When looking for beads and jewelry supplies it is easy to go onto the internet to find online crafting stores and find several amazing prices on beads too. This is important if buying bead supplies on a wholesale basis as the more you buy wholesale the lower your costs and the lower you can charge or the more profit you can extract from each piece.

No site will be perfect on each and every criteria but there are various sites on the internet that are very good in a lot of these categories that you will be looking for. Here are some tips for finding the best wholesale beads and jewelry supplies that are available.

1.Secure Payment Page
You should make sure you only buy from a store that has a secure checkout, which means that encrypted servers are used. The best way to show that a checkout is secure is that at either the right or the left of the URL there will be a little padlock shown. The way to think of this security is a mail system, if you pass your details to them you need to somehow show your password to get the money, what secured checkouts do is send you a box so to speak that you lock and then which cannot be opened by anyone but the intended receiver. You cannot open it, anyone sniffing for it cannot open it, the only person who has access is the person who sent you it in the first place.



2.Great Value
Of course you hope to get the lowest prices you can for the items you purchase but you should also make sure you buy quality too, you should make sure you secure the best possible price with the best possible quality because otherwise you will only lessen your own selling price at the end of the day. You wouldn't be happy with chipped and scuffed beads on a bit of frayed string that you paid dearly for would you if that was the finished product sent to you? Buying quality shows everytime and is the fastest route to repeat buyers and recommendations.


3.Low or free shipping costs
You should make sure that the wholesale beads and jewelry supplies store doesn't simply use low prices to entice you in and then charge exorbitant fees for postage or upsell with inflated mail insurance, many sites have very low shipping prices and in some cases they will even make no charge for it. They after all want your repeated business and this is a great way to secure that.


4. Large Selection of Products
When shopping online it is best to have wholesale beads stores that have very large selections of goods which will mean you can simply stay in one place and find everything you need, this will save you time and in some cases you will be eligible for discounts and free shipping.


5.Good Customer Care
Even though it is rare sometimes mistakes do happen and a supplier will ship you the wrong items or the wrong quantities or something that is damaged. When this occurs you hope to have a supplier that will quickly resolve the situation in any way you desire, either through phone, mail or email. Having a good supplier can be the difference between getting replacements in a day or waiting 6 to 10 weeks, there really is no comparison.


6.Shopping Cart that Stores your Information
If you go to the same wholesale beads and jewelry supplies stores on a regular basis you will not want to have to keep entering your details every time you make a purchase, a store that has an advanced shopping cart that stores the information for you will make it much easier and quicker to check out once you have all the items you need, especially if you keep getting the same items every month.

7. No Minimum Order Required
Make sure the store does not charge a fee for buying less than a proscribed amount, there is nothing worse than buying online and finding out that you have to spend a lot of money to avoid having to pay $20 or whatever currency you use, this practice is the biggest cause of incurring losses in any business and it will not endear the company to you. If you only require a few items you should not have to spend a minimum amount every time.


8. A Strong Privacy Policy
Everybody hates spam, a lot of companies will often market their customers information to marketing email lists and you can end up receiving large amounts of unsolicited spam. Make sure that the company you deal with has a policy of keeping your information to themselves and will not provide it to other companies without your consent.