Home & living

It has to fit
through the door.

Furniture and homeware fail on logistics, not on taste. Publish the dimensions and the weight, name a delivery arrangement for the things a bike cannot carry, and let the money sit safely until the item is actually in the room.

Start free How escrow works

Dimensions: On the page, in the specs
Delivery: A zone for large items
Payment: Held until it arrives

Where it goes wrong

The expensive mistakes happen after the sale.

A homeware return is not a padded envelope. It is a van, two people and a day, which is why everything has to be settled before the item leaves.

It does not fit the space

Sold on a photograph and returned with a tape measure. Dimensions are the cheapest return prevention there is, and most listings still do not carry them.

Delivery was never really agreed

A three-seater and a set of cushions are not the same delivery, and pretending one fee covers both means eating the difference on every large order.

Nobody pays upfront for furniture

At this size the buyer wants to see it before parting with the money, and without a hold in the middle you are asking for pure trust.

Check it against the room

Will it actually fit?

Set a doorway and a wall, then drop the piece against them. This is the question every homeware buyer is silently asking, and the specification block is the only thing on your page that can answer it.

Wall 240 cm

212 cm

Door 90

Doorway width — 90 cm

Wall run — 240 cm

Specifications

Three-seat linen sofa

Width: 212 cm
Depth: 92 cm
Height: 84 cm
Boxed width: 220 cm

It will not get through the door.

The sofa is 92 cm deep and the opening is 90 cm. This is the conversation that happens on the doorstep when the dimensions were never published.

Four numbers, written once, answering the question that causes almost every homeware return.

A working model of dimensions doing their job. Set width, depth and height in your product’s specifications.

How it is set up

A working homeware store, configured.

Six settings that suit large, considered items.

Dimensions in the specifications: Width, depth, height, seat height, assembled and boxed. The block that decides whether the piece comes back.
Weight recorded on the product: Recorded in grams on the record itself, so you and whoever moves it are working from the same number rather than an estimate.
A delivery zone for large items: Zones are flat fees you set, so name one for bulky delivery and price it properly instead of averaging it into everything else.
Escrow doing the reassuring: Card money is held until you mark the item delivered. For a purchase this size that is the difference between a sale and a long conversation.
Materials and care in the features: Fabric, frame, finish, how to clean it. Homeware buyers are buying something they will live with for years.
Made-to-order handled honestly: Switch stock tracking off for pieces you build per order, and state the lead time on the page rather than after the money arrives.