Online radiator store

Homeowners doing renovations, landlords, and small heating engineers who prefer to order online.

The difference between your selling price and the wholesale price, plus delivery charges where sensible.

• Setting up and running an online shop
• Product knowledge on sizes and heat output
• Customer service and handling returns
• Basic online marketing

• Consumer rights for online sales, including returns and cancellation: check the current rules
• Damage in transit, as radiators are heavy and easily dented, so agree who is responsible with your supplier
• Product liability and public liability insurance
• Thin margins against large online sellers, so work out your costs carefully

Startup costs are typically around £500 to £4,000, depending on your website, any small home stock and your marketing. These figures are estimates, so work out your own costs and margins carefully.

Monthly revenue is typically around £500 to £4,000, depending on traffic, pricing and how well you compete with larger online sellers. Margins can be thin, so treat this as an estimate of revenue only.

Check the current consumer rights rules for online sales, including returns and cancellation. Also check who is responsible for transit damage with your supplier, and product liability and public liability insurance.