Hand-painted art dropshipping, shipped straight to your customer

Print-on-demand and hand-painted dropshipping look alike in a listing photo, but a print is made from a file in hours, while a hand-painted canvas is painted with brush and palette knife for its order. When you compare wall art dropshipping suppliers, ask that first: printed or painted? Here it is always painted, in acrylic as standard or oil on request. That makes artwork dropshipping with originals slower than print, and a different thing to sell: the painting itself.

You hold no stock and buy nothing until a customer has paid you. Each order reaches us directly, on WhatsApp or by email, so nothing needs installing in your store. Some 1,300 works are ready to list, and any of them can be resized or recoloured on request.

Buying stock to sell from your own premises is a different job: see galleries and framers, or home stagers if you dress houses for sale.

Every catalogue work is photographed on its own and hung in styled rooms like those on this page; a product page needs both, the painting square-on and a room shot for scale. Send the codes you plan to sell and we confirm which photographs you may use for each.

In the description, say plainly that the painting is made for the buyer: same composition, palette and size as the photograph, with brushwork that differs a little, as on every hand-painted canvas. Saying it up front saves a message later. Call it hand-painted to order, not a print and not your own work.

Order one piece to your own address before you launch: you can photograph the real canvas in your own light, feel the texture and write the listing from the object.

Each work's page lists the sizes it is painted in, from 61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 in) to two metres and more on the long side. A small, a medium and a large keep the choice easy; any other size is quoted when a customer asks, with the composition redrawn to fit.

Textured works list differently. 3D plaster, deep relief and the heaviest palette-knife work, such as TA#929 shown here, would crack in a tube, so offer them stretched or framed; each work's page says which finishes it ships in. If a customer would rather save on shipping, the texture can be built thinner so it rolls, agreed with us before painting.

Store platforms usually split the delivery promise into processing and shipping time, which is how the order runs here: the painting, then the courier. Three things add days:

• Approvals. Each stage waits for a yes. Approve the stage photos yourself and the painting keeps moving; if your customer approves them, allow for their reply time.
• Custom variants. Unlisted sizes, colour changes and paintings from a customer's photo get their own date in the quote; mark them "date confirmed at order".
• Several pieces for one customer usually travel together, leaving when the last one is approved.

For Christmas, Mother's Day or Valentine's Day, count back from the arrival date: the shipping days, the painting days, then a day or two for approvals. Publish a last order date a little earlier than the sum.

The piece

Priced by size, surface and finish. Send the codes, sizes and finishes you plan to list and you will usually have the figures within one business day: one sheet to price every variant against.

Shipping

Quoted separately, because it depends on the finish and the address. We book the best route for each order and confirm the cost with you before dispatch. Charge shipping by region, or fold an average into the price, with rolled as your lowest rate.

Cash flow

Each order is paid in two halves: 50% against a proforma invoice when you place it, 50% once you approve the final photograph, before shipping. Your customer has normally paid you at checkout, so no money sits in stock.

Volume

Volume pricing starts at 10 pieces; when your orders reach that level, ask us to requote your range.

Finished pieces are not returnable to us, so your store's policy is yours to set, and it works best read before checkout. Cover four points:

• Change of mind. Any change-of-mind return you offer is yours to absorb. If you offer none, say so on the listing and say why: the painting is made for that customer alone.
• The approval photograph. Offer customers the photo of their finished painting before it ships, so they know exactly what is coming when the box opens.
• Screens and brushwork. Colours shift a little between screens and daylight, and brushwork varies from the listing photo.
• Your rules. Check what your marketplace and the consumer rules in your customers' countries require for made-to-order goods, and word the policy to fit.

If a parcel arrives damaged. It is rare: our return rate is under 0.01%, thanks to careful packing and trusted carriers. Your customer photographs the box and the painting, keeps both and sends you the photos; you forward them to us, and we take the claim up with the carrier and work out a solution with you, such as a replacement or a refund. Link your policy to the logistics page for the full steps.

Your customer uploads the photo with the order and you forward it with the size and the manner they picked: loose and impressionist for places, close and detailed for people and pets, bright and simple for a playful portrait. We say what can be painted from the photo before quoting, and the composition is approved before paint goes on; paintings from your own image explains what makes a good photo.

On a custom listing, say that the photo must be the customer's own or used with permission (a wedding photographer's picture usually belongs to the photographer) and that each piece is quoted with its own price and date.