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About This Template

For anyone whose product is a file

Quire assumes the thing you sell has pages and no weight. Printables, workbooks, patterns, zines, guides, templates, sheet music, planner packs. There is no stock, no lead time, no shipping band and no returns policy anywhere in the demo copy, because none of those are true of a download. What replaces them are the facts a file buyer actually wants: how many pages, what format, and can I read some of it first.

The open spread

No item is ever a card with a cover on it. Each one is a sheet lying open: the left leaf carries a page from inside the book, captioned as the sample it is; the right leaf carries the colophon — status, title, one line, then extent, format and price in three columns, then the buy button and a link to a longer sample. One hairline runs between the leaves as the gutter. The same spread is the featured block on the home page, the row on the shelf, and the top of every item page, so a visitor learns to read it once.

Coming soon is a first-class state

A set that is not written yet stays on the shelf with a Coming soon status, its own short note, and a sample page from the part that is finished. It has no payment link, so no buy button appears, and the waiting-list form on the home page is where that demand goes. That is the digital equivalent of a restock, and it is built in rather than improvised.

Running heads

Every section opens on a hairline with a label in sans on the left and a folio numeral in serif on the right, the way a printed page does. The serif is used only for things that belong to a book — titles, folios, facts about the file. The sans is the shop talking. Two families, one rule, and the page tells you which voice it is in.

Swapping the subject

The demo sells drawing practice books. Nothing structural depends on that: the fields are extent, format, price, sample and licence, which fit a knitting pattern, a Notion template or a 200-page cookbook without renaming anything.

Before you publish

1

Replace the business name Aldervane everywhere it is written: the header wordmark, the footer wordmark, the footer copyright line, the browser tab title on the home page, the first line of the About page, the words Write to Aldervane above the contact form, and the contact form's own name (Aldervane enquiry), which labels every submission in your inbox

2

Replace the maker's name Ines Halloran in four places: twice on the home page (the note and the signature under the pull-quote), once in the first line of the About page, and in the contact form's name placeholder

3

Replace the six starter items with your own titles, and delete any you do not need

4

Replace the Payment link on every item — the five finished sets ship https://buy.stripe.com/test_quire_<set-name>, which is a placeholder and is not a real Stripe link. Create one payment link per set in Stripe and paste it in. An item with no payment link shows no buy button at all, which is how the coming-soon set is set up

5

Replace the sample link on every item — the five finished sets ship https://example.com/sample.pdf, which is a placeholder and goes nowhere. An item with no sample link simply hides that row

6

Replace the sample-page photograph on every item with an actual page from your own file, exported as an image. These are the only pictures of a product anywhere on the site, so a stock photograph of finished artwork undoes the argument the template makes

7

Set the Status field on every item to Available or Coming soon, and give any Coming soon item a status note — that note is what turns on the Tell me when this one lands link

8

Rewrite the Extent, Format and Licence text on each item so it matches the file you actually send

9

Rewrite the delivery, printing and licence lines in THREE places, because they say the same thing three times: Formats / Printing / Licence under Before you buy on the shelf page, Delivery / Printing / Licence at the foot of every item page, and two of the four questions on the contact page

10

Replace hello@aldervane.example on the contact page and in the footer. Retyping the visible address in the canvas changes only the text — open the properties panel and change the mailto: link too, or the address will still point at the placeholder

11

Replace the studio photograph on the About page — it shows a person who is not you, sitting directly beside the sentence naming the maker — or delete that column

12

Point the Instagram link in the footer at your own profile, or delete it

13

Decide how the file reaches a buyer: a Stripe payment link can redirect to the download after payment, and this template tells visitors that it does

14

Exactly one item should have Featured set to yes. It is the one that fills the spread at the top of the home page; every other item falls into the contents list below it

15

If you rename the colophon labels (Sample page, The file, Extent, Format, Price), note that they appear three times over — once in the home page's featured spread, once in the shelf row template, and once on the item page

16

If you add or delete a section on the home page, renumber the folio numerals in the running heads — they are typed per section, not counted

Quire

A shop for people who sell files rather than objects. Nothing here ships, nothing runs out of stock, and no product is ever shown as a cover: every item appears as an open spread — a page from inside the book on the left leaf, and the price, extent and buy button on the right, with one hairline as the gutter. A running head sits over every section, a section label in sans on the left and a folio numeral in serif on the right, so the whole site reads as something set rather than something built. The product collection carries a sample-page image, a link to a longer sample, page extent, format, price and one Stripe payment link per item, plus a coming-soon status for sets that are still being written. Warm paper ground, EB Garamond for anything that belongs to a book, Instrument Sans for anything that belongs to the shop, one rubric red that only ever means buy. Distinct from counter (physical stock, lead times and shipping, with downloads as an aside), kilnwork (the making is the pitch) and halo (a link hub with a subscription, not a catalogue).

Free to use · No credit card required

Key Highlights

One Stripe payment link per item — no cart, no fulfilment to configure
The sample page is a field, so every item on the shelf shows its own
Extent and format replace stock and lead time, because nothing ships
Coming soon is a status, not a hack, and it routes to the waiting list
Adding a title is a sentence to Claude — the shelf is a collection

Built For

Anyone selling a PDF, a printable or a downloadable pack
A short range of files where each one has pages you could sample
Sellers who want the sample read before the payment, not after
Anyone with a title half-written who wants it listed as coming soon
Sellers with no stock, no shipping and no country they cannot reach
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