Introducing Songbox Shop: keep 100% of every sale

We'll get the headline out of the way first, because it's the whole point: when a fan buys something from your Songbox Shop, you keep 100% of the price you set. Not 90%. Not "100% minus fees." All of it.

That probably sounds too good to be true, so let's explain exactly how it works, because the mechanics matter.

How "100%" is actually 100%

If you've used Vinted, you already understand the whole thing.

For years, second-hand marketplaces worked one way: the seller listed an item and the platform took a chunk out of the sale. Then Vinted flipped it. Sellers keep their full asking price, and a small "buyer protection" fee is added on top at checkout, paid by the buyer. It turned out shoppers didn't mind a modest fee for a smooth, protected purchase, and sellers loved keeping everything. It worked so well it reshaped the market. eBay bled sellers to Vinted for years, until it eventually gave up fighting and copied the model, scrapping its private-seller fees and moving to a buyer-side fee of its own.

That model has a name. It's called "gross up," and it's exactly what Songbox Shop runs on.

You set your price, say £8 for an album, and £8 is what lands in your account. The fan pays a small service fee on top at checkout, the same way they do buying a jacket or a record on the platforms they already use every week. Nobody's surprised by it, nobody minds, and (this is the important part) it never comes out of your cut.

So when we say 100%, we mean 100%.

It's free. No subscription required.

Opening a shop costs nothing. There's no monthly fee and no "pro tier" you have to climb to before the thing becomes worth using. You don't even need a Songbox subscription. Set it up, list your music, start selling. If you never pay us a penny, that's completely fine. The shop works exactly the same either way.

This isn't a Spotify replacement, and it's not trying to be

We're not asking you to pull your album off streaming. Put your records wherever your fans already listen; that's the front door, and it should stay open.

Songbox Shop is for everything else.

The b-sides. The demos that never made the cut. The live recording from that tiny sweaty venue. The alternate takes, the acoustic version, the four-track thing you made at 2am and love more than the finished single. Your proper albums too, absolutely, plus all the good stuff around them. The material your real fans, the ones who'd happily pay, genuinely want and can't get anywhere else.

Liner notes: bundle more than just the audio

Records used to come with something you could hold: sleeve notes, lyrics, artwork, a thank-you list you'd read a hundred times. Digital quietly killed most of that.

Songbox Shop brings it back. With any release you can bundle extra files alongside the audio, and we call them liner notes. PDFs, artwork, lyric sheets, photos, a hidden track, sheet music, a note to the people who bought it. Whatever you want to hand your fans along with the music, hand it to them.

Subscriptions and your feed

Beyond one-off sales, fans can subscribe to you directly. And your Songbox feed is built to work with that: every post can go out to the whole world, or be locked so only your subscribers see it.

Drop a public teaser, then keep the full thing for subscribers. Share works in progress with the people who've paid to be in the room. Post the finished thing to everyone. It's your call, post by post.

Fans can just… support you

Sometimes someone doesn't want to buy a specific thing. They just want to throw you a few quid because they love what you do. Songbox Shop lets your fans donate directly, and, same rule as everything else, 100% of it reaches you.

Why we built this

Honest answer? We were tired of watching platforms talk about "supporting independent artists" while quietly skimming a cut off the top of everything, building a tidy business on the back of the people actually making the art.

We wanted to build something that was properly good for independent musicians. Not good-for-artists-in-the-marketing-copy, actually good. Money straight to you. Free to use. Built around the music your fans really want, and the little extras that make being a fan feel like something again.

That's Songbox Shop. That's the whole pitch, because that's genuinely all we wanted it to be.

Ready to open yours? Head to your Songbox dashboard to set up your shop and start listing.