In-depth guide
The handmade-goods website: what it offers and why it pays off
A website for artisans, made for the maker and their customers
The Envestis handmade-goods website is a ready-made, tailored solution for anyone who creates with their own hands across Switzerland and Italy: ateliers for ceramics, candles, textiles, jewellery and woodwork, as well as natural cosmetics and small design runs. It is built for anyone who wants a beautiful, fast atelier website without having to manage designers, developers and hosting on their own. We start from a proven structure - home, creations, bespoke, the atelier, materials, markets and shipping - and personalise it with your name, colours, pieces and workshop photos. The result is a warm, editorial site, curated like a gallery, that tells the value of the handmade and encourages people to buy. You can see it live in our atelier demo and compare it with the other options in the Envestis solutions overview.
Curated showcase, piece reservation and bespoke commissions
The heart of the solution is the set of features that bring the atelier to life. The product showcase presents your collections by category - ceramics, candles, textiles, jewellery, wood - with curated photos, materials, dimensions, care and availability: a detailed card for every piece, opened by the customer without leaving the page. Anyone who finds something they love can save it to a wishlist or reserve the piece - a ready item or a made-to-order creation - choosing pickup or shipping, with no online payment: you receive the request with a number, and you set it aside or start the work. The bespoke configurator guides the customer in a few steps - type of creation, details and quantity, occasion, contact - and delivers a complete request for you to quote on. Alongside this, dedicated pages for your story, the workshop, the materials, the markets and shipping. So the site is not a simple business card but a tool that brings in customers and requests.
Story, natural materials and compliant Swiss hosting
For anyone selling handmade goods, the story is not a detail: it is the reason a customer chooses the handmade and accepts a price different from the industrial one. That is why the site gives space to the maker, the workshop, the step-by-step process and the natural, sustainable materials - clay, plant waxes, linen, brass, traceable woods - with the transparency that customers look for today. Craft customers are often international and discerning: that is why every handmade-goods website in Switzerland we build is available in Italian, German, French and English, so tourists and foreign customers immediately find the collections in their own language. Reservation and commission requests travel over HTTPS and are hosted on Swiss/EU infrastructure with regular backups, in line with the new Data Protection Act (nFADP) and the GDPR. The site is fast, perfect on a phone and optimised for Google, so people searching for "handmade ceramics" or "artisan jewellery" find your atelier first.
Ready-made and tailored, with transparent pricing
A bespoke website built from scratch takes months and a serious budget. Our ready-made solution flips that model: the structure is already built and tested, so you only pay for customisation and go live in days, not months. The pricing is simple and predictable - a one-time setup of CHF 1’490 and a CHF 39/month fee with everything included: Swiss/EU hosting, domain, maintenance, security updates, backups and small content changes. No hidden costs, no commissions on sales and no surprises on the invoice. You create, we handle the site; the creations, photos and prices you update yourself from a simple dashboard. When you are ready to start, talk to us: tell us about your atelier and we will get you online quickly, with a site that tells the handmade story and brings in requests.