Introduction

Set up fee – There is no set up fee for any of our plans. You can change your subscription plan at any time and there is never a long term commitment, you can cancel at any time.

Listing fee – There is no listing fee to list your products. Silkfair is a free marketplace to buy and sell everything extraordinary.

Inventory management tools – whether you have few products or thousands, manage them all with ease. You can perform bulk actions, easy inline editing, and sort in multiple methods.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) – Silkfair is a hosted e-commerce system that offers a Content Delivery Network (CDN). A CDN is a large network of servers placed across the world to ensure your customers can load your store as quickly as possible, wherever they are. Our CDN is operated by http://www.edgecast.com/ one of the most reputable CDN companies.

Security – We are certified with McAfee SECURE system. We provide the highest level of protection for your market booth/custom store and shoppers.

Administration Interface

Import product data from eBay & Etsy – The eBay & Etsy importer will grab all of your active listings from eBay & Etsy and copy them into your Silkfair market booth and/or custom store, with as much detail as it can gather (title, description, price, shipping information, pictures, and category are all usually grabbed, with some exceptions).

Upload product data CSV file format – often times you may keep your inventory in a spreadsheet, and spreadsheets can be saved as CSV (comma separated values) files that can be uploaded to Silkfair.

Pic bulk import via URL – import your images with URL, the importer will import the first four pictures that it can find associated with your item.

Pic bulk upload using ZIP file – upload your images using ZIP file, the importer will import the first four pictures that it can find associated with your item.

Feature Comparison

Checkout and Payments

Accepts Paypal & Google Checkout payments – We offer multiple online payment methods including Paypal, Google Checkout, Check, Registered Check, Money Orders or Revolution MoneyExchange.

Simple, Secure Checkout – Use our simplified, secure checkout process increases order completion. The clean and simple checkout form is easy for the buyer to understand.

SSL Encyrption – Every Silkfair store has an industry standard 128 Bit SSL encrypted checkout to protect private data. Silkfair ensures that your customers' information and your order data is hidden from prying eyes both during and after transactions.

Marketing

Marketing tools – we provide marketing tools to get your market booth/custom store the attention it deserves with bookmarking, RSS, social network builder, such Facebook, Twitter, MySpace.

Built in SEO – Every page on your store is Search Engine Optimized. Define your own page titles, keywords, and descriptions. Enter your SEO details conveniently on the product entry pages. All store and product pages offer SEO friendly URLs.

Store blog and store forum – We include for your store a blog and a forum, they are very useful for communicating with your customers and are incredibly powerful promotion tool for your store.

Google Base submission – we automatically submit all types of online and offline content on Silkfair, which we'll make searchable on Google easier to find.

Google Analytics – now available for custom store to help tracks the number of visits, including by page hits and unique visitors.

Customization

Custom product categories tree – allow you to group or sort your products into customize categories tree. You can organize your product in your own store categories tree your way.

Free templates – free ready-to-use templates available, change the look of your site in just few clicks, you can get a great-looking online store up and running without having to hire a designer.

Customizable pages – Create your pages anyway you want, and ability to create unlimited content pages.

Customizable CSS & HTML – Full CSS and HTML access to completely brand your store the way you want. Silkfair gives you 100% control over the HTML & CSS for your storefront.

Use your own domain – Custom URL allows you to use domains like www.silkfair.com or www.my_own_shop.com instead of your default username.silkfair.com URL.

Use your own brand – Custom brand allows you to use your store brand name. Market your store brand name anywhere and everywhere.

Easy point & click customization – Easily customize your custom store’s main color, fonts, and graphic using our simple admin interface. Our easy point and click interface allows you to manage your store and products in a snap, it could not be any more simple.