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KDP setup is the tax interview, the bank account, and the name that will sit on the book. The legal name and the pen name are different fields. We fill them on a call with you. We do not create the account in our company and add your book to it.
The interview
If you are a U.S. person, the interview is a W-9. If you are not, it is the W-8BEN path, and the questions are different. We do not guess your tax status. You answer, we make sure the answers land in the right fields, and we stop when a question needs your accountant. The bank account should be one you control. A payment sent to a closed account does not become a royalty you can recover with a friendly email.
The author name on the book can be a pen name. The name on the tax form cannot. Author Central, where the bio and the author page live, is a separate login. People finish KDP and wonder why the bio is missing. We will say so before you think the book page is the author page.
Order of the work
Access
The clean way is a screen share, or a user you can remove. A password in an email is how accounts get lost.
What you need on the call
We do not need your manuscript to open the account. We do need you, because the tax answers are yours.
Decisions
The ordinary path. Legal name on tax, your name or a pen name on the cover.
Only if the company exists and should be the publisher that gets paid. We do not invent an LLC on the form.
Display only. It does not replace the tax name, and it should be consistent on every format.
House rule
A wrong status is your problem with the payment, and we will not create it for speed.
Before the call
No. The royalty goes to the account on the form. Our fee is separate. A split of your sales is a different business, and it is not this one.
We will try the recovery flow with you. We will not open a second account to go around a locked one. Two accounts for one person is how KDP closes both.
We will tell you it is separate and help you open it if you want the bio on the author page. It is not the same password.
When you are ready to be paid
Do not email the tax numbers ahead of time. Call (833) 688-4166 or write [email protected].
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