Free Lavky marketplace
Lavky is a free marketplace for verified Western Bid clients. It lets you open your own online store and sell handmade, vintage, collectible and digital goods.
Lavky charges no listing fee and no separate marketplace commission. Sellers can list an unlimited number of items, accept payments from buyers, and share links to the store or to individual items for selling on social media.
Benefits of the Lavky marketplace
Who can sell and what can be sold
Who can sell on Lavky
Clients with a verified Western Bid account can sell on Lavky. No separate registration or activation is needed — you can open the store straight from your Western Bid personal account.
What can be sold
On Lavky you can sell:
- handmade goods
- vintage goods
- collectibles
- digital goods
Before listing an item, please review the list of prohibited goods.
How payments work
Payment by the buyer
Buyers can pay for orders with PayPal, credit or debit cards, and also with Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Crediting the seller
The payment is credited automatically to the seller's balance in the Western Bid personal account within 24 hours.
For payments to be credited automatically, the email of the Lavky store must match the email of the Western Bid account. If the email in Western Bid has been changed, it must be changed on Lavky as well.
If the addresses do not match, the payment will not be credited to the balance automatically.
When and how payments from Lavky are credited
The cost of using Lavky
Free of charge
- opening a store
- listing items
- an unlimited number of listings
- separate Lavky marketplace commission — 0%
Withheld when a payment is received
- Western Bid commission — 4%
- payment system commission
- Sales Tax if the buyer is located in the state of Florida
How to start selling on Lavky
Register and complete verification
Create a Western Bid account, confirm your email and upload the documents for verification.
Go to Lavky
In your Western Bid personal account choose “Free listing on Lavky”.
Create a store
Enter the store name and a short description in English.
Add and publish an item
Fill in the item details, add images, set the price and choose a shipping method.
Ready to open your own store on Lavky?
If your Western Bid account is already verified, no separate activation is needed — open Lavky from your personal account.
Frequently asked questions about the Lavky marketplace
No. Lavky is available to clients with a verified Western Bid account. You can open the marketplace straight from your Western Bid personal account.
Lavky charges no separate marketplace commission. When a payment is received, the Western Bid commission of 4% and the payment system commission are withheld. If the buyer is located in the state of Florida, Sales Tax is withheld as well.
Yes. Digital goods can be listed on Lavky. To publish them, use the guide How to publish a digital product on Lavky.
The payment is credited automatically to the seller's balance in the Western Bid personal account within 24 hours. For this, the email of the Lavky store must match the email of the Western Bid account.
If you have changed the email in your Western Bid account, change it on Lavky as well. If the addresses do not match, the payment will not be credited to the balance automatically.
Yes. Items from Etsy and eBay can be transferred to a Lavky store using the import feature.
Yes. You can share links to your store, to individual items, and also public or private lots for particular buyers on social media.
When creating an item you can choose one of the available Western Bid shipping methods or add your own shipping method.