Everything You Need to Know About Mainstack as a New Creator
Knowledge has always had a price.
Think about it. For most of human history, people have paid enormous sums for the right piece of information. It’s what made the difference between a good harvest and a bad one, a business that survived and one that didn't, etc.
Now, you may not necessarily be sitting on the kind of information that rewrites history.
But somewhere in the years you've spent getting good at what you do, you've built something someone else would pay for: a way of thinking, a shortcut past their mistakes, a skill that could genuinely change a person’s life, etc.
That's not a small thing. It's just been a hard thing to package and sell, especially if you've never done it before and aren't quite sure anyone would pay for what feels like common sense to you. Mainstack exists to close that gap. Specifically, the one between having something worth paying for and actually having a way to sell it.
What exactly is Mainstack?
Mainstack is a creator commerce platform. It gives you everything you need to sell your knowledge, your work, or your time online, and actually get paid for it, all from one dashboard.
In practice, that means you can sell digital products, run a course, host paid sessions, sell event tickets, and build a paid community, all behind a single link you can put anywhere your audience already is. You're not limited to one type of product either. If you can teach it, package it, or show up for it, you can very likely sell it on Mainstack.
Why this Matters
This matters because being a creator has always come with a strange contradiction. You can build an audience, build a reputation, build real expertise, and still have no clean way to turn any of it into a living.
The advice was always "monetize your audience," but the actual mechanics, where to sell, how to collect the money, how to get paid globally, how to keep track of it all, were left for you to figure out. Mainstack exists to close that gap, so that having something valuable to offer and actually earning from it aren't two separate problems anymore.
Who Mainstack Is For
Mainstack works for you regardless of which side of the transaction you're on.
Creators building something to sell. If you have something or any sort of knowledge people would pay for — ebooks, templates, courses, coaching, workshops, event tickets — Mainstack gives you a storefront to sell it from and the infrastructure to actually get paid for it without breaking a sweat.
Affiliates who want to earn without necessarily building a product. Through the Affiliate Marketplace, you can promote products creators have already made, earn a commission that's shown to you upfront, and track every click, sale, and payout from your own dashboard.
This means you can directly recommend products to the audience you’ve spent all that time building (or are about to build) and earn from their purchases, even though you didn’t build the product yourself.
Creative entrepreneurs who just need to get paid, professionally. Maybe you're not "a creator" in the traditional sense — you're a freelancer, a consultant, a service provider — but you're tired of sending your bank details to clients and waiting on screenshots. Mainstack gives you a payment link you can send instead.
Most people land firmly in one of these three. Some move between them. Mainstack doesn't lock you into a lane.
What You Can Actually Do on Mainstack
Sell nearly anything online. Yes, we know that’s incredibly broad. But think digital products, online courses, paid sessions and workshops, and event tickets, all live on one unified storefront.
If you can package it into any digital format, you can sell it on Mainstack, even if it’s custom code you wrote from scratch for a site/app or high-res images you took as a travel photographer. There are no limits.
Build a paid community. Tribes on Mainstack lets you create a space for your most engaged audience, with paid tiers and access that's automatically granted the moment someone pays. No separate community tool, no manual admin.
Get paid as a professional. If you're billing clients rather than selling products, Mainstack gives you payment links you can send directly, skipping the manual back-and-forth of bank transfers. In select markets, full invoicing is also available, with line items, taxes, and automated reminders.
Get others to sell for you and sell for others. List your product on the Affiliate Marketplace, set your own commission rate, and let other people promote it to their audience. You only pay when it results in a sale. On the other end of this, you can sign up as an affiliate (even if you’re already a creator) and promote other people’s products. Every time you make a sale, you’ll earn a commission.
Access a list of tools built just for you. While the features above constitute the major things you can do on Mainstack, there’s a plethora of tools built to power your creative business:
- Email marketing — Send campaigns to anyone who's ever bought from you on Mainstack or build a list from scratch with Mainstack’s email forms, no separate email tool required.
- Link-in-bio — One customizable link housing every product, service, and social page you want your audience to find, doubling as an entry point into your full storefront.
- Crucial marketing and other integrations — Connect the tools you already use, from Meta and TikTok Pixel to Mailchimp, Klaviyo, Google Analytics, and more, so your existing marketing and tracking setup works alongside Mainstack.
- Automations — Set up automated background nudges, like reminders for abandoned checkouts or incomplete transactions, that work quietly so you're not manually chasing every unfinished sale.
- Discounts — Create discount codes and limited-time or early-bird offers to give customers a reason to buy now instead of later.
- Varied payment types — Offer one-time payments, subscriptions, pay-what-you-want, fast-action time-limited pricing, or installments, whatever fits how you actually want to sell.
- Multi-Business Management — Run multiple, separate creator businesses under one Mainstack account.
How to Get Started
- Sign up and choose your path — creator, affiliate, or getting paid. You can always add more later.
- Set up your storefront — add your products, services, or payment links. Takes minutes.
- Share your one link — in your bio, your DMs, your emails, anywhere your audience already is.
Built for Getting Paid, Anywhere
Mainstack supports 135+ currencies and major payment methods, including cards, Apple Pay, and Google Pay, so it doesn't matter where your audience is. Someone in Lagos, London, or Los Angeles can buy from you today, and you can withdraw what you earn to your bank account, mobile money, or other supported payout options depending on your market.
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