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What you need to start selling

What you need to start selling


Selling on Creatures means real money will flow to you, so there are a few one-time things to set up: two before your listing can go public, and one before you can withdraw what you earn. You do them once, and then you can list as often as you like. This article walks each one, what it is, and why it is there.


Creating a listing on Creatures


A verified phone number


  • What it is: Creatures sends a code to your mobile number and you enter it to confirm the number is yours. The steps are in Verifying your phone number.
  • Why it is required: it ties your account to a real, reachable person. On a marketplace where live animals and real payments change hands, that is the baseline trust signal, and it protects honest buyers and sellers alike.
  • What it means for you: until your phone is verified, you cannot complete the steps that make a listing live. Verify once and you are set across the whole platform.


Identity verification


  • What it is: a secure identity check handled by Stripe, where you confirm who you are with a government ID and a live selfie. See Verifying your identity for what to have ready.
  • Why it is required: sellers receive money, so Creatures confirms a real identity behind each seller. It is the same trusted flow that unlocks payouts.
  • What it means for you: completing it raises your seller trust level and clears the way to receive funds. You only do it once.


A connected payout account (Stripe Connect) with payouts enabled


This is the step that lets money actually reach your bank, walked end to end in Connecting your payout account.


  • What it is: a Stripe Connect account you connect to Creatures. Stripe is the payment processor that holds and moves funds. You provide your business or personal details and a bank account, and Stripe verifies them.
  • What "payouts enabled" means: Stripe has finished verifying you and switched on the ability to pay out. A connection that is started but not yet verified does not count; payouts must be enabled.
  • What it means for you: with payouts enabled, the proceeds from a sale can be withdrawn from your Creatures Wallet to your bank. Without it, you can still list and sell, but your money waits in your Wallet, because there is not yet a verified place to send it.


The public-listing gate


Putting these together, a listing can go public once your phone number and your identity are both verified. Creatures checks this before your listing is visible to buyers. Your payout account can come afterward: it is what lets you withdraw your proceeds to your bank, and your sale money waits safely in your Wallet until it is connected.


  • What it is: a gate that confirms a verified, reachable person is behind every public listing.
  • Why it exists: buyers pay real money to the person behind the listing, so Creatures confirms who that is before the listing goes in front of them.
  • What it means for you: finish phone and identity verification and your listings publish smoothly. If a listing will not go public, an unfinished verification is the usual reason, and the form's Verify phone and Verify identity buttons take you straight there.


After setup, your fees


Once you are set up, selling carries a 5% seller fee on each sale (waived if you have Creatures Pro), and the buyer pays a separate 5% buyer fee. The full money picture is in Seller fees and the Creatures Pro subscription and How seller payout works.


Two more things you can put in place


Beyond the required setup, a few optional tools make selling smoother:



Once a sale actually happens, on or off Creatures, the next step is to update the animal's profile and hand it to the buyer; see Sold your animal? How to update Creatures.



Updated on: 07/08/2026

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