Set up a title: credits, volumes, previews and scheduling
Credit everyone who made the comic with shares that total 100%, link credits to members, group chapters into volumes, show preview pages, schedule a chapter's release, and what Get paid, Pricing and Statements do while selling is being tested.
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On this page
A title's page in the console holds everything about the series as a whole — and the credits it can't be published without.
Before you start
- A title in the console (see part 1).
Credit the team
Add each credit
Under Credits & revenue split, press Add a credit: a Name, a Role (Writer, Penciller, Inker, Colorist, Letterer, Editor, Cover or Other) and a Share %.Make it 100%
The total reads …% of 100% — …% left to assign until the shares add up. A free comic still needs them to total 100%.Save
Press Save credits.Link a member (optional)
Under Credited members, pick a credit, type the member's @username, and press Ask to link. It shows on their profile once they say yes.
Check it worked
Group chapters into volumes (optional)
Under Volumes, add a Volume number and optional name, and press Add volume. Each chapter then gets a volume menu; volumes can be reordered, renamed and given a cover.
Show preview pages (optional)
Under Preview pages, tick Show preview pages on the title page and pick up to five pages from the first chapter; press Save previews. Mature titles can't show previews.
Schedule a chapter
Pick the time
On a processed chapter's row, press Schedule, choose a date and time — in your own timezone — and press Schedule.Publish the title
A scheduled chapter only goes out once its review is done and the title itself is published.
Check it worked
Selling is being tested
Comics on Waypoint Realms are free to read for now, and selling them is in testing. You don't need a payout account to publish free work, and the shares in your credits don't pay anyone today.
We're testing payouts, pricing and buying with accounts we've named, so most publishers won't see the next three sections, and most readers can't buy. If your console shows them, they read Test mode: no money moves. Any figure there is test data, and nothing is owed on it.
Get paid, if you see it
Start with Stripe
On your console home, under Get paid, press Get paid. Stripe asks who you are and where to send your money. Payouts are for members 18 and over.Finish if you stopped
If you left part-way, press Carry on with Stripe. You pick up where you left off, even if the link timed out.
Check it worked
Credited on someone else's comic with a share? Once you've said yes to the credit, the same section is on Your comic credits.
Pricing, if you see it
Choose how it's read
On the title's page, under Pricing, choose Free to read, With a subscription, To buy or To buy or with a subscription.Set the price
For anything to buy, enter the price of one chapter in US dollars, at least $0.99, and how many chapters stay free, counted from the first.Read the figures
The form shows what a reader pays, Stripe's fee, our fee and your share. Stripe's fee and your share are marked about: they're estimates, because the real fee depends on the card.Save
Press Save pricing. To price one chapter on its own, open Price one … differently under the form.
Check it worked
Statements, if you see them
Once a month with earnings on it has closed, Statements on your console home lists it, with a PDF and a CSV. Each shows what every title earned, Stripe's fee, our fee and what's left, your balance at the start and the end of the month, and what happened to it. Credited on someone else's comic? Your share is on Your comic credits.
We pay monthly, 45 days after a month ends, once your balance reaches $25. A smaller balance rolls forward. While we're testing, a statement opens with Test mode: no money moves., and nothing on it is owed.
If something's off
- Save credits is greyed out
- The shares don't total 100%, or a row has no name.
- “There's no Atlas creator at “…”.”
- Check the creator slug in Atlas page, or leave it blank.
- “Pick a time in the future, within a year.”
- Choose a later time — up to a year ahead.
- My scheduled chapter didn't go out
- Publish the title itself, and check the chapter's review is done.
- I can't see Get paid or Pricing, or it says “This isn't available yet.”
- Those sections are only for the accounts we've named for testing. You don't need them to publish free work. If a title of yours is already priced, you'll still see Pricing, so you can set it back to Free to read.
- “Set up payouts first: priced work needs a payout account…”
- Finish Get paid on your console home, then save again. Free work doesn't need it.
- “Accept the updated Comics Publisher Agreement…”
- Accept it on your console home, then save again. Pricing asks for the newest version because the fees are in it, even if you can still publish free work on an older one.
- “Payouts are for members 18 and over…”
- You need to be 18 or over for a payout account. If you are, add your date of birth first.
- Save pricing is greyed out
- Check the price is at least $0.99. If it is, the form tells you what's still needed.
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