How Backstage helps Whatnot sellers capture sales, list in bulk, print labels, track consignment, and run raid trains.
Backstage Live is a suite of tools for Whatnot live sellers. It captures every buyer, tip, and raid the second it happens during a live show, helps you prep listings in bulk, prints shipping labels, tracks consignment splits, and runs raid trains — so the moment your show ends, you're almost done shipping. It runs as Chrome extensions, a native iPad/iPhone app, and a macOS desktop app.
Backstage Lite is a Chrome extension that watches your Whatnot tab and captures every sale, tip, and raid automatically as it happens — no copy-pasting from the video. When your show ends you get a live buyer-card feed and a one-tap manifest PDF of who won what.
Backstage prints shipping labels straight from your sales as they come in. On iPad or iPhone, the Backstage iOS app auto-prints labels to a Bluetooth thermal printer. On a laptop, add the Backstage Live printing add-on to Lite (macOS) and every sale silently auto-prints a bin label to your thermal printer. For a full packing-table setup, Backstage Studio (macOS) auto-prints labels and generates a barcode for every item.
No. Backstage Lite captures your whole show and produces a printable manifest without any printer or hardware — it runs entirely in your Chrome browser. A label printer is only needed if you want Backstage to auto-print labels, which you can add to Lite with the Backstage Live printing add-on (macOS), and which also comes built into the iOS app and the macOS Studio app.
Yes. Backstage Prep is a Chrome extension where you draft a whole batch of listings — photos, fields, and categories — in one sidepanel, then export a single CSV that slots straight into Whatnot's bulk importer. You can drag a folder of photos in from Finder and bulk-edit fields across many items at once.
Yes. Backstage for iOS is a native iPad and iPhone app that combines pre-show listing prep, live sale capture, consignment splits, and auto-printing of shipping labels to a Bluetooth printer — so you can run your entire Whatnot show from the iPad.
Backstage tracks consignment splits per consignor as sales land during your show, then produces a per-consignor manifest and payout breakdown. Sellers who take consignment items can see exactly what sold for each consignor without reconciling it by hand after the show.
A raid train is a scheduled lineup where live sellers raid (send their viewers to) the next seller in order, passing the audience down the line. Backstage Raid Trains is a free tool to organize and ride them: open sign-ups, an auto-updating lineup, a personal card for every rider, and a day-of running order with live countdowns.
Backstage Raid Trains is free to use with a Backstage account. The seller tools — Lite, Prep, and the iOS app — are currently in invite-only private beta, and you can request early access from each product's page on backstagelive.app. Studio (the desktop tier) is coming soon — you can get notified at launch from its page.
Backstage is built for people who sell live on Whatnot — from solo flippers and resellers running shows off a laptop or iPad, to sellers with a full packing table, label printer, and barcode scanner. It was built by a live seller to remove the slowest parts of the job: bulk listing before a show and matching buyers to inventory after it.
