One unified platform for your school community.
Most schools have two uniform shops: the official one, and the P&C's second-hand Facebook group. Families have to know about both. On Rethread they are one page, at one address, with your uniform list on it.
One link in the newsletter
rethread.com.au/schools/your-school/shop
Put it in once. You will not have to explain it again.
A marketplace that sells off-list items is a problem, not a service
Your uniform list is policy. It is what the school has decided students wear, and it is the thing the office defends when a parent turns up with the wrong grey shorts. Any second-hand arrangement that quietly sells last decade's jumper alongside this year's is undermining that policy, however well meant it is.
So the uniform list is not a feature bolted on to the side of Rethread. It sits underneath the shop. Your school publishes the list - by year level, by season, with what is required and what is optional - and it is the reference every listing is set against. An item that is no longer part of the uniform can be retired from the list, and the shop reflects that without anyone having to police individual posts.
A parent reading the list and a parent buying a jumper are on the same page, literally. That is the difference between a second-hand shop that supports the uniform policy and one that erodes it.
The office is not the operator
The P&C runs the shop. They list the items, they answer the questions, they hold the money, and they are the ones with accounts on the platform. The school's part is to endorse it and to publish the uniform list, and that is deliberately where the school's part stops.
Nobody at the school is asked to learn a new system, administer accounts, or take on another inbox. If it would put work on the office, we have built it wrong.
What it changes for the school
Fewer emails to the office
A parent who cannot find the right jumper emails the front desk. Every point of friction in a uniform shop becomes the school's support load. Rethread is built for a parent on a phone, with search by size and year level and the uniform list on the same page, so the question is answered before it is asked.
It carries your name, so you keep the say
Only people your P&C has invited can list under your school's shop, each with their own account and their own level of access. Listings follow a set format rather than free text, and the school's endorsement can be withdrawn. It is not an open group where anyone can post under your crest.
Privacy and safeguarding
No parent's phone number, email address or home address is shown to another parent. There is no open group, no comment thread, and no member list to scroll. Payment and delivery details go to the shop, not to the community. Schools that need this in writing can ask us for it.
It costs the school nothing
There is no licence, no per-student charge, no setup fee and no annual renewal. There is nothing for the business manager to raise a purchase order against, because there is no invoice.
It is free to list and free to sell. The shop's takings go into the P&C's own bank account through Stripe, less only the card processing fee. Rethread does not hold the money and does not take a cut of it.
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$0 to the school, ever
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$0 to the P&C to list or sell
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No contract term and no exit fee
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Takings paid into the P&C's own account
Something to put in the annual report
Every item resold through your shop is an item that did not go to landfill and a uniform a family did not have to buy new. Those are counted for your school, so you have a figure for the annual report, the newsletter and the sustainability committee rather than a general claim that second-hand uniforms are a good thing.
See how we measure itNew stock, if and when it suits you
Some schools eventually want their new hats, ties and house shirts sold from the same page, so families have one place for everything. The platform supports that, and nothing about starting with second-hand commits you to it. Schools with an existing supplier arrangement are welcome to leave it exactly as it is.
What setting it up involves
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Your P&C applies
The school's details, the association's details and the bank account takings are paid into. Around ten minutes, done once.
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We verify the association
We check the ABN and the identity of the people who will hold the money, the same way any bank would. A shop does not go live until that is done.
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The school publishes the uniform list
What is required, by year level and by season. This is the school's contribution and the one thing worth getting right at the start.
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The link goes in the newsletter
One address, in the newsletter and on the uniform page of your website. That is the rollout.
Not a school? If you run the P&C uniform shop, start here.
Rethread for P&CsBring your school's uniform shop together
One page, one link, your uniform list on it, and nothing for the school to run or pay for.
Free for the school · Free to list and sell · No lock-in