Marketplace role
LayerCove provides the marketplace, checkout rails, messaging tools, and order visibility. Vendors remain responsible for what they list, make, package, ship, and support after delivery.
Policies & Disclosure Summary
Policies, Disclaimers, & Disclosures
This page summarizes how LayerCove structures marketplace purchases, custom projects, shipping responsibilities, limited platform involvement, and buyer/vendor responsibilities. It is designed to reflect a vendor-first, platform-backed operating model rather than a broad marketplace-managed return program.
Last updated: March 28, 2026
Post-delivery issues
After shipment or delivery, buyers must first contact the vendor through LayerCove. Vendors handle ordinary post-delivery return and refund outcomes under their policy and applicable law.
Multi-vendor orders
Multi-vendor carts may require one secure checkout per store. Each resulting vendor order can be cancelled or escalated without forcing the rest of the purchase to change.
Custom projects
Custom projects follow the accepted proposal, milestone schedule, negotiated shipping terms, revisions, and message history. They are not treated like standard retail returns.
Marketplace Role
LayerCove is an online marketplace and project platform for 3D printed products and custom print work. For marketplace orders, buyers purchase from the independent vendor shown on the listing and order details. LayerCove provides the software, checkout, communication tools, and marketplace rules that help those transactions happen.
Unless explicitly stated otherwise for a specific workflow, LayerCove is not the manufacturer, printer, packer, carrier, or direct fulfiller of vendor-listed items. Vendors remain responsible for listing accuracy, production quality, packaging, shipping, compatibility notes, post-delivery support obligations, and lawful sale of their products.
- Vendors control what they list, how they manufacture it, and how they fulfill it.
- Buyers are responsible for reviewing listing details, dimensions, scale, materials, finish, and any disclosed limitations before purchase.
- LayerCove may assist with policy enforcement, fraud review, non-delivery issues, safety concerns, IP issues, vendor no-response, and other narrow escalation scenarios.
Marketplace Orders, Cancellations, & Post-Delivery Issues
Marketplace order issues may be handled at the vendor-segment level when needed. In a multi-vendor order, one vendor segment may be cancelled or escalated while other vendor segments continue normally.
For operational clarity, one buyer cart can become multiple vendor orders after checkout when more than one store is involved. Those vendor orders then move independently for shipping, cancellation, issue review, and refund handling.
Pre-shipment cancellation may be handled under standardized platform rules. After shipment or delivery, buyers must first use LayerCove to contact the vendor and open an on-platform case.
- Pre-shipment cancellation: if approved before the vendor purchases a label or ships the segment, the buyer refund is the relevant order amount minus nonrecoverable Stripe processing fees.
- After shipment or delivery, buyers must first contact the vendor through LayerCove rather than expect routine platform-run return or refund handling.
- Ordinary post-delivery return and refund outcomes are generally governed by the vendor’s posted policy, the listing, the order record, and applicable law.
- Minor process variation, buyer remorse, or ordinary preference disputes are generally vendor-policy matters unless the listing was materially inaccurate or another platform exception applies.
- Vendors are expected to respond within the platform response window shown in the buyer case flow.
- LayerCove may step in only for narrow escalation categories such as vendor no-response, non-delivery, fraud, safety concerns, abuse, IP issues, or clear policy violations.
- Displaying order records or tracking data does not make LayerCove the shipper, carrier, or guarantor of carrier performance.
Custom Projects
Custom projects are different from standard marketplace orders. Buyers can post a brief, invite vendors, receive bids, negotiate terms, accept a proposal, and work through milestones and project messages inside the platform.
Once a project moves forward, the accepted proposal, milestone schedule, deliverables, negotiated shipping terms for physical work, revision history, messages, and project status all matter. Because custom work can involve design time, prototyping, file preparation, digital assets, or partially completed manufacturing, custom-project outcomes are not treated the same way as standard marketplace orders.
- Buyers and vendors should clearly document scope, deliverables, revisions, file ownership or licensing, physical shipment expectations, shipping responsibility, and timeline assumptions before acceptance.
- Custom-project milestones use a flat 4.5% LayerCove fee across categories, and the fee is taken as each milestone is approved and released.
- Buyer checkout funds only the next milestone in order. Vendors should not begin the next paid stage until that milestone shows funded inside the project workspace.
- Physical custom-project shipping is governed by the accepted proposal. If the buyer is paying shipping, that amount is typically collected when the project is ready to ship rather than in the initial project brief.
- If a custom project ends early, the buyer and vendor should document that in the project room first. A project should not be ended while a funded milestone is still awaiting delivery, revision, or approval.
- Milestone approval tools help track progress and release state, but they do not replace the need for a clear written agreement between the parties.
- Project cancellations, milestone disputes, and remedy decisions may depend on work already performed, files already delivered, materials already consumed, revisions already requested, or scope already approved.
- LayerCove may review project history and intervene only when needed to address fraud, no-response, abuse, clear policy breaches, or other narrow platform-risk scenarios.
Buyer & Vendor Responsibilities
Buyers and vendors both play an active role in keeping marketplace and custom project transactions smooth, accurate, and legally compliant.
- Buyers should provide accurate shipping information, monitor order or project messages, and review all relevant listing or proposal details before approving work or submitting payment.
- Vendors must provide accurate descriptions, photos, specifications, compatibility notes, lead times, shipping behavior, return/refund policy details, and any relevant warnings or usage limitations.
- Vendors are responsible for lawful sales practices, including product safety, labeling, intellectual property compliance, and any taxes or regulatory obligations that apply to them.
- Both sides must communicate respectfully and use LayerCove tools in good faith.
Product Safety, Variability, & Intellectual Property
3D printed products can vary in finish, surface quality, tolerances, material behavior, and durability depending on print method, orientation, materials, post-processing, and end use. Buyers should read listings carefully and vendors should disclose known limitations where they matter.
Vendors may only list or deliver products, files, designs, or branded elements that they have the legal right to sell or use. LayerCove may remove listings, restrict accounts, or take other action in response to intellectual property or safety concerns.
- LayerCove does not independently test, certify, or warranty every vendor product.
- Vendors are responsible for warnings, suitability disclosures, and lawful sale of what they offer.
- Buyers are responsible for using products safely and appropriately.
Support, Platform Action, & Limits
LayerCove may help route communication, collect documentation, apply marketplace rules, restrict accounts, or take other actions needed to protect trust and platform integrity. Fund holds and offsets are intended for narrow documented categories rather than routine buyer-vendor disagreements.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, LayerCove is not responsible for every act or omission of buyers or vendors, including listing inaccuracies, production defects, shipping delays, packaging errors, misuse of products, or off-platform conduct.
- Platform assistance does not make LayerCove the manufacturer, shipper, carrier, or seller of every item on the site.
- LayerCove is not the first-line decision-maker for ordinary post-delivery buyer-vendor disagreements.
- Policies may be updated from time to time as the platform evolves.
- These disclosures are informational and operational in nature and are not legal, tax, or regulatory advice for your specific situation.
Buyer Acknowledgment at Checkout
Buyers should expect the checkout flow to remind them that they are purchasing from an independent vendor through LayerCove’s platform tools and that, after shipment or delivery, they must generally work with that vendor through LayerCove before any limited platform escalation applies.
- Buyers are purchasing from the vendor associated with the affected listing or vendor segment.
- 3D printed items may have normal process variation in finish, tolerance, or appearance.
- After shipment or delivery, post-delivery return and refund outcomes are generally governed by the vendor’s policy, the listing, and applicable law.
- LayerCove may review limited escalation categories such as non-delivery, fraud, vendor no-response, safety concerns, or clear policy violations.
- Custom project outcomes depend on the accepted proposal, milestone history, negotiated shipping terms, and project communication.