Solar2D Plugins Marketplace launch

Corona Marketplace
#1

At long last, our marketplace just launched. https://www.solar2dplugins.com

Currently only our own two plugins can be found there but we’re absolutely ready for submissions so please if you’re a vendor, start uploading.

The process isn’t too dissimilar to the old marketplace and there’s a submission guide explaining how to provide each asset type, as well as a template for native plugins which again isn’t dissimilar to the old marketplace. In a nutshell if you ever uploaded to the old, this should just make sense.

I’m available on Discord, Slack, these forums, and by email should anything not make sense, or if you have any feedback at all. There may well be teething issues but hopefully not.

Uploads by new vendors go through an initial approval process. When we’re happy that you know what you’re doing and that your content is trustworthy, this process is disabled on your account and all further submissions go live immediately.

The new marketplace supports free, paid, and subscription based content, and plugins, templates, and miscellaneous assets are accepted.

Please do jump on, let me know your thoughts, and get uploading.

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#2

Well I tried to upload my plugin and it didn’t work. I don’t know what validation you are doing for the zip file, but it won’t except mine. Tried at least 5 times. I even tried adding files that are not needed for my plugin. It would be nice if it gave me some inkling of why the validation failed.

#3

Ah, that’s not the best of starts!

The validation checks that the zip is formatted correctly for the type of plugin that you’re uploading. The message is intentionally minimal to encourage reading the packaging guide, but admittedly that probably wasn’t the best of ideas. I’ll get to work on those today to be more informative.

If you want to fire over your zip to richard@qweb.co.uk I’d be happy to check that over for you.

#4

Congratulations! A new marketplace with assets and templates is a good addition :slight_smile:

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#5

The error messages should be a little more informative now :+1:

#6

@agramonte it occurred to me that if you’d written a lengthy description and not been able to get your asset uploaded, losing that would be frustrating. So now when submitting this form, if the system errors out for any reason it takes a cache of your description and offers a restore option via a link underneath the description field itself when you come back to try again. Hopefully avoiding any big losses.

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#7

Just a heads up to everybody - Adrian’s issue turned out to be that OSX creates slightly differently formatted Zip files to what the marketplace expected. The validation scripts should now account for this, so if anybody else had trouble uploading before, please try again.

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#8

What if my country isn’t listed on Stripe’s available countries, can’t I get paid for plugins ?

#9

That’s an interesting question!

I’ll have a word with our accountants and get back to you as there may be a more ‘proper’ way around that, but in the meantime I did a quick Google and found this: https://medium.com/better-marketing/how-to-use-stripe-in-unsupported-countries-a06acdf9671c

It’s obviously intended for people using Medium really, but the issue is the same.

The article references https://transferwise.com/gb/borderless/ which appears to be a middleman banking service that gives you a branch at various geographical locations. If I understand it correctly, you open a Borderless account and tell it your actual bank details to send money to, and then give Stripe the appropriate Borderless bank details for a country it supports.

I’ve not looked extensively at this and this is in no way an official answer by QWeb Ltd, but I like the look of it myself and don’t see that using this is any different to using say… Skype numbers to localise your business in different regions.

Hope that helps?

#10

@JTPenn I’ve spoken with both our accountants and with Stripe, and the consensus is that using a service like Borderless is absolutely fine. Stripe have no issues with you using this, and we see no problem from an accounting / tax perspective either.

I couldn’t get any dates for when individual countries will be supported by Stripe directly, but hopefully this offers a good enough solution in the interim?

#11

Thanks for helping, Borderless indeed might solve the issue.
I hope in the future to see other approaches !

#12

Fantastic =).

You can sign up on https://stripe.com/global to be notified when your country is directly supported too. I expect Borderless takes a cut of some sort so once you’re able to hook up directly, you’ll want to do that.