From designer umbrella stands to mobile phone cases and suspenders – people can buy more than 1,200 handicraft products from all regions of Germany at entia.de. In its virtual display, the online department store presents an assortment of products that were manufactured in over 80 workshops for disabled people. The Internet platform offers rural businesses, in particular, the opportunity to enter new, supra-regional sales markets and to secure jobs. The makers of the platform store the goods and sell and ship the products for the workshops, and also do the marketing.