Welcome to ComicHub

ComicHub changes how you run your comic store by providing you with a set of Amazon and big box department store retail solutions, allowing you to operate your medium-sized business like a big business. ComicHub links all partners in the comic book industry with specialized tools for publishers, suppliers, creators, retailers, and fans, allowing for effortless data sharing, marketing, ordering, purchasing, data analysis and communications, all of which are seamlessly integrated to ensure the print comic industry thrives in the digital era. Most importantly, ComicHub is retailer-centric, with all orders and sales processed through brick & mortar retail stores, thus preserving the unique place of the comic book store in popular culture.

ComicHub is a comprehensive system that covers all facets of your business. Every tool and button in ComicHub exists because someone who owns or manages a comic store has requested it to either improve their workflow, enhance their communication with their customers, or to save them time and increase profits.

At the heart of ComicHub Retailer lies a powerful, fully-integrated POS system from where ordering, supplier communications, invoicing, stock, online and in-store payments, customer communications and sales are managed. An ever-growing set of bespoke marketing tools has also been created inside the POS that target customers based on their ordering and purchasing histories, with campaigns sent via both email and direct to their online accounts in ComicHub Customer.

Complementing ComicHub Retailer is ComicHub Customer, a set of online tools designed to give your customers complete control over their ordering and purchasing via a free website and app. Each month, all items released by major suppliers are uploaded directly into the ComicHub system and presented in itemized carousels in the customer tools, showing local pricing, story synopses, preview pages, the status for what is on order and what is available to order online. The carousels let a customer know what is in their current search, what is in stock in their favorite store, upcoming items, alerts to events and crossovers linked to their subscriptions, their order history, subscription lists and a full index of items in their collections.

To maximize your profits, ComicHub has designed a set of bespoke smart marketing tools in POS which send campaigns direct to the customer’s tools in specially designed carousels based on their ordering history. Publishers can also market direct to fans based on their history with any orders made directed through your store. Getting your customers to engage in their new eTools increases orders and keeping them engaged and requires very little effort on your part. All orders are sent direct to your POS for approval, giving you complete oversight over your customer ordering.

ComicHub has developed a series of comprehensive training manuals that are grouped into themed modules and follow the regular work flow of a comic shop. To complement the training, ComicHub hosts online support sessions three times a week at 5pm EST for new and existing users to answer any questions or issues you may have during the training process. In addition, the ComicHub Retailer Community is a tight-knit group who are willing to lend a hand and help new users navigate their way through the training via the ComicHub Retailer Facebook group.

Registration & Installation

• $150 annual app development fee
• $150 monthly POS fee
• $100 one-off fee for each extra lane install
• $100 one-off fee to convert from ComicSuite
• $10 monthly Cyber Protect data backup fee
• $15 monthly SendGrid bulk email fee

Cardknox Payment Gateway

• For online and/or in-store payments
• From $250: Cardknox card machines (one per lane)
• Installation costs and competitive transaction fees

ComicHub Premium

• $200 a month minimum fee or 1% of online sales, whichever is the greater

Compatible Hardware

• PCs, printers, barcode scanners

ComicHub has been designed to preserve and enhance comic shop culture, so in order to join the ComicHub Retailer community you must have a brick and mortar store and be open to the public at least 40 hours a week.

ComicHub Premium offers an advanced subscriber-only set of tools to make your business operations even more streamlined and profitable. ComicHub Premium is charged at a percentage based on ComicHub-generated online sales. You won’t pay more until you start to earn more. ComicHub Premium is charged at a percentage based on ComicHub-generated online sales. You won’t pay more until you start to earn more.

• In-store stock listed in the ComicHub Customer tools
• In-store comic supplies presented in carousel at check out
• Multi-store rewards
• Suggested sales to customers from their order history and local stock
• Suggestions for items missing from their collections
• Ability to browse all a store’s in-stock items online