Publish the 3D-printable files you designed and let people print them. Give them away or charge for them, on your own merchant account, with the license stated up front and the file itself never sitting on a public URL.
Publish the 3D-printable files you designed and let people print them. Give them away or charge for them, on your own merchant account. The license is stated before anyone pays, and a paid file never sits on a public URL -- it is delivered by a link that lasts ten minutes and only after we check that the person asking actually owns it.
What's included
STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ and G-code, several files to a listing
State the license before the money: personal use, commercial use, or Creative Commons
Money settles to your own merchant account — Turtini takes no cut of the sale
Paid files are delivered by a link that lasts ten minutes and only after we check what the buyer owns
Free listings still record who took a copy, so you can see what people actually wanted
Recommended material, layer height, infill and whether it needs supports
A shareable public shelf, and the listing editor saves itself as you type
About this module
Printables lives at /printables. A listing is a thing somebody can print: a title, a summary, the files, some photographs of the finished object, and the settings you actually used -- material, layer height, infill, whether it needs supports. Several files can hang off one listing, because a real design is often an STL, a STEP for people who want to modify it, and a G-code for the printer you tested on. STL, 3MF, STEP, OBJ and G-code are all accepted, as is a zip of them.
The license is the part most file storefronts treat as fine print, and it is the question every buyer actually has: may I sell prints of this. So it is not fine print here. You pick personal use, commercial use, or one of the Creative Commons variants, or you write your own terms, and the buyer reads that sentence above the Buy button rather than in a receipt afterwards. If you change the terms later, the change gets its own version number and anyone mid-checkout is asked to read it again -- what an earlier buyer agreed to is what they agreed to.
The money goes to you. Charges settle to your own merchant account, so you are the merchant of record and Turtini never holds your customers' money. Turtini bills a small software fee on payment volume as ordinary metered usage on your monthly invoice, and that fee comes back if you refund a sale or lose a chargeback -- keeping a cut of a sale the customer did not get is charging for having been in the room.
The file itself is the thing this module is careful about. Model files live on a storage path no browser can read, under any rule, with no shareable download link attached to them -- the upload is copied there by the server precisely so it never keeps the kind of token that would bypass the rules. A download is a fresh signed link, good for ten minutes, minted only after the server has checked what the person asking owns. There is no public URL to find and nothing to pass around.
Free listings still work the same way. Somebody claims the file and gets a record saying so, which is what makes a download attributable and what lets you see, on the Demand tab, that four hundred people wanted the free bracket and eleven bought the paid one. A file given away with no record behind it tells you nothing.
What this module does not do: it does not calculate or collect sales tax. Digital-goods tax depends on where your buyer is and what you are registered for, and inventing a number would be worse than saying plainly that the price you set is the price that is charged.
What you can do with it
Sell the STL and STEP for a part you designed, under commercial-use terms
Give away a print-in-place toy and see how many people actually took it
Publish the fixture your shop uses, with the exact material and layer height that worked
Ship a design as a free personal-use file and a paid commercial-use file side by side
Keep a shareable shelf link that customers can open without an account to browse
Get this module
Free for all Turtini organizations.
Who it's for
- Designers who already give away or sell 3D files and want the money to land in their own account
- Makerspaces, shops and small manufacturers who publish fixtures, jigs and replacement parts
- Anyone who has been posting files to a forum and wants the license actually attached to them
Details
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- Operations
- Pricing
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