Set up Stage payments

1. Access & payment relationships

Audience payment flows require the Monetization capability to be available on the Stage's creator platform plan and enabled for that Stage. Monetization starts on Vibeler Grow. Basic product creation is available on Vibeler Build, but paid pricing, coupons, tips, and audience checkout still enforce the Monetization capability.

2. Connect Stripe

A Stage admin with Stage-settings permission and recent strong authentication can create or resume Stripe Express onboarding. Vibeler records the status returned by Stripe: details submitted, charges enabled, and payouts enabled. All three must be true before the stored onboarding state is complete.

1. Enable monetization
2. Verify with Stripe
3. Configure an offer
4. Audience checkout
5. Vibeler grants access
6. Stripe manages payout

Bank details, identity requirements, payout timing, balances, and tax forms are provider-owned concerns. Review the current requirements and controls in Stripe; Vibeler does not mirror those surfaces.

3. Revenue paths

Money tips are available only to an authenticated eligible viewer on a Stage, creator post, full or short video, article, or podcast episode where tips are enabled. The amount is USD, at least $5 with no more than two decimals, and the optional message is limited to 500 characters. Courses, products, comments, and other surfaces are not tippable targets.

4. Membership setup & access

Offer details

A name, optional description, and benefit list.

Billing intervals

One shared currency with monthly and annual prices. The current Studio currency control is USD-only.

Included channels

The channels a member can access through that plan. Updating the selection synchronizes existing member entitlements.

Free access

A plan is free only when both interval prices are zero. A new Stage starts with a Free Access plan that includes no private channels.

Joining a free plan grants membership and included-channel access immediately. A paid join requires a signed-in user with a completed profile, an available paid interval, no existing active paid membership, and Stripe checkout. Paid-plan creation and editing require a connected Stripe account and recent strong authentication.

An audience member can schedule their paid membership to end after the current billing period and keeps access until then. Free membership cancellation is immediate. When Stripe confirms final paid cancellation, Vibeler moves the member to the Stage's free plan when one exists; otherwise the membership and its plan access are deactivated.

5. Products, courses & coupons

The current Studio editors support one-time USD pricing for digital products and courses, starting at $0.99, with an optional compare-at price. A product must have at least one downloadable file and a valid offer or access path before it can be published. Products and courses may also be included in a membership through the plan's channel selection.

One-time coupons support a code of up to 32 letters, numbers, hyphens, or underscores; a fixed or percentage discount; optional expiry; and an optional usage limit. Percentage discounts stop at 99%. Vibeler reserves coupon usage during checkout and reconciles a canceled or expired session.

6. Fees, payouts & records

Vibeler resolves its commission from the Stage's current creator platform plan when an eligible checkout is created. The live pricing page and Studio platform-plan view—not a fixed percentage in this guide—are authoritative for the current commission.

Stripe processing fees are separate. Vibeler's recorded creator net subtracts the Vibeler application fee from gross revenue; it is not necessarily the final Stripe payout after processing fees, refunds, disputes, or payout timing. Use Analyticsfor the Stage figures Vibeler currently records and Stripe for provider settlement details.

Tax, disclosure, refund, and dispute obligations depend on the creator's location, the buyer, applicable law, and Stripe terms. Keep offer terms accurate and use qualified legal or tax guidance where needed.

7. Current payment limits

• Creators choose their legal business country in Vibeler before the Stripe Express account is created. Stripe then collects country-specific verification details. Availability still depends on Vibeler's Stripe Connect configuration.
• Vibeler has no creator payout balance, payout schedule, bank-account, tax-form, or dispute-management surface. Use Stripe for those provider-owned views.
• The creator Studio Payment setup page includes a Stage payment activity ledger and an eligible-payment refund action. It still has no action to cancel an individual audience subscriber; audience members can cancel their own membership.
• Stripe refund and dispute webhooks reconcile Vibeler payment-record status for purchases, courses, tips, audience subscription payments, and email coverage charges. Full product/course refunds and active or lost disputes revoke one-time access; won disputes can restore it.
• Partial refunds are marked in the payment ledger, but the Studio refund button currently refunds the remaining eligible amount and does not provide a custom partial-refund composer or in-Studio dispute-management workflow.
• Membership price edits create new Stripe prices for subsequent checkout; they do not migrate existing Stripe subscriptions.
• The current membership editor has no plan-delete or retirement control, and membership coupons are not implemented.