If you’re a maker based in or around Canberra CBD, you’ve likely already sold in person — at Old Bus Depot Markets on a weekend, through a local stockist, or simply to people who found you by word of mouth. Taking that online shouldn’t mean handing a slice of every sale to a platform that owns your storefront. Airehaus is built the other way around: you get the business, the platform just supplies the marketplace.
Selling handmade in Canberra
Canberra has a genuine, active maker community — the kind of scene that shows up at Old Bus Depot Markets and in the independent stores scattered through the CBD and inner suburbs. What’s often missing is an online presence that matches that quality without disappearing into a sea of listings on a generic marketplace, or losing a chunk of every sale to commission. Airehaus gives Canberra sellers their own storefront inside a shared marketplace, so local buyers — and buyers anywhere in ACT and beyond — can find your work and buy it directly from you.
Your own business, not a rented listing
- Your own Stripe. Checkout is a direct charge on your own connected Stripe account. Payments settle to you — you keep 100% of the item price and the shipping, whether the order ships across Canberra or interstate.
- Your own storefront. A dedicated shop page with your profile, story and branding, at your own handle.
- Your own catalogue. Products with size, colour and stock variants, image galleries, and weight and dimensions for accurate shipping.
- Your own shipping. Set your own rates for local Canberra pickup or delivery, flat rate by zone, free shipping over a threshold, or your own carrier account. Airehaus holds no carrier keys and organises no parcels.
- Your own dashboard. Orders, fulfilment, mark-as-shipped and tracking, all in one place.
Zero commission, one flat membership
Airehaus charges a single flat membership of around $29 a month and takes zero commission. Whether you sell $500 or $50,000 in a month, the platform’s cost to you stays exactly the same — unlike a percentage-based marketplace, where your success becomes the platform’s revenue. Every extra order from a Canberra buyer, or from anywhere else, is entirely yours.
We break the full numbers down in zero commission vs marketplace fees.
What you need to start
Two things: an active membership and a connected Stripe account. Once both are active, build your storefront, add your products, set your shipping — including local Canberrapickup if you offer it — and start taking orders. The full walkthrough is in the checklist to start selling handmade online.
The bottom line
Canberra makers don’t need another rented shopfront that takes a cut of every sale. Airehaus gives you a complete, independent business — your own Stripe, storefront, catalogue, shipping and orders — plugged into a marketplace that brings buyers to you, for a flat membership and zero commission.