Marketplace Policy

The Crochetify marketplace is curated. Your shop appears there once you apply and we approve you. This page is what we check, so you know before you apply and you know what to fix if we say no.

Your own Crochetify website is separate. It runs on any plan, it never depends on approval, and nothing on this page changes it.

What approval covers

Approval decides whether your shop shows on the places shoppers browse to find makers: the marketplace, the shops and patterns pages. Your website, your own links, and your existing customers are unaffected either way.

What you can sell on the marketplace

Any crochet product you made. That includes:

• Finished pieces you crocheted: clothes, bags, blankets, home goods, and anything else.
• Plushies and amigurumi.
• Patterns you designed.
• Kits built on your own pattern (see below).
• Tools you made, like hand-turned hooks or handmade stitch markers.
• Yarn you dyed or spun yourself.

The rule under all of these is that you made it. Reselling something someone else made stays off the marketplace: another maker's pieces, factory goods, or yarn and tools sold as you bought them.

The marketplace is for crochet, so knitted, sewn, and other handmade work stays off it too.

None of this limits your own website, where you can sell anything you have the right to sell. If your shop carries something the marketplace does not take, turn off the marketplace switch on that listing and it stays on your website only.

Kits

A kit is the one place bought materials are fine. When the pattern and the design are yours, the yarn, hook, and notions in the kit can come from a store. Your pattern is what makes it your kit.

A kit built on someone else's pattern stays off the marketplace.

What you confirm when you apply

These are the confirmations on the application form. Every one has to be true of your shop.

• Everything I list on the marketplace is a crochet product I made: pieces I crocheted, patterns I designed, kits built on my own pattern, tools I made, or yarn I dyed or spun. I do not resell anything someone else made.
• My patterns, photos, descriptions, branding, and other content are my own or properly licensed.
• I am not selling stolen or counterfeit goods.
• I am not presenting mass-produced, wholesale, or dropshipped goods as handmade or as my own work.
• No image on my shop has AI-generated content anywhere in it, and every product photo shows the real piece as it is. My edits add nothing that wasn't there when I took the photo, and a background I removed is left transparent or plain white.

The photo rule is the one makers ask about most, so it has its own section below.

Product photo policy

Every photo must show the real item you're selling, photographed as it actually is. AI-generated content isn't allowed anywhere in the image.

Rule of thumb: You can edit a real photo to make it look its best, but you can't add anything that wasn't there when you took it.

AI images are allowed on your own website. On the marketplace, we take off a listing with an AI photo, and if it keeps happening we may take the shop off.

We approve the shop, then look at each listing

We review your shop once. When we approve it, your listings go on the marketplace, and so does everything you add later, with nothing to submit and nothing to wait for.

We still look at each new listing after it goes up. Approving a shop means we trust how you work, not that every future listing will fit. If one doesn't, we take that listing off the marketplace and tell you why, by email and in the app. It stays on your website, and the rest of your shop stays on the marketplace. If it's something you can fix, fix it and ask to put the listing back. If it keeps happening, we may take the shop off the marketplace.

A shop we have not approved is not on the marketplace at all, listing by listing or otherwise. The shop application is the way on.

What every listing needs

• Your own work. Crochet you made (see What you can sell on the marketplace), in your own photos and described in your own words. Nothing copied from another maker.
• Complete. A photo and a description.
• Shown clearly. The piece is the focus: in focus, well lit, against a tidy background.
• Described honestly. The name, photos, price and description match what the shopper gets, size and colors included.
• Well made. The piece looks finished and cared for.
• Modest. The item and its photos. Photos of someone wearing a piece are welcome when the photo is modest.
• Nothing offensive. No crude jokes or hateful words or symbols.
• Fits our editorial standards. The marketplace and the app have stricter standards than your website. We decide what fits.

Every shop on Crochetify, your website included, follows the code of ethics in the Terms of Service: nothing illegal, sexual, violent, hateful or deceptive.

We make the call, and we always tell you why.

Characters and brands

Characters, logos and brand names belong to the companies that own them, like Disney, Pokémon or Minecraft. Selling things based on them without permission can break copyright and trademark law, and that's the seller's responsibility. We don't check listings for this. If the owner of a character or brand reports a listing, we take it down and tell you why.

For more, read Can I sell crochet made from a pattern?

If we say no

We give a reason, and you can read it on Marketplace in your dashboard. The reason names what to change, because it is what we look at again when you come back.

You can apply again 3 days after a decision. The wait is there so a second application is one you have had time to act on, not the same shop sent straight back. Fix what we named and apply again. A shop we turned down once is not turned down for good.

The same applies to a shop we remove after approving it. Your website keeps running, your orders and customers are untouched, and the wait before reapplying is the same.

When this policy changes

The current version applies to every shop on the marketplace, including shops approved under an earlier one. The date at the top of this page is when it last changed.

On September 22, 2026 we opened the marketplace to kits, tools, and yarn you made, and set one rule for everything listed there: you made it. The application used to say “or I have the right to sell them.” That line is gone, so resold items now stay off the marketplace. If your shop was approved before then and lists something that no longer fits, turn off the marketplace switch on that listing. You do not need to apply again.

On September 29, 2026 we rewrote the photo rule as the product photo policy above. Removing a background is still fine, as long as the new background is transparent or plain white. If a photo on your shop has a new background of any other kind, change it to one of those or use the original photo. You do not need to apply again.

On September 30, 2026 we started looking at each listing after it goes up. If one doesn't fit, we take that listing off the marketplace and tell you why, and the rest of your shop stays on. We also wrote down what every listing needs, including that the item and its photos are modest, and how we handle characters and brands. You do not need to apply again.

On October 13, 2026 we wrote down what is not allowed anywhere on Crochetify, on the marketplace or on your own website. If your shop lists a piece that breaks one of these rules, take it down.

Why we review at all

Shoppers come to the marketplace for crochet bought from the person who made it. That only holds if what they find there is what we say it is. Reviewing is how we keep resold factory goods and borrowed photos off a page that has your shop on it too.

Questions

If something here does not fit your shop, or you think we got a decision wrong, use the contact page and tell us about your shop. A person reads it.

This policy sits alongside the Terms of Service, which cover your account and your website.