Get started as a seller

This page takes you from no account to a seller account that can take money, in four steps.

1. Create your account

Go to monaiq.com/register and enter your email address. If you came in through monaiq.com/start, that funnel lands you in the same place.

You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email address. There is no password to choose, and none to lose. Every later sign-in works the same way, at monaiq.com/login.

At this point you have an ordinary Monaiq account. It is the same kind of account a buyer has, and it becomes a seller account in the next step.

2. Accept the seller agreement

Open your profile at monaiq.com/manage/account/profile?become=seller and become a seller from there. The first thing you are asked for is your acceptance of the seller agreement, which is the document that governs selling on the platform, including the 7% platform fee.

Read it before you accept it. Pricing and fees sets out the commercial terms in plain language, but the agreement is the version of record.

After you accept it, the wizard asks you to pick a Monaiq platform plan. That is what you pay Monaiq for the platform, separately from the fee on your sales. The wizard shows you which plans are open; while Monaiq is in preview the free Preview plan is the one on offer, with everything included and no card.

3. Complete Stripe onboarding

Accepting the agreement sends you into Stripe onboarding. Stripe is the payments company that takes your customers’ money and pays you out, so Stripe has to know who it is paying.

Stripe asks you for identity and payout details: who you or your business are, and the bank account your payouts should land in. Exactly what it asks depends on your country and whether you are selling as an individual or a business, and Stripe tells you as you go.

Monaiq never sees card or bank secrets. Those go to Stripe and stay with Stripe. What comes back to Monaiq is the fact that your account is onboarded and can be paid.

4. Pick up your API key, if you need one

The API key is your account’s server-side identity: your own backend presents it to start an embedded checkout and to call the management API. Open monaiq.com/manage/credentials, which shows “Your API key” and mints it the first time you visit.

Keys are only ever shown inside your signed-in account. Monaiq never emails one to you. If a key is exposed, rotate it from the same page: the old key stops authenticating immediately.

It is not what your product checks licenses with. That is a license code, issued on a seat of the license and belonging to that one seat, so it is safe to install in software you ship. You can skip this step entirely if you are not calling Monaiq from a backend of your own. Credentials and keys has the detail when you want it.

What comes next

You now have a seller account that can take payments and an empty catalog. The next step is filling it: products and offerings explains what to create and in what order, and publish to the marketplace makes it visible to buyers.

If you sell as a team, invite your colleagues from Account settings under Members. Owners run the account: they manage the API key, subscriptions, seats (adding and retiring) and credentials, and who is in the account. Members see everything the account holds and can issue a runtime credential. Everyone signs in with their own address and acts as the same seller.

Colleagues who already have a Monaiq account of their own can be invited too. They keep it, and switch between the two from beside their name in the sidebar.