Your password protected ThirdChord administration area makes being the shopkeeper of your personal music store a pleasure.  You can view your sales activity at a glance or in gory detail, add new music, edit prices change prices, add album art and edit music samples.

What if track 8 doesn't begin to rock until 45 seconds in? No problem. Create samples of any length, from any point in your song using the ThirdChord sample editor.

Sort your purchases by customer. Also sort by email and date to quickly find your users.

See if and when customers complete downloads. Re-credit customers whose downloads didn't complete.

Download comma separated value file of purchase activity for use in Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet.

Can you open a zip file? Can you FTP? If you have a website, you most likely can.

The seemingly most technical step - creating the database - is actually the easiest. If you are not comfortable doing it and if that dude who built your website won't do it, contact your webhosting provider. They definitely can.

Once ThirdChord is uploaded, the majority of the installation happens with a few quick steps in the install wizard.

1. Upload Your MP3s

ThirdChord makes adding music for sale as easy as uploading files to your server.

2. Process in One Click

With one click, ThirdChord automatically creates 25 second samples of your songs and generates the HTML to add the songs to your site.

3. Cut/Paste Code Snippet to Website

By cutting and pasting one small snipet of PHP anywhere on your website, you can have a detailed listing of your songs including links to listen to samples and "Add to Cart" buttons that your fans can use to buy individual tracks or the whole album.