Daylight
Seller Information
Why Sell on Daylight: Value Proposition
Daylight is a social and philanthropic e-commerce gallery designed to support highly-skilled artisans who create high quality one-offs and limited-run products.
If you are an individual who creates for the love of the craft, the joy of the process, and the desire to leave a meaningful legacy, then consider selling your work on Daylight.
Our Values
1. A Community That Values the Process, Not Just the Product.
On mainstream platforms, your work is forced to compete with contact manufacturers. At Daylight, we educate buyers on the true value of fine crafts.
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Honoring Your Energy: Our patrons understand that handcrafted items carry the integrity, time, and spirit of the maker.
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Quality Over Quantity: We explicitly reject fast-paced consumerism. We court buyers who look for durability, longevity, and repairability.
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Storytelling Integration: Your storefront on Daylight highlights your journey, your techniques, and the heritage behind your work. Doing so ensures buyers connect with you, not just an object.
2. A Counterbalance to Our Work Lives.
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The modern work environment is complicated, and stressful. People are paid to support an endless avalanche of tasks, in a competitive environment with shifting priorities, financial pressures, and political imperatives.
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Daylight is the counterbalance to our work lives. It is a mutually beneficial, low-stress financial model where artisans are encouraged to pursue their passion, share their ideas, and support their fellow craftsmen.
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No cutthroat pressure: You set your own pace. There are no algorithms punishing you for not uploading new products every day.
3. Supports Social Giving (optional)
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Artisans can choose to donate a portion of their sales to a charity of their choice. Philanthropic Impact: Is something missing here?
Who is the ideal person to join Daylight
The ideal person is a skilled individual with a creative passion who makes high-quality products. Though many artisans are introverts by nature, we encourage participating in a mutually supportive community where individuals can share ideas, collaborate with each other, and help each other when needed.
Who is not a good candidate to sell their work on Daylight
Daylight is an e-commerce gallery targeted at artisans and not the marketplace. It is designed to support and promote artisans who produce limited runs of items or unique one-offs and is not optimized for vendors who sell mass-produced products
The Daylight Promise
We do not just sell crafts; we protect the human spirit of creation. By joining Daylight Fine Arts & Crafts, you ensure that your skills, your projects, and the profound social benefits of handmade excellence will endure for generations to come.
Sellers Frequenely Asked Questions, (FAQ's)
Questions Legal Structure of Daylight
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Q: Why is Daylight set up as an LLC with a social mission instead of a 501(c)(3) or Benefits Corporation (B Corp.)
A: Daylight is a registered LLC with a Social Mission. An LLC with a Social Mission affords Daylight the legal protection to make decisions that prioritize the public benefit over maximizing short-term profits. This type of LLC allows Daylight to operate on a cost-recovery model that maximizes financial returns to the artist community while pursuing a philanthropic mission
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Q: Can a 501(c)(3) be used for E-commerce
A: Why a Traditional 501(c)(3) is Risky for E-commerce
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The Private Benefit Prohibitions: A 501(c)(3) must serve the public, not individual private interests. If your platform sells art and passes the revenue directly to individual, living artists, the IRS may view this as an unallowable private benefit, leading to a denial of tax-exempt status.
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Commerciality Doctrine: If your daily operations look exactly like a commercial gallery or an online marketplace (e.g., Etsy), the IRS will classify your revenue as taxable commercial income, completely defeating the purpose of being a nonprofit.
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For an e-commerce business that connects artists with buyers, a for-profit hybrid model or a standard LLC with a social mission is almost always a better choice than a traditional 501(c)(3) nonprofit [If your primary function involves selling goods, the IRS will likely view you as a commercial enterprise rather than a public charity].
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Operating an e-commerce marketplace inside a strict nonprofit structure creates severe legal complications regarding private benefit rules and unrelated business taxable income (UBTI).
Q: What is the legal difference between a Standard LLC and a Standard LLC with a Social Mission
A: From a legal standpoint, no, there is no separate legal entity called an "LLC with a Social Mission." [1].
In the eyes of your state filing office and the IRS, it is treated exactly like a Standard LLC. [1]
However, there is a massive operational and contractual difference in how you set it up. An "LLC with a Social Mission" is a standard LLC that has been customized using its private internal rules to lock in its social goals.
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Q: How Standard LLC vs a LLC with a social mission differ In practice
A: While both entities file the exact same state forms and pay the same taxes, they operate under completely different rules: [1]
Standard LLC
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Primary Focus: Maximizing profit for the owners/members.
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Governing Document: Standard, template-based Operating Agreement focusing on profit splits, voting rights, and buyout terms.
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Fiduciary Duty: Managers have a strict duty to make decisions that financially benefit the owners. If a manager turns down a high-paying commercial deal to do a free charity event, other owners could technically sue them for mismanaging company assets. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
LLC with a Social Mission
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Primary Focus: Balancing financial profit with a specific social impact (e.g., advancing underrepresented artists).
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Governing Document: A highly customized Operating Agreement that explicitly defines the social mission.
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Fiduciary Duty: The custom agreement legally protects the managers. It explicitly states that managers are required to consider the social mission (like giving artists higher payouts) even if it reduces the company's short-term profits. [1, 2, 3, 4]
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Questions Seller who should join Daylightaylight LLC
Q: Who is the ideal person to join Daylight
A: The ideal person is a skilled individual with a creative passion who makes high quality products. Though many artisans are introverts by nature we encourage participating in a mutually supportive community where individuals can share ideas, collaborate with each other and help each other when needed.
Q: Who is not a good candidate to sell their work on Daylight
A: Daylight is an ecommerce gallery targeted at artisans and not an ecommerce marketplace optimized for high volume sales. It is designed to support and promote artisans who produce limited runs of items or unique one-offs and is not optimized for vendors who sell mass produced products
Questions on taxes implications if you sell on Daylight
Q: How much money can you make while on Social Security?
A: Social Security provides rules so you can know how much you can earn from a job while also collecting benefits. Here are the limits and rules based on your age:
If you're younger than your full retirement age for the entire year in which you worked:
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You can earn a maximum of $24,480 before your benefit is reduced in 2026.
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Your earnings for the entire year are counted.
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Your benefit will be reduced by $1 for every $2 you earn beyond that limit.
If you're turning your full retirement age in the year in which you worked:
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You can earn a maximum of $65,160 before your benefit is reduced in 2026.
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Only your earnings up to the month you reach full retirement age are counted.
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Your benefit will be reduced by $1 for every $3 you earn beyond that limit up to the month you reach full retirement age.
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Anything earned after you reach your full retirement age does not reduce the amount of your Social Security benefit.
Questions on what can be sold on Daylight
Q: What can be sold on Daylight?
Q: What are the Creativity Requirements on Daylight?
Questions on payments
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