Community member
Understand a needed product, learning programme or service together with its source, total price and delivery or access terms, and know who carries responsibility if something goes wrong.
STORE GUIDE · STANDARDS AND PARTICIPATION
See the market’s standards, boundaries and participation routes in one place.
What do we admit, why do we admit it, whose statement are we hearing, and what has actually been checked? This guide explains how the people, work and responsibility behind products, learning, services and exchange will remain visible.
Kurucu Raf, interest records and preparation tools open · Sales, orders and payments closedMert Başbuğ’s real workshop, original photographs, videos and Strawderi products are featured here. Illustrative people, storefronts and products are labelled separately. Education scope and fees are agreed around participants’ needs. BenBiz sales and payments remain closed; Strawderi links open the maker’s own site.
More than a shop window.
BenBiz Store is not an unrestricted market where anyone simply uploads an offer and adds a price. It is being prepared as a selective Fair Marketplace where natural and original products, craft, meaningful learning and accountable services appear together with their sources, conditions and reasons for admission.
Maker / provider
Describe what is made or offered, its current stage, capacity or competence and working conditions honestly, without confusing a personal statement with independently verified information.
Contributor
Agree the scope and possible compensation for design, production, materials, storytelling or logistics before starting. A sale must not create an unagreed share by itself.
Explorer Member
Share a product, learning or service idea, real need, application, setup contribution or principle proposal without belonging to an active circle, and follow the record through every stage.
Two honest paths into the same marketplace.
We do not require every product, learning programme or service to come from a Solidarity Circle, but we do not hide which path brought it into the Store.
Circle path
Products, learning and services developed through a Solidarity Circle’s open tasks, recorded contributions and agreed terms receive priority consideration, and that connection remains visible.
Application route for makers outside BenBiz
Makers, educators and initiatives outside BenBiz may apply by sharing who they are, what they can offer, their working conditions, safety information and statements that can be checked.
Shared Bag 0.1: How an idea becomes a product.
This story preserves the shared-production method from idea to prototype. Shared Bag is not for sale today; it is a process record showing how design, work and responsibility can be agreed together.
Idea and real need
Clarify whose need the bag answers, together with expectations around use, durability and repairability.
Terms and first sample
Discuss design, fabric, sewing, space, storytelling and logistics together with costs, responsibilities and possible compensation before work begins.
Testing and learning
Test the first sample in real use. The product is not considered open for sale until safety, capacity, delivery and support have been understood.
What should an information page show?
Trust in the Store cannot rest on a good story or labels such as ‘natural’, ‘original’ or ‘good learning’ alone. People should understand what information supports each claim and who takes responsibility if something goes wrong.
Who offers what, and through which route?
Show the maker or provider profile, place of work and scope together with the Circle route or application from outside BenBiz. Use only profile information the person chose to share.
Materials or content, work and conditions
For physical goods, explain materials and production steps. For learning and services, explain content, method, duration, competence and contributor roles without disclosing trade secrets or personal data.
Understandable price components
When sales open, keep the total price distinct from the producer or shared-production share, taxes, payment costs, delivery and any Store contribution.
Capacity, delivery or access responsibility
State production capacity and delivery—or for learning and services, schedule, access, support and cancellation terms—before the encounter.
Statement and verification
Distinguish environmental, social, quality and competence claims with clear labels such as ‘provider statement’, ‘document reviewed’ or ‘verified’.
From today’s preparation to a first sale.
You can share initial information about an idea, need or maker candidacy in the app. This is not maker admission, storefront publication or permission to sell; maker admission and real sales remain closed.
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A member shares a record
An Explorer or circle member records a product, learning or service idea, a real need, a maker or provider application, a setup contribution or a principle proposal in the app.
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The publishing team reviews the record
The team may ask for more information, identify a pilot candidate, include it in preparation or leave it for a later stage with an explanation.
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Prepare the pilot and information page
Test a physical product through a real sample, and learning or services through their scope, sample content, competence and access terms. A record may enter discovery-only publishing only after identity, scope, conditions, economic boundaries, capacity and the objection route are complete.
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Open limited TRY sales or enrolment separately
Orders or learning enrolment, delivery or access and Turkish-lira payments through an appropriately licensed provider can open only after end-to-end and legal preparation. BenAkçe or BenGram is not an opening requirement.
Exchange also needs a recorded, mutual and bounded path.
Discover needs and contributions in BenBiz Exchange and prepare your own listing in the app with your BenBiz account. Goods, services, space and combined contributions are agreed together. The older inter-store product-matching draft is a separate preparation tool, not the current exchange journey. No money is collected here.
The item owner opens eligibility
The maker or storefront states which item is open to exchange, what they seek and the conditions they accept. In real use, the record and available quantity are checked again.
Two parties, one agreement
Both parties accept the scope, handover and any costs of an offer or counter-offer. Reciprocal exchange provides for a 1% sustainability contribution from each party on their own accepted contribution value. Solidarity contributions have no platform commission; real collection is not connected.
Value compares; it does not decide
The recorded amount and BenAkçe equivalent make a difference easier to understand. They create no payment request, wallet balance or automatic debt; the parties agree any completion path together.
Special fields keep their own rules
The heirloom-seed record does not open to general product exchange. The first model is limited to seed-for-seed exchange after identity, origin, quantity and current conditions are verified; it does not use money or another product.
Building the Store is itself a shared project.
We aim to develop this area through a solidarity circle. These are potential workstreams, not job vacancies or pay commitments.
Maker and provider relationships
Product, learning and service scope; admission criteria, content and responsible-party communication.
Design and software
An accessible catalogue, open records, order or enrolment tracking and links with the app.
Operations and trust
Payments, delivery or access, returns and cancellation, support, data protection and relevant specialist reviews.
How do the website, Store and app fit together?
This guide is open to everyone. In the app, an Explorer Member can choose one of five application routes, provide any requested information and follow the outcome.
When a product, learning programme or service needs shared work, a Solidarity Circle supports that work. When the resulting value is ready, the Store can provide visibility and later a route to economic exchange. The Store does not replace circle work or the contribution agreement that must be made beforehand.
Current product, maker and pilot records are at benbiz.store; learning and service records may join them when ready. The project purpose, principles and development notes remain at benbiz.com.tr/store. Orders, enrolment and payments will open separately only when ready.
Before opening for sales.
A limited, verified starting point
When real makers and prototypes arrive, rebuild the Kurucu Raf examples with responsible parties and support routes under real conditions. A candidate pool is not automatic approval or a public catalogue.
End-to-end testing
Safely test ordering or enrolment, payments, failed transactions, delivery or access, returns and cancellation.
Clear rules
Prepare the terms between makers or providers and community members, financial responsibilities, data use and dispute handling.
FIVE PARTICIPATION ROUTES
You will not only find a finished Store; you can help shape it while it is built.
Explorer Membership is enough; you do not need an active Solidarity Circle or role. Your record remains connected to you, and review questions and the reasoned outcome stay visible in your account.
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There are no sales, enrolled learning access, orders or payments today. Submitting a record is not acceptance or a promise of work, pay or income. Kurucu Raf examples become live catalogue records only when real makers and verified information arrive.I have a product, learning or service idea
Describe what you want to offer, its current stage and whether it comes through a Circle or from outside BenBiz.
Use this route02I have a real need
Share the product, learning or service you need, its conditions and why it matters.
Use this route03I want to apply as a maker or provider
Describe your experience, capacity or competence, working conditions and the path that brings you here.
Use this route04I can help build the Store
Open your contribution in maker and provider relations, design, software, content, law, logistics or trust.
Use this route05I propose a principle or criterion
Explain an idea for fairness, trust, environmental responsibility or offer and content admission.
Use this route