Instructions for Buying Tunes

1. Click the top left hand link titled ‘Login | Sign Up’ to go to the ‘My Account’ page.
2. Click the Register tab and fill in the Register Form with the ‘I am the Music Audience’ option selected.
3. Click the ‘Register’ button to create your account.

Now you can see your Customer Dashboard where in the menu on the left hand side you can see the link ‘Orders’. ‘Orders’ is a list of invoices for orders you have previously made of music downloads.

‘Downloads’ is a list of previous downloads you have purchased.

‘Address’ is the billing address you will see on your order invoices.

‘Account Details’ this is where you can change things like your password.

‘Vendors’ is a list of musicians/bands you have decided to follow.

‘Logout’ allows you to log out of your account.

Instructions for setting up a Music Store

1. Click the top left hand link titled ‘Login | Sign Up’ to go to the ‘My Account’ page.
2. Click the Register tab and fill in the Register Form with the ‘I am a Recording Artist’ option selected.
   You will then get several more options to fill out.
3. Fill in your ‘First Name’ ‘Last Name’.
4. Fill in your ‘Shop Name’. This will be the name of your musical group or if you are an individual performer it will be your stage name (In some cases your stage name will just be your real first and last name).
5. ‘Shop URL’ Enter your Shop Name as one word in lowercase. This will be added to the end of your Shop web address.
6. Enter your ‘Phone Number’. This will not be shown to customers but will be only used if BuyTunes.online needs to contact you.
7. Read the ‘Terms & Conditions’ document and tick the box.
8. Click the ‘Register’ button to create your account.

Now you can see your Recording Artist Dashboard

‘Products’ is a list of music products you have uploaded for sale.
Click the button ‘Add New Product’ to add your first tune/s to your store.

Enter the Title of the product.

Enter the Price and also you may set a Discounted Price if you need to. In most cases you would leave this blank.

Select up to 4 Categories that are relevant for your tune.

Upload up to 5 images that relate to your music product. Images should be in a .jpg format and no larger than 800 x 800 in size.

Enter a Short Description of your Music of about one or two paragraphs.

When you have entered all the information click ‘Save Product’

Under the Title Downloadable Files You will be able to upload the files you want to sell in .mp3 format.
Only upload one .mp3 file per product listing for a Music Single. The product listing page will automatically display a Demo of this track.
For an Album, upload multiple .mp3 files as one .zip file. We will then choose out the first 3 tracks as the Demo tracks when we come to approve it.
All Demo Tracks will be set to play only the first 15% of the full track.
Uploaded tunes will need to be approved by the content check crew before being available for customers to buy.

‘Orders’ are sales you have made from selling downloads on our website.

‘Announcements’ are announcements from our BuyTunes.online website admin or system generated messages.

‘Settings > Store’ is for adding more information to your store profile including your Store Banner and Profile Picture.
Your ‘Store Banner’ should be a .jpg file and be 1200 x 400 pixels in size.
Your ‘Profile Picture’ should be a .jpg file and be 300 x 300 pixels in size.
The address in the store is your ‘Billing Address’. It will NOT appear on your profile to the public. It is for invoices only.
Your phone number here is so that BuyTunes.online can contact you if necessary. It will NOT appear on your profile to the public.
The ‘Biography’ section enter some information about yourself and/or your band so it can appear on your profile.
Click ‘Update Settings’ in order to save off your changes.

To collect payments from the music audience you will need to set up a Stripe Account then come back to Buytunes.online to connect it

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Go to Stripe.com

Open a Standard Account

It is best to nominate getting paid weekly or monthly as Stripe charge a small fee (not a percentage) for each payout to your bank.

To get a payout to your bank with every sale is very costly.

When your Stripe account is set up and connected to your nominated bank account

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Come back into your BuyTunes Dashboard to Connect your Stripe Account

‘Payment’ is for adding a connection to your Stripe account so you can be paid your share of money from sales of your Music Downloads.
Mouse over the button ‘Add Payment Method’ and click ‘Direct to Stripe’
Then click the blue coloured button ‘Connect with Stripe’ to connect your Stripe account to BuyTunes.online through the Stripe API. You may be prompted to log into your Stripe account.
Once connected click ‘Update Settings’

‘Edit Account’ is for updating your basic account details such as changing your password.

‘Log Out’ logs you out of your account.