Help center
How to run your store
Plain steps for each screen in Lanternbee. Parts we are still building are markedComing.
Getting started
Your account, your store and a tour of its settings.
- Create your Lanternbee accountSign up with your name, email and a password, confirm your email, and turn on two-step sign-in.
- Create your storePick a store name, a web address and a currency. Your store is set up right away and goes live once it is approved.
- A tour of Store settingsWhat each tab in Store settings does, from your theme and legal pages to tracking pixels and exporting your readers.
Your catalog
Titles, editions, files, series and bundles.
- Add a titleCreate a book in your catalog with its title, blurb, cover, series and the formats you sell.
- Editions and formatsEach format of a book is an edition with its own price, ISBN and way of reaching the reader. Set your default formats and prices once.
- Upload your book filesWhich files you can upload for ebooks, audiobooks, covers and print, and how large they can be.
- Series and reading orderGroup books that belong together, set the order readers should read them in, and give the series its own page.
- Bundles and box setsSell a whole series, one book in several formats, or books you pick, at one price. Readers who already own a book can pay less.
- Publish, archive or delete a titlePut a title on sale, take it off your store while keeping it for readers who bought it, or remove it.
Domains
Your store address and your own domain.
Payments and payouts
Your own Stripe account, payouts and refunds.
- Connect your own Stripe accountHow payments will work. You connect your own Stripe account, you are the seller, and readers pay you. Coming before stores open.
- Payouts and refundsWhen payments go live, Stripe pays your money to your bank on its usual schedule. Payouts and refunds in Lanternbee are coming.
Delivery
Download links, the reader library and send to Kindle.
- How readers get their booksAfter an order, readers get an email with their download links. You can see each delivery on the order page and send it again.
- The reader libraryReaders sign in with a link sent to their email, then download, listen to or resend every book they bought from you.
- Send to KindleReaders add their Kindle address once and send EPUB ebooks to their Kindle from their library. What they need to set up at Amazon.
BookVault, Lulu, your own stock and shipping zones.
- Print on demand with BookVault or LuluSet up paperbacks and hardcovers printed by BookVault or Lulu. Choose the printer, binding, trim size, paper and page count, and upload your PDFs.
- Own stock and shipping zonesSell printed books you post yourself. Track copies on hand, and set shipping rates by country with optional free shipping.
Taxes
VAT and sales tax on your sales.
Moving from Shopify
Import your store and switch over.
Account and billing
Plans, fees, billing and sign-in security.
- Plans and feesWhat Free, Author and Studio include, how the fee on Free works, and what you save paying yearly.
- Change your plan and billingChanging plans and paying for Author from the app are coming. Until then, every account is on Free.
- Sign-in security and two-step sign-inTurn on two-step sign-in with an authenticator app, save your recovery codes, and what to do if you lose your phone.