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CORE | ADVANCED | |
|---|---|---|
Price | Annual Plan Less than 1.00 USD/day | Annual Plan Less than 1.50 USD/day |
Number of Websites | 1 website | |
Storage Space (for website files and email messages) | 3 GB of NVMe SSD storage | 10 GB of NVMe SSD storage |
Email Addresses | 1 email address | 3 email addresses |
Number of Pages / Blog Posts | Unlimited | |
Number of Books / Series / Genres / Retailer Links | Unlimited | |
“Home” Page | Customizable Choose your sections from a list of 14 popular components | |
“All Books” Page | Automated Choose from 5 layout options | |
“All Audiobooks” Page | Automated Choose from 4 layout options | |
“Series” Pages | Unlimited & Automated Once created, the series pages will automatically update to include your latest books in each series. Choose from 8 layout options. | |
Newsletter Landing Page | Included This page only contains your newsletter offer. You can use it with Facebook ads to collect newsletter subscribers, point to it from the backmatter in your books, etc. | |
Book Tropes | Not Included You can still manually list your tropes at the end of your book description, if needed. | Included (optional) Add unlimited tropes. Check boxes to assign them to specific books, and they will appear throughout your site |
Heat Ratings | Not Included You can still manually include a heat rating somewhere in your book description, if needed. | Included (optional) Series and/or books can be assigned a heat rating from 1 to 5 peppers and you assign your own definition to each level. |
“Find Your Next Read” Matrix | Not Included You can still manually include a heat rating somewhere in your book description, if needed. | Included (optional) Select up to 4 filters you want to use (heat rating, book format, (sub-)genre, book trope, and/or book tag) and readers will be able to find their next read faster based on their reading preferences. |
“PR KIT/Media” Page | Manual You can include your PR Kit information on a standard page. | Included (optional) Easily include low-res images that load high-res headshots, include biographies of various lengths, list your awards, media appearances, include PDF documents, and a lot more via an easy-to-update interface. |
“FAQ” Page | Manual You can include your PR Kit information on a standard page. | Included (optional) Add unlimited questions with collapsable answers and arrange them by topics (unlimited). |
“Bonus Scenes” Archive Page | Manual You can include such information on a standard page. | Automated (optional) If you populate a bonus scene download URL when you edit your book, the information will trigger the book’s appearance on an automated archive of all books with any bonus scenes. This page can be arranged by series or not. This way, there’s one page where you can send your readers to claim all of your bonus scenes. |
“Printable Book List” Page | Manual You can include such information on a standard page. | Automated (optional) Your books will automatically appear on this page, which is arranged by series. Each book can include its reading order, release date, ISBN information, and formats the book is available in (if populated at the book level).. |
“Coming Soon” Page | Manual You can include such information on a standard page. | Automated (optional) Any book that has a released date in the future will automatically appear on this page. When the date passes, the book is automatically removed. Books are ordered based on their release date. |
Short Stories | Manual You can include a list of your short stories on a standard page. | Included (optional) There’s a separate interface where individual short stories are added, along with any nominations and awards won for each story. You can assign genre(s) to your stories and pick the order they will appear in. Readers can filter through your stories based on genres. |
Events / Appearances | Manual You can include a list of your upcoming events/appearances on a standard page. | Automated (optional) There’s a separate interface where events/appearances are added, along with start and end date and time. Events page will automatically show upcoming events in ascending order and hide them (or move them to past events) after they’re over. |
“LinkTree-type” page | Manual You can include this information on a standard page. | Included (optional) There’s a starter page where you can include a photo, unlimited buttons and a newsletter sign-up form. |
“Group Promotion” Page | Manual You can include this information on a standard page. | Included (optional) There’s a starter page where you can include unlimited book covers, optional description, and a button for each book. If you wanted to host your own group-promo where each author offers a free book in exchange for an email address, then this template would help you get started. |
E-commerce | Possible While your site won’t process transactions, you can still use a HostedAuthor website and do direct sales by integrating with other platforms. For example, your individual books and pages can point readers to Payhip or any e-commerce platform that will handle payments and the delivery of these books. Example of such platforms: Payhip (digital and physical), Fourthwall (digital, physical items that you ship, merch that they print/ship), Shopify (everything), Gumroad (digital and physical), LemonSqueezy (digital products only). Some of these platforms also handle some sales taxes and drop-ship certain items. All of them integrate with BookFunnel for ebook/audiobook delivery. | |
Guarantee | 30 days Get your money back, except for a non-refundable USD25 fee if you took advantage of our free domain name registration/transfer (because you will keep your domain, even if you ask for a refund, and we’ll help you transfer it to another registrar). If you didn’t transfer your domain or purchase a domain through us, your refund will be 100% of your annual plan. | |
Domain name registration/renewal/transfer:
Only one domain name can be claimed per account and only domain names with one of these popular extensions qualify: .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, .ca, .club, .eu, .io, .me, .uk, .us, .au, .me.uk, .org.uk, .bz, .co, .co.uk.
“Premium” domains that cost thousands of dollars are NOT included in this offer.
You retain the right to NOT take advantage of this and keep your domain registered with your favorite registrar. There is no pricing difference on our end if you do.
WordPress limitations:
You will NOT have full administrator access to WordPress. You will only be an “editor” so you will NOT be able to add your own plugins, change the theme, or modify the back-end interface. This decision was made to ensure authors don’t inadvertently “break” their websites.
Similarly, you cannot “host” our website on your own hosting account. We host it for you so we can control the technology and ensure the server is optimized and kept up-to-date.
If you need the ability to add more plugins or be a full administrator we recommend our custom website packages, which are available at GoCreate.me. Websites created by GoCreate.me will give you a custom WordPress site, with full administrator access, which you can host wherever you like.