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 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.

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.

Caution

Until Stripe onboarding is complete, you cannot be paid. Finish it before you publish anything, so a sale never arrives at an account that has nowhere to send the money.

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

If your own product is going to check the licenses Monaiq issues, you need a key. 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.

You can skip this step entirely if you are selling something that does not check licenses in code. 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.

Note

None of the seller flow needs code. You can create products, price offerings, publish, sell, invoice and get paid from the portal alone.