Stores and distributors

A supply arrangement records who carries your books and what the company keeps for doing it. Each of these is one arrangement:

  • Amazon KDP selling your ebook
  • IngramSpark printing and shipping your paperback
  • a wholesaler covering one country

No rights move. This is delivery only.

Supply arrangements are part of Contracts, in the Business section of the sidebar, alongside your rights contracts. To create one, you need editor access or higher.

The quickest start

If your workspace has no contracts or arrangements at all, the Contracts page shows a tick-box list headed Or start with common companies.

Once you have records, the same list is still available. Above the table, the link Set up KDP, Kobo and other common companies opens a page called Common companies. The link disappears once every company on it is set up.

  1. Tick the companies you use.
  2. Click Add ticked companies.

For each company, Pubblish creates a People entry. It also creates a supply arrangement that covers every title, worldwide, with typical terms already filled in.

Two things to know about those terms.

Pubblish fills in a figure only where one applies. Some companies pay a flat percentage. Their arrangement arrives with Our share and Their cut already set. Other companies pay on a price band or a trade discount, so no single percentage is right. Amazon KDP and IngramSpark print are two of them. Their arrangements arrive with both boxes empty, and the arrangement’s page shows a dash. Their note explains the deal instead of naming a figure.

Every note tells you to check your own dashboard or account. The page says the same above the list: These are typical terms — check your own agreement before relying on the numbers. Pubblish copies each note into the arrangement’s own Notes, so it stays visible afterward.

Everything is editable afterward. A quick-start arrangement is an ordinary supply arrangement. Open it and click Edit. There you can change the cut, change the formats, or limit the territories.

Each quick-start arrangement starts with the formats that company carries. For example, Amazon KDP Select starts with ebook only, and IngramSpark – Print starts with paperback and hardcover.

A company you have already set up appears in the list with its box grayed out and the note Already set up. When every company is set up, the page says so instead of showing a form.

Creating one by hand

Click New supply arrangement at the top of the Contracts page.

The arrangement

Field What to put in it
Name What you call it. The distributor’s name is usually enough.
Company The distributor, wholesaler or store, from your People list
Store or distributor Which of Pubblish’s known stores this company is. Optional.

Their cut

This section has two boxes, Our share (%) and Their cut (%). Fill in either one and Pubblish works out the other. You do not have to make them add up yourself.

This figure is for reference. Royalty runs work from the sales reports you upload, which show what you actually earned. They do not use the cut recorded here.

What they carry

Tick Every title to cover the whole catalog, including titles added later. Or leave it unticked and pick titles in the Titles box. Choose one or the other. Pubblish refuses both, and it refuses neither.

Formats is the list of formats they carry. Leave it empty and the arrangement covers every format.

Where

Territory mode is three radio buttons:

  • Worldwide: they serve everywhere. No list.
  • Worldwide except…: they serve everywhere except the territories you tick.
  • Only these territories: they serve nothing but the territories you tick.

The territory tick-boxes appear when you pick one of the last two. Saving with Worldwide chosen clears them.

Exclusive says nobody else supplies these titles in these territories. Leave it off unless your contract says otherwise. Amazon KDP Select, for example, should be ticked.

Dates and Notes are the last two fields. Both dates are optional.

Click Add arrangement.

The arrangement’s page

The page shows what the company carries: the formats, the territories, and whether it is exclusive. On the right, an Arrangement panel holds:

  • the company
  • the store or distributor link
  • Our share and Their cut, side by side
  • the dates

Edit is there for editors and above. Delete is there for administrators and the owner only. Deleting cannot be undone.