Welcome to Tellie Drops

Tellie Drops are digital keys that can be used to unlock exclusive content, products, and more. Drops are a powerful tool for generating revenue and building deeper relationships with your followers.

Create a Drop in minutes using original artwork, music, or videos. You can have one Item or hundreds in each Drop, and sell them directly from your Tellie Site.

Drops and Items are used as keys to unlock pages on your Tellie Site, or can be used anywhere you can connect a blockchain wallet.

Your lockable Tellie pages can include things like exclusive content or early or limited access to things like merch and tickets. When someone purchases an Item from your Drop, they are purchasing access to any Tellie Pages they can unlock with it.

People purchase your Items using MATIC, which is the native cryptocurrency of the Polygon network. Coming soon, we will offer credit card checkout and people will be able to make purchases in USD.

Blockchain Technology

Drops are created on the blockchain and in a wallet owned by you. Once you create them with us, you can sell and use them on Tellie, or anywhere you can connect a blockchain wallet.

Here's more on how it all works:

Each Drop is a smart contract that Tellie creates in a blockchain wallet designated by you. A smart contract is a bit of software that is recorded on the blockchain.

Think of your Drop like a product line or a collection or even a folder. Once you create your Drop, you can add as many Items to your Drop as you like (like adding files to a folder). Each Item is minted as a non-fungible token (NFT) in your Drop smart contract. You can create as many copies of each Item as you wish—you can make a single copy, or thousands.

We use the eco-friendly Polygon blockchain to create Drops and any Items within a Drop. Your Items are ERC-1155 tokens.

So going with our product line analogy:

Let's say you create a Drop called, "Discography."

From there, you can create an Item for each of your music albums. And you can create as many copies of each album as you wish. You can even make different versions of the same album, where one version has just a few copies, is higher priced and comes with more access and value, and the other version has thousands of copies, has a lower prices, and less value attached to it. You can even offer individual tracks as an Item within your Discography.

Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Drop

➕ Create a Collection

Open the menu on your Tellie Site, click the ⚙️ Settings Gear, and then click 💎 Manage Collections & NFTs

Click on Connect Wallet

This will be the wallet that owns the Collection.
You will need access to this wallet to mint NFTs in the future and manage the Collection.

Fill out your Collection Details

Collection Name

The name of your collection

Collection Symbol

This acts as the smart contract token name on the Polygon blockchain.
If your collection is called "Flowers", you might use something like "FLOWERS" or "FLWRS" for the symbol.

Confirm you’re ready to create your Collection

⚠️ Values cannot be changed once you start the Collection creation process

🔤 Make sure that there are no spelling errors

Only the wallet you’ve connected will be able to manage the Collection in the future
✅ If everything looks good, check the box that says “These values are correct.”

Click Create your Collection on Polygon

Before your Collection is created, you’ll be asked to confirm you own your wallet by ✍️signing a signature

If you connected a mobile wallet, open your mobile wallet app and look for a message to sign
Click or tap Sign to continue

⏱️ Wait 1-3 Minutes

It can take a few minutes for the Collection to be deployed on Polygon

🙌 Your Collection has been Created

You can see your Collection show up on tools like Polygonscan within a few minutes

💎 Mint an NFT

Connect your Wallet

If you’re creating an NFT in the same session, your wallet should already be connected.
If the app prompts you to Connect your Wallet, connect the same wallet you used to create your Collection

Upload the Media for your NFT

Select the NFT Type

Supported file types

🖼️ Images (JPG / PNG / GIF)
🎵 Audio (MP3, WAV)
📹 Video (MP4)

Uploads must be under 50mb

🖼️ Images require an Image File

🎵 Audio requires both an Audio File and a Cover Image A cover image is shown when the audio is not actively playing

📹 Video requires both a Video File and a Cover Image Cover image is shown when the video is not actively playing

Give your NFT a Title & Description

Title

This is the name of your NFT.
Titles are written to the blockchain and cannot be changed later

Description

This is an optional description for your NFT.
Descriptions are written to the blockchain and cannot be changed later

Set your Supply & Royalties

Supply

Supply is the number of copies of that NFT that are available
It can be any number of 1 or more

Royalties

Royalties are the % of the resale price for you NFT that you will receive on a 3rd party marketplace

Set if your NFT contains Explicit or Sensitive content

If your NFT contains NSFW content, this checkbox will help us protect users with safe search while browsing Tellie.

Confirm you’re ready to create your NFT

⚠️ Details like title, description and media cannot be changed once you start the NFT creation process. 🔤 Make sure that there are no spelling errors
⚖️ Check the box to confirm you have the rights to publish the artwork and content
✅ If everything looks good, check the box that says “These values are correct.”

Click Create your NFT on Polygon

Before your NFT is created, you’ll be asked to confirm you own your wallet by ✍️ signing a message in your wallet.

If you connected a mobile wallet, open your mobile wallet app and look for a message to sign
Click or tap Sign to continue

⏱️ Wait 1-3 Minutes

It can take a few minutes for the NFT to be minted on Polygon

🙌 Your NFT has been Minted

You can see your NFT show up on on Tellie and also tools like Polygonscan within a few minutes.

🔒 Create a Token Gate

You can now create a Token Gate using your Tellie Collection, or any NFT within it. Learn how.

🌊 Listing & Selling NFTs on OpenSea

OpenSea is the largest NFT marketplace. Tellie Collections work with OpenSea out of the box. How to find your NFT on OpenSea.

Your Guide to Tellie Drops – Tellie