Purpose of this Manual

This manual provides instructions for effectively selling items on Star Hangar, guiding you through your first steps from registering to the inside tricks of used by pro traders.

Being a living document, we'll do our best to update this manual frequently in order to keep it up to date with the latest developments. Should you have concerns or additional questions that you don’t find answered, please drop us a note to office@star-hangar.com and we’ll do our best to improve it further.

Creating your account

Before you can become a seller, you first need to register a regular customer account (unless of course you already have one). Doing so is a very easy process:

• Go to https://star-hangar.com/customer/account/create/

• Check your email for a confirmation email and click the link therein to confirm it.

Having arrived back at the webpage, you can now apply for seller privileges.

Apply for seller privileges

To become a seller, it is mandatory to establish a legal contract, that enables and entitles Star Hangar to sell items on your behalf. Important to know is that this is a one-time action and that the contract you sign is valid without expiration unless revoked by you. The contract further entitles you to sell any number of items, both physical and virtual, both for Star-Hangar or effectively any other game you want. 
For selling items in games not yet supported by our webpage, please get in touch with our staff by opening a support ticket and we’ll review the request and if possible add that game to the list.

To apply for your seller privileges sign in with your customer account and go here: https://star-hangar.com/marketplace/account/becomeseller/

You’ll be asked to submit 3 pieces of information:

• Shop URL
  Star-Hangar.com offers you a store-in-store concept: You will have your personal
  The store page his will be the display name of your store, which can be directly accessed by your friends and customers.
  
  Once approved, you can send customers directly to your store: https://star-hangar.com/shop/<your_storename>

• ID Card
  We require an ID (Identity card, Passport, or Driving License) to verify your identity. Please ensure your name and signature are readable.
  As to concerns for security, feel free to blacken out confidential data such as the document’s serial, just please ensure it remains visible that it's an official and valid document.
  All your data will be stored encrypted and special protected and will not be used for sale- or marketing purposes they will only be used to verify your identity and as the manner of proof in case of fraudulent acts against Star Hangar.

• Contract
  Please sign your frame agreement with us, which will entitle us to market and sell items on your behalf.
  You can download and print the contract form here. 

Please print out the contract and have it notarized and signed.
Notarization is a very simple process that takes just a few minutes and allows verification that the seller is really the person specified in the contract. In the US, notarization is possible at most any local bank, typically free of charge or at UPS stores for a small fee. In other countries including the EU, notarization is often available free of charge in local town halls, or for a small 2-digit fee at small notary, offices spread all over town. Remember to bring an ID and the unsigned contract; typically no appointment is required.

Note that Star Hangar does verify your identity in compliance with Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Regulations and Federal Law. No data provided by you upon registration is ever shared with 3rd party companies nor is any such information ever used for marketing purposes.

Once you’ve submitted your information, please grant our staff 24 hours to verify your contract. You’ll be notified via email, once your seller status has been approved.

The seller menu

Our website released in July 2019, was optimized for transparency, more direct seller control, and improved processes for optimizing goods to customer delivery speeds. For you as a seller, this means that the account management menus will now offer you to manage all aspects of your sales from a single, intuitive interface, which can be accessed without limitations on both desktop and mobile. Once logged in to https://star-hangar.com/customer/account/index/ you will be greeted with this menu:

You should find most of it to be pretty self-explaining, but allow me to provide a quick overview of the functions available:

• Marketplace Dashboard 
  provides you an overview of your sales performance

• Seller Profile
  The seller profile menu allows you to configure all global relevant settings for your store. You may also customize store appearance to some extent.
  Just as useful, you can find here a static URL leading to your personal store page, which you can share with your own customers and friends to direct them directly to your personal offers.
  
  the information further configurable in this menu includes:
  - your personal phone number for automated sales notifications via SMS
  - Your company banner is to be shown on your personal sales page (please consider using a 1400x200 pixel image in .jpg format for best results)
  - your company logo is to be shown on your personal sales page; we plan to also add it to your products in the future (please consider using a square 200x200 pixel image in .jpg format for best results)
  - your company location (currently not used)
  - your company description will be shown to your customers on your personal store page
  - Meta Keywords that can be used by buyers to find your personal store page on google (for best results try to not use no more than 5 keywords, separated by commas)
  - Meta Description that will shortly describe your personal store page and that will be visible to customers searching and finding your products via google.

• New Products
  Here you can add new products for sale. This menu will be explained in detail later on in this guide.

• My Product List
  Here you can see all products you have on sale. You can also edit or cancel them in this menu.
  

• My Sales History
  An overview of your past sales and revenues

• Vacation Settings
  This menu allows you to quickly disable all your sales and replace them with an “away” message for your customers. Please use this function whenever you’re away for a few days and/or unable to deliver products within 24 hours.
  

• My Shipments
  A very important menu that will show any new sales of yours. The menu then allows you to process and confirm your deliveries, with payment being released to your account 48 hours after delivery. (This time frame ensures buyers have sufficient time to state issues).
  This menu will be explained in detail later on in this guide.

• Review
  Here you can see reviews of your store left by your customers.

• Credit, Refund & Cashout
  This menu shows your wallet, containing the funds from your completed sales as well as from other activities. With just a few clicks you can request cash-out of your balance to your Paypal or Payoneer payment account; expect the payment to arrive within 24 hours after your request.
  Please note that you can only have one active request, we kindly ask you to please wait for your payment to arrive before making another request.

• Security Settings
  This menu allows you to add 2 Factor Authentication for your wallet payouts using Google Authenticator. 2 Factor Authentication prevents illicit cashout requests for your sales from unauthorized parties accessing your account.
  
  

The Sale Process

Creating New products

Adding new products is one of the most relevant tasks for you as a seller. Please don't rush this step, we made it simple as possible and there's not too much to configure, nonetheless please grant it time to do it right: the quality of your listing will directly affect how your products are displayed in-store and how successful your items will sell. We’ve optimized our design to make listing new items as simple as possible while leaving you lots of freedom to customize your products. I'd hence recommend you to consider the recommendations in this paragraph to ensure your product placement will result in fast and successful sales.

Clicking a new product you're asked what type of product you want to add. The product type defines both attributes you can configure as well as the delivery method.
Currently, there are 2 choices:

• Star Citizen
  This category is for spaceships, vehicles, and other pledges for the game Star Citizen from Cloud Imperium Games, that can be transferred between accounts
  
  
• Account Sale
  This category is for any type of gaming account and its content.
  
  
• Games & Software
  This category allows you to sell License Redemption keys (aka "CD-Keys") to sell codes to claim games, software, or in-game item

After making your choice, you reach a 2nd screen where you can now configure your product.

• Attribute Set
  this property allows you to choose what game your account is for. Please choose 'Generic Game Account' if your game is not listed.
  The field is unavailable for other product types.
  
  
• Product Category
  
  
  
  Product Categories ensure that customers can find your products while browsing the respective categories. So effectively the categories you select decide, in which menus of the header navigation menu customers will find your product. Additionally, it also affects search keywords attached to your product. For an efficient placement of e.g. a Star Citizen product, it is typically best to select (check mark) the “Star Citizen” category and then unfold it, further selecting each and every tier down to the last one that matches your item, as shown in the screenshot above. Your product will then be visible in all these respective menus. 
  
  

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  Please never mark the “Default Category” - it's not used and may only cause issues in future software releases. Please never abuse categories. Each product should be in a single category branch only (unless there are really good reasons like bundles containing multiple items). Products abusing categories will be rejected. Please select the correct tree and do not use e.g. the "Star Citizen" Item Category for accounts offered or vice versa. Selecting the wrong categories is misleading and confusing to customers.  Should you feel a category is missing, please contact staff and we’ll gladly add it for you.

• Product Name Product name is the product title shown on the front page. While you can name items as you like, following these guidelines may help to sell your items successfully:
  
  - Keep your titles short, with only the mandatory info for better readability
  - include the product and its most vital attributes in the title.
  - Stick to a consistent naming syntax to avoid confusing customers.
  
  But most importantly, also ensure a detailed description of your products in the details (see below in this article) to ensure it's absolutely clear what you're selling, which is vital to avoid customer refunds.

  !	Please always keep your product titles as short as possible.  Long titles are hard to read on mobile which may impact your sales!

  
  Naming Syntax Suggestions:
  
  For star citizenships, we recommend using the ship model & variant, followed by a dash and any special details you want to remark on, such as Game Package & Sq42 included LTI included, or special items coming with your package. Examples being e.g. "Caterpillar Pirate Edition - LTI (CCU'ed)", "300i Base Model - Game Package SQ42", "600i Exploration Variante - LTI (unique name)", "Cutlass Red to 350R ship upgrade" or e.g. for items, "Custodian SMG - Citizencon 2947 Edition"
  
  For Starbase ships, we suggest listing the name you gave your ship class + a short description such as e.g. "MyShipName - single-seated mining ship"
  
  For Gaming Accounts and Games & Software Licenses, we recommend using a product name starting with the game the account or license is for, followed by a dash and your actual product name, such as e.g. "Elite Dangerous - Elite rank, 1 billion Credit Account" or "Fortnite - Complete Game License"
  
  

• Long Description
  The Long Description is a core component to help you successfully sell your product and it is shown in the detail view when customers click on a product on the front page. If done right, it serves three purposes:
  - it clearly defines what is included in your product and what is not (which helps avoid refunds)
  - it contains relevant terms for your product allowing it to be found by search engines and it also contains a relevant description which makes customers searching the internet more likely to view your product.
  - it has a vivid description convincing the customer to buy that product
  You may find that a good description can help convince customers to prefer a product from you as a reliable source over cheaper but purely described offers from competitors.
  
  Please take care to be careful in your description as to what is included, including especially:
  - Product & Variant
  - Properties such as colors/skins, conditions/damage, size, variant, etc.
  - Bonus content included
  - Special properties that make your item rare/valuable
  - unique attributes for accounts, such as backer rewards or forum titles
  - special restrictions such as e.g. License keys only claimable under certain conditions
  
  For Starbase Blueprints, please be detailed as to the features the ship offers. Since each ship is individually designed, they are very different in function and you want to make it understood by buyers what they may expect - and what not, since wrong or inaccurate description may yield frustrated buyers, potential disputes, and in worst case refunds.

  Please also explicitly state content not included, to avoid confusion: e.g. screenshots of upgraded (CCU'ed) space ships for Star Citizen tend to show the source ship in the screenshot, even though it is no longer included in the package - hence in such a case, it should explicitly be mentioned that the source ship was consumed in the upgrade and that it is no longer included.

  !

  Please be careful when describing the in-game performance of your products: While its perfectly fine and even desirable to describe your item and draw out how it can be used in-game, please also keep in mind that your game vendor may change the performance and attributes of your product without notice, meaning your products may no longer match your description by the time your item sells - which in turn may cause justified refund demands from customers. Thus in order to avoid the need for frequent product description updates, we recommend keeping your description generic or clearly state as by what date and version number your description is based, along with a disclaimer that these parameters may change at the game vendors' desire. Further please be careful on features or content listed to really be included in your delivery! Failing to do so may be a legit reason for a buyer refund and you risk losing money and/or your product.

   

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  Considerations for Account Sales: You may sell any account whose original and sole owner you are. Should you plan to sell accounts 2nd hand and for account sales greater than USD $1000, a legalized or notarized signature (free of charge in the US and most EU countries) is required on your sales contract. If you plan on selling accounts 2nd hand, please see for the coowners or former owners to co-sign the contract or make sure that you have a respective proof of purchase on your own that you can attach to the contract as proof of ownership. We personally advise against 2nd hand sales though, unless the account was first bought via a secure trade market (such as Star Hangar) since you as a seller may expose yourself to a buyer's damage reparations claims should anything go wrong with that account at a later point in time. Please do not add information that allows your account to be identified. This includes especially information such as account serials, login names, exact creation dates, etc. You do not want to expose yourself to the game provider nor to potential scammers who might try to steal your account. For 2nd hand account sales please also include an explicit disclaimer, such as: "This account is a 2nd hand sale. Proof of purchase from the original owner will be attached to the sale contract. I (as the seller personally) take full legal liability for the offered account to be valid and fully playable and that it will not be reclaimed by its original owner" A special note for selling Star Citizen Accounts: Star Citizen Accounts may contain buyback options, however, please understand that this is a concept most customers are not familiar with! We hence recommend not to include buybacks in your product listing since they can be extremely misleading. Should you nonetheless feel you have to add them, then please take utmost care to explicitly mark that content is NOT included in the offer. If your offer is in any way misleading as to contain these items, you risk both order cancellations and negative buyer ratings.

    

• Short Description
  Similar to the Long Description, also the Short Description is shown in the detail view when customers click on a product on the front page.
  It hence is redundant to the Long Description and optional. Note that as opposed to the long description, the short description is kept in plain text and no HTML formatting is available.
  For Star Citizen items, we recommend using this field to contain the exact product name as shown in-game as this will help you find your product in your inventory after the sale.

• Price
  This is the total gross price for end customers. You will receive this amount minus your consignment %-fee. Payment provider fees are covered by Star Hangar out of the consignment fee.
  For your commission rate please see your seller profile, for your personal payment provider rate applicable on cashout (e.g. PayPal or Payoneer), please consult your payment provider directly. For sellers using PayPal, fees range from 2.9% for US customers up to 4.7% for some EU customers.
  
  For sellers knowing our previous website, please note that fees remained unchanged, you no longer define your net amount but rather the actual sales price. This makes it easier for you to ensure competitive product prices and increases transparency. 

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  To calculate the net amount you receive after cashout, calculate as follows: Net result = your store price * (1- your consignment rate) * (1 - your payment provider fees) Reverse, you can calculate as follows: Store Price = desired net result / (1- your consignment rate) / (1 - your payment provider fees)

• Stock Simply the volume of items you have from this product, that you'd like to sell.

• Stock Availability You may select the option "in stock" for your products to sell. Choosing “out of stock” disables your sale and will prevent your product from being shown in-store.

• Product Images We recommend you always include at least two images:
  
  - A flashy marketing image of your product, as a primary frontpage picture - A detailed screenshot of your package content E.g.:
  

  !	For best results, please use 16:9 aspect ratio (e.g. ideal 1600:900 resolution) jpg format Other formats will be converted, negatively affecting your product placement

  Once you've uploaded the images, you can then click the image details to add an image title (which also helps search results and for google users to more easily find your product)  and choose which one of your images should be shown on the front page. For the latter, simply click all three role checkboxes on the right-hand side:
  
  
  
  

  Please be aware that the following products may cause issues or conflicts when used by sellers:
  
  

  Adblock Plus – This plugin blocks data transmission to the website, preventing customers from viewing listed products. At this time, no other specific software is known to cause similar issues. However, some browser plugins may interfere with website functionality. If you encounter any problems, we recommend disabling your browser plugins first.

  
  On top of the above-mentioned generic properties, there are a few product-specific properties:

• Package Type (*Star Citizen products only)
  This field is specific to Star-Citizen products. These choices are available:
  
  

  • Single Item
    Please use this for Stand-Alone Products to be used independently in-game.
    Examples being e.g. Ships, Vehicles, Weapons, Hangar Decorations, etc. - but also include item bundles that do not contain a Star Citizen Game License.
    
    

  • Upgrade
    Please use this for products that convert an existing product into something else.
    Examples being e.g. an Avenger Titan to Constellation Taurus ship upgrade.
    
    

  !

  Please note for Upgrades, Buyers have a 14 day right of refund, as long as they don't claim the item, meaning you may need to take back the item if the customer cancels his order. This is a specific rule for upgrades due to upgrade chain dependencies. Please consider this in your sales strategy, especially when selling upgrades from buybacks that you may not want to end stuck with.

  • Add-On
    Please use this for products that enhance existing products.
    E.g. Ship paints and skins, a ship Module that plugs into an existing vessel, a new scope for a specific sniper rifle, etc.
    
    

  • Game
    Please use this for products that include the Star-Citizen game.
    
    

  • Game & SQ42
    Please use this for products that include both the Star-Citizen game and the Squadron42 Single Player Game.
    
    

  • Collector Edition
    Please use this for products that include special collector editions of the game (incl. Squadron42) 

   

• Insurance (*Star Citizen products only)
  Please simply specify the insurance that comes with your product. Typically only ships and game packages include insurance, whereas most other items typically have no insurance included.
  
  

• Golden Ticket (*Game accounts / Star Citizen only)
  A special bonus was awarded to backers who registered for the game on the day of announcement on Oct 11th, 2012, prior to the Kickstarter Campaign. 
  
  
• Backer Level (*Game accounts / Star Citizen only)
  this setting basically defines the age of the account in this order from oldest to youngest:
  - Kickstarter:  Backer during the initial Campaign on Kickstarter
  - Original Backer:  Backing before the end of the original backing campaign on November 26, 2012. 
  - Veteran Backer:  Backing after November 26, 2012, but on or before July 6th, 2013.
  - Backer: Backing after July 6th, 2013
  
  
• Concierge Level (*Game accounts / Star Citizen only)
  this setting defines the investment with Star Citizen, awarding some additional perks, ranking from lowest to highest:
  - High Admiral: Backing more than $1000
  - Grand Admiral: Backing more than $2500
  - Space Marshal: Backing more than $5000
  - Wing Commander: Backing more than $10000
  - Praetorian: Backing more than $15000
  - Legatus Navium: Backing more than $25000
  
  
• Game License (*Game accounts / Star Citizen only)
  This defines whether the account contains any game packages that are required for the buyer to play the game(s) Star Citizen and/or Squadron 42. 
  
  
• Platform (*Games & Software Licenses only)
  specify the platform where your License can be retrieved (e.g. steam, Galaxy of Games, Origin,...)
  
  
• Related Products
  Products marked here will be advertised to people viewing the details of your product.
  This is a good way to advertise alternatives and add-ons to your product in order to generate additional sales.
  
  

Flash Sale listing

Flash Sale listings are only for Star Citizen products.

To create a Flash Sale listing for a Star Citizen product the price of the product needs to be below the current RSI price for the product including packages and combo vehicle packs.

Select Flash Sale under categories under Star Citizen:

It is advisable to add Flash Sale in the product name ex. "Flash Sale > Item name"

Delivery of Products

You have received an email and/or an SMS that you've sold a Product? Congratulations!
You now have 24 hours to deliver your item.

First check your orders: https://star-hangar.com/marketplace/order/history/

Orders in status “Processing” are waiting for you to be delivered. Should you see an alternate state such as "Pending" this signals that there are issues with the buyer (e.g. a deferred payment) that need to be resolved first.

Click on the “View Order” button to proceed, to see the order details and the expected revenue. Assuming everything is matching your expectation, click the “Confirm Delivery" button on the top right, to process your product's delivery. The resulting screen will differ based on the product type you're selling:

• Delivery of Star Citizen Products
  
  
  
  Please note the buyer's recipient email. Please take note of that. Once delivered you'll also upload your proof of delivery here, but more on that later.
  
  Now go to your Hangar on the RSI page: https://www.robertsspaceindustries.com/account/pledges and find the item you need to deliver. Unfold the product details with the small > symbol on the RSI website.
  
  
  
  Click on the 'Gift' button showing up and RSI will then open a menu where you can enter the previously copied recipient email into both recipient fields, then press the send button.
  
  
  
  

The item is now shipped and will disappear from your inventory once the buyer accepts delivery.
Now return to your Hangar view and locate the "Hangar Log" Button:

Then take a screenshot of the line showing your delivery:

This screenshot showing the Product Name, the serial, and the time of delivery is all that is required for delivery. Save this to a file and upload it to the Star Hangar webpage.

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• Delivery of Starbase Ships
  
  For Starbase products, please simply upload the blueprint savefile on our website. The save file will be delivered to the buyer automatically.
  
  To find your correct savefile, please load up the Ship Editor in-game. Load your ship and save it as a new product with the save as function:
  
  Now that it is saved, go to Windows and hit start - run, and enter "%AppData%\Starbase\blueprints". There'll be a folder for your account and inside, several folders with numbers - these are your ship projects. The project with the highest number will be the ship you just prepared for export. Go to that folder, sort files by date, and rename the newest to whatever name you gave your ship class. --> This is the file you need to upload to our website.
  
  

• Delivery of sold Accounts
  
  Account sales require you to print out and fill in a sale contract for the sale of your account.
  Please find the buyer's name here on the website and insert it in the contract. Then fill in the remaining fields. A physical signature is required
  Note that accounts for $500 USD or those where you are not the only/original owner require legalization or notarization. Previous co-owners should please co-sign the contract to prove an agreement to the sale.
  
  Note that as part of this sale and by filling out the contract, you grant exclusive rights to the account to the buyer and you agree to never log in again thereafter without the buyer’s approval, once the sale has been completed.
  
  Once done, please scan your signed contract as a .pdf and upload it here to the website, it will then be automatically transmitted to the buyer.

• Delivery of sold Software & Game Codes:
  
  Once your Software or Games code has sold, simply enter a valid reclamation key code for each game or software sold respectively.

• Completing delivery of products:
  

  Your order will now show the "Complete" state:

  
  
  48 hours after delivery, payment will be credited to your account and be shown in the “Credit, Refund & Cashout” menu.
  
  

  
  
  
  

  Seller Cashout

   

  Also In the Credit, Refund & Cashout menu, you can request a cash out of your wallet funds to your PayPal account, your Payoneer account, or to a credit card processor of your own. Look for the 'Click here to cash out' URL near the top left.
  Please confirm your billing data and you may then choose what payment provider you want to be paid out with.

  Once you selected the payment provider, you will be presented with a screen to specify your account's address, e.g. the PayPal account you want the payment transferred to:

  

  Simply specify the amount you want to be paid out and the account data, depending on your payment provider. Please double-check and ensure the PayPal email is the correct one - we may not allow us to recover funds sent to the wrong addresses specified!

  For using your own Credit Card payment provider, please simply specify the webpage URL where the payment can be made. Our accounting colleagues will then go there to pay the specified amount that you asked to be cashed out.
  
  

  !	For Paypal Payments, please always specify your Email. We cannot send funds to /PayPal.me addresses.

   

  Payments will be transferred to your account within 24 hours of the request.
  Please kindly wait for your existing payout request to be complete before requesting another.

  
  Should you have any further questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact our support on our support live chat or via email at support@star-hangar.com