A flat 8%. That's the fee.

Marketplace fees have a way of arriving in pieces. There is a commission, and then a payment fee, and then a listing fee, and then a monthly fee for the privilege of remaining listed, and then a promotion fee for being seen at all. By the time a maker has added them up, the number on the marketing page is no longer the number that will leave the sale. The honest version is a single figure, and a short list of what is not added later.

Aevani's seller fee is a flat 8% on each sale. Card processing is included, and absorbed by Aevani. There are no listing fees, no monthly fees, and no ad fees. That is the whole published rate. It can be quoted in a conversation with a grower or a maker who is deciding whether to apply. It is also the rate that should be written, in type large enough to be the argument, on the page where they apply.

This is not a comparison with anyone else's schedule. Other platforms publish their own fees, and those pages change. Aevani is not going to win a seller by narrating a competitor's price list, and it is not going to invent a savings figure against a shop the seller already uses. The useful fact is narrower: if you sell on Aevani, the take from the sale is 8%, and the card fee is not an extra line.

What the rate does not yet include is a promise about when the money moves. Payout timing has not been set. A page that says "monthly," or "after delivery," or "once you hit fifty dollars," is writing a term that does not exist. The application form should not imply one, and neither should a recruiter. When the timing is set, it should appear next to the 8%, in the same plain type, and not before.

The same discipline applies to referrals. A later path will let PlantGeo affiliates invite someone to plan a site and then send them to Aevani. Aevani would pay that referral share from its own margin, only on completed retail sales, and never for recruiting someone into the program. Affiliates would not be sub-affiliates on Amazon, Etsy, or eBay links. The share itself has not been set. Until it is, there is no rate to quote, and there is no application to accept. Direct sellers remain the core of the marketplace. They have a fee. The referral path has a description and a blank where the number will go.

There is, today, a public affiliate page on aevani.com that still describes a tiered commission, a cookie window, a payout minimum, instant approval, and a platform fee on top of the sale. That page is ahead of the terms, and it conflicts with the 8% rate. It should come down, or be replaced with a short notice that the referral program is not open, before anyone is invited to join it. A rate that has not been agreed is not a marketing asset. It is a draft that escaped.

None of this is a philosophy of fairness, and it is not a claim that 8% is the right number for every marketplace. It is the number Aevani is offering to its first sellers. The rest of the commercial picture — who ships, who handles a return, what a warranty says — will have to be written on the listing, by the seller, once there is a listing. Site-wide shipping promises and no-fuss guarantees do not belong on a shop that cannot complete a cart.

If you grow or make something that belongs here, the application is the next step, not a pricing negotiation in a thread. The fee is 8%. Processing is included. There are no other fees. When you get paid is a sentence we have not written yet, and so you will not find it on the page.