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Step by Step Guide: Create Collection on Freee.xyz

Freee.xyz makes it flexible yet easy for creators to launch NFT collections, even with a large number of artworks. The platform supports up to 20,000 artworks, multi-stage minting, a seamless reveal experience and many more. In this guide, we'll walk you through the process of creating and launching your collection on Freee.xyz.

Overview of Creating Collection

There are 4 steps in total to create a NFT Collection. You will need to

  1. Fill in Basic Collection Info

  2. Setup Sale Stages (Minting Stages) for your Collection

  3. Choose and setup Reveal Experience for your Collection

  4. Review and Create your Collection

Let’s get started with create a Collection by go click on the Create button on located on the top right corner of Freee.xyz and select Collection.

Create a Collection
Create a Collection

Step 1. Fill in Basic Collection Info

Upon click on Create Collection button, you will be redirect to create collection Page where you need to first specify basic info for your collection.

Fill in basic info for your collection
Fill in basic info for your collection

Fill in all required information for your NFT Collection. All fields are mandatory at this step, details as follow:

  1. Fill in a Name for your collection.

  2. Upload Collection Thumbnail, this will serve as cover image for your collection when display on Freee.xyz.

  3. Fill in a Symbol for your collection.

  4. Add a Description, any information you want to share about your collection.

  5. Fill in your Collection Size, this is the number of artworks in your collection.

  6. Fill in Royalty percentage you take from secondary sale.

  7. Set a Payout Address, a wallet address to receive withdrawals & royalties, It will be default to connected wallet; however, you can change it to a multi-signature wallet or an external split contract.

  8. Select a Network to launch your NFT. In this guide, we will be using Abstract Testnet.

Tips: Kindly double-check your Collection Name and Symbol to ensure they are correct, as these cannot be changed after the contract is deployed. All other fields remain editable after deployment.

Click on Continue button after done.

Step 2. Setup Sale Stages

At this step, your gonna setup sale stages (minting stages) for your collection. For your information, there are 2 type of sale stages support for Collection, which is

  1. Presale Stages, maximum 5 stages

  2. Public Sale

Kindly note that, sales timing for all stages must not overlap.

Setup sale stages
Setup sale stages

Important: Do note that if you haven't decide on your collection’s sale stages, both Presale and Public Sale, you are till able to proceed by click on Continue button and set it up later in Collection management page.

2.1 Setup Presale Stages

Presale Stages (sometimes called a “pre-mint”, “allowlist mint” or “whitelist mint”) that gives early access to those who are on the allowlist. You can allocate your collection to a specific groups of audience, called an “allowlist” who get the privilege to mint earlier or at a special price. A collection can setup up to maximum 5 presale stages.

Click on the Add a Presale button and a dialog will pop out for you to enter your presale details.

Add a presale stage
Add a presale stage
  1. Enter Stage Name for your presale.

  2. [Optional] Set a Stage Supply if applicable. This limit the number of NFT that can be mint during this stage.

  3. Set a Stage Price, enter your desired amount in ETH (or other selected chain currency). The price can be updated after your collection has been created.

  4. Decide Start & end time of current presale stage. This is optional during contract creation, but you are require to setup afterward, else your collection Presale stage won't start.

  5. Fill in Mint limit per address for current stage. This is required, presale stage need to have a default limit of number of NFT an allowlist address can mint.

  6. Setup Allowlist for current stage, setup list of wallet addresses that allow to mint at current stage. You have option to upload an CSV (follow specified format) or enter all addresses manually. This is optional during contract creation, but you are require to setup afterward, else your collection Presale stage will be inactive.

Click on Confirm button to Add your presale stage.

2.2 Setup Public Sale

Public sale is the stage where everyone can mint your collection artworks until mint out.

Setup public sale for your collection
Setup public sale for your collection
  1. Turn on / off public sale for your collection.

  2. Set a Price for public sale, enter your desired amount in ETH (or other selected chain currency). The price can be updated after your collection has been created.

  3. Decide Start & end time of public sale. This is optional during contract creation, but you are require to setup afterward, else your collection Public stage won't start.

  4. Fill in Mint limit per address for public sale. This is optional, leave empty if don't want to limit number of NFT a user can mint.

Step 3. Choose & Setup Reveal Experience

What is reveal experience? Creator/project owner might don’t reveal their artwork until after the project mint out. When user participate in the collection mint, the NFT everyone mints will at first look the same, which is a placeholder pre-reveal artwork. The “real” NFT metadata and artwork will be “revealed” afterward when the creator/project owner updates the collection NFT’s metadata.

Freee.xyz provides 2 options for creator/project owner, where you get to decide whether you want a reveal experience for your collection or rather not to have.

Choose reveal experience for your collection
Choose reveal experience for your collection

3.1 Setup with Reveal Experience

Select I want reveal experience, setup pre-reveal option, collection reveal will be perform after mint out.

Setup pre-reveal placeholder image
Setup pre-reveal placeholder image
  1. Select and upload a Pre-reveal Image, this will be the image user get when the participate in mint before creator/project owner reveal the collection artworks.

  2. Enter Pre-reveal Description, this description will be displayed as individual NFT description on secondary market before collection revealed. This is optional.

3.2 Setup without Reveal Experience

Select No reveal needed, upload collection artworks option where user get collection artworks immediately upon mint. Creator/project owner are provided with 2 ways to upload collection artworks.

Upload and setup collection artwork for immediate reveal
Upload and setup collection artwork for immediate reveal

Freee.xyz provide 2 ways for creator to setup their collection artworks:

  1. Upload from your computer: Creator will be prompt to upload an artwork folder containing full collection artwork and metadata. Freee.xyz support various different artwork metadata setup, you can download and follow the example folder provided.

  2. Import self-hosted collection artworks: This is recommend for advance user only, where artwork had been uploaded and setup properly on decentralised storage.

You may refer to this document, How to upload collection artworks? for full detail on how to upload & setup your collection artworks.

Step 4. Review & Create Collection

This is the last step for creating a Collection on Freee.xyz. You are required to review all the setup you done in previous steps, ensure everything is correct, then proceed to click on the Create button.

Review and create your collection
Review and create your collection

Once you click the "Create" button to finish creating your collection. This will prompt you to accept a gas fee.

  1. An upload process will start automatically once you’ve approved the transaction within your wallet. This process is there to upload setup related to artwork onto decentralised storage.

  2. After upload done, a message will appear within your connected wallet for you to approve the gas fee to complete the creation of your drop. Review and approve it, then wait for your transaction to complete.

  3. Once the transaction has been confirmed and collection created, you're set to launch your NFT collection on Freee.xyz.

Managing Your NFT Collection

To manage your NFT Collection on Freee.xyz connect your wallet, go to the top right corner, click on your profile icon and select Manage Collections from the menu.

Navigate to Manage collections
Navigate to Manage collections

On your Collection management page, you can do multiple things such as:

  1. Setup collection social links.

  2. Setup collection custom path (Prime ONLY)

  3. Setup preview carousel & custom banner and (Prime ONLY)

  4. Manage collection sale stages

  5. Reduce collection size

  6. Edit collection metadata (cover image & description)

  7. Airdrop collection

  8. Reveal collection or changing collection artworks

Creators may setup collection X, formerly Twitter, Discord server invite link & Telegram channel invite link. Upon click on Update button, you will be prompt to sign a message in your wallet to verify the update.

Access it under Minting Page Setting section for Prime collection whereas for normal collection access it under Overview section on your collection management page.

Setup social links
Setup social links

Note: Prime & normal collection is having slightly different interface for setting up social links.

2. Setup collection custom path (Prime ONLY)

Custom path is a beautify and human-readable path to your collection. This function is available for Prime collection only. Access it under Minting Page Setting section in your collection management page.

Setup custom path
Setup custom path

Prime collection is able to add on maximum 2 preview carousel images and overview banner to it minting page.

  • Preview carousel images will be show on top of minting page beside collection mint schedule.

  • Whereas, Overview banner will be display under collection description collection minting page

This function is available for Prime collection only. Access it under Minting Page Setting section in your collection management page.

Setup Prime Minting page images
Setup Prime Minting page images

4. Manage collection sale stages

Collection sale stages configuration is edit-able, you may control various setting such as:

  • Sale start & end time

  • Sale price

  • Mint limit for particular sale stages

  • Add or remove presale stages before it start

  • Individual allowlist for every presale stage

Manage collection presale & public sale
Manage collection presale & public sale

5. Reduce collection size

Collection size is change-able but only limit to reduction, which means that you can reduce the supply of your collection if necessary, but not the other way round. Do note that you can’t reduce your collection size to be lower that current mint count.

You may access it under Setting section in your collection management page.

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6. Edit collection metadata (cover image & description)

Your collection cover image & description on Freee.xyz website can be edit under Setting section in your collection management page. These 2 info are grouped under Metadata section.

Edit collection metadata.
Edit collection metadata.

7. Airdrop collection

This feature allows you to send your collection NFT to any address without them needing to mint or pay for it. Maximum 300 addresses allowed for 1 airdrop action. You may access this under Airdrop section in your collection management page.

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Note: NFTs minted through the airdrop function do not earn diamond rewards, and minted numbers do not add to the ranking calculation on Freee's Trending page.

8. Reveal collection

This feature is for collection which setup reveal experience during contract creation. It involve 2 steps:

  1. Upload / import your collection artworks. You may refer this document for full detail, How to upload collection artworks?

  2. Reveal collection. This will prompt you to sign a transaction on-chain and unveil your collection artworks.

You may access this under Reveal Collection section in your collection management page.

Reveal collection
Reveal collection

9. Update collection artworks

Sometime, collection artworks might contains some minor issues and you are required to make a change to fix it. In this case, you will need to Update your collection artworks, this require you to re-upload / import the full collection again, then sign a transaction to update it on-chain.

You may access this under NFTs section in your collection management page.

Update collection artworks
Update collection artworks

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