bask has been live since 30 August. It is UK only and royal python first.
It is new and it looks it. The royal python section is small and most other sections are empty. You are adding a channel here, not moving off one.
Will anyone find my animals
Search, mostly. bask's own traffic is thin this early. Every listing, store page and morph page is indexed, so someone hunting a Clown het Pied finds your animal without knowing your name.
Moving your stock across
Upload your MorphMarket CSV or JSON export. It works for any species bask carries. bask scans the file, then imports animal by animal with a progress bar, up to five photos each. Run it twice and nothing duplicates.
If you have nothing to export, there is bulk-add by clutch. Set what the clutch shares once, sire and dam included, then up to 30 rows for title, sex, weight, price and morphs. Duplicate a row for the near-identical sibling.
Your store
Your store is at /@yourhandle, and the handle is yours to edit. You set the name, location, about text, policies, logo and social links. On Hobbyist and Breeder, your own header image replaces the automatic montage of your stock. Breeder adds a layout editor, a banner with an end date, a bundle-offer line and up to five pinned animals. Buyers can follow you and hear when you list.
Declare yourself hobbyist, trade-only or licensed. Licensed shows your council licence number, issuing authority and, in England, your star rating, which the licensing rules want on every advert you run. bask displays what you enter. It does not check it against any register.
Running it
You set a listing to For Sale, On Hold or Sold, activate or deactivate it, and do any of that to one animal or to a selection at once. Sale pricing is a fixed figure or a percentage, with an end date. bask refuses it if you moved the base price in the last 15 days, and every change lands in a price history. Record the buyer and they can review you, once.
Questions land in /my/questions; you answer, then choose whether the answer shows on the listing. Direct messages are at /chat. Racking, vivs and kit go up as equipment in their own section, and they do not count against your animal allowance.
Whether it is working
You get a view trend per listing, and a board that sorts your stock into Needs work and Fine and gives the reason: quiet, watched, or questions that never turned into a chat. It also shows what buyers searched for, including searches that found nothing: demand for a morph nobody is listing.
What it costs
0% commission on every plan.
| Keeper | Hobbyist | Breeder | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Per month | Free | £5 | £10 |
| Live animals | 15 | 50 | Unlimited |
| Photos published | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Bump a listing again after | 40 days | 30 days | 20 days |
| Stats history | 4 weeks | 26 weeks | 104 weeks |
| Pinned reviews | 0 | 2 | 5 |
All five photos are stored whatever the plan, so upgrading publishes shots you already uploaded. Monthly and annual prices are on /pricing. Billing goes through Stripe.
Claim 180 days of Hobbyist or Breeder free on /my/membership. You have to claim it; it is not applied at signup. No card is taken, so there is nothing to cancel.
It is one per account, the end date is fixed when you claim, and switching between the two plans does not move it. Reminders at 30 days and 7. Then you drop to Keeper, with 30 days of grace on anything over the 15. About seven months before anything comes down.
The ask
Set a store up, put some stock on it, and tell me where it is rubbish. I keep royals and I have listed animals, so I know which bits are a faff. I would rather hear it from someone who does the same.