We have a sales notifications feature that emails you a notification when you get a sale.
Most people love getting these notifications! They're turned on by default for paid purchases, but you can adjust the settings, as we set out below in this article.
Please note these notifications are limited to 10 per day to prevent you from being spammed, as we explain below.
An Important Note About Sales Notification Emails
These emails are just notifications. You should use them as a morale boost, but they are not a "source of truth" for sales records.
Like we said above, these emails are limited to 10 per day. Also, purchases can be refunded later. (Our refund rate is very low, but refunds do happen from time to time.)
Related Article Section: Finding Refund Details
The Royalties section of your account is where you should go for data, not notification emails.
You can find the Royalties section of your account here:
We recommend you explore the Royalties section of your account. There is a lot of detail there, including a CSV you can download with information about all of your sales.
Why Did We Write This "Important Note"?
We've had authors in the past who have made spreadsheets based on these sales notification emails, copying and pasting information from the emails into their spreadsheets.
Occasionally their spreadsheets don't match our data. This is because of the daily notification email send limit, refunds, and of course, the unfortunate but universal nature of human error.
For these reasons, please use these notification emails as motivation, not sources of data!
Finding Your Book Sales Notifications Settings Page
You can find the "Notifications" page for your book here:
https://leanpub.com/YOUR_BOOK/edit_notifications
...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique web address.
You can also find the "Notifications" page on your book's "Overview" page:
Here are the defaults settings you'll see on your book's Notifications page:
The three options are:
Email me only for paid purchases
Email me for all paid and free purchases
Do not email me
Hopefully those options are self-explanatory!
To avoid spamming your email inbox, these individual sale notification emails are limited to 10 per day.
Finding the Royalties Section of Your Account
You can find the Royalties section of your account here:
You can access this section from the menu at the top right of every Leanpub page:
Finding Your Book's Sales Page
Please note you can check your book sales on the "Sales" page for each book.
You can find the "Sales" page for your book here:
https://leanpub.com/YOUR_BOOK/sales_30_days
...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique web address.
You can also find the "Sales" page on your book's "Overview" page:
Here's what the Sales page looks like:
Finding Your Book's Refunds Page
You can find the "Refunds" page for your book here:
https://leanpub.com/YOUR_BOOK/refunds
...making sure to replace YOUR_BOOK with your book's unique web address.
You can also find the "Refunds" page on your book's "Overview" page:
Here's what the Refunds page looks like:
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