Open an art shop online

Selling art online usually means choosing between a gallery that takes half, a marketplace that takes a fifth and buries you under a million listings, or a website you have to build and promote yourself. Yaybe offers a fourth way: a free shop for your art, inside a marketplace that helps people find it, where every sale goes straight to you.

Built for how art is sold

Originals, prints and editions. List a one-of-a-kind painting with a fixed price, a print in three sizes as variants (each with its own payment link and stock), or a limited edition with the number available. When the original sells, mark it Sold out and it stays on your shop as part of your body of work.

Commissions and “price on request”. Set a product’s price mode to On request and the Buy button becomes Contact seller. It’s the right fit for commissioned portraits, murals and custom pieces where the conversation comes before the invoice.

Your payment page, your terms. Add the PayPal, Stripe or Square link you already use for each piece. Buyers pay you directly; Yaybe doesn’t hold funds, take a percentage or add a “buyer fee”.

A layout that shows the work. The Showcase layout puts up to three featured pieces in a hero at the top of your shop, then the full grid. Product pages give the primary image the whole width on mobile and load it first, so the art is what people see.

Attributes collectors filter by. Medium (oil, acrylic, watercolour, ink, digital, mixed media), subject, orientation, dimensions, framed or unframed, original or print, year. Each one is a filter on the Art & Collectibles aisle and a fact in the structured data that search engines and AI assistants read.

Who is opening art shops on Yaybe

Painters and illustrators selling originals and giclée prints. Photographers offering limited editions. Printmakers with linocuts and screen prints. Textile and fibre artists. Ceramic sculptors. Digital artists selling downloadable wallpapers and print-at-home files (those belong in Digital Downloads, and can live in the same shop). Collectors and dealers listing vintage prints, posters and ephemera.

Three steps to your first sale

1. Sign in with your email. A six-digit code, no password.
2. Open your shop and list a piece. Title, medium, size, a good photo and your payment link. Add a second photo of the piece on a wall for scale.
3. Submit for review, then share. Once approved, your shop is live at yaybe.com/your-shop. Post it on your socials and add it to your bio.

Tips for art listings

• Photograph straight-on, evenly lit, colour-accurate. Then add a detail shot and an in-situ shot.
• Give the real dimensions in the attributes, not just in the description. Buyers filter by size.
• Write about the piece, not just its specs: where it came from, what you were thinking, the series it belongs to.
• Post studio updates. Followers see works in progress, new series and show announcements in their feed.
• Keep a “sold” archive. Sold work on your shop shows buyers you’re established and gives search engines more to index.

Open your art shop — it’s free, and it takes about five minutes. Or see how Yaybe works first.