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Sell a single, an album or the stems as products of their own, deliver them the moment payment clears, and say plainly what a buyer is allowed to do with the file.
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Publish a track, an album or a bundle of stems in Crate as products, each with its own price and its own delivery. When somebody pays, the files arrive through a private link tied to that purchase, carrying a download count and an expiry you set. State the licence on the product itself, because with audio what the buyer may do with the file is part of what they are paying for, and a vague answer costs you either the sale or the argument afterwards. Selling direct means the listener is your customer rather than a platform's, so the next release reaches people who have already bought. An album and its individual tracks can sit in one catalogue at different prices.
Four steps, in order. Each one is a screen you can open on the first day, not a project.
They are different products at different prices with genuinely different buyers. Selling only the album loses the listener who wanted one track, and selling only tracks loses the one who would have paid for everything.
Say what the buyer may do with the file: listen to it, use it in their own work, use it commercially. With audio this is part of the price, and leaving it vague costs you either the sale now or the argument later.
The buyer 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 at a desk.
Every purchase attaches to a customer record, so the next release goes to people who have already paid you once rather than into a feed hoping to be noticed.
Every kind of product has a detail that decides whether the software fits. These are the ones that decide it here.
Two people buying the same file are buying different things: one wants to listen to it and one wants to put it behind a video. Stating the terms on the product lets you price those two differently and stops the question arriving as a message a week after the sale.
An album, its singles and its stems are one body of work sold at several prices. Holding them as separate products in one catalogue lets a listener buy at the level that suits them, and lets you see which level they actually chose rather than guessing.
Delivery through a private link with a download count and an expiry is what makes a large file both easy for the person who paid and closed to everybody they know. An unlimited link is a release rather than a sale, and once it is out you cannot take it back.
Music is discovered in feeds and finished in a direct message. Put a real product behind the post so a listener who wants the file pays and downloads in one step, rather than asking you where to send the money and waiting for a reply.
In your market that usually means Your store, Instagram and In person.
Every channel above runs off the one catalog you set up once.
Listeners pay by card, Apple Pay, Google Pay or bank transfer and the files follow automatically. Automatic payouts to your bank. Pricing in US dollars keeps the figure legible to the people who actually follow you, which matters a great deal on a purchase this size.
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 file attached to the product, with a download count and an expiry you set. Replace a master and the people who already bought can take the new version, so a corrected mix reaches them without you tracking anybody down.
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. Each is its own product with its own price, and they sit in one catalogue so a listener buys at whatever level suits them.
Through a private link created for that purchase once the payment clears, carrying the download count and the expiry you set.
Yes. They are products like any other, and they are usually where the licence terms matter most, so state those terms on the product.
On the product itself, so the buyer reads it before paying rather than asking about it afterwards when the file is already on their machine.
Replace the file and existing buyers can take the new version, so a corrected master reaches them without you finding each of them yourself.
Sales by product over a period show which track, album or pack is carrying the catalogue, which is a better guide to what to record next than the number of plays anywhere else.
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. Publish one release with its licence stated and keep the people who pay for it.
