Simple, honest pricing
No tiers. No tricks. Two small charges that actually pay for themselves.
No app to install. You run everything from a web browser on whatever device you already use, and your subscribers just get a text from Small Batch Sellers — nothing for them to download either.
Keeps Small Batch online — hosting, ongoing maintenance, and the upgrade ideas that come from real users like you.
And a little extra for us, so we can keep bread on the table and keep building this for you. Honest work, no scams.
Covers the SMS service and the processing fees that come with every drop you send. We don't pad it — it's the cost of getting the inventory alert into your subscribers' hands.
Your first drop is on us. Try it before you pay anything — no subscription, no card needed.
What this actually costs you
Percent-of-sale fees on small goods can quietly eat your profit. We charge flat amounts on purpose, so the math gets better the more you sell — not worse. Here's how it usually shakes out:
Say you're selling 10 loaves at $10 each — that's a $100 drop. Our $1 drop fee works out to 1% of what you brought in. Less than the cost of a single cup of black coffee.
If you do roughly $400 in drops over the month, the $5 base subscription works out to about 1.25% of your sales. Stack the two together and you're paying somewhere around 2–3% all-in to run the whole thing — well under what a card processor would take, and you get to keep the cash-and-Venmo handoff that already works for you (and we believe cash is king...).
And remember — Small Batch doesn't take a cut of the actual sale. You and your customer settle up the way you always have. These small flat fees are the whole story.
A few honest limits
Before you sign up, here's the fine print in plain language. We'd rather you know now than feel boxed in later.
- Your contact list holds up to 100 people
That's your whole private list — the regulars you actually text about drops. Most small-batch sellers stay well under this. If you're approaching the limit, it usually means it's time to prune folks who haven't reserved in a while. Need more? Just email us and we can work something out.
- Each drop goes out to up to 30 contacts
A drop is a single batch — a Saturday's loaves, a dozen jars of jam, this week's bouquets. 30 invites is enough to reliably sell out a small batch without overpromising. The $1-per-drop fee is what makes that math work for us, so we keep it capped.
Small Batch is the right tool for someone selling a dozen loaves, a few flats of eggs, or a handful of bouquets to people they already know. If you're running a bigger operation — hundreds of orders a week, a public storefront, a wholesale channel — you're going to outgrow us fast, and we'd rather be honest about that than waste your money. There are great tools built for that scale, and we genuinely wish you the best of luck finding the one that fits.
Why bother?
You could keep pinging customers one by one from your personal phone. Most of us have. But here's what Small Batch does for those few dollars:
- Cleaner than your group thread
Every customer gets their own personal link. No giant SMS blasts, no replies stacking up in your inbox.
- Orderly reservations, first-come first-served
Customers reserve through the link. The list builds itself in the order claims come in.
- No double-booking the same loaf
Two people can't claim the same item. Inventory locks the moment someone reserves.
- Real-time inventory
Counts update the second a claim comes in — for you, and for everyone else looking at the drop.
- Automatic sold-out replies
When you're out, anyone who tries to claim gets a friendly heads-up automatically. You don't have to type a thing.
Less time figuring out who gets your product. More time making, creating, and selling.