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One decision on every screen
Your website, phone apps and TV apps put the same question to the same rules. A member who signs in on the living-room TV gets exactly what their plan buys on the web.
ON AIRSUBSCRIPTIONS & PAYWALLS
Build rolling memberships and season passes, choose exactly what each one unlocks, and let one set of access rules answer every play on your website, phone apps and TV apps.
- 2 plan shapes
- 5 content types a plan unlocks
- 1 to 999 devices per plan
- One trial per person, per plan
02/ 07WITHOUT IT
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The website thinks a member is paid up, the TV app thinks they lapsed last week, and the phone app has never heard of the season pass.
- 02
A fan on the wrong plan gets a generic subscribe button — and buys the plan that still doesn’t unlock the match they came for.
- 03
One login ends up on a dozen living-room TVs, and the only fix anyone has is to lock the account and wait for the angry email.
03/ 07HOW IT WORKS
Plans live in Studio → Management → Subscription Plans. Access is set on each item, and the gate works from there.
- Step 01
Pick the shape
Recurring runs from the day each member buys, for every so many days, weeks, months or years. Fixed window runs between a Start date and an End date you set, and closes for every buyer together.
- Step 02
Decide what it carries
A price, a device limit, optional free days and whether subscribers see video ads. With the Clip or Reels add-on installed, the same form can include clipping or reel posting.
- Step 03
Lock content to it
Open events, on-demand titles, shows and live channels to any active plan, or restrict them to the plans you name. Articles open to every subscriber, or to a single plan you pick.
- Step 04
Let the gate answer
The same rules decide on your website, phone apps and TV apps. On the website, a blocked viewer sees what’s missing — an account, a plan, a ticket or a free device slot — with a button to it.
04/ 07WHAT IT DOES
Each capability below is set on the plan form, on the content itself, or in the Studio screens beside them.
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Season passes that close on time
A fixed-window plan ends at its End date for every holder, however early or late they bought. Once that date passes, access stops and the pass takes itself off your pricing page.
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The right plan, pre-filtered
Restrict an event, on-demand title or show to named plans, and the plans button on its lock screen opens your pricing page showing only those plans, under a banner naming the title — with a Show all plans link to widen it.
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Trials that can’t be farmed
Add up to 365 free days to a Recurring plan and take the card on Stripe. Each person gets the trial once per plan, however often they cancel and return, and the plan card shows the free days.
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Device limits without lockouts
Set 1 to 999 devices per plan. Browsers, phone apps and TV apps all count. Go over and everything the plan unlocks pauses until the viewer signs a device out — signing in always works.
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Pass holders free, everyone else ticketed
Set an event to Subscription OR PPE and restrict it to your season pass. Holders press play; a signed-in viewer with neither sees Subscribe and a buy-access button side by side.
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Codes for promotions
Create codes in Studio → Management → Coupons for 1 to 100% off every plan or selected ones. Codes ignore capitals, count uses against a limit, and stop working after their date.
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Comps that stack
Open a viewer in Studio → Management → Users and pick a plan, ending on the plan’s own length or a date you choose. It’s logged as an Admin grant at zero and sits beside anything they bought.
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Notice before a plan lapses
Members are notified in the 3 days before their plan ends and again once it has, each notice linking back to your plans, so a lapse is a prompt to renew instead of a surprise.
05/ 07BOTH SIDES OF THE GLASS
The memberPublic site · apps
- Plan cards with the price per period, device count, free days and an Auto-renews tag
- A Most Popular badge on the plan you recommend
- A lock screen that names what’s missing, with the button that fixes it: sign in, subscribe, buy access or manage devices
- “This channel needs a different plan” when theirs doesn’t cover a live channel
- Every active plan they hold, each with its own end date
Your teamThe Studio
- A plan list showing each plan’s price, type, device limit and who created it
- Plans created by an administrator protected from edits by other staff
- An access setting on every event, on-demand title, show, live channel and article
- An Access override to make one episode of a paid show free
- Coupons filtered by Active, Inactive or Expired, with usage against each limit
- Comps with an Auto end date or one you pick, filed under Admin grant
06/ 07THE SPECS
- Plan shapes
- Recurring — every N days, weeks, months or years · Fixed window — a shared start and end date
- What a plan unlocks
- Events · On-demand titles · Show episodes · Live channels · Articles
- Plan perks
- Ad-free video · Clipping with the Clip add-on · Reel posting with the Reels add-on
- Device limit
- 1 to 999 per plan · the highest among a viewer’s active plans applies
- Free trials
- Stripe · up to 365 days · once per person, per plan
- Discount codes
- 1–100% off · every plan or selected plans · never store orders or event tickets
- Automatic renewals
- Stripe · Square — PayPal takes one-time payments only
- Expiry notices
- In the 3 days before a plan ends · once it has ended
Questions operators ask
Yes. Trial days make the plan charge when the trial ends unless the member cancels, whether Auto-renew is on or off. That’s also why checkout only offers a provider that can renew it.
THE TALLY LIGHT IS RED
See plans, passes and the paywall working on a call, or start with the guide to building your first plan.
A 30-minute walkthrough of the live product — no slides.