Ask MagCloud: General MagCloud

For Standard, Square, and Digest products the PDF you upload can be as few as 8 pages or as many as 384 pages.

If the PDF is more than 20 pages long, the total page count must be a multiple of 2. If it is less than 20 pages long, or you want your printed product to be saddle-stitch bound, the total page count must be a multiple of 4. Click here to learn more about the PDF length requirements for each binding option.

For Pamphlet products the PDF should be 4 pages. For Flyer products it should be 2 pages.

The PDF you upload to MagCloud should be one of the following sizes:

• 8.5" wide by 11" tall (Standard, Pamphlet or Flyer products)
• 8.25" wide by 8.25" tall (Square, Pamphlet or Flyer products)
• 8.5" wide by 5.5" tall (Digest, Pamphlet or Flyer products)
• 5.5" wide by 8.5" tall (Digest, Pamphlet or Flyer products)

Standard, Square, Digest and Pamphlet products will be trimmed by 0.125" on the top and bottom and 0.25" on the outside edge. Flyer products will be trimmed by 0.125" on all sides.

For more information about PDF specifications and step-by-step instructions to help you set up your file, please see our PDF Guides.

All you need to publish is a MagCloud account and a PDF. Publishers who want to add a markup to their MagCloud publication's price must also have a PayPal account in order for MagCloud to pay earnings from your sales. See our Terms of Use for additional information.

You are welcome to include advertising in your MagCloud publication. Small to medium sized publishers often do not have easy access to advertising, and we hope MagCloud will be able to help with this in the future.

You can use any authoring tool that creates multi-page PDFs to create your MagCloud publication. Please see our PDF Guides for some design tool suggestions, and step-by-step instructions to get started.

You can call it whatever you want! If it meets our technical requirements, it does not matter to us if it is a brochure, an art portfolio, or a calendar.

You can publish your publication on MagCloud without offering it for sale to the general public. When you Publish, just set the privacy to Unlisted (it is set to Listed by default). You can also change this at any time by selecting "Edit Publication" from the Publication Tools menu on your Publish page or from the publication page.

If you wish to allow only selected people to see and purchase your MagCloud publication, you can set the visibility of your publication to Unlisted and use our Guest Pass feature. This will generate a special URL that will grant access rights to anyone who receives it.

To send a Guest Pass, go to the publication page of an unlisted publication you own and click the "Email" icon below the cover image. Enter up to 5 email addresses for the people you want to grant access to and click the "Send Message" button. Each recipient will receive an email from MagCloud with a unique URL that allows them to view and purchase your publication. You can repeat this process as many times as you want to grant access to any number of people.

To disable a Guest Pass, click on the "Account" link at the top of any page on the MagCloud website, and then select the "Permissions" tab. You will see a list of Sharing URLs at the bottom of the page, with the option to "Show URL" or "Revoke" next to each one.

MagCloud automatically pays publishers who have a balance of $10 or more in profit on the last day of the calendar month, on or before the 10th day of the following calendar month. Publishers who meet this minimum profit threshold will have their monthly profit credited to their PayPal account.

To set up your PayPal account to automatically receive payment from MagCloud simply click the "Account" link at the top of any page on the MagCloud website. Scroll down to the "Payment Info" section of your account settings and click "Edit". Then simply enter the email address tied to the PayPal account where you would like your mark-up profits credited to, and click the "Save Changes" button.

Note: If no email address is provided in the "Payment Info" settings we will associate your credits with the email account you used to sign up on MagCloud.

Listed publications appear on the MagCloud website in the Browse tab, and can be searched for and purchased by anyone. Unlisted publications are only visible to and available for purchase by the publisher, and anyone that the publisher shares a Guest Pass with.