Earn from your content

Sell a video or a broadcast right in the player

Set a price, and viewers who have not paid see the buy button inside the player on your watch page, in your embedded player and on your creator site.

Before you start

  • You have connected a payment gateway and finished its verification. Until then Pay per view and Hybrid are dimmed, and clicking them offers Add payout details.
  • For a subscription offer, you have at least one membership tier.

Steps

  1. 1
    Broadcast: open STREAMS, click the gear icon on the card and open the Access tab. Video: open VIDEOS and click the gear icon on the card to open Editing Video.
  2. 2
    Under Monetization choose Pay per view to sell single access, For subscribers to open it to a membership tier, or Hybrid to offer both.
  3. 3
    Enter the price. For a video it is between $0.99 and $999.00.
  4. 4
    For For subscribers or Hybrid, pick the membership tier.
  5. 5
    Save: a broadcast saves itself and shows Access settings saved; for a video click Save Changes.
  6. 6
    Open the watch link in a private browser window. Instead of the picture you see a card with the title, the Buy button with the price, Have a key? Enter it, and a note that the content is protected. With Hybrid the card offers Subscribe with the monthly price or Buy for a one-time payment.
  7. 7
    The buyer clicks Buy, enters an email address and card details in one short form β€” Apple Pay or Google Pay appear when their device offers them β€” and pays. If you use more than one payment gateway, the buyer first picks the payment method.

Expected result

Visitors who have not paid see the buy card in the player; after paying, the same player plays the content for them.

Common problems

Pay per view and Hybrid cannot be selected.

Your payment gateway is not connected or not verified yet. Click Add payout details and finish the setup, then come back.

A video cannot be saved and asks for a price greater than 0.

A paid video needs a price. Enter one between $0.99 and $999.00, or choose Free.

The buyer sees a message that the price or payment account changed.

The price was edited while the checkout was open. Ask the buyer to close the window and press Buy again.

I see the full video, not the buy card.

As the owner you always get the real player. Test in a private browser window where you are not signed in.

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