All resources have a status, or state, associated with them. These states allow you to easily understand the behaviour of your resource to different types of users.
Resources start as a draft before being submitted for approval. Once submitted, resources become published if they are approved by our resource moderators, deleted if they break our rules, or returned back to being a draft if minor changes are required. Once published, creators can unpublish their resource at any time which will prevent new people from buying paid resources or downloading free resources. Marking a resource as unlisted will behave in exactly the same way as a published resource but only be accessible through a direct link.
A detailed explanation of each of the states and their permissions are:
All resources start as drafts. As the name suggests, a draft is only able to be seen by you and any collaborators you invite to work on your resource with you. There’s no maximum amount of time that your resource can be a draft for, and you’re able to edit your draft as many times as you’d like.
Although it’s not required to fill out all of the required fields while your resource is a draft, required fields must be filled out before you can submit your resource for manual approval by our staff team. While editing a draft there is a checklist of all fields that must be entered before you submit your resource for approval.
We aim to approve all resources within 72 hours of their submission, but sometimes it can take longer. While a resource is pending approval it will have the exact same permissions as a draft and it can continue to be edited, but it is recommended to keep your resource as a draft until you’re completely ready to publish it.
Read more information about our approval process here: Moderator Approval Process
Resources can only be deleted by staff members, and once deleted a resource cannot be edited or undeleted. If you would like to delete your resource, you should unpublish it instead which allows existing buyers to continue downloading the resource until their license expires.
If you submit your resource for approval and it has minor issues, such as the description not being descriptive enough or the title breaking our requirements, we will turn it back into a Draft so you can resubmit once you have fixed the issues. Resources are only marked as deleted by our team for significant infractions, such as distributing trojans or unowned content.
If you would like to discontinue a resource or have changed your mind about selling it, you should set its status to be unpublished. While a resource is unpublished the product page will not be viewable by anyone who isn’t an creator, collaborator, or buyer with a current license. Current buyers will still be able to review an unpublished resource, but these reviews will of course only be visible to other buyers.
Once unpublished, a resource can return to being published at any time with no cooldown. This can be handy if, for example, you would like to only sell a Christmas-themed build throughout December and have it unpublished for the remainder of the year.