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If you rent a cabinet or stall in an antique centre and also sell online, Artifactly lists your stock on eBay, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce, and prepares listings for specialist antique marketplaces. It is not for centre operators, and it is not a till: a piece that sells in the cabinet must be marked sold by hand.
Because a cabinet is seen by the people who visit that centre, while an online listing can be seen by buyers who will never walk through the door. The same piece can be in both places, as long as you take it down everywhere when it sells.
A centre gives you a shop front without running a shop. What it cannot do is put your stock in front of a collector three counties away, or abroad. Listing online widens the audience for stock you have already bought, cleaned and priced.
The work is the obstacle: photographs, a description and a price on each site, and every sale taking the piece down from the rest. That is the job Artifactly is built for:
Mark a piece sold in Artifactly as soon as it sells in the cabinet, and Artifactly then takes it down from eBay, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce. It cannot see a cabinet sale by itself, because it is not a till.
Artifactly checks eBay and Etsy for sales about every 5 minutes, so an online sale is picked up without you doing anything. A sale at the centre's counter is invisible to it until you tell it.
| Where it sells | How Artifactly finds out | What happens next |
|---|---|---|
| eBay or Etsy | Checked about every 5 minutes | When the last one sells: eBay listing ended, Etsy listing removed, Shopify product archived, WooCommerce product set to draft. Then take it out of the cabinet |
| In your cabinet, through the centre's till | It does not, until you mark it sold by hand | Once marked sold, it comes down from eBay, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce |
| A Ready-to-List site such as LAPADA or Vinterior | It does not; you mark it sold by hand | Mark it sold on that site too, and in Artifactly, so it comes down everywhere else |
There is always a gap between a cabinet sale and you marking it, so decide whether a valuable piece should be online at the same time at all. On eBay, list one-offs with a quantity of 1; eBay allows only one fixed-price listing of an identical item at a time.
The same ones that suit antiques in general: eBay and Etsy for reach, your own website, and the specialist antique marketplaces. Artifactly publishes directly to the first three and prepares listings for the specialists.
| Marketplace | How Artifactly handles it | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| eBay UK | Direct: fixed price, Good 'Til Cancelled; needs your eBay business policies | Business sellers in Antiques pay 10.9%, plus £0.40 an order over £10 and a 0.35% regulatory fee (eBay) |
| Etsy | Direct; needs your Etsy processing and shipping profiles | Vintage means at least 20 years old (Etsy) |
| Your own Shopify or WooCommerce site | Direct | Where you can point cabinet visitors who want to see more |
| Vinterior, Pamono, Chairish, Selency, Ruby Lane, LAPADA, Decorative Collective, LoveAntiques, The Hoarde, Selling Antiques, Selling Antiques Lite, Antiques Atlas, Hunt Vintage, Artsy, Antiques.co.uk, Vinted, Styylish (US site) | Ready-to-List: a prepared listing, one click on Copy All, or a CSV | Marked sold there by hand. Check each site's own rules and fees |
| Facebook Marketplace and Instagram | Ready-to-List, one item at a time | Marked sold there by hand |
| 1stDibs and Vinted | Coming soon | Not available yet |
Vinterior is a curated marketplace for vintage and antique furniture and homeware, with its own delivery service. For bigger pieces see the page for vintage furniture sellers; for ceramics, glass and lighting, see vintage homeware sellers. Our guide to cross listing between eBay and Etsy covers those two. eBay listings cannot contain links to sites outside eBay, so leave your website out of them.
Only items that meet an exemption under the Ivory Act 2018. Displaying an item for sale in a shop counts as dealing, so a piece in your cabinet is covered just as much as a piece listed online.
GOV.UK's guide to dealing in items containing ivory or made of ivory (updated 24 July 2026) says dealing includes advertising and "displaying it for sale in a shop or gallery". A cabinet in a centre is exactly that. Registering an item costs £20, and breaking the rules can mean a fine of up to £250,000 or up to 5 years in prison.
| Exemption | The conditions |
|---|---|
| Items with a low ivory content | Made before 3 March 1947, with less than 10% ivory by volume, where the ivory is integral to the item |
| Musical instruments | Made before 1975, with less than 20% ivory |
| Portrait miniatures | Made before 1918, with further conditions set out on GOV.UK |
These are not all of the exemptions, so read the GOV.UK page for each piece. The 3 March 1947 date also matters for worked specimens from endangered species. If you are unsure whether a piece contains ivory, keep it out of the cabinet and off your listings until you know. The AI drafts from photos and notes; it cannot tell you whether a piece is legal to sell.
For online selling, GOV.UK says retail sites must prominently display explanatory information about hallmarks, as Dealer's Notice A or Dealer's Notice B. The same guidance covers what is displayed on premises, so read it for your cabinet too.
The guidance is Hallmarking: how businesses can comply with the law, last updated on 9 December 2021. If you sell silver or jewellery from a cabinet, ask your centre what notice is already on display and where, and read the guidance to see what that means for you. For your own Shopify or WooCommerce site, a dedicated hallmarking page linked from your product pages is a straightforward way to display it prominently.
Silver and jewellery have more rules online, including eBay's own jewellery policy. The page for vintage jewellery sellers covers them.
No. Artifactly is listing and selling software for one dealer's own stock. It does not take payments at a counter, and it is not built to run a centre or manage its dealers.
If you run an antique centre, you are looking for a till (EPOS) system that records sales for each dealer, and that is a different job from the one Artifactly does.
For a dealer in a centre, the two fit together: the centre's till takes the money in the building, Artifactly looks after your listings everywhere else, and you link them by marking cabinet sales sold. Artifactly also covers what a till does not: the Global Shipment Manager (compare courier rates, generate packaging labels and packing slips, produce customs declarations and commercial invoices, and send live tracking updates to buyers), a unified inbox for buyer messages, and a buyer CRM.
Artifactly's plans are £19.99, £39.99 or £74.99 a month. That is on top of marketplace fees, not instead of them: on a £100 antique, a business seller pays eBay £11.65 and Etsy £11.18 plus a 0.20 USD listing fee.
| Cost | Amount | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Artifactly: The Curator | £19.99 a month | Up to 250 products |
| Artifactly: The Dealer | £39.99 a month | Up to 500 products |
| Artifactly: The Showroom | £74.99 a month | No product limit |
| eBay UK business seller, Antiques (fees) | £11.65 on a £100 order | 10.9% (£10.90) + £0.40 + 0.35% (£0.35) |
| eBay UK private seller (fees) | No final value fee | 300 free listings a month, then 35p each |
| Etsy UK (fees, payments, regulatory fee) | £11.18 on a £100 order, plus 0.20 USD to list | 6.5% (£6.50) + 4% + £0.20 (£4.20) + 0.48% (£0.48); some fees carry VAT |
We have no figures for your centre's rent or commission, so ask your centre and put them alongside these. The useful question is simple: will the extra online sales more than cover the plan? Count how many pieces you would list, because plans are limited by product count (pieces you add in the app or import from a spreadsheet; items brought in from a connected marketplace do not count), and Ready-to-List copies for specialist sites start on The Dealer. The 14-day free trial needs no card, so you can list some cabinet stock and see how it does. Full details are on the pricing page.
It does not see cabinet sales, track where a piece sits in the centre, or keep a VAT margin scheme stock book. Here is the full list for a centre dealer.
If those gaps do not rule it out, see what we built as antique dealer software, or compare the plans. Selling a collection rather than running stock? See the page for collectors. Mostly on eBay? See eBay resellers, or browse all seller types.
No. Artifactly is not a till and has no link to the centre's counter. When a piece sells in the cabinet, you mark it sold in Artifactly by hand, and that is what takes it down from eBay, Etsy, Shopify and WooCommerce.
Not as a feature today. Artifactly does not track physical location such as a cabinet, room or shelf. You can put it in your own notes or your SKU, but there is no dedicated field.
A piece containing ivory must meet an exemption under the Ivory Act 2018 before you display it for sale, because GOV.UK says dealing includes displaying an item for sale in a shop or gallery. A cabinet counts just as an online listing does. Registering an item costs £20, and breaking the rules can mean a fine of up to £250,000 or up to 5 years in prison.
No, that is not a feature today, and nor is cost price or profit tracking. GOV.UK lists what a margin scheme stock book must hold for each item, including stock number, purchase and sale details and the margin, and says to keep records for 6 years.
Accounts are single-user in practice today; there is no option to invite a second person. If two of you share a cabinet, agree who marks pieces sold, so cabinet sales are never missed.
Every new account gets 14 days free with no card needed. After that, The Curator is £19.99 a month for up to 250 products, The Dealer is £39.99 for up to 500, and The Showroom is £74.99 with no product limit.
Facts about other products were read from each company's own website on 10 October 2026. Prices change, so check the linked page before you buy. Facts about Artifactly come from the app itself.
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