The One-Two Punch to boost your NFT Launch: Lazy Minting + Checkout

If you’ve spent any amount of time on Pinterest, you’ve almost certainly tripped across the curvy calligraphy of the motivational quotes that seem to all hangout in that part of the internet.

“Don’t wish for it, work for it,” one tells you. A favorite of ours? “Work smarter, not harder.”

It’s this principle that continues to drive us to Refine the Web3 NFT experience, lower barriers and create frictionless opportunities for more creators.

How have we been doing this? Let’s talk about “lazy minting” and Refinable’s Custom Checkout.

It ain’t crazy being lazy

Close your eyes… oh wait, don’t do that, keep reading, but imagine…

You’re a bright eyed, bushy-tailed creator just hopping into the NFT space, ready to mint a project you’ve been working hard on.

Now you’re click, click, clicking your way through an NFT marketplace, getting closer to minting your first NFT. You click through the process, when suddenly, “Gas fees.”

Done with this bad visualization trip?

Us too.

It can be frustrating to go through so many hoops and effort only to be hit with more costs just to get your NFT minted and into a marketplace.

That’s why we’ve done the foot work to integrate lazy minting into the Refinable platform.

How NFT lazy minting works

In short, lazy minting defers minting and thereby any potential gas fees incurred to the point of purchase.

Instead of minting every single item upfront like what you would do for a normal collection, creators can simply deploy a lazy minting contract and defer item minting to the market where the gas fee incurred in the minting process is borne by the buyer instead.

Not only does this lower the overall upfront cost of bringing a project to market for creators, but it also frees up their time and resources to focus on building their community and creating more traction around their project.

At Refinable, we’ve taken this a step further with our Custom Checkout feature.

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Our Custom Checkout feature is a simple, intuitive and easy to use mini portal for brands and creators to better manage and track the monetization of their projects.

From deploying contracts to the point of mint, we’ve focused on creating a user interface and experience that enables end users to lazy mint using both crypto or fiat.

This feature is available to creators directly in our Creator Suite.

Lazy minting and checkout synergy

So let’s try that visualization journey again…

Imagine you’re a creator looking to get your project you’ve worked so hard for up onto your marketplace.

You log into your Creator Suite and lazy mint your project.

You’re trying to enable as many of your community as you can the option to own one of your NFTs, so your next click journey takes you through the custom checkout tool where you’re able to earmark early signups for your whitelist, giving them first access to your NFTs, and set up payment to enable transaction in both crypto and currency… and you’re done.

All you need to cover is the contract deployment gas fee, and the rest will be covered by your fans when they mint.

With Refinable, 1+1 takes you beyond 2 to give you more.

Looking for more information about how you can get your collection up and running using lazy minting and our custom checkout feature?

Follow our socials and join us in conversation on discord. Or hit us at partnerships@refinable.com.