Frequently asked questions

Sign up with your email, pick a template, add your books and bio, hit publish. Takes about 15 minutes.

Most authors go live within 15 minutes. Adding books takes longest.

None. If you can write an email, you can build a Zenpage site.

An email address. Book covers and descriptions help but can be added later.

Yes. Each book gets its own page with cover, description, and buy links.

Yes. Markdown editor, drafts, RSS feed auto-generated.

Yes, and it is optional: your zenpage.io address works on its own. Buy a domain from any registrar (Zenpage does not sell them), run it through a free Cloudflare account that you own, and connect it in the dashboard with two DNS records. Free SSL included. Step-by-step guide in the dashboard.

Yes. Paste one Amazon link or ISBN and Zenpage finds the rest of your books on your Amazon author page. Covers, descriptions, and buy links come along for the ride.

No. Sites on Zenpage already carry more than 50 books. Books, posts, and events each live on one page, so a long list simply makes a long page.

Yes. The Import from ISBN button stays in the Books tab. Books you already have are skipped, and your name, bio, and photo only change if you tick those boxes.

Yes. Add readings, signings, or virtual events with the date, location, and a ticket link. Past events move to their own section.

It is already there. Every site collects readers from day one, with signup forms in the header, on the homepage, on book pages and after blog posts. You can also connect Mailchimp, Kit (ConvertKit), Substack, Beehiiv, Brevo, or MailerLite.

Every template is responsive.

Yes. Upload a PDF or EPUB (up to 50MB), set your price in any supported currency, and readers can buy directly from your book page. Stripe handles the checkout. The same book page can also offer paperbacks, hardcovers or signed copies.

After a successful purchase, the buyer gets an email with a secure download link. The link is valid for 72 hours and allows up to 5 downloads.

Nothing from Zenpage. Stripe charges their standard processing fee (~2.9% + 30c per transaction). We take zero commission on your sales.

Yes. We guide you through connecting Stripe in about 5 minutes from your dashboard settings. Once connected, payments go directly to your own Stripe account. Payments open about a week after you create your Zenpage account, so if you have just signed up, your dashboard will show you the date. Everything else works in the meantime.

While your store is new, your sales collect in your Stripe balance rather than paying out automatically. It is your money the whole time. We release it to your bank once your store is established, and payouts run automatically from then on. If you would like it sooner, contact us and we will send it through.

New stores ask the buyer to confirm the payment with their bank. It is a standard card security check that keeps stolen cards away from your books, and it stops once your store is established.

PDF and EPUB. Files are validated server-side to make sure they are what they claim to be. Maximum file size is 50MB.

Yes. You set the price for every ebook, audiobook and physical edition. The shop currency is chosen once on the Sales page and applies to every book and edition on your site. USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD and more are supported.

Yes. Add a physical edition to any book (paperback, hardcover, signed copy, or any label you like), set a price and an optional number of copies, and set two flat shipping rates in Settings: one for your own country and one for abroad. Readers buy from the book page and pay through Stripe Checkout, where they enter their shipping address. You get an email with the address, post the parcel yourself, and mark the order shipped from your dashboard. The reader then gets a "your copy is on its way" email with the tracking number if you added one. An edition can also include the ebook or audiobook download.

There is no print-on-demand: you hold the copies and post them yourself. Shipping is two flat rates per order (your country and abroad), not carrier rates or labels. Each checkout is for one edition, so there is no cart. We do not calculate tax, VAT or customs. You are the seller of record, and parcels sent abroad can attract customs charges for the reader. Refunds happen in your Stripe dashboard. There are no pre-orders or discount codes.

No. Your site keeps its own reader list from day one. Readers confirm their email before they join, and you can download the list as a CSV from Your readers > Readers at any time.

Yes. Upload a PDF or EPUB on the Readers page, such as a prequel or a bonus chapter. Readers can download it as soon as they confirm their email.

Mailchimp, Kit (ConvertKit), Beehiiv, Brevo, and MailerLite receive each confirmed reader automatically. With Substack, your forms send readers to your Substack page. We add more based on demand.

In Your readers > Readers, pick your email tool, paste your API key and list ID, and press "Test connection". The test checks both the key and the list. Readers who already joined are sent over too.

Yes. API keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before storage. They are never exposed to the browser or included in client-side code.

Eight: Folio, Guru, Minimal, Bold, Mythic, Solaris, Passion, Brutalist. 39 color scheme combinations.

Each template has 4 to 6 color schemes to choose from.

Yes, anytime. Content stays the same.

Templates use curated font pairings. Custom uploads aren't supported.

Toggle publish in the dashboard. Goes live instantly.

Yes. Toggle off and it returns a 404. Content stays saved.

yourname.zenpage.io by default. Or connect your own domain.

You put your domain on a free Cloudflare account that you own, add a CNAME and a TXT record, and we handle the rest. Free SSL. Zenpage never gets access to your domain or DNS: the Cloudflare account is yours alone, your domain stays at your registrar, and you can switch back anytime.

Google needs time to index new sites, usually one to two weeks after you publish or connect a domain, sometimes longer for a brand new domain with no links pointing to it. Every Zenpage site is SEO-ready out of the box: a sitemap at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml, proper meta tags, and nothing blocking Google's crawler. So if Search Console shows "Couldn't fetch" or "Discovered - currently not crawled" in the first days, that is normal, not a setup problem. Your dashboard Settings tab shows when Google last visited your site, so you can see whether Google is crawling. If you use a custom domain and Google has not visited after a few weeks, check the security settings of your domain's Cloudflare account: "Under Attack" mode, bot blocking, or a firewall rule that challenges all visitors also stops Google. The best way to speed things up is backlinks: links to your site from other sites, like your Goodreads profile, your BookBub bio, and your social media bios. The Get found page in your dashboard shows where to add each one. Each one helps Google discover your site sooner and rank it higher.

Yes, free forever. The website builder and ebook selling are included at no cost. If you sell ebooks, Stripe charges their standard processing fee (~2.9% + 30c). We take nothing. No credit card needed to get started.

No catch. Static sites are cheap to host, and this is a passion project by someone who reads too much. We never touch your ebook revenue. No commission, no platform fee, no revenue share.

If you feel like it, yes. There is a Buy me a coffee button at the bottom of your dashboard sidebar. Donations never unlock anything, they just help cover the server and email bills.

Yes. In your dashboard settings, open the Account card and click Change email. We send a confirmation link to the new address, and the account switches over once that link is opened. Handy if someone set the site up for you and you want to run it yourself.

Delete option in dashboard settings. Removes everything permanently.

Working on export. Contact us in the meantime.