Flood Support Plan
Apply for the spend with us flood support plan
Our flood support plan is aimed at supporting small businesses currently affected or recovering from the NSW & QLD floods. Helping them to stay afloat, offering both business and mental health support and resources to support these communities during their long road of recovery. In the days and weeks to come, we hope that we can assist as many small businesses as possible that have had their homes and businesses affected.
We care deeply about the welfare of fellow Australian’s. Through natural disasters and pandemics, we want this to be the place that can keep your business going. The place where you will always have a steady stream of visitors to your store to buy your product. To keep you afloat, to make you more profitable and to make you do a happy dance! Our mission is to change the way Australian’s support families and communities, who have suffered adversity and, in turn, positively impact those people’s well-being and livelihoods.
Get your store and products in front of thousands of online shoppers! We take the hassle out of selling online so that you can spend more time focusing on recovery and running your business. Open your shop in minutes!
How We can Help
Sell online for free
Sell your products or services on Australia's largest marketplace for rural and regional small businesses. The Flood Support Plan membership is for 12 months from the date of approval.
Donations & support
Use Virtual Pay It Forward products to help you and your business get back on your feet. We have a huge audience of Australian's who are ready and waiting to support you! Let us focus on doing your PR, media ads and SEO while you focus on your business and recovery.
Business Support
Our Seller Support team and Seller Facebook Group community is available to provide you with expert business, e-commerce, design, sales and marketing advice and more.
what is pay it forward?
Our sellers can create products that will either directly help them through tough times or products that will help their community. Products could be things such as contributing to the businesses wages, bills or recovery & reconstruction in the form of "virtual" vouchers. They could also be coffees, meals, services, or everyday essentials that our customers can buy as virtual vouchers from you, and you either use yourself or pass on to another business or local community member impacted by the floods. All Pay It Forward products act like donations directly to the business posting them.
We were able to provide help to hundreds of bushfire impacted small businesses in 2020. If you feel we could help your business, please sign up for our Flood Support Plan or email us at [email protected] with any questions.
Flood Support Plan
Our Spend With Us Flood Support Plan is FREE for rural and regional small businesses currently recovering from the impact of the recent New South Wales and Queensland Floods. The Flood Support Plan membership is for 12 months from the date of approval only. Become part of Australia’s top rural and regional small business marketplace and setup your free e-commerce store and accept online payments or donations with ZERO subscription, transaction* or listing fees.
The standard payment processing charges of 2.6% + $0.30 per order by PayPal / Credit Card or 5% + $0.30 per order by our Buy Now Pay Later provider still apply and will be deducted depending on payment method chosen by customer at checkout.
* PLEASE NOTE: Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business Marketplace charges NO transaction fees on our Flood Support plan (excluding Alcoholic Beverage products which incur a 10% transaction fee regardless of membership plan).
Access all the features of our website for FREE!
Spend With Us provides a platform for flood affected small businesses to create their own free website store so that Australians across the country can find their products & support them. If your business has been impacted by the flooding, apply for our Flood Support Plan today and let us help your business grow online during these tough times.
Spend With Us - Buy From A Bush Business marketplace is a platform for small businesses that:
- have 20 employees or less AND
- are located in a rural or regional area of Australia AND/OR
- have been significantly affected by bushfire, floods, drought or coronavirus (Covid-19).
( To be eligible to register on Spend With Us, we define rural and regional to be: your business address is NOT located within 50 kilometres from the outskirts of a major metropolitan city (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart or Darwin), or within 20 km of a town with a population greater than 100'000 )
Exceptions to this are any sellers from drought affected regions as classified by the Queensland government in the latest drought situation map and shire listing available to view here: https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/drought/drought-declarations/
These currently include but are not limited to the following drought affected towns and regions:
- Toowoomba
- Townsville
- Rockhampton
- Ipswich
- Gladstone
- Sunshine Coast
- Noosa
If your business does not meet the above criteria, but has been significantly affected by floods, please apply to join our Flood Support Plan and we will review your application.
We bring your business and products sales and traffic! Our loyal fanbase of customers on and off of social media are looking for unique, personal and different products for sale from rural and regional businesses. Your products are seen by around 1 million people on Facebook through our page and group every month, with our following growing at a rapid rate.
We also offer a range of marketing opportunities for our sellers: PR (both product placements and case studies), email newsletters, social media campaigns, online advertising campaigns, blog articles, competitions, promotions and more!
Our Seller Support team and Seller Facebook Group community is available to provide you with expert business, e-commerce, design, sales and marketing advice and more. We'll give you resources, guidance and direction to help you set up your Spend With Us store to achieve the best possible result.
We focus our advertising on getting customers to your products so you don't have to! We run Facebook, Instagram and Google Adverts. All products on Spend With Us that meet Facebook and Google’s specifications are included in this service for free.
Spend with Us isn’t just a platform, it’s a community. With a dedicated Facebook Group just for our Sellers. Community is at the heart of what we do. Inside the Facebook Group you will find other like minded rural & regional business owners, us (the founders) in there to answer any of your questions, weekly marketing tips to help you become more profitable and market your store and so much more.
Flood Support Plan
Free for businesses currently affected or recovering from the Floods. This membership is for 12 months from the date of approval only. 0% transaction or listing fees.-
Add your products to the Flood Affected Business category
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Easy e-commerce store wizard setup
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Unlimited concurrent product listings
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List in multiple categories
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New!! Sell Alcoholic Beverages *
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Coupon Codes
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Fast, secure and easy payments
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Customers can pay at checkout using PayPal, Credit Card or Buy Now Pay Later
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Full store management
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Import products via csv from Shopify, Wix, Woocommerce and more
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Manage inventory easily - connect to Shopify (Woo & Etsy coming soon)
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Set your own shipping costs
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Redirect your own domain name
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Access to private Facebook Sellers Community
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Exclusive partner discounts and offers
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Feature on our store directory & map
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FREE Marketing and PR
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Detailed shop analytics and reports
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Friendly & responsive Australian support team
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Sell as many products as you want with no transaction fees or commission
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Featured products
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Featured business on website front page, front page hero header and/or featured in our newsletter, blog article and/or podcast interview *
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Premium advertising privileges on the Spend with Us – Buy From a Bush Business Facebook group with over 365,000+ users and growing by 200+ per day
* It’s our promise that you will receive these features AT LEAST ONCE during a 12 month membership – terms and conditions apply.
Front page featured businesses and products are shown randomly to each individual website user to maximise rotation and viewing of your products and stores.
* Premium BFABB Facebook advertising privileges: Exception for Liquor Based Businesses that are restricted from advertising liquor in Facebook groups as per Facebook Community Standards. If you do sell liquor, please get in touch with admin so we can work out how we can best help you to promote your products.
PLEASE NOTE: Spend With Us – Buy From a Bush Business Marketplace charges NO transaction fees on our Flood Support plan or Bushfire Support plan only (excluding Alcoholic Beverage products which incur a 10% transaction fee regardless of membership plan).
Essential Plan members will have a 10% transaction fee on orders once a seller has made over $100 in sales.
Membership subscriptions are non-refundable. Renewal email notifications are sent out 10 days and 2 days prior to renewal. Please ensure you have [email protected] set as a safe contact so emails don’t go to junk mail.
Payment Processing Fees
On ALL Membership plans, we do pass on to sellers the payment processing fees charged per order by PayPal and our Credit Card and BNPL provider which will depend on the payment method chosen by the customer at checkout. For more information on our Payment Processing Fees please click here: View Fees
How it works
Spend With Us - Buy From A Bush Business marketplace is a platform for small businesses that:
- have 20 employees or less AND
- are located in a rural or regional area of Australia AND/OR
- have been significantly affected by bushfire, drought or coronavirus (Covid-19).
( To be eligible to register on Spend With Us, we define rural and regional to be: your business address is NOT located within 50 kilometres of the outskirts of a major metropolitan city (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart or Darwin), or within 20 km of a town with a population greater than 100'000 )
Exceptions to this are any sellers from drought affected regions as classified by the Queensland government in the latest drought situation map and shire listing available to view here: https://www.longpaddock.qld.gov.au/drought/drought-declarations/
These currently include but are not limited to the following drought affected towns and regions:
- Toowoomba
- Townsville
- Rockhampton
- Ipswich
- Gladstone
- Sunshine Coast
- Noosa
If your business does not meet the above criteria, but has been significantly affected by floods, please apply to join our Flood Support Plan and we will review your application.
Spend With Us allows any eligible small business in rural or regional Australia to list on their marketplace and directory.
We allow home businesses, retail shops, service based businesses, accommodation or activities/event businesses and more.
Spend With Us - Buy From a Bush Business now have a liquor licence and can allow liquor based businesses to sell Alcoholic Beverages as long as they meet our terms and conditions.
Items that are restricted or prohibited for sale on Spend With Us, Buy From a Bush Business can be found here: https://www.spendwithus.com.au/restricted-or-prohibited-sale-items/
We bring your business and products sales and traffic! Our loyal fanbase of customers on and off of social media are looking for unique, personal and different products for sale from rural and regional businesses. Your products are seen by around 1 million people on Facebook through our page and group every month, with our following growing at a rapid rate.
We also offer a range of marketing opportunities for our sellers: PR (both product placements and case studies), email newsletters, social media campaigns, online advertising campaigns, blog articles, competitions, promotions and more!
Our Seller Support team and Seller Facebook Group community is available to provide you with expert business, e-commerce, design, sales and marketing advice and more. We'll give you resources, guidance and direction to help you set up your Spend With Us store to achieve the best possible result.
We focus our advertising on getting customers to your products so you don't have to! We run Facebook, Instagram and Google Adverts. All products on Spend With Us that meet Facebook and Google’s specifications are included in this service for free.
Spend with Us isn’t just a platform, it’s a community. With a dedicated Facebook Group just for our Sellers. Community is at the heart of what we do. Inside the Facebook Group you will find other like minded rural & regional business owners, us (the founders) in there to answer any of your questions, weekly marketing tips to help you become more profitable and market your store and so much more.