Create your store

Your store is where readers buy your books, on its own web address. One store is for one pen name.

Steps

1. After you sign up, choose Create your store.
2. Store name. Usually your pen name. Readers see it at the top of every page.
3. Web address. We suggest one from your store name. Your store lives at your-name.lanternbee.shop until you connect your own domain.
4. Currency. US dollar, euro, British pound, Canadian dollar, Australian dollar or New Zealand dollar. Prices are shown in this currency. It locks after your first order, so pick the one you want to be paid in.
5. Choose Create store. You land on Home, where Get your store ready lists what is left: connect Stripe, add your first book, publish it, choose a theme or logo, check your legal pages and view your store. Each item ticks itself once it is done and takes you straight to the right page. Choose Hide this when you no longer need it.

You can change the name and web address later under Store settings, General. You can also upload a logo there.

Waiting for approval

We approve each new author once, by hand, to check you are who you say you are. Until then your store is not public, but you can set up everything: books, theme, legal pages and domain. A note at the top of every page tells you it is waiting. Your store goes live as soon as we approve your account, usually within a day, and we email you the link. After that, any store you add goes live straight away.

What to do next

• Look around Store settings
• Add your first book