Building and selling a cookbook.

A creator account is what you turn on when you want to sell your cookbooks. It is not a subscription. You can be a creator on the free plan.

Turning on a creator account gives you three things: the ability to list a cookbook for sale, a way to get paid through Stripe, and a public creator page that anyone can visit.

Everything else about your account stays the same. Your personal recipes, your households, your regular cookbooks, all still work exactly the same way.

Open the Creators page and tap Apply. You will see a short form asking for a handle (a short name that appears on your public page), a bio of a sentence or two, and any links that show your cooking or writing.

We review every application by hand. It usually takes a few days. This keeps the marketplace clean and the quality high.

When you are approved, a Studio link appears at the top of your app. The Studio is where you manage everything to do with selling.

A sellable cookbook is built the same way as a personal one. Add recipes, group them into sections, set a cover, arrange the order. If you already know how to make a cookbook, you already know how to make a sellable one.

There are three extras. A longer sales description that tells buyers what the cookbook is and who it is for. A hero photo, larger than the cover, that shows up on your creator page. And sample recipes, which are two or three recipes buyers can read for free before deciding to buy.

Pick your samples carefully. They are your storefront. Choose recipes that show off your voice and your style, not necessarily your best one.

In the Studio, open the cookbook and set a price in your local currency. There is no minimum. You can charge two dollars or fifty.

Our honest suggestion: price to your work. If you spent months writing and testing, a two dollar price signals it is disposable. Most cookbooks on the platform sell somewhere between eight and twenty dollars.

You can change the price any time. People who already bought it keep their access at the price they paid, so raising it later does not hurt them.

You can also run temporary promotional prices for a launch or a holiday, from the same panel.

Payments are handled through Stripe, a big and well-known payment company that many stores use. When you set up your creator account, the Studio walks you through connecting a Stripe account. If you do not have one, Stripe helps you make one during the process.

Once connected, money from sales lands in your Stripe balance and Stripe pays it out to your bank on a regular schedule, usually every week. You never have to send an invoice or chase a payment.

CookbookPro takes a small platform fee out of each sale. The rest is yours. You can see every sale, every refund, and every payout in the Studio, in one clear list.

When someone buys your cookbook, they get lifetime access to it. They can open it on any device they own, add its recipes to their meal plan, and generate shopping lists from it.

They also get every future version you publish, at no extra cost. If you rewrite a recipe or add ten new ones, they see it automatically.

Buyers cannot resell your cookbook, and they cannot re-share the paid recipes with people who did not buy. Your sample recipes are always freely shareable, since that is their job.

Small fixes, like a typo or a corrected measurement, save immediately. Every buyer sees the fix the next time they open the recipe.

For bigger changes, like adding new recipes or rewriting a chapter, publish a new version. Buyers see a small badge on their copy that says a new version is available, along with your notes about what changed.

Use the version notes field to write a short, friendly changelog. Not a legal document, just a paragraph telling buyers what is new and what to try first.