Is IPR open during the COVID-19 pandemic?
Yes. For more information see IPR Operations During Pandemic.
How do I qualify for an IPR retail account?
To get a retail account with IPR, we will need to verify that you are a brick & mortar retail store. However, if you are a retailer outside of the United States or Canada who operates in some other manner, please contact us and we will consider your request.
What do I need to do to get set up?
First off, let us know you're interested by email to support@indiepressrevolution.com so we can verify your brick& mortar status; pointing us at a website with store photos is a great way to get that done. While we're working on verification, you should go ahead and sign up for an account with our online store. To do this, go to our website www.indiepressrevolution.com and click on the "Register" button on the left-hand side of the page. Please make sure to fill out all the required information. The company name and web site fields are important. We'll use those to add you to our Stores That Sell IPR Games page once your account is verified.
After your account is set up, contact us at support@indiepressrevolution.com to tell us the username you selected when you registered. After we've verified your brick & mortar status we'll give your account retailer privileges, and you'll be able to proceed with placing orders.
How does order placement work once I have an account with IPR?
Once your account is set up, just log onto our store and add items to your cart. The discounts offered on products will be displayed. As a retailer you'll have access to the Retailer Multi-Order page (linked on the left hand side once you log in) to see our entire discounted catalog at once. On that page you can add multiple items to your cart with just a handful of clicks.
If you would like to recieve a weekly spreadsheet each Monday morning listing all products available to retailers send email to support@indiepressrevolution.com asking to be added to the list of retailers who recieve that. If you prefer, you can order by filling out that spreadsheet, deleting unwanted items, and returning it to support@indiepressrevolution.com.
Each Monday the Retailer New Products page is updated with links to products added in the last 90 days, restocked in the last week, or that were best sellers last quarter.
Each weekday the Retailer Last 100 page is updated with links to our 100 newest products with the most recently added at the top, and our All Retailer Products page is updated with a list of every product available to retailers. All 3 of these pages are available from the Help Menu at the lower left of our front page.
What discounts can I expect?
IPR's standard retailer discount is 45%. And whenever an item is on sale on IPR, we do our best to pass those same savings on to our retailers.
Many games at IPR come in 3 versions: a physical book, a PDF, and a bundle of Print+PDF. Only the physical items are available at a discount to retailers, so be careful not to order the Print+PDF bundle by mistake. Bundles are always labeled "[Print+PDF]" and PDFs are always labelled "[PDF]".
Note that some publishers use Bits & Mortar to provide a free copy of the PDF of their game to customers who buy the physical book at a participating game store. Bits & Mortar is unaffiliated with IPR but we encourage our retailers to also sign up there.
How does payment work?
Payment is up front, by credit card, Paypal, or advance check. IPR cannot offer NET-anything terms or accept invoices.
How does shipping work?
We process our orders on Monday and Thursday for packaging and shipping on Tuesday and Friday.
If you're a retailer in the USA or have a freight forwarder in the USA, we offer free shipping on orders of $400 or more using UPS Ground in the lower 48 US states and USPS Media Mail to Alaska and Hawaii. For international orders we provide shipping at cost; we recommend contacting us at support@indiepressrevolution.com to discuss shipping options.
How is IPR different from other distributors?
Right up front, IPR isn't a distributor, not in the way you're used to. Instead, IPR is a fulfillment house for an alliance of small-press, "indie" publishers combining forces to give you a one-stop shopping experience for hard-to-find items. IPR holds inventory on consignment for its member-publishers.
This set-up means that we can't offer terms for payment or returnability. We realize this can seem like a lot of hassle, but in return we can offer you games and other products not easily found elsewhere.
Does the brick & mortar focus mean I can't do online sales of products I buy from IPR?
It's completely OK if you sell products online as well as in your brick & mortar store, but we're going to ask that you don't sell them at a discount. That's the partnership we're looking to build here—you get the retail, face-to-face sales, and we do the website sales. If you're hard-core competing with IPR in web-sales, that doesn't work out well for either of us. Since IPR passes along the savings of publisher sales to you as well (see above), there's no worries about IPR's web-sales angling to undercut yours.
At the end of the day, IPR is here to build a 21st century partnership between you and its small-press publishers, one where everyone is looking out for everyone else's best interests.
Let us help you! One thing you can count on from IPR is our excellent customer care. If there is a title you have questions about, ask! Unlike many of the traditional distributors, we know our products. We are more than happy to help you figure out if a certain title is a good fit for your shelves.
