They call us Authors… and price our products like eBooks Yep, they’ve silently and sneakily slashed their VAT bills while giving authors more to do… (without giving us a bigger slice of the pie).
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It’s also quite a crafty move for them as you only need to pay VATmoss type tax on digital products that are delivered automatically, anything that requires manual input (such as support) they don’t need to pay VATmoss for. Managing pre-sale comments and post sale comments isn’t easy for Authors. There’s then the support (offered usually by Authors on their own platform). There’s comments, there’s the ‘contact the author’ link via the profile page. without any proper means for a support site.įor buyers, heck it was confusing too. This change was unpopular with Authors (the seemingly ‘low priced’ stock marketplace was turning into a give 6 months support for $2). This has been done without the commissions changing. While also splitting the price of the plugins for sale on CodeCanyon between x% for the plugin and y% for ‘author support’ which is compulsory for 6 months after the sale (extendable to 12 months). Envato pushed compulsory support onto Authors In exchange, they keep the customer details (email) and you get 50% (increasing to 70% as sales come in). They process refunds (and pay for them from their share of the sale).They do customer help / support (optional by authors).“You do the creative, we do everything else”.e-Commerce capability (handle store, checkout, etc).Standardised item pages with easy links to demos.Targeted traffic – millions of buyers are registered on their marketplace.This used to be in exchange for the following benefits:. Envato take a huge cut of each saleįor new Authors on CodeCanyon they take a huge (50%) cut of the sale, even more if you’re not exclusive (67% cut). The reasons are in no particular order, some are more significant reasons than others. This is quite a long read so sit back, grab a coffee and nod along as you agree with my reasons (or, if you don’t I’d love to hear why in the comments)
Why did I remove my plugins for sale on CodeCanyon? There’s actually quite a lot of reasons which I’ll go into in this post as well as what it means for Epic Plugins going forwards. We are working on enhancing the item pages to better link through to Demos (and then onto optimisation of the demo pages themselves). I’ve written this post as ‘An Open Letter to Envato’ to be honest and transparent with my decisions and to do something that scares me.
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