Start Selling Your Products On Our Front Porch!
With minimal effort or investment, Front Porch Alabama provides another vehicle to sell products and reach customers you did not have access to previously. When you sell a product, we earn a commission in line or lower than other marketplaces. In many cases, the commission is lower than discounts you may be currently offering in your store. When you’re successful, we’re successful.
We Offer Three Options —Choose One That Fits Your Needs! Don’t Worry You Can Change At Any Time!
Front Porch Alabama offers premium enhancements for featuring your business and its products with prominent placements for additional promotion and exposure to our audience of shoppers. We also offer custom advertising packages to maximize your selling presence on Google and social networks.
*The advanced Shopify full integration allows for orders to sync into your Shopify dashboard for ease of fulfillment. **Access to customer email addresses is available to Business Suite vendors as well as vendors purchasing advertising packages.
Learn more about the enhancements in our packages
Today’s Picks
Featured Products will be included in Today’s Picks on the Home Page as well as within a Today’s Picks special section on the site. The Featured Products shown on the Home Page are rotated as users visit to keep the shopping experience fresh.
Promotion in E-newsletter, Blog, and Social Media
Your Shop and/or Featured Product will appear in our email newsletter to shoppers as well as within our the magazine content of Front Porch and social media posts.
Category Level Featured Products
Shoppers see Featured Products first within category sections giving you and your shop maximum exposure. Search results also display Featured Products first for more prominence.
*Note you can switch out your featured products as often as you like
Front Porch Alabama Policies
All merchants must be approved through an evaluation of products and customer reviews (where applicable)
Approved Business Types
Selling On Front Porch Alabama
Commissions
The amount of commission is determined by which package a vendor chooses. Commission is based on total sales price, not taking into account shipping or taxes.
Taxes
As a Marketplace Facilitator, Front Porch Alabama will collect and remit all sales taxes through a TaxJar integration. No fees are passed to the vendor.
Payment Processing
In order to receive payments, a vendor must sign up with Stripe during the onboarding process. Stripe charges 3.15% + .30 per every transaction. Amount will be reflected on payment remittance to the vendor. Affirm charges 6% +.30 per transaction for pay over time.
Shipping
An integration with Shippo is provided to vendors who sign up during onboarding. Through Shippo you can offer live rate or flat rate shipping through a variety of carriers. You can also set up free shipping based on a dollar amount spent. Shippo allows you to print labels and track shipments within your vendor dashboard. Please note we do not allow in-store pick up since we are an online-only shopping platform.
Return, Refund and Exchange Policy
To ensure a first-rate shopping experience on Front Porch Alabama, we have an across the site return, refund and exchange policy facilitated by the Front Porch team. The policy based on best-in class practices of marketplaces allows shoppers to initiate a return within 14 days of product arrival and requires them to return the product to the merchant within 30 days of the product arrival. Front Porch will review and validate requests. Legitimate requests will then be forwarded to the merchant to determine an appropriate resolution whether it be return and refund of the item or exchange of the item. There is a list of non-returnable items which shoppers can access within Customer Support. We do not allow in-store exchanges or in-store credit since we are an online-only shopping platform.