Does Manifold support a different platform outside of Crossmint? Crossmin limit is very low for 1/1 sales and they are phasing out their freemium NFT service. They will not lift my limit for a 1/1 sale, which is super frustrating.
For context, all my traditional buyers with my fine art, I onboard them into our web3 space. To do this, I ask them to create a wallet (I help them), then they pay via credit card. That payment then converts to ETH on that transaction thanks to Crossmint when I set up my claim page within Manifold. This makes it much easier for onboarding, rather than them buying ETH for the purchase.
I can of course ask them to pay me in cash, but this defeats the purpose of onboarding them into our space and to show that transparency with my art value growing over time.
Now that Crossmint is phasing this out, I’m looking for help on another solution so my collector can purchase. Any help?
This is incredibly interesting to hear. I was not aware Crossmint is phasing out their freemium NFT services. We’ll go do some discussion and get back to you as our whole intention is to make it easy for artists to sell their work and if this is the case, we gotta find a new solution!
Can you go into a little more detail about what limits they’re starting to impose and how the fees are tied to them? Thank you so much!!!
There limit has always been $1500 for any sale. Anything more than that, you have to sign a document as it’s high risk as a user could call the credit card company and flag it as fraudulent.
Overall, Crossmint as a company is removing it as a business and focusing more on their subscription plan, which is incredibly expensive with a 12-month minimum. No artist can afford it.
Please research another option, this has been my primary way to onboard collectors with my 1/1’s and really don’t want to find another solution outside of Manifold as my smart contract is on there.
Thank you for the clear response. So your sales prices have risen and now you’re crossing the upper limit of what Crossmint allows. What a bummer. I’d be frustrated too.
I see this in their docs now, it requires contacting their sales team to allow an increase to about $7000 USD equivalent sales:
Question about the subscription model, from what I see on their site there is still a free tier that is sort of pay as you go. If you were to sell 1/1s what would you fee accrual look like on their system? Trying to wrap my head around their pricing model and it’s a bit convoluted I’ll admit. I want to understand how this impacts you so that I can extrapolate to other artists and find a solution that will cost less, but I need a starting point to compare against. Big thanks.You’re helping out the whole community with this.
Happy to jump on a call with you to explain more as I’ve been working with Crossmint + Manifold for a few years now.
The freemium NFT Checkout offering you are referring to, they are phasing out. This will be gone soon and the only way to have a product with them will be this huge $1,299/mo with a min 12 month term commitment. Which is not realistic for any artist.
I have signed the $7k document to increase, we did that a few years back, I recently asked for a larger amount a few days ago, and they let me know the program is phasing out, which is a big issue for me onboarding folks.
I’m asking Manifold to find another solution since Crossmint is baked into the claim page checkout. Since that is phasing out, Manifold may need to find another provider to offer this service. My guess is this service isn’t too common with the USDC > ETH converter, but nonetheless a great way to onboard folks. I really don’t want to accept cash as I like the transparency of NFT to show my art value growing over time.
If you find another solution, this company will likely have the same high risk of large cash payments as that again can be ‘fraudulent’ if the buyer decides to call it in for some unknown reason. That risk and freemium bit for Crossmint is something they are moving away from.