Become a vendor on the Proudly Indigenous Crafts & Designs (PIC&D) online store for the opportunity to increase your visibility and reach new customers for your authentic seal products.
Vendor Benefits
Readymade traffic: Thanks to our well defined online marketing strategy, the PIC&D online store will attract a huge amount of traffic and sales opportunities. Creating an online store and investing in marketing will consume tens of thousands of dollars but you still wouldn’t be able to attract as much traffic.
Small setup costs: The PIC&D marketplace will save you money by providing administrative, marketing and software development services to you and your customers.
Simplified shipping: E-Commerce entrepreneurs need to deal with various logistics and shipping tasks, as well as order processing, product information updating, pricing, etc. The PIC&D marketplace helps to automate most of these tasks.
Flexibility: Merchants on the PIC&D marketplace can manage product details, prices, and areas of delivery, make additions, and updates as per their convenience. This flexibility comes along with no requirement of technical knowledge.
Wide field of products available: The PIC&D marketplace presents seal products made by a variety of Indigenous crafters. Instead of wasting time looking for products all across the Internet, potential customers just browse one marketplace to find all they need within a product category.
Vendor’s fee & Transaction fee
Registration is free of direct monthly fees.
The Vendor agrees to pay the mandatory Stripe fees of 2.9% of the total sale amount (including shipping) + $0.30/transaction for all online transactions
Vendors Eligibility Criteria
Vendors must self-identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit and Métis) and must be based in Canada.
Northwest Territories Vendors must also be registered with the NWT Arts Program. Click here to register with NWT Arts.
Each Vendor will be assigned a Vendor username and will need to create a password before being able to sign up for listing their product on the online store.
The vendors’ collection must include a majority of seal products and other natural materials.
If vendors wish to sell their seal products to the European Union (EU), they must confirm the product is made from seal skin that has been certified by a recognized body (Government of Nunavut, Government of Northwest Territories or Great Greenland).
Your products must meet specific quality, traceability and safety criteria. The Evaluation Committee will determine if you are eligible to sell your seal products on the PIC&D Online Store.