Open · For UK makers, curators & restorers
Make enough, from what you love.
You put real care into what you make, find or restore — enough to make a living from it. Nook is how: your whole story told, a fair price that stays yours, and the people who love what you do becoming the reason it grows. Whether that’s a side thing going full-time or an established shop running smoother, it’s yours — no middleman, no algorithm. UK only, for now.
Why Nook
The care is the part that doesn’t show.
Whether you make it, find it, or bring it back to life, what you put in is the part a price tag can’t show — the hours, the judgement, the care you give without being asked. Marketplaces flatten all of that into a thumbnail, and a middleman keeps the difference. Nook hands it back — the whole story told, a fair price kept — so the thing you love can become the thing you live on, on your own terms.
The bigger idea
Give people a reason to leave the house.
The high street started to feel like the internet — everything on it is a tap away and cheaper, so why go? What’s still worth showing up for is the part a screen can’t carry: meeting the person who made the thing, tasting the difference, being somewhere with a bit of culture in it. That’s the commerce Nook is for — closer to a market day than a mega-store. Your shop becomes a reason to visit, and the makers near you become allies, not rivals.
Where to start
Start where your craft already is.
Most makers we meet begin hands-on — in a room, with people, sharing the thing they know. So you don’t have to start with a shopfront. Start with what you already do.
Start with events
You know your craft and you love the room. Run a workshop, a tasting, a supper club — sell tickets, hold a waitlist, check people in at the door. The most natural first step for makers who’d rather show than tell.
No subscription · 4% + 50p a ticket Start with events Ready to sellStart with a shop
You’ve got something to sell direct — short runs, drops and one-offs, with the stories that do the selling. A storefront that looks made, not templated. Add events whenever you like.
£15/month · your whole shop Open your shopEither way, you can switch or add the other later — nothing’s locked in.
Events
Where regulars begin.
A tasting, a workshop, a supper club, a launch night. The people who turn up in person are the ones who come back — so an event isn’t a sideline, it’s how a room becomes a list of regulars. Nook asks no subscription for them: a QR ticket at the door, and a charge so small the ticket price stays yours — we only get paid when you sell one. Sell what you make between events, and your shop’s already here.
- No subscription — you pay only when a ticket sells.
- Ticket tiers, waitlists and QR check-in at the door.
- Your own event page, not a line on someone else’s listings.
What you get
Made for short runs and regulars, not endless inventory.
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Short runs, done properly
An edition of fifty or a single one-of-a-kind find: same tools either way. Schedule a go-live, sell out cleanly, and let the stock maths make overselling impossible.
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Pages that tell the story
Story-first product pages: scrolling narratives of words, images and quotes with the buy button woven in. Where it came from sells it better than a spec sheet.
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Your shop, your look
Your name, your colours, your choice of type from a proper font library. A storefront that looks made, not templated. No theme marketplace, no app soup.
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Regulars, not just checkouts
Drop lists and waitlists turn followers into buyers, and buyers into people who come back for the next batch. The relationship outlasts the transaction.
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Events, without a subscription
Put on a tasting, a workshop, a supper club — no monthly fee for events, just a small charge on each ticket you sell, with a QR code at the door. The room fills with the people who then come back for what you make.
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Get paid directly
Payments land in your own Stripe account and Stripe pays out to your bank. We never hold your money, and your name is on the receipt.
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VAT, boringly correct
Per-item rates, so zero-rated tea and standard-rated furniture live in the same shop. Prices shown inclusive, VAT broken out on every order.
How it works
Shop, stock, sold.
Create your shop
Name it, colour it, connect Stripe. Two minutes, no code.
Add a drop or a one-off
Photos, a story, and a go-live time for drops.
Sell out
Waitlist emails fire, buyers check out, you ship.
Pricing
Events without a subscription. A shop, £15 a month.
Open a shop from day one, or start with events and add one later — either way, events never need a subscription.
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