To clarify a bit on what Makin said with some specifics on what cuts are taken on a FRAF Creators Merch in our storefront:
- A small cut is taken by FRAF for operating the storefront and mostly goes towards paying for our website costs, funding more ambitious endeavors to support the creators, and hopefully compensating us a bit for our time making this thing if there's much left over.
- A small cut goes to What Pumpkin for handling our financials (Payout, taxes, etc.) because they have good existing infrastructure to do so. I would like to note that I have been given the option to absorb this cost if I take on these responsibilities myself, and still might, but that's a lot to take on and at least at this time I do believe the service they provide us is worth the small cost we pay them.
- A small cut goes to Homestuck Inc. as the IP holder, which is Andrew Hussie's company. While I have heard (mostly from Makin so like, take it with a grain of salt) other licenses out in the wild might have a larger HS inc cut than us, I was able to work out a genuinely really good deal here for the creators under my FRAF license.
- A large majority of the profit goes to the creator, which they are free to do with however they wish.
Outside of the Merch sales, the creators have not been asked for any cuts or royalties on any other revenue sources they have.