Storefronts

A Storefront is a list of Self-Service Plans offered for sale, with an optional starting plan. It is its own object under Sell > Storefronts, and it has no structural tie to a Portal: the same Storefront can be displayed on a Portal, embedded on your marketing site, or both, and two Storefronts can sell the same plan.

Keep the split in mind: Portals are doors; Storefronts are where tickets to a door are sold. A Storefront never grants access on its own - buying a plan puts the buyer in that plan's group, and the group is what reaches assets (see the Assignments tab).

Creating one

1. Under Sell > Storefronts, click New storefront and name it for buyers, not for your team.
2. Plans - add the plans it offers, in the order they should appear. The first plan added becomes the starting plan (the default); change it, or set it to None, any time. A Storefront needs at least one live offer to be displayed anywhere.
3. Associated portal - the Portal this Storefront belongs to. The welcome email links here, and it is where buyers land unless you choose otherwise under After checkout. Left on Workspace default, it uses your workspace's oldest Portal.
4. After checkout - send buyers straight into the associated Portal, or to a custom https:// URL of your own.
5. Branding - optional. By default the Storefront inherits the look of its associated Portal; switch that off to give it its own.

The default offer

The starting plan matters most when it is $0: a Portal that attaches the Storefront starts every new sign-up on the default free plan straight away, right after they verify their email. A $0 plan that is not the default is still joinable from its checkout link - it just is not the automatic starting point.

Where a Storefront appears

• Attached to a Portal - pick it on the Portal's Self-Service page (Portals as doors). The sign-in screen gains a Sign up button to it, and signed-in visitors not yet on a plan are offered it.
• Embedded on any page - the editor's Embed section gives you a public URL and an embed snippet. It loads with no Portal and no session, so it works on a marketing site's products page.
• Per-plan checkout links - each offer has a link that starts checkout directly. Use them in emails, buttons, or ads.

What a buyer goes through

1. The buyer picks a plan. A $0 plan skips Stripe entirely; a paid plan opens Stripe Checkout on your connected account.
2. Checkout returns to a thank-you state inside the Storefront, or to the destination set under After checkout.
3. Billing creates or finds the buyer in your directory (by the email they gave Stripe) and adds them to the plan's group. This is the only grant.
4. The welcome email links to the associated Portal. The buyer signs in there with their email and a one-time code, admission passes, the plan group resolves, and the assets render.
5. Any other Portal that admits the plan's group shows the same assets.

Upgrading moves the buyer between plan groups; cancelling removes them. A buyer keeps one subscription and one credit pool per plan no matter how many Storefronts offer it.

Archiving

A Storefront that is attached to a Portal cannot be archived - detach it on the Portal's Self-Service page first. Archiving hides the public URL and embed; subscriptions bought through it are unaffected.