Frequently Asked Questions

The Clover Market was launched in the spring of 2010 in the greater Philadelphia area to provide a popup event for independent artisans and antique dealers to connect with customers who love to shop small. We host outdoor Markets in the spring and fall in four locations: Bryn Mawr PA, Chestnut Hill PA, Collingswood NJ, and Kennett Square PA.  We are also planning for an indoor Holiday Market in 2021, covid-permitting. We also launched this online shop in the fall of 2020, and recently added Virtual Markets on Facebook in early 2021. You can read much more about us here.

Our flagship events are our outdoor Markets which are currently on pause due to Covid-19.  As soon as it's safe to resume our events, we'll be sure to make any updates to the website on our Outdoor Events page here and our social media pages. We are cautiously optimistic that this might be possible in the spring of 2021 or, probably more realistically, by fall of 2021.

The online shop, launched in the fall of 2020, provides a place for customers to discover and purchase from the same high quality, independent brands featured at our outdoor Markets. The shop includes a variety of sellers from the Philadelphia area and beyond, and allows customers the ability to purchase from one maker or many in one simple transaction, all with FREE SHIPPING. You can read more about participating in the online shop below.

Finally, in early 2021, we launched a new Facebook Group to host Virtual Markets which we anticipate coordinating throughout the year to complement the online shop and outdoor events. The Virtual Markets are held over the weekend (Friday 7 pm to Sunday 7 pm) and feature a small group of sellers managing their own listings and sales. You can read more about our Virtual Markets page here.

In all of our platforms, we are focused on highlighting handmade products along with high quality antiques and vintage goods. We consider handmade products to be those which are original in design and which require a level of skill and creativity in their final execution. We value seeing the maker's personal imprint on the final products sold versus products with minimal handiwork done on purchased components. When reviewing potential vendors, we consider product quality and craftsmanship, uniqueness, cohesiveness of design, fit with our aesthetic/what we feel will resonate with our customers, and the overall mix of sellers we have at any given time. We strive to have a variety of styles, price points, and categories represented in our shop, and at our events. Finally, but importantly, we are interested in increasing representation of BIPOC brands in our vendor community, and this can be indicated on our interest form.

We do not accept buy/sell, directly imported goods, direct to consumer/MLM, or other commercially-made or mass-produced items for our events or online shop. From time to time we may include products which are designed locally and produced via fair trade partnership. 

Each of our events are priced differently: 

• Our outdoor Markets are $180/Market (10' x 10' space).
• The online Market utilizes a revenue sharing model with a 25% commission on sales paid to Clover Market.  It is a dropship program.
• The Virtual Markets on Facebook are $60/Market.

There are no application fees for any of our events.

OUTDOOR MARKETS

• Please stay tuned to our Outdoor Markets page here for information when applications open once we can safely and responsibly hold them. We have application cycles in the spring and fall for the outdoor Markets, and vendors can apply to one or more Markets according to their interest.

ONLINE SHOP

• We have paused taking applications for our online shop. If we open up the application in the future, we will post the interest form here. We use rolling/open call process for the online shop. If we feel your products would be a good fit with our store and we have space in your category, we will contact you by email with some additional information to get started. This may take time depending on how many active vendors are already participating in your category of goods. While we may not be able to bring you onboard immediately, we may have openings at a future date as new vendors and categories are added.

VIRTUAL MARKETS

• If you're interested in participating in our Virtual Markets on Facebook, please refer to the Virtual Markets page here.  We anticipate adding more Virtual Markets throughout the year, especially if conditions do not allow us to resume our outdoor events.

Our online shop is based on a revenue-sharing model, and functions as a dropship program. Clover Market manages vendor selection, marketing and social media, product review and rotation, customer service, the website, and vendor payments. Vendors focus on selecting their products to add to the shop (more on that below), shipping orders, helping to get the word out and, of course, making and finding beautiful things!  A 25% commission on all sales goes to Clover Market.

As with our in-person Markets, vendors benefit from the connection to customers who are interested and passionate about buying from independent businesses, often locally-based. We have cultivated these customers over 10 years and close to 100 Markets and now they will be able to shop easily from one location. You will have the opportunity to be seen and promoted on our social media platforms and will be assured that the other brands will be of similar quality and craftsmanship. 

^{Once you are approved as a vendor in the online shop, you will receive additional instructions during the vendor on-boarding process along with a contract outlining the terms. But briefly, yo}u will be able to add products through a dedicated vendor portal either using a simple form or you can connect your existing Shopify store.

Absolutely!  We don't have any restrictions around other online or in person sales platforms.

Yes. If you want to pause orders from your shop you can email us and we can temporarily hide your products' availability. If you are no longer interested in selling with us, you can let us know that as well and you can easily delete your products from the shop.

If you have a question that has not been answered above, feel free to reach out to us helloclovermarket@gmail.com and include "Seller Inquiry" in your subject line.  We will get back to you as quickly as possible.