Bookstore Seller Agreement

1. About this Agreement

This Seller Agreement (“Agreement”) is between you and ColorCraft (“ColorCraft”, “we”, “us”). It covers selling printed copies of books you made with ColorCraft in the ColorCraft Bookstore (the “Bookstore”). It adds to our Terms of Service (the “Terms”), which still apply to everything you do on ColorCraft. Where the two differ about selling in the Bookstore, this Agreement applies.

You accept this Agreement by ticking the box that says you agree to it when you submit a book to the Bookstore. We record the version you accepted, and when, with that submission. Each time you submit a book, or changes to a listing, you accept the version in effect at that moment.

In this Agreement, a “listing” is your book’s page in the Bookstore; the “list price” is the price per copy you set; the “ColorCraft fee” (also called the seller fee) is what we keep from each copy sold; and your “royalty” is what you earn from each copy sold.

2. Who can sell

• You need an active paid ColorCraft plan, or a free trial, when you submit a book, or changes to a listing. A plan whose payment has failed, or a trial or plan that has ended, can’t submit.
• A book goes on sale only once you have an active paid plan. If you submit it during a free trial, we review it as usual, but once approved it goes on sale when your plan’s first payment goes through, and changes to a listing wait until then too. If your trial is cancelled or ends before that payment, you aren’t charged, and the book stays off sale until you start a plan.
• You must be at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, as the Terms require.
• You must be an individual in the United States with payouts set up: a Stripe account in your own name, which you create through ColorCraft. We can’t pay businesses, or people outside the United States, yet.
• A book with characters made from photos of real people can’t be sold in the Bookstore. You can still order printed copies of it for yourself.
• The Bookstore sells and ships to buyers in the United States only.

3. How a sale works

• Buyers order printed copies from ColorCraft. We take the payment, our print partner prints each copy to order and ships it, and we handle buyers’ questions, cancellations and refunds.
• The buyer pays your list price for each copy, plus shipping at cost and any sales tax. Shipping and sales tax are added to the buyer’s total; they never come out of your royalty.
• You set the list price, from $5.99 to $49.99 a copy, as long as it earns you a royalty of at least $1 a copy (Section 5). A new price applies to new orders as soon as you save it. Any other change to a listing is reviewed again before buyers see it, and the listing stays as it was until then.
• You can pause a listing, and resume it, at any time. Nobody can buy a paused book.

4. The ColorCraft fee

For each copy sold, ColorCraft keeps a fee of 15% of the list price, and at least $1.50 a copy. This is the ColorCraft fee (or seller fee). It is applied at the time of each sale: the fee in effect when the buyer checks out is the one used for every copy in that order, and it is recorded with the order.

There is no charge to list a book, and no charge for payouts. Your ColorCraft plan is billed separately, under the Terms.

Today every seller pays the same fee, whatever their plan. We may change the fee, or introduce fees that depend on your plan, only as Section 12 describes.

5. Your royalty

Your royalty for each copy is the list price, less:

• Printing: our print partner’s price to print that copy at the time of the sale, before tax;
• Card processing: a fixed estimate of 3% of the list price plus $0.30 a copy, whatever the buyer’s payment actually costs; and
• The ColorCraft fee (Section 4).

We work in cents and round your royalty down to the cent. For example, at a list price of $12.99 with printing at $4.09 a copy, card processing is $0.69, the ColorCraft fee is $1.95, and your royalty is $6.26 a copy.

When you set a price, ColorCraft shows your royalty with an estimated printing price. The printing price at the time of a sale can differ, so the royalty on a sale can be a little higher or lower than that estimate. If printing ever costs so much that a copy would earn you less than nothing, we cover the difference out of our fee; if even our whole fee can’t cover it, the book can’t be bought until you raise its price.

6. Getting paid

• Earning. You earn a royalty when a buyer pays for a copy. It shows as “Waiting to ship” until the order ships.
• Hold. Royalties are held for 30 days after an order first ships. Then they are available to send to you.
• Sending. Every day, once your available royalties, less anything you owe back (Section 7), add up to at least $25, we send them to your Stripe account. Stripe then pays your Stripe balance to your bank account once a month, on the 15th.
• Below the minimum. If your available royalties, less anything you owe back, stay under $25, we send them anyway once a year, in December: from December 1 (UTC), on the first day they can be sent, we send the royalties whose hold ended before December 1, less anything you owe back, whatever the amount. Royalties whose hold ends later, or that can’t be sent by December 31 (for example while your Stripe account needs attention, or while a dispute on the order is open), carry over until your balance reaches $25 or until the next December 1. A payout we start by December 31 may reach your Stripe account in January.
• Your Stripe account. Payouts need your Stripe account to be able to receive them. If Stripe needs more details from you, or restricts your account, your royalties wait in your balance until that is fixed. Your Stripe account is governed by the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which you accept when you set up payouts. Stripe keeps your bank and tax details, and you can change them at any time from “Manage payout details”.

7. Refunds, disputes and chargebacks

• We decide refunds and replacements for buyers, for example for a copy that arrives damaged or misprinted, as the Terms describe.
• Full refund. If we refund an order in full, the royalty on it is cancelled. If it hasn’t been sent to you yet, it comes off your balance. If it has, we reverse that transfer from your Stripe account; if your Stripe balance doesn’t cover the reversal, Stripe may debit the bank account linked to your payouts. Whatever we can’t reverse is owed back and taken from your next royalties. This can happen after the hold has ended.
• Partial refund. A partial refund, such as of the shipping charge or of one copy in an order, doesn’t change your royalty: we cover it.
• Disputes and chargebacks. If a buyer disputes a payment with their bank, a royalty on that order that hasn’t been sent to you yet is held while the dispute is open. If we win, it carries on as normal; if we lose, it is treated as a full refund. We handle the dispute, and we don’t charge you dispute fees.

8. Taxes and Form 1099

• When you set up payouts, Stripe collects the identity and tax details it needs, such as your legal name, address, date of birth and Social Security number (or its last four digits), and may ask for more to verify who you are.
• We report your royalties to the IRS on Form 1099-MISC where the law requires it, using the details Stripe collected, and you get a copy.
• You are responsible for the income tax on your royalties. We don’t withhold tax from them unless the law requires us to.
• Sales tax on Bookstore sales, and the printer’s tax on printing your copies, are ours to handle, not yours.

9. If your plan ends

• Your live listings stay on sale. Each copy sold is charged the ColorCraft fee in effect at the time of that sale, as for every seller.
• Royalties you have earned, before or after your plan ended, are paid as Section 6 describes.
• Without a paid plan you can still pause, resume and change the price of a listing, but you can’t submit a new book, or changes to a listing, until you have a paid plan again.
• We don’t take a listing down because your plan ended. We take listings down only for the reasons in Section 11.

10. Your book and your rights

When you submit a book, you confirm that:

• I made this book with ColorCraft, and I have reviewed and edited every page myself.
• It does not use characters, logos or artwork that belong to someone else (for example cartoon or movie characters, brands, or celebrities).
• It does not show real people from photos.
• I give ColorCraft permission to print, sell and show previews of this book in the Bookstore, and to let its print partner print it.

These statements must stay true for as long as your book is on sale. You are responsible for your book, its listing and your author profile, as the Terms describe for your content, including their indemnification for books you sell.

• You keep your rights. Listing a book doesn’t transfer your rights in it (Terms on ownership). It gives ColorCraft a non-exclusive license, while the book is listed, to print copies through our print partner, sell them, and show the listing (its title, description, your author name and profile, the cover, watermarked preview pages and the mockups you chose) in the Bookstore, on your author page, and when we link to or feature books from the Bookstore. The license ends when the listing comes down, except for orders already placed and the records we must keep.
• Review. We review every book before it goes on sale, and every change to a listing other than its price before buyers see it. We may send a submission back, with the reason. Our review doesn’t check every right in your book, and doesn’t make us responsible for its content.
• Complaints. We handle copyright complaints as the Terms describe, and may take a listing down while we look into one.

11. Taking listings down and ending this Agreement

• You can pause a listing at any time. To take a book out of the Bookstore for good, or stop selling altogether, contact us.
• We take a live listing down only if: it, or your use of the Bookstore, breaks this Agreement or the Terms; a statement in Section 10 isn’t true; we receive a rights complaint, while we look into it, or for good if we reasonably believe it is valid; we reasonably suspect fraud or abuse, such as fake orders; your ColorCraft account is closed under the Terms; or the law requires it. We tell you why, on the book’s page in ColorCraft.
• A book can also be unavailable to buy for a while without being taken down, for example while its print files are made again, or if its price no longer covers printing (Section 5).
• If we close the Bookstore, we’ll email you at least 30 days before, where we reasonably can.
• After a listing comes down, or this Agreement ends, royalties you earned are still paid as Section 6 describes, less any refunds and lost disputes on those sales (Section 7). The sections on payouts, refunds, taxes, your book and the law continue to apply to them.

12. Changes to fees and to this Agreement

• Fees. We may change the ColorCraft fee, or introduce seller fees that depend on your plan. We’ll email you at least 30 days before a fee increase, or a new fee, takes effect. A fee decrease can take effect immediately.
• A fee change applies only to sales made after it takes effect, never to copies already sold.
• This Agreement. We may change the rest of this Agreement. For a material change we give notice as the Terms describe; corrections and clarifications take effect when we post them. You accept the version in effect each time you submit a book or changes to a listing.
• If you don’t agree with a change, you can pause your listings, or ask us to take them down, before it takes effect.

13. Governing law, disputes and contact

This Agreement is part of the Terms. Their sections on limitation of liability, dispute resolution and arbitration and governing law (the laws of the State of California) apply to it. You sell as an independent author: this Agreement doesn’t make you our employee, agent or partner.

Questions about selling in the Bookstore, and notices under this Agreement: email hello@colorcraft.ai, or use our contact page. We send notices to the email address on your ColorCraft account.