This is our PRIME plan on our website and when you are ready to exponentially grow your business, this is the plan you need.
(features in our iconic yellow are features you only get as a Royal Bee and not on our FREE Bumble Bee plan.
| Exposure and reach you simply cannot create on your own, the power of a collective like The Hive NZ is unlimited and because we take our SEO (how we rank on search engines) very seriously – PLUS – there is so many of us optimising it, you really cannot beat our collective results! |
| Building and maintaining your own website too much of a challenge? This Prime Royal Bee plan is especially great if having your own website sounds too complicated and too hard; we make it easy AND guide you through wherever you need. |
| Your vendor dashboard offers you many stats; most viewed products, top selling products, sales analytics and more |
| Within your dashboard you can set up shipping for your business’ products, you have full control over your shipping settings. |
| As well as shipping, you have full control over the orders your business receives; the payments of orders go straight to your Stripe account* and you can communicate directly with your customer regarding the order from within your vendor dashboard. * unless you have not connected your Hive Store to your Stripe account, in which case, you will be paid to your bank account (minus Hive admin fee of $5) |
| Customers are able to leave reviews about your products AND your business directly on the website – this is monitored by our admin team. |
| There is only contract fee to pay for this contract, you can choose from monthly ($25), 3 monthly ($69), 6 monthly ($116) or 12 monthly ($220). No other fees to The Hive NZ apply* * unless you have not connected your Hive Store to your Stripe account, in which case, you will be paid to your bank account (minus Hive admin fee of $5) |
| As part of your Royal Bee plan you will receive a certain amount of FEATURED listings (FL). These featured listings, stay featured for 21 days and go to the home page (subject to timing and demand) and show at the top of categories. |
| There is no success fees over your sales at all on this plan, however a small fee is charged by the payment portal used by our marketplace; Stripe. Click here for most up-to-date NZ Stripe fees |
| Your business will be added to the ‘Vendor List’ on our website. This will link to your Hive Store page. We require your Hive store page to have active listings within a 2 week period of joining – with no active listings, a store cannot remain visible to our audience. |
| Your business will be classed as ‘featured’ on our website, which our customers can clearly see when visiting the vendor list as well as your Hive Store |
| You will have the ability to write your ‘about’ section as well as add your own banner, logo, Terms & Conditions, return policy, etc. The more you add; the more tabs customers see on your Hive store page. |
| Within your settings, you can link up to your social media, which will then show on top of the cover image of your Hive Store page. |
| We welcome any type of listing and any type of (legal) product on The Hive NZ. This means you can list services, digital products as well as physical products. As long as your small business is located in New Zealand; you can list on The Hive NZ. You can also add AUCTION listings |
| At least 2 of your listings – as a Royal Bee – will be added to The Hive’s social media stores on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google |
| Your logo will feature on our home page of our website for the duration of you contract. with a link – of course – to your store page. |
| Our Royal Bees can list as many products as they want – our customers love shopping and more products means more choice for them! |
| Unlike other platforms, we do not charge a listing fee, no extra fees to add categories (you can add up to 5 per product) or fees for extra images and because your listing stays live for as long as YOU want, there is no re-listing fee either. |
| Create your own custom options to your listings – perfect if you custom make products – no extra fees!! |
| You have to ability to list your products AND edit them whenever you want. |
| As a Royal Bee your new product or your product edits will go live instantly (T&C’s apply), we call that ‘pre-approved’ |
| You can add ‘related products’ to your product listings, we do NOT edit these to feature products by other sellers in this contract. |
| We put the promotional needs of our Royal Bees FIRST. We always focus on our exceptional members, especially when we notice an outstanding product or business, you will be privileged to experience the affect our promotions have. It is vital to be active, social and interactive within our collective. |
| We love featuring products by our Royal Bees in our cover images on social media. |
| You can have your very own BLOG on our website for FREE – THE best way to create a following and connect with your customers as well as it being brilliant for SEO (how you rank on search engines). |
| Join our very own Hive Café group on Facebook – for sellers on The Hive ONLY – where you will hear all our new ideas and upgrades FIRST – be in the know! |
| You can buy addons to your contract from our Hive Grow Store, perfect if you want to promote a new product to a bigger audience or need a little boost for your business. |
(question about a product? Please contact the vendor.)
