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title: "Marketing kit"
description: "Turn a client's approved cover into a full campaign: check the cover, paste the launch notes, set the brand kit, review and generate the kit, build assets by hand, export it by channel, and send it for client review."
lastReviewed: "2026-09-29"
---

## What the marketing kit is

The marketing kit turns one book's approved cover into the images and the
copy for its launch. One run builds every asset for the book:

- Feed ads and stories for Meta, Instagram, Reels and TikTok.
- Launch moments: cover reveal, preorder, launch day and quote graphics.
- Email and web: a newsletter header, a website hero and a link preview.
- Amazon A+ modules and mockups of the book.
- Four copy documents: the Listing kit, the Ads kit, Social copy and the
  Launch calendar.

Every asset uses the book's launch notes and the brand kit. You can make
more like any single asset, build one by hand, export the whole kit as a
zip, and send it to your client for approval.

The marketing kit is part of the Enterprise plans (Starter, Growth and
Scale). Each marketing kit is one book's full kit for the month, and your
plan includes a number of marketing kits a month. You can create as many
books as you like: only the marketing kits are counted.

The marketing kit is not the [Book Launch Kit](/docs/launch-kit). The Book
Launch Kit is the author launch pack at /launch-kit, which Enterprise plans
also include and which runs on credits. The marketing kit is the agency tool
on the book's kit page: channel-sized assets on the client's brand kit, with
client review.

## Open a book's kit

Use one of these two paths:

- Open **/account-dashboard** and select **Marketing kit** under the book on
  your shelf.
- Open the book in the External Cover Studio and select **Open the marketing
  kit**.

The kit page has a side menu. On a phone, the menu is a row of tabs at the
top.

- **Setup** is a checklist of four steps: **Book & cover**, **Launch notes**,
  **Brand kit** and **Review & generate**. A step with a tick is done.
- **Kit** holds the finished kit: **Images**, **Copy docs**, **Formats** and
  **Client review**. **Download .zip**, beside the **Kit** heading, downloads
  the whole kit.
- **More like this**, at the foot of the menu, shows how many of the book's
  40 regenerations are left.

A book with no kit yet opens on step 1. A book with a kit opens on
**Images**.

## Step 1: Book & cover

The kit is built from the book's newest favourite cover, or from its newest
cover when it has no favourite. Step 1 shows that cover with a **Kit cover**
marker. To build the kit from another cover, mark that cover as your
favourite in your library, then reload the kit page.

A book with no cover cannot have a kit yet. Generate or upload a cover first.

The **Book** card also holds the book's **Series**. Pick a series under the
book's client, or select **Start a series**. Books in a series can share one
brand kit (step 3).

## Step 2: Launch notes

**Launch notes** holds what the assets say: the tagline, the launch and
preorder dates, the price, the retailers, the buy link, quotes, comparable
titles, hashtags and the audience.

1. Paste your launch notes into **Paste notes**. A newsletter draft, a
   listing or an email to your designer all work.
2. Optionally add up to 5 links under **Links (optional)**. Only each page's
   own title, description and cover image are read.
3. Select **Read my notes**. On a book that already has notes, the button
   says **Extract fields again**. Reading is free.
4. Check the fields on the right. Each field has a tag:
   - **From notes**: read from your notes.
   - **Edited**: you corrected it. A later read never changes it.
   - **Check**: a guess we are not sure about.
   - **Missing**: empty, and an asset needs it.
   - **Empty**: empty, and no asset needs it.

   Under each field, **Used on** lists the assets that show it. Click a value
   to correct it, then select **Save**.

If the launch date or the buy link is unclear, the step asks for them
directly. The **Print edition** fields (trim size, pages, paper, binding,
ISBN) fill in the print wrap editor.

## Step 3: Brand kit

The brand kit holds the palette, the display and body fonts, up to five mood
words, imagery rules and a logo. Every asset follows it.

1. Under **Applies to**, pick which books use this kit: **This book**,
   **This series** or **All** of the client's books.
2. Select **Pull colors from cover** to fill the palette and the fonts from
   the cover. It is free. Tick **Also detect the cover's fonts** to read the
   actual lettering (1 credit, once per cover).
3. Check the colours and fonts, and add mood words, imagery rules and a
   logo (PNG, JPG or WebP, 2 MB or smaller).
4. Select **Save to the client**, **Save to the series** or **Save to this
   book only**. The button follows your choice under **Applies to**.

A book uses its own brand kit first, then its series kit, then its client
kit. With none of them, the assets fall back to the cover.

## Step 4: Review & generate

**What's in this kit** shows, before you generate:

- How many images each group makes, and the four copy documents.
- **Copy on your assets**: the lines the kit will use. The title, the author
  and the tagline are required. The title and the author are checked against
  each finished image, so a typo there becomes a typo on the kit.
- **Cost**: **Included in plan** on the book's first run. On a later run,
  how many regenerations it uses and how many are left.
- Your plan's credits and marketing kits.
- **Things to check**: gaps that affect the results, for example no launch
  date or no brand kit, with a link to fix them.

Select **Generate kit**. The button shows what the run uses. You can leave
the page while the kit builds; it picks up again when you come back.

## Images

**Images** shows every image asset, grouped as Social, Launch moments, Email
& web, Amazon A+ and Mockups.

- Filter by group with the chips, or by status with **Status**: Ready,
  Changes requested, Approved, Not generated or Failed.
- **Check text** on a tile means the title or the author could not be read
  back from the image. Look at the text before you use it.
- Every take is its own tile, newest first, labelled **take 1**, **take 2**
  and so on. **More like this** adds a take; the earlier takes stay, also
  after you reload the page. A take is not a draft: each one is a finished
  version of the format that you can post, download, export and send for
  review.
- Select a finished tile to open it full size. Use the arrow keys or the
  strip to move through the kit, and Esc to close. From there you can
  **Download** the file or select **More like this**.
- Tick the box on several tiles to open the selection bar. Select
  **Download** to get one zip with just those takes, or **More like this** to
  make a new take of each asset. The button shows what it uses before you click.
- Under the newest tile of each asset, **More like this**, **Try again** (a
  failed asset) or **Generate** (an asset not made yet) runs that one asset.
  The button shows what it uses.
- Before the book's first run of the month, any run of part of the kit (one
  asset, a few, or one copy doc) is that first run: it uses this month's
  marketing kit for the book, and its button says **uses this month's
  marketing kit**. To get the full kit from that run, select **Generate kit**
  instead.

### What a marketing kit includes

The first **Generate kit** on a book in a month uses one marketing kit. It
gives that book, for the month:

- The full kit, plus 40 regenerations of single assets. After 40, each
  regenerated asset costs 1 credit.
- One print wrap render, one audiobook cover and one text-free cover. In
  **Formats**, each of them says **Included with this book's
  marketing kit, no credits** until you use it; after that, the card shows
  its usual credit price.
- A client review link and unlimited exports.

Plans include 5, 15 or 35 marketing kits a month on Starter, Growth and
Scale. Unused marketing kits roll over for one month.

### Credits and marketing kits

Your plan has two allowances, and step 4 (**Review & generate**) shows both,
for example: **This month: 142 of 150 credits · 3 of 5 marketing kits left**.

- Credits pay for covers, wraps, edits and the API.
- A marketing kit is one book's full kit for the month, with 40
  regenerations included (then 1 credit per asset) and a review link.

The Enterprise dashboard shows the same line. While the workspace plan is not
active, neither page shows it; see [When the workspace plan is not active](/docs/account-plans-teams#when-the-workspace-plan-is-not-active).

### When the workspace has no marketing kits left

The kit page says **This workspace has no marketing kits left this month**.
Select **Buy an extra marketing kit** to pay for this one book. After the
payment, Stripe sends you back to the kit page. It first says **Payment
received. Your extra marketing kit opens in a moment.** and updates itself.
When it says **Your extra marketing kit is ready. Select Generate kit.**,
select **Generate kit**. Do not buy again while the first message shows: the
payment has arrived, and the kit opens a few seconds later.

### Regenerations

Each book includes 40 regenerations each month. After that, each
regenerated image asset costs 1 credit.

The first **Generate kit** on a book in a month spends no regenerations.
After that, each image asset you make again spends one of the book's 40
regenerations: **More like this** on one image spends one, on a selection
it spends one per image, and running **Generate kit** again spends one per
image asset. Copy documents spend none. A background you render in the asset
composer also spends one. The **More like this** box in the side menu shows
how many are left.

Each asset is counted once, when the run starts. A retry of the same asset
spends nothing more.

When a run needs more than the regenerations left, the kit page asks first:
**The 40 regenerations included for this book are used. This run costs 2
credits. Continue?** Nothing is charged until you select **Continue for 2
credits**. The credits come from the workspace that holds the book.

- If the workspace has enough credits, every asset is made.
- If it has too few, only the assets it can pay for are made, and the page
  says how many more need credits. Buy credits on the **Enterprise
  dashboard**.
- If an asset paid in credits fails to render, its credit is refunded.

The book's kit, exports and review links keep working at any count. The 40
included regenerations reset at the next billing month.

## Create an asset by hand

The asset composer builds a new asset for a kit size, or for a size of your
own. Generate the book's kit for the month first.

1. Open **Images** and select **Create asset manually**.
2. Pick what you are making. The entry sets the size and the export folder.
   Pick **Other** for a free size between 200 and 4096 pixels on each side;
   it is filed under `Other/` in the export.
3. Select **Start**.
4. Describe the background, or pick an idea such as **Moody gradient** or
   **Night sky**, and select **Render background**. Each render uses 1 of the
   book's 40 included regenerations, then 1 credit (the composer asks first,
   and refunds the credit if the render fails). You can use a plain colour
   instead.
5. Add the **Book cover** and the **Brand logo** as image layers. Drag,
   resize and rotate them.
6. Edit the text layers. The title and the author are there to start with;
   select **Add text layer** for more.
7. Select **Save asset**. Saving is free.

The asset appears on its tile with a **Made by hand** badge. Open the tile and
select **Edit** to reopen it.

## Copy docs

**Copy docs** shows the four copy documents as readable text, one tab each:
**Listing kit**, **Ads kit**, **Social copy** and **Launch calendar**. Each
section is a card with its character count and a **Copy** button; a list,
such as the seven KDP keywords, copies one item per line. The button shows a
tick and **Copied** when the text is on your clipboard. Select the `.md`
button to download the file, or **Write again** to write the document again.
Writing a copy doc again is free once the book has its kit for the month;
before that, the button says it uses this month's marketing kit.

## Export the kit

Select **Download .zip** beside the **Kit** heading in the side menu. The zip
downloads straight away. It holds every take of each asset. It holds one folder per
channel, for example `Meta-Instagram/`, `Stories-Reels-TikTok/`, `Moments/`,
`Email-Web/`, `Amazon-A-Plus/`, `Mockups/` and `Copy/`. When the files exist,
it also holds `Print/` and `Audiobook/`.

File names carry the client, the book, the channel, the asset, its size and
its take (`_v2` from take 2 on), so the zip is ready to hand over.

## Export all kits of a client

1. Open **/enterprise-dashboard**.
2. Find the client in the **Clients** panel.
3. Select **Export all kits**.

The export runs in the background. When the zip is ready, we email you a
download link. The zip holds one folder per book, with the same channel
folders as a single kit export.

The workspace owner and administrators can export, because only they can
open the Enterprise dashboard. While the workspace plan is not active, the
**Clients** panel and **Export all kits** do not show. The export can refuse
with one of these messages:

- **An export for this client is already running.** Wait for the email of
  the first export.
- **This client has no books yet.** File a book under the client first.
- **Nothing to export yet — generate a kit for a book first.** Open a book's
  kit page and select **Generate kit**.

## Send the kit for client review

Open **Client review** in the side menu:

1. Select **Create a review link**.
2. Optionally add the client's name and an email address to send it to, and
   pick how long it lasts (7 to 90 days, 30 by default).
3. Under **Files to send**, select **Choose files**. A window shows every
   finished take as a large picture. Tick each take the client should see;
   two takes of the same ad can both go. **Select all** and **Deselect all**
   change every take at once. The newest take of each asset is ticked to
   start with.
4. Select **Create link**, then **Copy link** to send it yourself.

If you keep the newest take of each asset ticked, the link follows your
work: when the client asks for changes and you make a new take, the same
link shows it. The link says **All assets** in the list.

If you change the pick, the client sees exactly the takes you ticked, and
the link says how many files it sends. A take you make later is not on that
link. Its tile says **New take not sent**; create a new link to send it.

Your client approves or requests changes on each asset. Their decisions show
on the image tiles as **Approved** or **Changes requested**, and you get one email
per round they send. Select **Revoke** to close a link before it expires.
While the workspace plan is not active, you cannot revoke a link; it closes
when it expires. What the
client sees is described in [Agency client
workspaces](/docs/agency-workspace).

## Who can do what

The subscription owner, admins and editors can fill the launch notes, save
brand kits, generate, make more like an asset, compose and create review
links. Reviewers can open the kit page and download, but cannot generate or
change it.

Team roles are explained in [Account, plans, credits, and
teams](/docs/account-plans-teams).
