Monetization Platforms & Tools: 72 Checkout, Newsletter, Membership, Course & Paywall Platforms
The software you run a method on and get paid through: checkout and digital product platforms, newsletter and membership tools, course builders, paywalls, stores and payment processors.
The software you run a method on and get paid through. Filter by the method you want to run and sort by web rank to see what the market actually uses; every page shows the platform fee, whether it handles sales tax as merchant of record, and payout speed.
Leaky Paywall 🧰 PlatformPaid
Metered paywall for WordPress publishers: free article counts, registration walls and subscriptions.
SendOwl 🧰 PlatformPaid
Digital delivery and checkout with licence keys, drip and affiliates on a flat monthly plan.
Directorist 🧰 PlatformFreemium
WordPress plugin for building monetized business directories and job boards; free core plugin, paid tiers from about $10/mo billed annually.
Discord Server Subscriptions 🧰 PlatformFree
Sell paid roles and tiers inside your Discord server; Discord keeps 10%.
Ezoic Leap 🧰 PlatformFreemium
Page-speed and Core Web Vitals tooling for ad-heavy sites, included with Ezoic and available standalone.
Poool 🧰 PlatformPaid
Dynamic paywall and registration wall platform for mid-sized publishers, with audience scoring.
Udemy 🧰 PlatformFree
Course marketplace with 70+ million learners; instructors keep 37% on marketplace sales and 97% on their own referrals.
Liberapay 🧰 PlatformFree
Non-profit recurring donation platform with no platform fee, popular in open source.
Supertab 🧰 PlatformFree
Micropayments and time passes for articles: readers pay per piece or per hour without a subscription.
Evershop 🧰 PlatformOpen source
Open-source, headless TypeScript e-commerce platform for developer-run stores
Spring (Teespring) 🧰 PlatformFree
Free creator merch platform with YouTube and TikTok integrations; you set the price above a base cost.
Skillshare 🧰 PlatformFree
Subscription learning platform paying teachers from a royalty pool by minutes watched plus referral bonuses.