Legal
Seller Agreement
Document details
Version: 0.1.0 (draft). Effective date: none — this draft is not yet in effect, and nothing in it is in force. Last updated: 12 August 2026. Responsible entity: [SPHEROMNI RESPONSIBLE ENTITY — TBD]. Governing law and jurisdiction: [PRIMARY JURISDICTION — TBD]. Contact: [PRIVACY CONTACT — TBD].
Change history:
- Version 0.1.0 (Milestone 19 refresh) — adopted the shared legal boilerplate every document in this set now carries. Editorial only — no term changed, and the document is still not in effect.
- Version 0.1.0 — first draft, written alongside the marketplace commerce architecture. No earlier version exists and none has been in effect.
What being a seller means today
It means a record, verified by a member of Spheromni staff, that says you are a seller. That is the whole of it in this release. A verified seller cannot submit an application to the store, because no third-party submission route exists; cannot set a price on anything, because nothing in Spheromni has a price; and cannot be paid, because seller payouts are not launched. Being told otherwise would be the most valuable thing this document could get wrong, so it is said first.
Applying and verification
A signed-in account applies with a seller name, a legal name and a country. An account may apply at most 5 times in total, counting re-applications after a refusal; that count is never reset. Staff read the application and decide.
Verification here is a human decision about a claim you made. It is not a financial-grade identity check: no such check is performed anywhere in this product, and the payout provider reports identity verification as an unavailable capability. Your legal name and country are read by reviewing staff and by nobody else. They are not shown in the store, on any public page, or to other members.
Suspension, refusal and reinstatement
Staff can refuse an application and can suspend a verified seller. Those two decisions — the reject and suspend actions in Spheromni’s seller review vocabulary, and the only two that take something away — always carry a written reason, and that reason is shown to you in your own Settings window — Spheromni sends no email and no notification of any kind, so the product is the only place any outcome appears. A refused applicant may apply again while attempts remain. A suspended seller cannot apply again; only a reinstatement by staff restores the standing.
Every one of those decisions is written to Spheromni’s administrative audit trail in the same database operation as the decision itself, so a decision cannot exist without its record.
Commission
Spheromni intends to take a commission on marketplace sales. The rate is read from configuration rather than written into the product’s code, and it is deliberately not set: choosing a rate is a commercial decision that has not been made. An unset rate does not behave as zero — every operation that would depend on it refuses instead.
Activates with payment, after commercial and legal review: the commission rate itself, when it may change, how much notice a change carries, and whether it varies by category or by seller. When a sale is recorded, the rate in force at that moment is stored on the record of that sale, so a later change to the rate cannot restate what you already earned.
Payouts
Seller payouts are not launched, and this product will not launch them until the required financial, tax and identity obligations have been reviewed. There is no bank field anywhere in Spheromni and no place to enter one. A seller balance is shown as what it genuinely is: nothing, derived from a ledger with no rows in it.
Activates with payment, after commercial and legal review: the payout schedule, the minimum payout amount, the payment methods available in each country, who bears transfer costs, what happens to a balance held for a suspended seller, and how long an unclaimed balance is held.
Tax
No tax information is collected from sellers. Spheromni computes no tax, displays no tax amount, and issues no tax document. The seller record carries structured fields for tax data so that activating them later does not require rebuilding the record, and today the only value any of them holds is “not collected”.
Activates with payment, after commercial and legal review: [SELLER TAX OBLIGATIONS — TBD], including which party is the seller of record in each jurisdiction, which tax forms are collected and when, withholding, and reporting thresholds. These are blocked on [PRIMARY JURISDICTION — TBD] and on qualified tax advice, and nothing about them is stated here.
What you may sell
You may offer only work you made, or work you are licensed and authorised to distribute. Reselling or repackaging somebody else’s application — including wrapping an external website or progressive web application you do not hold the rights to — is not permitted, whether or not money is involved.
This clause is in force in the sense that it describes what Spheromni will do about it: staff can refuse an application and suspend a seller record with a reason, and both of those work today. It has no financial consequence attached, because there is no money to withhold.
Ending this relationship
You can stop being a seller by asking staff to suspend the record. There is no self-serve control for it, and saying otherwise would be describing a button that does not exist. Deleting your Spheromni account deletes the seller record with it, along with everything else held under the account.
Changes to this agreement
This is a draft and will be rewritten before it is used. When a version is finalised it will carry an effective date and a change history, and material changes will be described rather than summarised as “updates”. No acceptance of this document is recorded anywhere, because it is a draft and drafts must not be accepted; applying to sell does not accept it.