”Our shops provide an incredibly high percentage of our fundraising income as a charity, and in March 2020 when the pandemic forced us to temporarily close all of our shops, and indeed lose one of our shops altogether, we knew that the time had come to seriously consider our e-commerce options and to move online asap. When we started to research Ecommerce for charity, we realised just what a minefield it is. For people like us with little experience in the field (although we love to shop online ourselves) it can be a little overwhelming! We’d have been a bit lost without a platform like Thriftify.

It really is as easy as ABC and that’s essential for us as we work part-time; we have to maximise our efficiency. We focus on uploading the best quality and variety of items for our customers and Thriftify take care of the rest!
A key feature for us is being able to add a Donor ID for our items and keeping track of retail Gift Aid, ensuring that we don’t miss out on such a vital aspect of charity fundraising.

Kate Mansell & Kathryn James

”What makes Thriftify different is the workload, we source, sort, and upload the stock but then Thriftify takes over from there. They look after the merchandising, customer support etc. This takes a lot of paperwork/computer time off of our hands which frees us up to focus on sourcing and uploading more high-quality stock.

Throughout our partnership with Thriftify we have learned a lot about online retail, what sells, what doesn’t. With other platforms, you have to look after everything from sales to queries, returns, and all the paperwork that goes with it. With Thriftify we can concentrate on the stock and getting the best quality uploaded to our dashboard. Once it sells we can easily ship it. Thriftify takes out all the work in the middle.

Stacey Bohanna

”The challenge that we were facing as a second hand clothes shop was getting the full value for the high quality items donated to us. The Thriftify online platform was the perfect solution for us to sell our brand name and our new valuable items at the correct value.”

Since joining we have learned about the selling potential available outside of just your local area, to sell to people that otherwise would never of heard of Dundalk Simon Community let alone buy anything from us. This experience was all gained by partnering up with Thrifty’s online platform. I would advise any Charity shop not already signed up with Thriftify to get it done today, we have never looked back. Thank you Thriftify.

Yvonne White