Monetize
Turn your audience into revenue.
Subscriptions, pay-per-view, and tips — priced by you, gated by tier, and settled in your own Stripe account.
Subscriptions
Tiers your audience understands.
Free, supporter, premium — you define the ladder. Every video and article gates itself by tier automatically.
- Unlimited plans with tier levels
- Monthly and yearly pricing
- Automatic content gating by tier
- Members-only events, gated by tier
Your Stripe
We never hold your money.
OAcast connects to your Stripe account. Every charge lands there directly — your payout schedule, your dashboard, your customer records.
- Payments land in your account, not ours
- Your payout schedule, your currency
- Full visibility in your own Stripe dashboard
Pay-per-view
Sell the moment, too.
One-off passes for premieres, matches, or special broadcasts — sold à la carte, next to your subscriptions. And a tip jar for the audience that just wants to say thanks.
- Pay-per-view passes priced by you
- Bundle videos and articles into one pass
- One-time tips from any page or live chat
In the platform
- Tiered subscription plans
- Monthly and yearly billing
- Pay-per-view passes
- Pay-what-you-want subscriptions
- One-time tips with suggested amounts
- Per-tier content gating
- Tier-gated event RSVPs
- Your own Stripe account
- Direct payouts on your schedule
- Refunds under your control
- Subscriber management
- Upgrades charged now, downgrades at renewal
Before you switch the money on
Where does the money actually land?
In your Stripe account, on your payout schedule. Charges are created directly on your account: OAcast never holds a balance, never runs a payout, and never becomes the merchant of record. Our percentage comes off as an application fee at the moment of the charge.
What happens to existing subscribers when I raise prices?
They keep their current price until their next renewal, then move to the new one. No surprise mid-cycle charge, no cancellation wave. New signups pay the new price straight away.
What if someone upgrades halfway through the month?
The higher tier unlocks immediately, and their card is charged right then for the difference for the days left in the period — not a second full month. (Moving from monthly to yearly restarts the cycle instead: the full year, less credit for the unused days.) A downgrade is the mirror image: it takes effect at their next renewal, they keep what they already paid for until then, and nothing is credited or refunded.
Do pay-per-view purchases expire?
No. A pass is bought once and the buyer keeps it. You decide what is in one — a single film, a season, a mix of videos and articles — and you can let subscribers above a chosen tier through without paying, so a pass never punishes the people already paying you monthly.
What happens when a card fails?
The subscription moves to past-due and Stripe runs its retry schedule. You see it in your admin panel and in your own Stripe dashboard. Refunds and disputes are yours: the charge sits on your account, so the money and any dispute fee move there, not through us. Your admin panel surfaces them; you issue the refund or answer the chargeback in Stripe, and nobody here decides it for you.
Do I have to pick one model?
No. Tiered subscriptions, pay-what-you-want, pay-per-view passes and one-off tips all run at once, gating the same library. A tip can carry a message and appear highlighted in live chat, which turns a donation into something the room can see.
Can events help sell memberships?
That is what a tier-gated event is for. The event page is public — anyone can see what is on, when and where — but only members at the tier you choose can RSVP. Signed-in members below it get a See plans button where the RSVP would be, so the event advertises the plan that opens it up.
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