Do we need an eBay account?

Only for HQ listing. Pricing at the rail works without one. When you are ready, HQ connects the charity’s own eBay account under Settings, and every listing and every sale is on your account, not ours.

Does it replace the till or the stock system?

No. It prices; it does not sell in the shop. The price goes on your tag as it always has. Till integration is a later conversation, and a barcode on the tag is the bridge when you want one.

One account per shop manager, plus HQ and admin accounts for the people who set policy and list online. A manager covering another shop switches shop on the bench, and those decisions are recorded against that shop. Whether volunteers get their own accounts is something we decide with you after the pilot.

We are in Scotland or Northern Ireland.

The self-serve signup checks the Charity Commission register, which covers England and Wales. Scottish and Northern Irish charities: email hello@vminted.com and we set the workspace up by hand.

How long does set-up take?

The workspace exists the moment the form is submitted, at your own address. Adding shops and inviting managers takes about five minutes. A shop can be pricing the same afternoon.

30p a price check and 40p an eBay listing, from £750 a month, invoiced monthly by bank transfer. The trial gives one shop 100 free checks with no card.

For charity shops

Price every donation like a professional reseller. On the shop floor, in seconds.

Shop managers photograph a donation and get the price for the tag. Anything worth more goes to HQ for eBay, on your own account. Your own address and branding, one login per person, one invoice a month.

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Your Charity PricingBench · Shop 1

What’s the brand? Type it, pick it from the list, or tell me there’s no label.

Levi’s

Photograph the whole item: laid flat or hung, front on, all of it in the frame, in daylight if there is any.

📷 Photo taken

Now the label. Brand, size and care label in one frame if they’re together — the brand label on its own if not.

📷 Photo taken

Give me a moment.

£8.00

£8.00 on the tag.

The problem

Pricing by feel leaves money on the rail and sends the valuable pieces out at £4.99.

A shop manager prices hundreds of donations a week from experience, under time pressure, with no way to check what a piece actually sells for. Most of it is priced about right. The mistakes run both ways: everyday items priced high enough to sit, and the occasional designer jacket, vintage Levi’s or barely worn pair of trainers priced like everything else and gone by lunchtime.

Very Minted is the pricing engine a reselling business runs on, given to the shop. It knows the resale market for second-hand clothing because that is what it was built to know. The bench turns that into a tag price a manager can trust and a flag on the pieces HQ should sell online instead.

What you get

Three things, each visible from HQ.

A price for the tag

The bench: brand, two photos, a price, on the phones and tablets already in the shop. Guided for a new manager, quick for an experienced one. Every price it gives and every price the manager writes is recorded against the shop.

The valuable pieces go online

Anything worth more than your threshold is routed to HQ. HQ claims it, and Mint writes the eBay listing: category, item specifics, title and description. It goes up on the charity’s own eBay account, and the sale comes back into the record.

See what it did

The monthly pack: donations priced, by shop and category; what went to HQ, what listed, what sold and for how much; the rail price against your baseline; time saved; cost against the invoice, with every number marked measured or modelled.

How it works

Four steps, most of them the manager’s.

1
Brand first
The manager types the brand. A brand that is never worth a check gets the ladder price straight away, with no photo and nothing charged.
2
Two photos
The whole item, then the label. Mint reads the piece the way a professional reseller would: what it is, what it sells for, what condition it is in.
3
A price for the tag
The rail price, snapped to your price points, never under your floor. The manager writes it on the tag and moves to the next bag.
4
Or send it to HQ
Anything worth more online than on the rail is flagged. HQ claims it from the queue, lists it on the charity’s own eBay account, and the sale is recorded when it happens.

The bench in detail, and what HQ sets →

Simple pricing

30p a price check, 40p an eBay listing, from £750 a month on one invoice by bank transfer. A brand the guide says is never worth a check costs nothing. The trial gives one shop 100 free checks, no card. Worked examples →

Built for a charity’s data

Your charity number is checked against the Charity Commission register at signup. Your workspace is walled off from every other customer in the database, your data is stored in London, and photos are deleted as soon as the price is given unless you choose to keep them. Security and data →

Questions

The ones retail teams ask first.

Do we need an eBay account?: Only for HQ listing. Pricing at the rail works without one. When you are ready, HQ connects the charity’s own eBay account under Settings, and every listing and every sale is on your account, not ours.
Does it replace the till or the stock system?: No. It prices; it does not sell in the shop. The price goes on your tag as it always has. Till integration is a later conversation, and a barcode on the tag is the bridge when you want one.
Who gets a login?: One account per shop manager, plus HQ and admin accounts for the people who set policy and list online. A manager covering another shop switches shop on the bench, and those decisions are recorded against that shop. Whether volunteers get their own accounts is something we decide with you after the pilot.
We are in Scotland or Northern Ireland.: The self-serve signup checks the Charity Commission register, which covers England and Wales. Scottish and Northern Irish charities: email hello@vminted.com and we set the workspace up by hand.
How long does set-up take?: The workspace exists the moment the form is submitted, at your own address. Adding shops and inviting managers takes about five minutes. A shop can be pricing the same afternoon.
What does it cost?: 30p a price check and 40p an eBay listing, from £750 a month, invoiced monthly by bank transfer. The trial gives one shop 100 free checks with no card.

Next step

Twenty minutes with us, or a workspace in one shop this afternoon.

A demo walks your retail team through the bench, the HQ queue and the monthly pack on your own kind of stock. The trial gives one shop 100 free price checks with no card and no contract.

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