Developer terms

These terms apply when you sell or list plugins on Rustplugins.store as an independent developer (“you”). They add to our general terms of use, which still apply to your account. The store is run by Rustplugins.store (“we”, “us”). You accept these terms when you apply for a developer account, and again each time you submit a plugin.

1. Your developer account

• You must be at least 18, or the age of majority where you live, and able to enter a binding agreement. If you sell on behalf of a team or company, you confirm you may bind it.
• The details you give us (name, contact details and, for paid plugins, your Stripe account) must be accurate and kept up to date.
• We may approve or decline any application. We'll tell you why when we can.

2. Your plugins

• You confirm you wrote each plugin you submit, or otherwise have every right needed to sell it and grant the licences below, including for any third-party code, libraries, images and assets it contains.
• Plugins must follow our review guidelines. In particular: no malicious code, backdoors, hidden admin access or undisclosed data collection; no obfuscation; no downloading or running code from outside the plugin; no stolen, leaked or relicensed work.
• You keep ownership of your plugins. We never claim ownership of your code.

3. Licence you give us

So we can sell, deliver and support your plugins, you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence, for as long as the plugin is listed and afterwards as set out in section 8, to:

• host, store, review, sign and distribute each build you upload, including delivering it to buyers' servers through Oxide Sync;
• show your plugin's name, listing, images, documentation and developer name on the store and in marketing for the store;
• grant buyers the end-user licence described in our terms of use (section 3), on your behalf.

4. Review and listing

• Every listing and every new build is reviewed before customers get it. Review is a quality and safety check, not a guarantee that a plugin is bug-free; you remain responsible for your plugins.
• We decide which plugins we list, feature or show in search and categories, and we may ask for changes before approving.
• We may pause, unlist or remove a plugin or build, or stop its delivery through Oxide Sync, at any time if we believe it breaks these terms, harms customers' servers, infringes someone's rights, or exposes us to legal risk. Where we can, we tell you first and give you a chance to fix it.

5. Prices, commission and payouts

• You set the price of each licence tier, or list the plugin for free. Free plugins cost nothing to list.
• We are the seller to the buyer: payments are taken by us through Stripe and we issue the receipt.
• For each paid sale we keep a commission of 20% of the sale price (excluding any taxes we collect). Stripe's card processing fees for the sale come out of our commission, not your share. We may set a different rate for your account in writing; any change to your rate applies only to sales made after we tell you.
• Your share is transferred to your connected Stripe account when the buyer pays. Stripe then pays it to your bank on the payout schedule Stripe sets for your account. You must keep a Stripe account in good standing to sell paid plugins, and Stripe's own terms apply to it.
• Refunds and disputes: if we refund a sale under our refund policy, or a buyer successfully disputes a payment, your share of that sale is reversed from your Stripe account. We decide refunds; we'll tell you when one is made for your plugin.
• You are responsible for your own taxes on what you earn. We may need tax information from you (for example to meet reporting rules); Stripe may collect it during setup.

6. Support and updates

• You answer support tickets about your plugins through the developer console within a reasonable time (we aim for customers to hear back within 3 business days).
• You keep paid plugins working after Rust, Oxide and Carbon updates within a reasonable time, or tell us if you no longer can.
• We may step in on any ticket, and may issue refunds where a plugin doesn't work as described and isn't fixed.

7. Your conduct

Don't contact buyers outside the store to move sales away from it, don't collect buyers' personal data from support tickets for other purposes, don't manipulate reviews, rankings or sales, and treat customers respectfully. Customer information you see in the console may only be used to support them.

8. Ending things

• You may stop selling at any time: hide your plugins from the developer console, or ask us to close your developer account.
• We may suspend or close your developer account if you break these terms, with notice where we can.
• When a plugin stops being sold, buyers who already have a licence keep it: they can keep using and downloading the last approved version, and we may keep delivering it through Oxide Sync to their servers. Sections 3 (for existing buyers), 5 (for sales already made), 9 and 10 survive.

9. Responsibility

• You are responsible for your plugins and for any claim that a plugin infringes someone's rights, damages a server, or breaks the law. You'll cover our reasonable costs of dealing with such a claim, unless it was caused by something we did.
• The store and Oxide Sync are provided “as is”. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for lost profits or indirect losses, and our total liability to you under these terms is limited to the commission we earned on your sales in the 12 months before the claim.

10. Changes and general terms

We may update these terms. We'll tell you about material changes at least 14 days before they apply to you, through the developer console or your contact details; continuing to sell after that means you accept them. These terms are governed by the same law as our terms of use.

11. Contact

To ask about selling on Rustplugins.store, open a support ticket.