Creating your first product

A product is what buyers buy: one or more of your assets, with a title, a hero image and a price. Here's how to build one and put it on sale.

Start a product

From Dashboard → Products, press New product. Two other ways in:

• Duplicate… in a product's menu (on the Products page, or under the ⋯ button in the editor) makes a new draft from an existing product. The original stays as it is.
• In Dashboard → Assets, right-click a folder and choose Create product to make a draft from the files in it, or Create product per subfolder and then Create drafts to make one draft for each subfolder.

The product editor

The editor is a single column of fields. On a wide screen, a rail down the left names each one: Title, Hero image, Description, Buyer files, Gallery, Price, Genre & format and Tags. Click a name to jump to it, and fill them in whatever order suits you. An amber dot, in the rail and beside the field's name, marks something you still need before you can publish. Finished fields show nothing.

• Hero image or video is the first thing buyers see, on the product page and in search. Pick an image or a short video from your Assets.
• Buyer files are what buyers download after they buy. Press Add files to pick them from your Assets.
• Gallery holds up to 8 preview images or videos. They aren't part of the download.

Files you upload from inside the editor always arrive as a new, separate file in your library, even if one with the same name is already there.

To see the page the way buyers will, press Preview (at the top of the editor, or at the bottom of the rail). It opens a full-screen preview that you can switch between Desktop and Mobile. Back to editing closes it.

Price it

Type a price from $0.50 to $1,000, or $0.00 to give the product away for free. The Gold equivalent shows next to it, and you can change the price any time.

You don't need payouts set up to publish a paid product. Until you add a payout method, your earnings stay in your balance. See getting paid.

Tag it

Tags are how buyers narrow a search to what they're after, such as a map's setting, its style or the kind of encounter it's built for. The store matches and filters results on your tags, so the more accurate ones you add, the more searches your product turns up in. One tag is the minimum to publish, but it pays to be thorough: picture the words a GM would type when they're hunting for exactly this, and tag for those. Suggest from files offers tags based on what's in your files.

Publish

A product needs all of these before it can go live:

• a title
• a hero image or video
• a description
• at least one buyer file
• a price ($0.00 counts)
• a genre
• at least one tag

Publish product sits at the top of the editor and again below the last field, and you can press it at any time. While something's missing, a line under the button says what ("Can't go live yet: no genre", say) with a See what's left link. Pressing either one opens the publish checklist. It lists each problem, tells you how to fix it and has a Go to button that takes you to the field. Your draft is saved as you go, so work through it in any order.

Files need to be ready too. If one is still processing or being checked, the line reads "Waiting on 1 file to be ready" and there's nothing to do but wait. A file that failed or is in review gets its own box in the checklist saying what to do; if a file is refused explains each one.

The first time you publish a product, a "Publish this product?" box opens. With Notify followers about this drop ticked, we'll email your followers: Pro followers right away, everyone else 48 hours later. Press Publish and it's live.

Changing a live product

While a product is a draft, your changes save as you go ("Draft saved"). Once it's live, your edits wait in the editor and buyers keep seeing the live version. A bar at the bottom counts your unsaved changes and offers Preview, Discard and Save. If you try to leave with unsaved changes, we'll ask whether to save them first.

Save is held to the same rules as Publish. Empty a required field, such as the description, and you'll see "Can't save yet: no description" until you fill it in again or press Discard to go back to the live version.

Taking a product off sale

Press Unpublish at the top of the editor. The product goes back to being a draft, and buyers can't find or buy it until you publish it again.

To put a draft away, open the ⋯ menu (More actions) and choose Archive. Archived products are hidden from buyers. Press Restore in the editor to turn one back into a draft.