All Over The Shop is a fashion concept store and creative space tucked inside Liverpool’s Metquarter. Founded by artist and rework designer Bethan Flanagan, it brings together vendors, makers and brands from across the UK under one very colourful roof. 

Before it was a fully fledged store, All Over The Shop started as pop-up: a place where indie makers, local artists, upcyclers and designers could share rails, swap skills, and turn one-off pieces into everyday wardrobes. 

A vendor village in Liverpool’s Metquarter

Walk into All Over The Shop and it doesn’t feel like one brand. It feels like a mini marketplace. Rails of reworked denim sit next to crochet bags, jewellery, upcycled vintage, kidswear and more, each tagged with the name of the small business behind it.

Bethan’s own label, Buy by Bethan, anchors the space. She’s known locally as “the Scouser who transforms ordinary clothes into works of art,” reworking garments and accessories into one-off pieces. Her brand’s ethos is: customise, rework, make it unique.

But All Over The Shop goes beyond rails and shelves. It’s also a workshop hub: disco ball painting, hoodie upcycling, wreath making, silversmithing, cake-and-sip decorating, kids’ bracelet sessions. If it involves creativity and a glue gun, it’s probably been on the calendar. 

Behind that playful surface is a vendor-first model. Independent makers and artists rent space in the shop, pay commission on sales, and keep responsibility for pricing and restocking their own products. The official vendor terms: each vendor uploads and barcodes their stock through the shop’s inventory system, while the shop team handles point-of-sale and payouts. 

In other words: All Over The Shop is a vendor village, carefully curated by an artist who knows what it feels like to be on the other side of the rail.

(Source: All Over The Shop Instagram)

Before: When vendor management lives in Excel & notebooks

Like most good indie retail stories, the early days of All Over The Shop were held together with willpower, Google Sheets, Excel tabs and handwritten notes. Tracking inventory intake, sales, vendors and payouts.

It worked until it didn’t.

As word spread and more makers came on board, the vendor list exploded. How was she going to manage her new store and various vendors?

Bethan didn’t just need a better spreadsheet. She needed something built for vendors, not for generic retail.

(Source: Buy by Bethan Instagram)

After: Building a vendor-first marketplace with Circle-Hand

In 2024, Bethan shifted all store operations to Circle-Hand as the backbone of the inventory & vendor management. Shopify (online store + POS) with SumUp handles checkout. Circle-Hand then connects every sale back to the right vendor, item, and payout.

Vendors are part of the process: they create an account via the client portal, upload and label their own stock, restock items and follow the shop’s system. The shop then commits to selling using those barcodes and paying out accurately.

Circle-Hand is now the single source of truth:

• A unified database for all vendors and thousands of unique SKUs

• Automated commission calculations, payouts and rent deductions

• Vendor login with real-time sales, deliveries, payouts, and inventory status

The result? Bethan gets to stay in her zone: curating brands, designing reworks, dreaming up new workshops – instead of spending evenings reconciling notebook scribbles with card machine reports.

If tracking inventory and payouts still steal your evenings, it may be time to turn the page and build your “after.”