Seller Agreement

This agreement applies when you list and sell digital resources on STARTLESS. It is between you and Buildflin LLC, and it sits alongside our Terms of Service, which govern your use of the site generally. Where the two differ on anything to do with selling, this agreement wins.

You accept it when you submit a seller application. If you do not agree, do not apply and do not list.

1. Applying and being approved

Selling here is not automatic. You apply, and we review the application by hand. We may approve or decline it at our discretion, and we will tell you which. Being declined is not a judgement about you or your work — most often it means the fit is not right for this catalogue.

You must be at least 18, able to enter a contract, and selling work you are entitled to sell. The account you apply with is the account you sell from.

2. What you may list

Digital resources only — templates, systems, trackers, guides and similar — delivered as downloadable files or as links to documents you control. No physical goods, and no services.

You may not list:

• anything you do not own or have a licence to sell, including resold stock assets whose licence forbids redistribution;
• anything illegal, infringing, defamatory, or that breaches someone's privacy;
• executable software. Our uploader refuses the common executable formats outright, and that is deliberate rather than incidental;
• anything whose description, preview or cover misrepresents what a buyer receives.

Individual files are capped at 500 MB and cover images at 8 MB. Bundles and the free collection are ours to assemble, so you cannot list into either.

3. Review before anything goes on sale

Every listing is reviewed before it goes live. You submit it, we look at it, and we either publish it or send it back with a reason. A listing needs at least one deliverable attached before it can be submitted.

Changing what a buyer downloads takes a live listing off sale. If you add, replace, edit or remove a file or link on a listing that is already live, it goes back for review and stops selling until we approve it again. Renaming a label, reordering the files and changing the cover image do not. This exists so an approved listing cannot quietly become a different product after the fact.

We may decline, unpublish or archive a listing at any time if it breaches this agreement. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why first.

4. Pricing, and who the merchant is

You set your price. All prices are in USD. We may decline to list at a price we think misrepresents the resource, and we may run store-wide promotions — never below your price without asking you.

Paddle is the Merchant of Record for every paid order. Paddle takes the payment as reseller of record and handles all sales tax, VAT and GST registration and remittance. You are not the merchant on the transaction, you do not hold the customer relationship for payment purposes, and you have no sales-tax obligation arising from a sale here.

5. Commission and what you earn

You keep 80% of the sale price of each resource you sell. We keep 20% as commission for running the storefront, the checkout, delivery, support and payouts.

The rate is applied at the moment of sale and recorded on that sale. If we change the rate later, the change applies to sales made after it — never retrospectively to earnings already recorded.

6. Payouts

• Earnings accumulate as owed until paid. You request a payout from your dashboard; we record the transfer.
• There is a minimum of $25.00 USD owed before you can request one.
• Your first request can be made 7 days after your application is approved. This window exists because refunds and chargebacks arrive after the sale.
• You give us the payout destination and keep it current. We are not responsible for money sent to details you gave us that were wrong or out of date.
• Any fee the payment route charges to move the money comes out of the transfer.

We may hold a payout while we investigate a suspected breach, a disputed sale or a rights complaint. We will tell you that we are doing so.

7. Refunds and chargebacks

When a buyer is fully refunded or wins a chargeback, the sale is undone: the buyer loses access to the download, and the earning stops counting toward your payout. We give back our commission on it as well — we do not keep a cut of a sale that was reversed.

An earning that has already been paid out to you is not clawed back. Reversal applies only to earnings still owed. Partial refunds do not affect your earning or the buyer's access.

Refunds are issued under our Refund Policy. We decide refund requests; because Paddle is the Merchant of Record, it processes them.

8. Rights you keep, and the licence you give us

You keep ownership of everything you list. Nothing here transfers your copyright.

You grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, display, excerpt and promote your resource and its title, description, cover and your maker name, for the purposes of listing it, marketing the store and delivering it to buyers. This licence lasts while your listing is up, and afterwards only as far as we need it to keep serving buyers who already paid, and to keep ordinary business records.

You authorise us to grant each buyer the rights set out in our License, which is what they actually buy. You confirm you are entitled to grant those rights.

9. Selling the same work elsewhere

Listing here is not exclusive. You are free to sell the same resource on your own site or on other marketplaces, and you keep your own audience.

What you may not do is use this store as a route to somewhere else. Your listings, deliverables, maker page and any message you send a buyer through us must not be used to direct buyers off the site to buy from you directly, and must not advertise a lower price elsewhere. That is also why your maker page carries your name, your blurb and your catalogue, but no outbound link. If you want a page that links to your own storefront, your own site is the right place for it.

10. Your public maker page

Being approved gives you a page at /maker/<your-handle> listing your live resources. We assign the handle and keep control of it, so that a page you have linked somewhere does not move. Ask us if you need it changed.

The blurb on it is yours to write and edit. It is published as you write it — we do not review it before it appears — so it must comply with this agreement, and we may remove or amend anything that does not.

11. Buyer data and support

You see your own sales, earnings and listing traffic. You do not get buyers' personal details, and you may not ask us for them or approach them outside the store. We handle buyer support; we will involve you when a question is really about your resource.

12. Your own taxes

Paddle handles sales tax on the transaction. Everything else is yours: income tax, self-employment or corporation tax, and any registration your own jurisdiction requires. We do not withhold tax from payouts and we do not give tax advice. Amounts we pay you are gross for your purposes.

You are an independent seller, not our employee, agent or partner.

13. You stand behind what you sell

You confirm that you own or are licensed to sell everything you list, that it does not infringe anyone's rights, that its description is accurate, and that the files are free of malware. You agree to cover us for claims, losses and reasonable costs arising from a breach of this agreement or from a claim that your resource infringes someone's rights.

14. Suspension and ending this agreement

You can stop selling whenever you like: unpublish your listings, ask us to close your seller account, and we will pay out what is owed once the normal minimum and timing rules are met.

We may suspend you for breaching this agreement, for rights complaints we judge credible, or for conduct that puts buyers or the store at risk. On suspension your live listings are archived and anything awaiting review is declined. Lifting a suspension does not restore them — you resubmit what you want back on sale.

Buyers who already paid keep their access. That survives your listings coming down, your account closing and this agreement ending, because they bought a licence to the resource and not a subscription to your presence here. Earnings already recorded remain payable.

15. Changes to this agreement

We may change this agreement as the store changes. Material changes will be notified to approved sellers by email before they take effect. Continuing to list after that is acceptance. The commission, payout minimum and payout window shown on this page are read live from our settings, so this page always states the terms currently in force.

16. Liability

Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited. Subject to that, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost profits or anticipated earnings, and our total liability to you in any twelve-month period is limited to the commission we retained from your sales in that period.

We do not promise any level of sales, traffic or visibility, and we do not guarantee the store will be available uninterrupted.

17. Governing law

This agreement is governed by the State of Wyoming, United States. Nothing in this clause removes a protection available to you under the law of your own country of residence that applies regardless of this choice.

18. Contact

Questions about this agreement, or about your account, go to hello@startlessco.com. Seller questions are also answered on the selling FAQ, and you can message the team from your dashboard.