AP-W32 Direct Commerce Readiness
Signed books, limited editions, reading-group bundles, and institutional orders now have a complete operational frame. Direct checkout remains disabled until inventory, tax, shipping, support, policies, transactional email, and fulfillment can answer for the order.
The Catalog
Every edition names its real status, price state, inventory boundary, and fulfillment path before the site offers an action.
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Retail Distribution
Hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook retailer destinations remain managed through the book center. Promise World does not invent a listing before a retailer publishes one.
Direct Edition
A signed hardcover can open only after physical inventory, signing capacity, packaging, price, tax handling, and a fulfillment owner are confirmed.
Numbered Release
The edition concept is reserved, but no limitation count, serial number, special material, price, or release date has been announced.
Group Orders
A coordinated bundle for reading groups can be quoted only after quantity, edition, destination, timing, and fulfillment costs are known.
Libraries, Schools, Organizations
Libraries, schools, universities, conferences, and organizations can prepare a complete inquiry without creating an order or implying a discount.
Digital Resource
The complete reading-group guide, host guide, and Who Paid? worksheet are already available as accessible HTML and downloadable PDFs.
Future Format
Audiobook commerce remains inactive until the production, distribution channel, runtime, narrator credits, sample, and verified listing are complete.
Activation Ledger
0 of 12 required gates are complete. Direct checkout is disabled.
Every direct edition has final copy, imagery, SKU, price, and availability.
A named source of truth can reserve and release real inventory.
A verified team or provider owns packing, shipment, tracking, loss, and damage.
Readers have a verified order-support destination and response owner.
Country and postal origin are present for carrier and tax calculations.
Registration, nexus, calculation, exemption, and recordkeeping have been reviewed.
Shipping, cancellation, damage, refund, signed-edition, and limited-edition rules are published.
The provider name, secret, and webhook verification are present outside browser code.
Every external checkout host is explicitly allowlisted and uses HTTPS.
A direct product has an HTTPS checkout URL on an explicitly allowlisted host.
The order sender and reply destination are verified.
Payment, inventory, email, shipment, refund, and reconciliation have passed a production-like test.
Order Lifecycle
The operational record continues through inventory, payment, shipment, delivery, support, refund, and reconciliation.
The exact edition, format, image, price, and availability are approved before a purchase control appears.
Inventory is reserved atomically for a completed checkout or approved institutional quote.
Payment authorization and tax records are created by the configured provider. Promise World does not collect card data directly.
The reader receives an order receipt naming the edition, quantity, price, taxes, shipping, and support path.
The fulfillment owner records packing, carrier, tracking, and any signed or numbered-edition control.
Delivery evidence begins the published support or return window rather than ending responsibility.
Damage, loss, wrong item, cancellation, refund, and accessibility requests follow a documented case record.
Transactional Messages
Public Policy Ledger