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Effectively immediately, I'm now using Square Market for online sales. No more PayPal! I absolutely will not miss PayPal, not even a little.

The Online Store link on zugsterbags.com now redirects to https://squareup.com/market/zugster-bags

I'm incredibly happy that there's finally a good alternative to PayPal for managing a simple online store.

The only downside at the moment is that each item gets only a single photo; hopefully they'll change that in the future, and I'll continue to have additional photos available on the site and flickr.

#zugster #zugsterbags #marketplace #forsale #custom #messenger #bags #stock

Rando bags x5. #zugster #randonneur #handmade #bag

#bag #randonneur #handmade #zugster

Five #zugster #randonneur #bags. (at Zugster Workshop)

#bags #randonneur #zugster

#fabric #cutting #patterns

#patterns #cutting #fabric

Hardware

A few random piles of the various hardware bits & pieces that go into a bag. Mostly from ITW-Nexus or National Molding (Duraflex).

#bagmaking #hardware #zugster #buckles #photoset

Cats. They love #messengerbags. Also, new stock and markdowns are up on zugsterbags.com.

#messengerbags

somafab

Zugster Rando Bag Sample by vanster360 on Flickr.

Minimal Rando bag by Zugster

Navy Blue Stock Randos

And the updates continue - I just put two new navy blue rando bags up on the site.

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Zugster Clearance Sale

I've been working hard to get the website cleaned up and updated to get ready for taking custom orders again. I just cut the prices on everything I currently have in stock by at least 25% - it's time to make room for new stuff!

I've got a deluxe messenger bag with pretty much all the options for $220, which is about 2/3 of what it would cost ordered custom. Rando bags, errand bags, rolltop totes, and accessories are all similarly reduced.

Check it all out at zugsterbags.com.

#zugster #messengerbag #randonneur #bag #handmade #available #stock #sale #clearance

Bag pile! Going to mark some of these down to clearance prices - I need to make room for new stuff.

This is a new #zugster #rando bag variation. The stripes are centered, and the colors look pretty great on my #boxdogbikes #pelican #randonneur.

#boxdogbikes #pelican #randonneur #zugster #rando

Templates (at Zugster Workshop)

Custom Orders

Back in the autumn of 2010 I stopped taking custom orders, because the overhead of managing the order queue had gotten out of proportion with the actual sewing of those orders (to say nothing of the rather ridiculous multi-year length of the queue).

Now that tax season is over, I'm gearing up to start taking custom orders again. I've been reviewing and updating patterns, building new templates, and considering possible new designs.

In order to avoid the problems with maintaining waiting lists, I'll be operating on a system similar to another small California bagmaker, Acorn Bags. There will be a limited number of order slots available on the web store. When they're up, you'll be able to get an order in via the standard checkout process.

From there, we'll immediately finalize the details, and I'll make them all as a batch - expect each batch to take approximately 4 weeks.

I've still got to take inventory and update the website, so it will be a week or two before the first batch goes out.

#zugster #news #ordering