A better way for P&Cs to manage school uniforms.
One place for your school's second-hand uniforms, run by your committee, that parents can find without joining a Facebook group.
You keep everything except the card fee.
Rethread takes nothing from your sales. Parents pay by card through Stripe and the money goes into the P&C's own bank account, not ours. We never hold your funds.
$0
To set up
$0
Per listing
0%
Taken on a sale
Right now the uniform shop is a Facebook group, a spreadsheet and someone's Saturday
The Facebook group
Posts vanish down the feed within a day. Half the school is not in it. Someone has to approve every join request, and "is this still available?" arrives in three different inboxes.
The spreadsheet
One person keeps it, on one laptop. It is right until the day two people sell the same size 8 polo, and nobody can tell you what is actually left in the cupboard.
The cash tin
Cash and bank transfers, reconciled by hand, chased up later. A treasurer signs off on numbers that were never written down at the time.
The Saturday morning
Two volunteers open the shed for two hours a term. Every parent who cannot make that window either misses out or buys new.
None of that is anyone's fault. It is what happens when a uniform shop is run with tools that were never built for one. Rethread is built for one.
It goes to your account, not ours
The P&C's own Stripe account
You connect a bank account in your P&C's name during setup. Every sale pays into it. Rethread never holds your money and cannot withdraw from it.
Free to list and free to sell
No setup fee, no monthly fee, no per-listing fee, and we take nothing out of a sale. The only deduction is Stripe's card processing fee, which any card payment anywhere would cost you.
Numbers a treasurer can report
Every order, refund and payout is recorded against your shop. You can hand the committee a figure without rebuilding it from memory at the end of term.
A $25 jumper sells
We take nothing from a sale because we would rather more schools ran a uniform shop than fewer.
What parents get instead
One page for your school
Your shop has its own address. Put it in the newsletter once. No group to join, no request to approve, no explaining where to look. A parent who lands on it is already in the right place for their school.
Second-hand comes first
Pre-loved stock is the default, not a tab someone has to go looking for. Families see what the school community already has before they see anything new, which is the point of the whole thing.
The official uniform list
Publish what the school actually requires, by year level and by season. A new parent can read the list and buy against it in the same place, instead of guessing which grey shorts are the right grey shorts.
Sell new stock too, if you want to
Plenty of P&Cs hold a small run of new hats, ties or house shirts. You can list those alongside the second-hand items and run one shop instead of two. If you only ever want to do second-hand, nothing about the platform pushes you towards new.
Less for volunteers to carry
Parents pay at checkout, so there is no chasing. Stock comes down when it sells, so there is no double-selling. Orders sit in one list with what was bought and who it is for. The jobs that used to be someone's evening are now a few taps on a phone.
The shop survives the committee
A P&C turns over every year or two. When the uniform shop lives in a Facebook group, it belongs to whoever made the group - and when that person's youngest finishes Year 6, the login, the history and the trust walk out the gate with them. The next committee starts from nothing.
Roles, not logins
Each volunteer has their own account with their own access - listings only, orders only, or the lot. Nobody shares a password.
A record of what happened
Sales, refunds and changes are logged against the shop. An incoming treasurer can see the year they just inherited.
Handover in a minute
Invite the new committee, remove the old one. The shop, the stock and the school's page stay exactly where they were.
Your first ten items in an afternoon
The usual reason a P&C says no is that it sounds like a project. It is not one.
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1
Sign the shop up
Your school's details, your P&C's details, and the bank account the money should go to. Around ten minutes, and you only do it once.
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2
Photograph what is in the cupboard
A phone camera on a table by a window is fine. Ten items is a real shop - you do not need the whole cupboard listed before you open.
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3
Or import the spreadsheet you already have
If your stock is already in a spreadsheet, upload it with the photos as a single file. Match your column headings to ours once and the whole cupboard lists at once.
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4
Send the link
One line in the newsletter. That is the whole rollout.
You will be talking to the person who built it
Rethread is small and Australian, and it was started by a parent who could not afford uniforms one year. There is no ticket queue between you and the people who can change something. If your P&C needs the platform to do something it does not do yet, say so - the schools that come on board early are the ones shaping what gets built next.
Get in touchNot a P&C? If you are at the school itself, the school-side case is over here.
Rethread for schoolsTell us about your school
Send us your school's name and what your uniform shop looks like now. We will tell you what setting it up would actually involve, and if it is not a fit we will say so.
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