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Put every format a reader might need behind one purchase, deliver them all the moment payment clears, and keep the list of people who bought instead of handing it to somebody else's shop.
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Publish the book in Crate as one product and attach every format you offer, so a reader who buys once receives the file that works on the device they actually own instead of having to guess before paying. Delivery follows the payment automatically through a private link, with a download count and an expiry you set. Because you are selling direct, the reader is your customer rather than a marketplace's: the purchase and everything you write next attach to the same record. A corrected edition is a file you replace, and the people who already bought can take it. The price, the launch offer and the bundle are all yours to set, which is the part a large store normally decides for you.
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
Add the formats you offer to a single product rather than selling each one separately. A reader is buying the book, not a file extension, and they should not have to work out which one their device wants before they are willing to pay.
The reader is given a private link as soon as the payment clears, carrying the download count and the expiry you chose. Nothing goes out on trust and nothing waits for you to be awake.
Set the price, run a launch offer, bundle two books together for a week. Selling direct means the pricing decisions are yours to make rather than somebody else's to allow.
Every purchase attaches to a customer record. When the next book is finished you already hold the list of people who bought the last one, which over a career is worth considerably more than the margin on any single sale.
Every kind of product has a detail that decides whether the software fits. These are the ones that decide it here.
Readers own different devices and the formats are not interchangeable. Selling the book once and delivering every format you have is both kinder to the reader and simpler for you than three products that are the same book, and it removes the support question that otherwise arrives after every second sale.
Books get corrected. Replacing the file on the product and letting existing readers take the new version keeps one product with one history and one set of buyers, instead of splitting your readers across editions that nobody, including you, can reliably tell apart.
A marketplace sale gives you a payout and keeps the customer. A direct sale gives you both, and the second half is the one that compounds: the next book launches to people who have already paid you once rather than to strangers.
Books are found through the writing around them, which usually lives in a feed or a letter to readers. Put a real product behind that link so somebody who is already interested pays and receives the book in one step, rather than being asked to message you and wait.
In your market that usually means Your store, Instagram and In person.
Every channel above runs off the one catalog you set up once.
Readers pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer and the download follows automatically. Automatic payouts to your bank. Pricing in US dollars means the figure a reader sees is one they can judge instantly, which matters far more on a small purchase than on a large considered one.
Money from card sales lands in your bank account on a rolling two-day schedule. Nothing to claim, nothing to withdraw.
Delivery is a private link per purchase, carrying every format attached to the product, with a download limit and an expiry you set. Replacing a file re-delivers it to the people who already bought, so a corrected edition reaches them without a mailing list exercise.
One subscription covers the store, the catalog, the order queue, the customer records and the counter. There is no separate charge for selling in chat, and no charge per kind of product.
Priced and paid in US dollars. Every plan opens with a free trial and no card.
You have the price and the plan now. Standing the shop up is about fifteen minutes of work.
Named plainly, and each one has a page of its own if you want the detail.
Yes. Attach the formats to one product and the reader receives all of them, so nobody has to know which file their device wants before they pay.
Through a private link created for that purchase once the payment clears, carrying the download count and the expiry you set.
Replace the file and existing readers can take the new version. It stays one product rather than becoming a second edition nobody can distinguish from the first.
Yes. Every purchase sits on a customer record that belongs to you, which is the main practical reason to sell direct as well as through a marketplace.
Yes. You set the price and you can discount or bundle without asking anybody's permission.
Yes. A printed book is a physical product in the same catalogue, and one order can carry both: the file delivers itself and the copy goes into the shipping queue.
Every answer above was written by the people who build crate. If yours is not among them, the Help Center goes deeper, and a person reads what you send.
The same platform underneath, told in the language of the thing you make.
Free for 14 days, no card required. Attach every format to one product and keep the readers who buy it.
