Pro Plan: Built for Growing New Zealand Brands
$5/month
Scale your business with better tools and lower fees. The Pro Plan is our most popular choice for serious New Zealand makers and service providers. It offers the perfect balance between affordability and professional features. If you are ready to expand your range and keep more of your hard-earned profit, this is the plan for you.
Keep More of Your Sales
As your business grows, every percentage matters. The Pro Plan slashes your success fee from 15% down to just 8%.
For the price of a single cup of coffee per month, you can significantly increase your take-home pay on every sale.
Premium Features for Pro Vendors
15 Active Listings: Showcase a full collection of products or a wide range of service options.
Lower 8% Success Fee: Reduce your costs and reinvest that money back into your business.
Professional Product Variables: Offer different sizes, colours, or fabric choices within a single listing. This keeps your shop tidy and professional.
High-Quality Media: Use up to 5 images per listing. Show your customers every angle and detail of your work.
Instant Go-Live: Enjoy pre-approval for all your listings and edits. Your changes appear on the site the moment you click save.
The “Complete Store” Advantage
Like all our tiers, the Pro Plan rewards professional setup. Once you have added your branding, set up shipping, connected Stripe, and had your first listing approved, you gain full autonomy over your shop.
Standard Pro Benefits Include:
Advanced Statistics: Track your top-performing products and sales trends.
Full Customisation: Add your own banners, logos, and detailed store policies.
Direct Communication: Manage all customer enquiries and order tracking from your dashboard.
Global SEO Power: Benefit from our collective search engine optimisation to get your brand seen.
Community & Networking
Featured Vendor List: Your business is highlighted in our “Vendor List” directory.
A-Z Directory: Your brand and latest products are featured in our searchable directory.
Vendor Café Access: Join our private Facebook group to collaborate with other Kiwi entrepreneurs.
Shop Small NZ: Get pre-approval with your personal Facebook profile to promote your business in our massive Facebook community.
ECOMMERCE FEATURES WITH A PRO PLAN ON THE HIVE NZ:
- AFFORDABLE: This plan comes with a competitive 8% success fee and low cost of $5 a month. The fee charged by the payment portal used (Stripe) does apply.
- AUTO-RENEWAL: This plan automatically renews - you will receive emails to notify you of upcoming payments.
- CUSTOMISATION: Add/write your 'about' section as well as add your own banner, logo, Terms & Conditions, return policy, etc. The more you add; the more tabs customers see on your Hive store page and you create your own mini website.
- SOCIALS: Connect to your social media, which will then show - and link to - on your Hive Store page.
- SHIPPING: Within your dashboard you can set up shipping for your business’ products. You have full control over your shipping settings.
- ALL WELCOME: We welcome any type of listing and any type of (legal) product on The Hive NZ. This means you can list services, digital products as well as physical products - with a limit of 15 listings (on this PRO plan) per store page. As long as your small business is located in New Zealand; you can list on The Hive NZ.
- PRODUCTS: List your products AND edit them whenever you want. New listing or edits will go live instantly. We do have to approve your very first listing(s).
- OPTIONS/CUSTOMISATION: Create your own custom options to your listings - like colour, text box, fabric choice, etc. Perfect if you custom make products - no extra fees!!
- FEATURED LISTINGS: Boost your listings by making them featured.
- NO HIDDEN/EXTRA FEES: Unlike other platforms, we do not charge a listing fee and no extra fees to add categories (you can add up to 5 per product). There's also no fees for extra images. Because your listing stays live for as long as YOU choose, there is no re-listing fee either.
- UPSELLS/CROSS SELLS: Add ‘other products you might like' to your product listings as well as cross sells at cart level. Think; gift wrapping and or complimentary products.
- AUCTION LISTINGS are a great way to spark interest in your listings - all the expected auction features available.
- WHOLESALE Turn ANY of your listings into a wholesale listing with wholesale specific pricing and get shown to only vetted and approved wholesale buyers. click to read more.
- LISTINGS: On our Pro plan you can list 15 products. More products means more exposure for you.
- ORDERS & PAYMENTS: Full control over the orders your business receives. The payments of orders go straight to your Stripe account**. You can also communicate directly with your customer regarding the order from within your vendor dashboard and add tracking information for example.
- STATISTICS: Your vendor dashboard offers you many stats; most viewed products, top selling products, sales analytics and more.
- VENDOR LIST FEATURE: Once your set up is complete and your first listing is live, your business will be added to the ‘Vendor List’ on our website. This will link to your Hive Store page.
- A-Z PAGE FEATURE: Once your set up is complete and your first listing is live, your business name will show on our A-Z business directory, linking your store of course. Click to see A-Z directory page.
- EXPOSURE AND REACH: the kind you simply cannot create on your own, the power of a collective like The Hive NZ is unlimited. It's also because we take our SEO (how we rank on search engines) very seriously. PLUS, there is so many of us optimising it; you really cannot beat our collective results!
- VENDOR CAFÉ GROUP: Join our very own Hive Vendor Café group on Facebook. It's for vendors on The Hive ONLY. It's where you will hear all our new ideas. upgrades and new Pro+ BOOST perks FIRST. Be in the know! Click to join the group
- SHOP SMALL NEW ZEALAND GROUP: A great group on Facebook where you can promote your business and sell your products daily. As a Hiver (vendor on The Hive) you get pre-approval in the group.
OTHER OFFERS TO BOOST YOUR SMALL BUSINESS
PRO+ BOOST VENDORS GET GREAT DISCOUNTS!
Besides having access to your own complete Ecommerce store, we also offer a lot of extras that help you boost your business even more. You can find them all in our HIVE GROW STORE. Here’s some examples:
