A Quebec alternative to Etsy
Sell in your own store, without losing control of your products, payments and customers.Etsy can help you find buyers. But as your store grows, its fees, rules and distance from your customers can become burdensome. Parle gives you a simple Quebec-based store connected to your own Stripe account, with clear pricing.
Etsy is a marketplace. Parle is your home.
The choice is not only about fees. It is about control. Etsy can bring you traffic, while Parle lets you build a store that belongs to you, with your customers, payments, products and rules.
With Parle
- Simple pricing: $5/month for the website and $10/month for the online store.
- Unlimited products: add your entire catalogue with no per-listing fee.
- Your Stripe account: payments go through your account, with no platform commission from Parle.
- Canadian taxes: the store is designed to properly manage GST, QST and other Canadian taxes.
- Local support: speak with a team based in Quebec, in English or French.
- Your customer relationship: every purchase enriches your CRM and helps you follow up with customers.
With Etsy
- Traffic included: Etsy is a true marketplace and can put your products in front of shoppers.
- Per-listing fee: each listing costs US$0.20 and expires after four months.
- Transaction fees: Etsy charges 6.5% on eligible sales.
- Payment fees: in Canada, Etsy Payments adds 3% + $0.25 CAD on domestic and U.S. orders.
- Offsite advertising: after US$10,000 in sales over 365 days, Offsite Ads becomes mandatory for attributed sales.
- Large-platform support: useful, but not always as direct as local assistance.
An easy-to-understand bill.
To sell with Parle, you can only activate what you need.
5$/month
$ 10/month
On Etsy, the costs are superimposed quickly.
An Etsy sale can involve several fees at once: listing fees, transaction fees, payment processing, currency conversion in some cases and advertising fees when a sale is attributed to an offsite ad.
That is not automatically a bad thing. Etsy gives you access to an audience. But if you already bring in customers through Instagram, TikTok, a newsletter, local markets or word of mouth, paying several fees on every sale can eat into your margins.
Fees and costs according to official policies consulted: Fees & Payments Policy and Etsy Payments Policy. Fees may change, so always validate your situation in your Etsy account.
Your shop should work for your business, not the other way around.
Parle does not automatically replace the traffic Etsy can send you. You must attract your own visitors. The difference is that when those visitors buy, the relationship belongs to you.
- Your payments go into your Stripe account.
- Your products, prices, pages and shipping costs remain under your control.
- Your customers become contacts in your CRM.
- Your Canadian taxes are managed in a tool designed for Canada.
- Your store can grow with your emails, website, invoices and other Parle modules.
When should you choose Parle over Etsy?
Choose Etsy if your priority is joining an established marketplace and its fees fit your customer acquisition costs. Choose Parle if you want a store you own, predictable pricing and a direct relationship with customers.
Ready to take back control of your store?
Create your free Parle account, activate your website and store, then start selling on your own terms.
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