1. Visit "The Wall"
On each registered site, The Wall will show per activated article. Depending when you visit, it may be free or it may have a cost to remove it.
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2. Add a payment method
Add your credit card to read anything requiring tickets. At the end of each month you're charged only what you read, which go directly to those publications.
3. Find more at the Discover Feed
Using the powerful and customizable aggregator, discover articles matching your criteria based on publication, authors, categories and tags.
Quick and easy integration
Register your site with only a few lines of code, followed by a quick verification of ownership. Configure each article with discoverability, look and feel, thresholds and pricing.
Get paid out monthly
For each article that a reader has engaged with, those redeemed tickets are translated into money that goes directly to you - the more successful your articles, the more you get paid out!
Increase your reach
Add your publication to the highly customizable aggregator, the Discover Feed. Categorize your site, allow articles to be discovered - create a new channel to your publication.
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How does PaperWall work?
- Writers or publications will register with paperwall.io by adding some code to their site. After ownership is verified, pricing, thresholds and other options are configured per article. There is a preview mode to make sure everything works as expected. When everything is ready, the site is then published and all the activated articles will show The Wall.
- When a reader visits an activated article, The Wall will be shown. Depending on how the article has been configured, the reader may need to use tickets to access the content. As long as the reader has a credit card on their account, they'll be able to access the article. They'll be billed at the end of the month depending how many articles they accessed during that period.
- Login is only required once per browser. Every registered site will be able to see your logged in status and balance. The Activity Page shows the articles you've visited and tickets you've purchased, ensuring secure transactions and credit-card handling.
How does this increase discovery?
The Discover Feed is an algorithm that determines the latest, popular articles based on engagement, activity and ratings (when available). Sites are categorized and individual articles tagged to help with curation.
You can create your own Following Feed, which allows you to save filters against content you're interested in. It can be filtered on category, tags, sites, authors. When matching content shows up, you can customize how you're notified.
How does the pricing work?
Publishers register their site against PaperWall and configure pricing per article. Tickets are at the center of transactions. Articles are expected to be priced at 1-5 tickets per article. On a monthly basis, any articles that have been read will be billed and the publishers will be paid out all the tickets redeemed against their articles.
The reason to use tickets instead of dollar amounts is the flexibility it provides: it's a more seamless flow than requiring a credit card each time, dollar amounts are distracting, and there is more opportunities for occasional promotions and bonuses.
What is the refund policy?
If you are not happy with a transaction, or it happened in error, you can dispute a transaction. You can submit a request to get the credits debited back to your account, which will be addressed within 48 hours. These will be subject to review at Paperwall's and the publisher's discretion.
- Every time I run into an article behind a "subscribe now" paywall, I'm more convinced this is a good idea.
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