Terms of service

The Solo Market is operated from Portugal, in the European Union. Full legal entity details, registered address and VAT number will be listed here before the public launch. Until then, reach us through the contact form.

We are a marketplace. Sellers write the software; we list it, take the payment, and pass on the seller's share. We are not the author of the tools sold here and we do not warrant that any tool will work on your particular machine.

Every submission is reviewed by a person before it can be listed. That review is a good-faith check, not a security guarantee — you are downloading and running software written by a third party, and you do so at your own risk.

You need an account to buy or sell. You must give a real email address, keep your password to yourself, and be old enough to enter a contract where you live. You are responsible for what happens under your account.

You can delete your account at any time from account settings. Deleting it does not remove listings you have sold or purchases you have made, because other people rely on those records.

Software only, and only software you wrote or are licensed to resell. It must be self-contained, run on the buyer's own machine, ship with a setup guide, and disclose any network calls it makes.

You may not list: anything that runs on your servers (SaaS or subscriptions), non-software goods, physical products, freelance services, code you do not have the right to sell, malware, data harvesters, obfuscated or hidden-behaviour tools, or anything illegal.

We can decline, delay or remove any listing, including one already approved, if we believe it breaks these rules or harms buyers. Where we reasonably can, we will tell you why and give you a chance to fix it.

You keep full ownership of your code. Listing here does not transfer any intellectual property to us. You grant us a non-exclusive licence to host your package, show your title, description, screenshots and demo video, and deliver the files to people who buy it. That licence exists so we can run the marketplace, and it ends when your listing comes down — except that buyers who already paid keep the right to re-download what they bought.

You are free to sell the same tool elsewhere. There is no exclusivity.

You set the price. On each sale you keep 85% and we keep 15%. That fee is all-inclusive: it covers payment processing and hosting. There are no listing fees and no monthly cost.

Payments and payouts run through Stripe. You complete Stripe's own onboarding and provide your identity and bank details directly to Stripe — we never see them. Stripe pays out to your bank on a monthly schedule. You must have completed that onboarding before your tools can be sold.

If a buyer is refunded, the refund covers the full sale, including your share. Where your share has already been transferred, we will settle the difference against later sales or ask you to repay it.

You are responsible for your own taxes. As an EU operator we may be required to report seller information to tax authorities under DAC7, and we will collect what that requires.

When you buy a tool you get a perpetual, non-exclusive, personal licence to use that version and any updates the seller publishes to it. You can re-download it from your library at any time while your account exists.

You may not resell, redistribute or republish a tool you bought here, unless the seller's own licence explicitly allows it.

Refunds are covered in our refund policy.

Tools are sold as they are. We do not promise a tool will suit your purpose, run on your setup, or keep working as your operating system changes. We do not promise the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

Nothing here limits rights you have under mandatory consumer law in your country. Where the law allows us to limit our liability, our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

You can stop using The Solo Market whenever you like. Sellers can pull a listing at any time; buyers who already paid keep access to what they bought. We can suspend or close an account that breaks these terms.

We may update these terms. If a change materially affects sellers, we will email active sellers before it takes effect. Continuing to use the marketplace after that means you accept the change.

These terms are governed by Portuguese law. If you are a consumer in the EU, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country you live in.