker's shop: "Requests + payment proof" (your orders work on every plan), "Availability calendar", "Restaurant & bar", "Packages & experiences", "Online card/UPI payments", "OTA channel sync", "Photo gallery" (the local crafts designs show your pieces instead of a gallery section) and "Premium designs". Do not sell a plan on those lines.

Features in detail

Your pieces

• Products. One row per piece: name, the story behind it, photographs, and its kind (textiles, wood, metal, pottery, jewellery, food and tea, wellness and Ayurveda, other).
• Options with their own price and count. A sold-out large does not take the small off the shelf.
• Stock shown to buyers. The shop shows how many are left, or "Sold out".
• Posting. Whether you post a piece, its flat postage charge and how many days it takes. Several posted pieces in one order pay the highest charge once, not the sum.
• Collect only. Mark a piece too big or too fragile to send; it is never posted or delivered.
• Returns terms. How many days a buyer has to ask for a return, and who pays the postage back. Printed on the piece and payment pages and in the "order has arrived" email.
• What a buyer asks. Each piece can say what it is made of or its ingredients, where it comes from, its size and weight, how long it took to make, its care or storage, and its best-before. The piece's page shows only what you filled in, as a short table.
• A document per piece. A lab report, a certificate or a care card as a PDF, opened from the piece's page.
• Pack sizes with labels. Each option can carry a short label such as "Most loved" or "Best value", shown on the shelf and the piece's page.
• Made to order. A piece can say how many days it takes to make, beside the price, so nobody is surprised by the wait.
• How it is made. A section on every design: a paragraph per stage and a photograph of the making, and now, if you like, the stages one by one, each with its photo and how long it takes.
• Certificates and marks. A section listing your GI tag, Handloom Mark, FSSAI licence, organic certificate, ISO or patent, each with its number and the certificate itself for a buyer to open.
• The people. A section for the makers, the family or the founders and advisers, each with a photo, what they do and where.
• Supported by and press. A row of the logos or names of who supports you or wrote about you.
• Reviews of a piece, with photos. Buyers rate a piece and add up to three photos; you publish them. Stars show beside the price and on the shelf.
• Shop by and in season. Tags you choose ("Gifts", "Breakfast") become filters on your shelf; a piece in season is marked "Fresh this season" and shown first.
• How to use it. A recipe, a way to wear it or how to light it, on the piece's page.
• Free postage above an amount, or postage by weight. Your choice; the basket tells a buyer how much more makes postage free.
• Cash on delivery and card payments. Buyers may pay cash when it arrives (up to a limit you set), or on your own card and netbanking page (Razorpay, Instamojo, PayU). You approve each order as now. StayCraft still never holds the money.
• Gift packing. Free, with no prices in the parcel and a note from the buyer.
• Bulk and corporate orders. A quote form for hotels, offices, weddings and clinics, on your site and every piece; requests arrive with your enquiries.
• A deposit to reserve. A piece can ask a deposit: the buyer pays it now, and the balance on delivery or collection. Checkout, the order, the emails and the bill show both.

The basket and checkout

• Add, then − 1 +. The count stops at how many you have made, or 20, and says why. The basket keeps up to 20 different pieces and is remembered in the buyer's browser.
• Checked again before paying. If a piece has sold out or changed price since it was added, the buyer sees it marked by name and chooses to keep or remove it.
• Three ways to receive it: collect from you, post it, or have you deliver it. One order goes one way; it is never split.
• Pay by UPI. The amount in large figures, a "Pay in UPI app" button on a phone, your QR code on a computer, your UPI ID with a copy button. The buyer uploads the payment screenshot and sends the order and proof together.
• Your reply time. Tell buyers you usually confirm within a few hours, within a day, or within two days. An order not answered in time shows as Overdue on your list.
• The buyer's order page. A private page that says where the order stands in one sentence ("Posted by India Post on 2 Oct"), with the pieces, the money and a WhatsApp link to you.
• Privacy consent recorded. Each order shows when the buyer agreed to your privacy notice, and which version.

Running orders

• Approve all takes every piece in the order off the shelf at once, numbers the bill and emails the buyer. It refuses, and changes nothing, if any piece has run out.
• Nothing leaves the shelf before you approve. Your site, and every homestay selling your piece, sell from one count, so the last piece can only be sold once.
• When a piece has sold since they paid, Ask buyer about part order sets the rest aside and asks the buyer to choose: send the rest, with the money for the sold piece back, or cancel everything. A ready WhatsApp message is offered. The buyer is reminded once after a day; after three days the order is Overdue and you decide.
• Step by step: Mark ready to collect, Mark collected; or Mark packed, Mark posted (with courier and tracking number, emailed to the buyer), Mark delivered; or Mark out for delivery, Mark delivered.
• Cancel or Returned puts the pieces back on the shelf at once.
• Money to return. A paid order that is declined, cancelled or returned shows the amount to send back until you press Record money returned with the UPI or bank reference. The buyer's page then shows it.
• Filters for status, how it goes, money to return and overdue.

Delivering it yourself

• Your places. Switch on local delivery and list the places you carry orders to, in your own words, each with a delivery fee and a minimum order.
• Buyers pick from your list, never type a place, so the fee is always right. A place whose minimum is not reached is greyed with "Add ₹80 more" style help.
• A phone number is required for a delivery, and your order page shows the place, street and landmark.
• Switching delivery off keeps your list for next time.

Bills and GST

• A bill for goods for every order approved on your own site, numbered in its own series that restarts every April. The buyer opens and prints it from their order page.
• Three kinds, by your registration: a plain Bill if you are not registered; a Tax invoice with your GSTIN if you are registered and have set a rate for goods (prices include GST, CGST and SGST within your state or for collection, IGST to another state); a Bill of supply if you are registered with no rate for goods.
• One rate for goods, set once. There is no default: handicrafts are 5%, 12% or nil depending on what you make, so the owner sets it with their accountant.
• A bill stays as it was issued. Changing your rate or GSTIN later never rewrites an old bill.

Selling through homestays

• Offer to homestays. Set the share a homestay keeps, as a percentage or a fixed amount per piece. The price to the guest is the same as on your site.
• The homestay sells and collects. Its guest pays the homestay; the homestay approves the order, and you are emailed your pieces and where they go. Each maker packs and posts their own parcel.
• Sold via partners. What each homestay owes you, net of returns, less what it has recorded paying you, with the date and UPI reference of each payment for you to check against your UPI app.
• A ping when a homestay sells your piece, with the homestay's name and how many pieces.

Your team

• Orders desk role. Opens Orders and Enquiries. Checks payments, approves, asks about part orders, declines, moves orders on, cancels, marks returned, and opens the bill. Never sees your products and prices, what homestays owe you, Settings or your takings, and never records money returned.
• Packer role. Sees only approved orders still to pack and send: the pieces and where each goes, with one button for the next step. Never sees a price, an amount, or the buyer's email or phone (except the phone on a posted parcel's address, because couriers ask for it).
• How many: Website 1, Basic 3, Growth 5, Pro 10 staff logins. If you move to a smaller plan, the logins added last are paused, not removed.

Your website and Google

• Loom or Kiln, switchable at any time. Start from a demo offers a weavers' collective on Loom and a pottery on Kiln, so a new site is not empty on day one.
• Each design has its own touches. The enquiry form is styled the design's own way (ruled lines, soft cards, ink outlines, paper, glass or a stamp), a small hand-drawn mark of the design's own sits between the sections and draws itself in as a visitor scrolls, and facility icons are drawn in the design's own hand. What the form asks and does stays the same.
• Reviews, area guide and map sections. (Every plan.)
• WhatsApp button on every page. (Every plan.)
• Your own colours. (Basic and up, or as an add-on.)
• 8 languages. Your shop translated automatically into English, Hindi, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Hebrew, with a one-tap switch. (Pro, or as an add-on.)
• Your own domain, such as yourweaves.com, with HTTPS set up for you. Your staycraft.co.in address keeps working too. (Pro, or as an add-on.)
• SEO & Google with a health score and a weekly sitemap to Google. (Every plan.)
• Search insights. What people typed into Google to find you, the pages they landed on, clicks and your position, 16 months of it, updated daily. (Growth and Pro, or as an add-on.)
• Blog for the stories behind the work. (Every plan.)

On your phone

• The admin works on a phone and can be added to your home screen like an app. The order page is laid out for a phone.
• Pings. Turn on pings under Settings, Notifications, on an Android phone, a computer, or an iPhone (Safari, added to the home screen). A ping arrives for each new enquiry, each new order on your own site and when a homestay sells your piece. Orders also arrive by email.

What it does not do (yet)

• No card payment inside StayCraft. Buyers pay by UPI with a screenshot, cash on delivery, or on your own payment page if you add one. You check the money has arrived before you approve.
• No automatic refunds. Money going back is sent by you, from your own UPI or bank. StayCraft never holds the money.
• No courier booking or shipping labels. You book the courier yourself and type the courier name and tracking number. Postage is a flat charge per piece or by weight, not by distance.
• Delivery only to the places you list, at the fee you set for each. No distance-based fees and no live tracking.
• No discount codes for pieces.
• One GST rate for all goods. A rate per piece is not there yet. How goods bills are numbered and how postage is taxed are still being confirmed with StayCraft's accountant; the bill today is our proposal, and owners will be told if it changes.
• Up to 20 different pieces in one basket.
• Packers get no pings. Tell them when there is something to pack.
• StayCraft does not settle homestay sales. The homestay pays you directly, monthly or however you agree. The site keeps the statement both of you check.
• No link to online marketplaces.
• The Android app is not on the Play Store yet. Pings work today through the browser.

Good to say to a customer

• "Do you take a cut of my sales?" No. Buyers pay your own UPI, the full price, and you keep all of it. You pay the plan once a year.
• "What if two people buy my last shawl?" Nothing comes off the shelf until you approve, and approval checks the count first. If a piece has gone, the buyer is asked whether to take the rest or cancel, and the money due back is tracked until you record it.
• "Can the homestays around me sell my work?" Yes. Offer a piece to homestays and set the share they keep. Their guests buy it from the homestay's own site, the homestay pays you, and your "Sold via partners" page shows what each one owes.
• "Do I get a proper bill for GST?" Yes. Every approved order gets a numbered bill. If you are registered and set your rate, it is a tax invoice with the right CGST, SGST or IGST split.
• "Can someone pack without seeing my money?" Yes. A Packer login shows only what to pack and where it goes, with no prices, amounts or buyer contact details.