Best Websites To Sell Art & Jewelry

Higher-level plans include more website customization such as website themes, a free shipping delivery progress bar (e.g. “$5 until your shipping is free”), custom page layouts, and customer accounts.

You are required to use Square Payments for payment processing. You’ll pay between 2.6% and 2.9% in payment processing fees.

Note: Square Online plans are billed on an annual basis. There are no early termination fees but there are also no refunds.

Square eGift card sale receipt.

The best Square features include:

• Free online store builder with free web hosting and domain name (Square branding required for free domain)
• Gift card program to sell digital and physical gift cards
• Free integrations with Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, and Facebook
• Free shipping labels and shipping carrier discounts
• Free coupon and discount generation for marketing campaigns
• Free in-person point of sale app

Related: Read our Square POS app review to learn more about incorporating this free in-person selling app with your online store.

Paid features include gifting options, product reviews, real-time shipping updates, personalized order recommendations, real-time shipping rate display at checkout, pre-order capabilities, and better eCommerce analytics.

There are lots of Square Online integrations available for features such as print-on-demand sales, advanced inventory management, and accounting software.

Aside from the eCommerce plans above, Shopify also offers a starter plan that costs $5/month and allows you to sell via social media, email, SMS, and product links. The starter plan does not come with a full eCommerce site and includes a 5% transaction fee, so we believe that the Basic plan is a good plan to start with.

You’ll also pay payment processing fees with Shopify. We recommend using Shopify Payments, the company’s built-in payment processor, to avoid transaction fees. If you use Shopify Payments, processing rates will range from 2.4% and 2.9% for online orders.

Shopify offers the following best features for selling art and jewelry online:

• Social media sales integrations with Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Pinterest, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and more for in-app selling
• Integrations with online marketplaces including Etsy, eBay, Fine Art America, and Printful to sell more and gain exposure online
• Integrations with print-on-demand and dropshipping apps to sell without needing any physical inventory
• Excellent automated inventory and shipping management across sales platforms
• Beautiful responsive free and paid online store themes and apps
• Free in-person sales software with eCommerce plans to sell at craft shows and markets

Shopify succulent listing on Etsy online marketplace.

Shopify offers strong international sales features for global sellers, including the ability to have your website automatically translated into your potential customer’s native language and have prices listed in their country’s currency. You can create international shipping settings to account for varying shipping rules and required payments.

Related: Read our Shopify POS review to learn more about using Shopify to sell at local artist markets and craft shows.

Etsy offers two subscriptions. The Standard plan costs $0/month and lets you operate a basic Etsy store, with mostly basic tools. For $10/month, the Etsy Plus plan gives you more advanced customization options for your store and useful selling tools. If you want to set up a connected independent store, you can sign up for a Pattern website for $10/month.

You’ll find a host of automatically added fees that can be bewildering to sort out. Here’s a rundown:

• Listing Fee: $0.20/item
• Transaction Fee: 6.5% of the sales price
• Shipping Fee: 6.5% of shipping cost
• Gift Wrapping Fee: 6.5% of the amount you charge for gift wrapping
• Etsy Payment Processing Fee: 3% of the transaction total + $0.25 per transaction (these figures apply only to US sales; transactions in other countries may incur different processing fees.
• Currency Conversion Fee: 2.5% of sales total
• Etsy Offsite Ads: 12%-15% of the sale amount (optional for sellers with less than $10K in annual sales)
• Etsy Onsite Ads: Set your own budget

You can read more about Etsy seller fees to understand the true cost of selling on this marketplace. Despite the added costs, which can be onerous, many artists succeed with Etsy. So long as you are aware of the costs associated with selling there and accept them as the price you’ll pay to gain entry to this powerhouse marketplace, Etsy can be a great choice for selling art and handmade or vintage jewelry online.

Etsy Payments is the required payment processor for almost all Etsy sellers. Etsy Payments allows you to accept credit and debit card payments, Etsy Credit and Etsy gift cards, and PayPal transactions. You’ll also be able to utilize some bank transfer services and digital wallet payments such as Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Etsy is a global online marketplace for artists and crafters that limits listings to originals and vintage items only. Etsy has an extensive art subcategory where you can find original creations in almost any media, including original art prints and jewelry. Custom work is a vibrant category, with original paintings of pets and animals among the top sellers.

One advantage to selling original art on Etsy is that shoppers are already interested in buying unique, hand-crafted objects, and they’re willing to pay for what they want. However, Etsy is a crowded field, even for original creations.  So you can’t necessarily depend on art and jewelry lovers to find your shop there on their own.

Etsy subcategories for original artwork.

Etsy aims to make selling jewelry and artwork simple, and the tradeoff is that some of its features are fairly basic, especially compared to some all-in-one options like Shopify. Keep in mind that Etsy is a marketplace, not an individual store.

Open an Etsy store, and you can sell on the marketplace and social media sites and operate an independent, linked store using Etsy’s Pattern software. If you use Square to take payments, you can also use Square POS to sell in person. You’ll do best if you’re prepared to drive traffic through advertising and social media marketing.

eBay charges listing and transaction fees. Sellers can list at least 200 items/month before listing fees kick in. You can expect to pay a listing fee between $0.35 and $2 per item after that.

Transaction fees are based on the final sale value and start at 10%. Expect to pay sales fees of 12.85% of the final value of jewelry and watches, with a maximum fee of $750. That cap means that eBay can be a good place to sell high-value items. Be prepared to offer authentication documentation, if you have it, and build your reputation on the marketplace by sharing your credentials as a seller.

eBay uses an internal payment processing system called eBay Managed Payments. All major credit cards are accepted through this system, plus PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay. Payment processing costs usually are included in the transaction fee.

Search results of eBay art listings.

Artists selling their works on eBay can list them as auction items with a minimum price requirement and include a “buy now” price. eBay sales policies are broad and allow lawful sales of original and vintage jewelry, original artwork, reproductions that don’t violate trademarks, replica paintings that are listed as reproductions, and art with alterations or repairs as long as the listing description includes details about what work was done.

Sellers are responsible for the authenticity or legality of items described as genuine and must be able to provide evidence of authenticity. While it’s true that opportunities for fraud are rampant, eBay vendors successfully list and sell items from Pandora, Chanel, Cartier, Tiffany & Co., and other top brands.

Creators and resellers looking for additional sales would do well to take another look at eBay. If you operate a standalone store on Shopify, for example, you can link your Shopify store to eBay to facilitate sales. While anything can be sold successfully and for a profit on eBay, art is not one of the auction site’s top-selling categories. However, we believe that eBay can work well for artists when it’s used as one sales channel among others.

There’s no charge to set up an account as an artist, and Saatchi handles the payment and shipping details for you.

Saatchi takes a 40% commission on all sales conducted through the site. As the artist, you set the prices for your pieces. The buyer will pay the cost of shipping artwork, although the artist is responsible for packing the work in a suitable container for shipping.

Buyers make their payments to Saatchi Art, and artists can request a payout seven days after the buyer has safely received their artwork. Funds can be paid by check, wire transfer, or PayPal, with most payouts completed within 14 days from the date of the payout request.

Saatchi is a curated art sales website that includes a printed catalog, featured categories, and editorial features such as Rising Stars and Artist of the Day.

In exchange for a 35% commission fee on sales, Saatchi offers social media promotion, curation services, social media promotion, paid online and offline advertising, and PR support. An artist newsletter offers tips for improving sales, and an artist handbook and blog share best practices, opportunities for promotion, and general tips.

Artists of all types, working in almost all media, are eligible to join the marketplace. As a non-exclusive online gallery, Saatchi allows listings from artists under gallery representation elsewhere.

ArtPal is free to use. You’ll pay no membership fee and no commission on sales. If you use ArtPal’s print-on-demand to sell your artwork, the printing costs will be added to your base price, so you’ll still receive 100% of the sale.

ArtPal handles the payment for you, securely processing customers’ payments and transferring funds directly to you. The buyer pays you immediately if you sell and ship your art yourself. If you sell print-on-demand items, your sales will be paid out on the 15th of every month.

ArtPal transfers funds to you via PayPal.

With ArtPal, you can sell paintings, prints, photos, sculptures, jewelry, crafts, and more. It’s appropriate for artists, collectors, galleries, and anyone with any art to sell.

You can even use ArtPal’s print-on-demand services, at no cost. Customers who select print services will pay the printing and shipping costs directly.

Setting up a gallery on ArtPal is quick and easy. You’ll be assigned a unique URL that you can use to drive traffic to your site. You can set up one big store or subdivide by collections to make browsing easier. Be sure to set up your artist profile, with a profile image and an About You section.

If you want, you can pay a $0.99 fee to highlight any piece of your artwork, so more people see it. After you add an item, you can activate social media automations to make posts to your choice of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. That’s an effortless method of multichannel marketing that costs you nothing.

You can use Printful with absolutely $0 cost for the basic plan that allows you to create an account. Premium features like product printing discounts and free embroidery are available on Printful’s $24.99/month Growth plan.

When customers place an order, they pay for the product’s price, shipping costs, and taxes plus a profit margin that you determine for your products.

Customers pay for their orders through your online store, covering the set retail cost of the items they want (including the item’s cost, your markup, and additional costs like shipping and taxes). You then pay Printful for their share of the costs, including the item itself, production costs, and shipping.

You can pay extra for embroidery ($2.95–$6.50 per design), labels ($2.49 per label), and premium images ($1 per image).

Printful lets artists create an online store on the eCommerce platform of their choice. You sell Printful products through your store, and orders are fulfilled automatically as soon as they are received. You pick what products to make available in your Printful store. Your customers can choose and pay for the products they’d like to have your designs printed on.

Printful print-on-demand sample product.

Printful offers premade templates and plugins, and you can connect with a marketplace like Amazon or Etsy. You can also reach out to your target audience on social media and monetize your presence on sites like TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Spotify, and Instagram.

Printful allows users to sell their designs printed on 342 products like T-shirts, patches, mugs, hats, posters, and phone cases.

Note: Printful offers eco-friendly products and CO2 offsetting options, so you can brand yourself as an environmentally conscious business.

Fine Art America offers artists a free plan or you can sign up for a $30/year plan that allows you to sell from your own website.

Note: A Shopify integration is included with all plans.

Fine Art America sets the base price for each product it makes available. You set a markup for the profit margin you’re looking for. Sales are processed through Fine Art America. Artists are paid for their sales on the 15th of each month for sales made before the 15th of the previous month.

For example, if Fine Art America sets a print’s base price at $50, and you set the piece’s price at $75, you’ll earn $25, plain and simple.

Fine Art America artist profile page.

Artists can upload high-resolution images and offer them for sale as different types of prints, including canvas, framed, metal, acrylic, wood, posters, and more. You set the sizes you want to make available for each piece. Then, when a customer orders, Fine Art America takes care of the printing, matting, packaging, shipping, payment processing, customer service, and everything else that’s involved in delivering the customer’s order.

You can also sell originals on Fine Art America. Any site visitor interested in purchasing one of your originals can contact you directly through your profile page. You’ll have to handle the order printing and shipping, but you get to keep all the money you make.

Each account includes a customizable artist profile page and individual pages for showcasing your art. Buyers can leave product ratings and reviews on individual products, and share items on social media for others to see.

On an artist profile page, you can show how many shop followers and visitors you have, publish a blog, connect to your social media pages, offer a link to join an email list and include a contact link for people to inquire about commissions and private licensing.

It costs $0 to upload products to Creative Market. The company sets the default commission to 50% of the product listing price but states that commission rates do vary by product and shop.

You have to request payouts within a certain timeframe every month. The minimum threshold is $20. After your request is processed, you’ll wait about five business days for your payout.

Creative Market digital art shop profile selling fonts.

Creative Market allows you to sell several file types and there are a lot of niches you can get into, from UI kits to portfolio templates to Adobe Photoshop effects.

Your online shop profile includes a gallery of your items, an about page, an announcements page, and a reviews page. You have a few customization options, including a header banner and a custom logo.

The company has recently incorporated shop data analytics and marketing tools such as product sharing on Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, etc. so that people know when you launch a new product or offer a promotion.

When customers purchase digital assets, they’ll get a package of all the attached files they need to use their purchase. If they have trouble implementing the files, you can offer technical support and workarounds so they (ideally) don’t request a refund from Creative Market.