Thryft Ship Setup Guide

In Accept Payment settings → Payment, Shipping & Checkout Options, you decide how buyers are charged:

• Fee-on-Me — choose who covers the card processing fee: pass it to the buyer (their total shows your price plus a small fee) or cover it yourself (buyers pay exactly your listed price and the fee comes out of your payout). On a $10 sale that fee is about $0.59.
• How you charge for shipping — Flat (same price every order), Tiered (base price plus a bit per extra item), or Exact/Precise (the real carrier rate per order — see how Exact Shipping works). You can also set a free-shipping threshold and international rates.
• Pay Later — gives you two links: a Checkout link (pay now) and a Submit link (add items without paying yet, then pay for the whole order when ready).
• Pay with Venmo (optional, not recommended) — shows your Venmo at checkout, but Thryft Ship can’t track or protect it and you confirm each payment yourself. See Using Venmo for Business.
• Sales tax (optional, off by default) — collect the correct tax where you owe it. Start with Sales Tax on Thryft Ship.

In Shipping settings, set the details that make labels print right and rates come out accurate:

• From address — your return address. It prints on every label and is used to calculate rates, so keep it correct.
• Label size & print details — pick your label format, and optionally print the item description and buyer’s Instagram handle to make packing easier.
• Default package & saved sizes — save your go-to box and mailer sizes so they’re one tap when you ship.
• Media Mail — pre-select it if you ship a lot of media-eligible items (only use it for items that qualify).

In Sales Assistant settings, these apply to every new drop — and you can override any of them when you build a specific drop:

• Auto-group photos into items — let the AI sort your photos into items, or group them yourself.
• Auto-write captions & suggest pricing — let the AI draft a caption and prices, or write your own. See Caption Customization Modes.
• Posting speed — how long the Assistant waits between posts. Regular is recommended; see managing large drops.
• Sale type — Buy It Now, Bids, or Hybrid (both).
• Auction length — how long items stay open for bids (6, 12, 24, 48 hours, or custom).
• Custom bid increments — off by default ($1 steps); turn on to set your own minimum step.
• Delay BIN invoices until the drop ends — send buy-it-now invoices with the bid winners at the end instead of immediately.
• Smart Extend (anti-sniping) — nudges an item’s close time when a bid lands in the final seconds. See Extend a Whole Drop.

Under Comment Behavior & Automation, you control — and can reword — the replies the Assistant leaves on your posts. Each uses fill-in-the-blanks like {item_name}:

• Accepting / rejecting a bid, outbid notice, bought via BIN, BIN claimed response, winner notice, and a reply on sold items.

Full detail: How Comments Work.

Under Checkout and Form settings, set the deadlines and the DMs winners get (all editable, with fill-in-the-blanks like {buyer_name}):

• Payment deadline — how long buyers have to check out after winning (up to 48 hours).
• Payment reminder DMs — auto-nudge buyers who haven’t paid yet.
• Winner DM — the checkout-details message (with an open-bag version).
• Payment confirmation DM — the “you’re all set” note once checkout succeeds.

• Open bags — let buyers keep adding items over a window you choose (say, two weeks) and ship it all together.
• Local pickup — let nearby buyers pick up in person and skip shipping. You set the location and instructions.

Give the AI a few of your own captions as examples and it’ll match your voice. You can tell it to match exactly or keep a rough sketch, set a tone (friendly, professional, energetic, minimal), and add words to avoid. Details in Caption Customization Modes.

Add a handle to your Block List and they’ll stop getting bids and replies through Thryft Ship the next time they comment. (It’s a Thryft Ship block only — it doesn’t block them on Instagram.)

No. You only need two things to go live: your Instagram connected and payments turned on. Everything in Step 3 already has a sensible default — come back and tune it whenever you like.

Yes, anytime. And most drop settings (sale type, auction length, bid increments, and so on) can be overridden on an individual drop when you build it — the settings page just sets your defaults.

Accept Payments is how your buyers pay you. Billing is where your own Thryft Ship subscription and shipping-label charges are paid. Different directions, different pages.

Yes — payments run on your own account, which means you’re the store making the sale. That’s what puts the money in your bank and gives you direct control. Setup walks you through it; you don’t need to know anything technical.