Price, weight, and who packs it. If that is you, the store needs your ship-from address. A signed copy is a separate item, or you will sell signatures you cannot fulfill.
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A direct store is a cart. The price is yours. The payment lands in an account you can open. A paperback has a weight and a place it ships from. A signed copy is a different product from an unsigned one. An ebook is a file small enough to download, not the print PDF. If the button still sends everyone to Amazon, you do not have a store. You have a landing page, and that is a simpler job.
The money
We connect a processor you control. You can refund a copy. You can see a sale on the day it happens. A store that pays us, so we can pay you later, is not a store we will build. The book is yours. The sale is yours.
Tax on a physical book depends on where it ships, and the rules are not a slogan. We set the shop to collect what the processor can collect, and we tell you what it will not do. Guessing a flat rate for every state is how a small shop gets a letter.
The product
Price, weight, and who packs it. If that is you, the store needs your ship-from address. A signed copy is a separate item, or you will sell signatures you cannot fulfill.
A file sized to download, delivered after payment, to the buyer. Not a link that expires in public. Not the full-resolution print interior.
A real cost, or free shipping with the cost inside the price. "Calculated later" at the end of checkout is where people abandon a cart they were ready to pay.
Cards, in your account. A test purchase, refunded, before you announce the shop. We do not launch on a payment button nobody has pressed.
Before the shop opens
What people think they want
You pack them. The store limits the number, takes the address, and does not promise a date you cannot hit. A note in the book is part of the product, so the order should ask what name to write.
Useful for a workbook, a novella, or a bonus chapter. Delivery is email or a private link. A public PDF will be forwarded by lunch.
Amazon, Bookshop, the publisher. Those are buttons, not a store. If that is all you need, the landing page is the right job, and it costs less than a cart you will not pack.
What we will not pretend
We would rather send you back to a landing page than launch a cart that cannot ship, tax, or pay you.
Before you announce it
Usually yes. A direct shop is for the reader who wants to buy from you, and for the signed copy they cannot get elsewhere. Most strangers will still buy where they already have an account. The landing page can offer both.
You do. Card fees are part of the price you set. We will show them before you pick a number, so a eighteen-dollar paperback is not a surprise twelve dollars after fees and a mailer.
The processor can collect sales tax in many places, and not perfectly in all of them. We turn on what it supports and write down what it does not. We are not your accountant. If you are selling a lot of paper, ask one.
We can leave it so you can mark an item sold out and read an order. Ongoing packing is your kitchen table or a fulfillment house. Maintaining the site is a different agreement from fulfilling books.
Tell us what you can ship
If you only want readers sent to Amazon, say so. We will build the button and skip the store. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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