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Selling stuff online

Aurora

I’ve been playing with the idea of selling some hand made stuff online. But I don’t know how to start.

 I’ve been reading about it but can’t really understand what I have to do. 

I work full time and I pay tax and insurance. 

So I’ll have to pay more tax but there’s also this £1000 trading allowance. 

It’s confusing. 

I understand that I would have to register as self employed and notify revenue about my income but I don’t know if I’m supposed to do it before I start or after I earn £1000 or when? 

I want to just put 1 or 2 thing online and see if anyone would buy it. 

If not I’ll abandon the idea. 

If someone buys it then I might sell more. 

But I don’t know if I have to inform tax office that I put one item on sale? And if it won’t sell? Notify them that it was a mistake?

Does someone know how to proceed?

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  • in reply to NAS76241

    Yeah, working with eBay has become easier than before. I also have good experience with Shopify because their attitude towards sellers is on another level compared with Amazon. Anyway, the biggest problem for me was to get new customers because I didn't know how to manage my shop well. I don't have money to hire marketing specialists or any managers, so I had to learn everything on my own. Lucky for me, I had eventually discovered the revenuegrid that offers salesforce software to improve sales. When you know your sales data in detail, it becomes easier to analyze everything.