A scrapbooking store sells in collections. A manufacturer releases a paper line with a name, and it arrives as a set: patterned 12x12 sheets, coordinating cardstock, stickers, ephemera, a stamp set and dies cut to match. The customer who likes the line wants most of it, and the store that sells the collection as a collection takes a far larger order than one listing forty separate sheets.
The second rule is compatibility. Dies belong to a machine and a plate sandwich, embossing folders have size limits, ink behaves differently on coated paper, and adhesives are either safe next to photographs or they are not. Get one wrong and the customer ruins a page they cannot replace.
Collections retire. Once a line is out of print it is gone, which changes how stock and email work.
We work with scrapbooking stores that already sell online and want visitors, conversion rate, order value and repeat purchases to move together. The growth plan is free and written for your store. If you take it further, the fee is flat and monthly.
There are two shoppers in this store and they behave differently. The collection shopper follows manufacturers and designers, watches the release announcements, and buys a line because they like it, often before they know what page they will make with it. They want the full range in one place, they want to see every sheet in the collection photographed flat and true to colour, and they want to know what else in the line is still available, because once it retires there is no reprint.
The project shopper has a page or an album in mind. They need 12x12 page protectors that fit the album they already own, pocket pages in the right layout, cardstock in a weight that will take an embossing folder, and an adhesive they can put next to a photograph without regret.
Both of them ask compatibility questions. Which dies fit which machine, whether a stamp set has matching dies, what plate arrangement a machine needs, and whether an ink pad will dry on glossy paper.
Archival wording matters and has to be accurate. Acid free, lignin free and photo safe describe specific properties, so state what the manufacturer states and no more.
Postage decides the basket. Flat paper ships cheaply if it arrives uncreased, so the rigid mailer and the free shipping line shape the order size.