HoneyBee doesn’t take a cut of your price. Our fee is added to the buyer’s total at checkout, so what you set is what you’re paid — less what the card networks charge to move it.
Our 3% is charged to the buyer, as its own line at checkout. It never comes out of your price. That leaves card processing as the only thing between what you charge and what lands in your bank.
Don’t take our word for the difference. Put your own price in and watch it.
Volume matters because Ravelry doesn’t take a cut per sale — it charges by the month, capped. Move both and watch what happens.
6.5% transaction + $0.20 listing + payment processing
5% shop fee, or $12/mo for none — whichever suits your volume
4% per sale (min. 25¢) + payment processing
Monthly fee by sales volume, capped — not a per-sale cut
No commission — card processing only
At $7.00 and 20 a month, you keep $6.44 a sale — more than any of them.
Against Etsy that’s $11.00 a month that stays with you. The closest is Ravelry, still $0.19 behind on every sale.
HoneyBee’s 3% fee is paid by the buyer as a separate line at checkout, never taken out of your price — so the only thing deducted from you is card processing. Other platforms’ figures are their own published seller fees as of August 2026, on the standard 2.9% + 30¢ processing rate, excluding optional advertising.
Between them they reach 7.4M followers across their Instagram and YouTube channels. Some arrived with one pattern, some with back catalogues in the hundreds — and every one of them still sells wherever else they like. These are their pages, not ours.
Your video keeps every view it would have got — it just plays on a page you own, with the PDF one tap away. Nobody has to go looking for a link in a description, and the free pattern carries on doing what it already does for you.
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Whichever suits. Most designers end up using more than one, and none of them needs the others.
Our catalog already lists a lot of published work. If some of it is yours, claiming one pattern links every other one credited to the same name.
Paste a spreadsheet of your pattern URLs and we'll add them for you. The right call if you have more than a handful.
Add a pattern directly, price it or leave it free, publish. Yours to edit forever.
In a real hive, worker bees do the gathering. They fly out, find the nectar, bring it back. Without them there’s no honey.
On HoneyBee that’s what designers do. They make the patterns everyone else comes here to find. So that’s what we call them.
No. No fee to be a Worker Bee, no listing fee, no monthly charge. If you sell a pattern, card processing comes out of that sale and nothing else does.
No. Plenty of Worker Bees only ever publish free patterns. You get the profile, the link-in-bio page and your numbers either way.
Tell us your designer name and where to find your work. It takes about a minute, and a person reads every one.
Bruna Biavati
757K followers · 221 patterns
Knot Bad
195K followers · 30 patterns
petpetcrochets
159K followers · 53 patterns
Shelby Freeman
138K followers · 40 patterns
Andrea Quinteros
138K followers · 34 patterns
Nicole Chase
121K followers · 135 patterns
Tejelucrochet
101K followers · 16 patterns
Nora Moon
100K followers · 20 patterns
Janine Myska
66K followers · 34 patterns
JeggoCrochet
63K followers · 37 patterns
Irene Strange
62K followers · 57 patterns
Meghan Makes Do
55K followers · 31 patterns
Knit in the Womb Designs (Knit in the Womb Designs)
9.6K followers · 147 patterns
The free video keeps doing its job. The PDF sits beside it and earns.
Drag the whole folder of PDFs in at once and you get a row each. Covers pair themselves up by filename, you type the prices down the list, and publish the lot in one go. Most designers are done in an evening.
Short on time? Send us the files and your prices and we'll do the listing for you — email honeybeepatterns@gmail.com.
4 patterns ready
Publish allDrop the PDFs in together. Covers pair up by filename.
joinhoneybee.com/@yourname goes up automatically — your patterns, your socials, and any links you want on it. Point your Instagram bio at it and stop rebuilding a link page every launch. Nothing to set up and nothing to pay for.
@wilmawestenberg
550K followers
Link in bio
joinhoneybee.com/@wilmade
Wilma Westenberg
Not the order we'd pick — you drag them. Free and paid sit side by side and visitors can filter between them. It's a page that ranks, and it's the one we put in the sitemap.
Tamara Kelly
@moogly · 980 patterns
Drag to reorder. Visitors see the order you chose.
How often your patterns showed up in feeds, how many of those turned into someone opening the pattern, and how many they saved to a collection. Impressions count too, so a pattern earns credit for being seen even when nobody taps.
Panel shows the real hub layout with illustrative figures.
Seen
4,182
in feeds
Opened
1,046
pattern pages
Saved
312
to collections
Free patterns counted too — you don’t have to sell anything to see these.
Keep selling wherever you already sell. Your patterns keep pointing at your site, your shop and your channel — we link out, we don't lock in.
No membership, no listing fee, no monthly charge. If you never sell a thing, it never costs you anything.
Take your patterns down whenever you like, from your own hub, without asking us.
Yes, and most do. Nothing here is exclusive, and your patterns keep linking to wherever you send people today.
Through Stripe, into your own bank account. You set up payouts once — about five minutes, with photo ID and your bank details — then withdraw from your hub whenever your balance is ready.
Tell us and we’ll take it down. Our copyright policy covers how, and being a Worker Bee makes it faster, because we can already see the patterns are yours.
Less than you're imagining. You drop your PDFs in as one batch rather than one at a time, covers match themselves to the files by name, and you set the prices down a single list. Most designers get their whole catalogue up in one sitting. If that's still more than you can spare, send us the files and your prices and we'll list them for you.
We read every application ourselves, usually within a day or two. You'll get an email and a message here the moment you're in.
