BTCPayWall – Bitcoin paywall for selling content and digital goods on WordPress.
BTCPayWall offers users, especially content creators, a unique solution for selling digital goods via WordPress.
With BTCPayWall, a content creator can sell their blog articles, digital goods, images or even PDF files and receive tips and donations directly through the website without any intermediaries or third parties involved.
The BTCPayWall solution uses the BTCPay server and OpenNode to process payments and perform instant transactions.
The goal of this plugin is to allow content creators to sell their digital assets and earn money directly from the website.
This makes the process much more secure and allows users to pay with Bitcoin and Lightning.
The main functions of BTCPayWall are:
- Bitcoin paywall to sell content and digital products through WordPress
- Uses BTCPay Server and OpenNode for payment processing
- No login or registration is required for users
- Every article has a free part, and at some point it becomes chargeable.
- Income generation through donations for the site operator
With the BTCPayWall, digital content can be offered for a fee. The payment is made by Bitcoin and Lightning via the BTCPay server.
Those who run a website based on WordPress can secure the digital content with a paywall, which can be unlocked via Bitcoin or Lightning payment.
Without registering or logging in, a user can anonymously unlock the desired content by making a Bitcoin or Lightning payment.
The user scans the QR code displayed in the paywall with his Bitcoin wallet and after successful payment the desired content is displayed immediately.
The WordPress BTCPayWall for BTCPay Server can be used for the following applications:
- Pay-per-postfor the sale of individual blog posts and newspaper articles.
- Pay-per-view for the sale of videos that are played directly
- Download store for sale digital goods that are downloaded
- Tipping to receive donations and tips
Pay per post – payment per blog post
With BTCPayWall, publishers and blog operators can offer their visitors individual articles and blog posts for a fee.
The BTCPayWall thus offers an alternative or supplement to the previous subscription models. The BTCPayWall offers publishers the opportunity to offer high-quality content to readers willing to pay per newspaper article.
It offers an alternative for readers on the Internet who do not want to subscribe, but are willing to pay for a single and high-quality article.
The reader gets to see part of the article up to the Bitcoin paywall without restrictions. After successful payment, the individual blog post can continue to be read without restriction.
This is what the payment window looks like. If you want to try it out, you can display the hidden area for €1.
Congratulations
You have just successfully unlocked an area protected by the BTCPayWall.
Only through your payment you can see this part.
Here the area protected by the BTCPayWall ends and every reader can continue reading normally.
Pay per view – payment per video
With pay-per-view, videos can be protected with the BTCPayWall.
The video is presented via a preview image and a short description.
Via Bitcoin or Lightning payment, the video is unlocked and played via the video player on your own website.
Videos deposited as private videos on YouTube or Vimeo can thus be offered for a fee.
Alternatively, the videos can be stored on the WordPress server or any other video platform and offered for a fee.
Do you want to watch the example video? Then watch the video about the cat that knows everything:
Download Store – payment per file download
With the Download Store all kinds of files can be sold. Be it software, eBook, a PDF instruction or an image. After the successful payment, the customer has access to a download link and can download his desired files.
For each download product a detailed page is created, through which an order is executed.
Personal data can optionally be requested from the customer. This information is not mandatory and the customer can order completely anonymously. The delivery of the file will be done by email or will be offered for download on a separate page.
Tips and donations
As the operator of a blog, a YouTube channel or an information site on the Internet, you are happy to receive a financial contribution from your fans.
Using the tipping function, you can receive donations and tips. So fans can quickly and easily donate a few Satoshi and support the work.
There are various tipping modules that can be integrated into your website in different ways. Like the Donation Page that is displayed here.
You will find the other tipping modules distributed on this website. For example, as a tipping box at the bottom of each page or as a banner in the right sidebar.
Simply add the Donation button to the desired location on your own website and visitors can financially support the work on the website.
The support can be made by anonymous payment or can be provided with a personal message, which can be displayed on the website.
Try it out and make a small donation to Coincharge to understand how the Tipping Module can be used.
BTCPayWall plugin turns any WordPress site into a revenue stream for digital content and digital goods. The options presented here can be adapted to other application examples.
For example, support requests can be designed in such a way that a small amount must be paid before the support request is sent. This way, unpleasant spam requests can be prevented.
Likewise, the BTCPayWall is also used for payments in restaurants and retail stores, as a purpose of payment can be transmitted by the operator at the time of payment.
The BTCPayWall plugin can be obtained for free from WordPress. Payment processing requires a BTCPay store or an account with the payment provider OpenNode.
With the help of the WordPress editors WPBakery, Elementor, Gutenberg or simply via shortcode, the various functions can be integrated into any WordPress page.
The WordPress plugin BTCPayWall for BTCPay Server is available for free. More information and installation instructions can be found at:
- BTCPayWall Homepage: https://btcpaywall.com/
- Github page from BTCPayWall: https://github.com/coincharge-io/BTCPayWall
- WordPress page from BTCPayWall: https://wordpress.org/plugins/btcpaywall/
Setup Service BTCPayWall
Don’t you want to set up and install the BTCPayWall yourself?
For a one-time fee of €249,- we set up the BTCPayWall on your website.
BTCPayWall Install and Setup
249,00 €
BTCPayWall Install and Setup
- Installation and configuration of BTCPayWall on your WordPress website
- Create one service each for paywall, video, download, and donations.
- Connection to a Lightning Payment Service Provider of your choice
- Includes implementation and support for one year.
- Entry at Coinpages and listing as featured website for one month
BTCPayWall Install and Setup
- Installation and configuration of BTCPayWall on your WordPress website.
- Create one service each for paywall, video, download, and donations.
- Connection to a Lightning Payment Service Provider of your choice
- Includes implementation and support for one year.
- Entry at Coinpages and listing as featured website for one month
We install the BTCPayWall on your WordPress website and connect the BTCPayWall to the Lightning Payment Service Provider of your choice.
We set up the various services, create a template for each, and set up a sample product.
Services include:
- Installation of the BTCPayWall plugin on the WordPress website
- Connecting the BTCPayWall to the Lightning Payment Service Provider of your choice
- Creation of one template each for paywall, video, donation and download
- Create one product each for the Paywall, Video, Donation and Download services.
- Optional: creation of additional products. Price according to effort
- Support and update service for one year
- Creation of a listing on Coinpages
- Featured listing on Coinpages for one month
We support the integration of the following Lightning Payment Service Providers
- Coincharge BTCPay Store
- BTCPay Server (own)
- Coinsnap
- Opennode
- LNbits
If you are not yet sure which Lightning Payment Service Provider you would like to work with, contact us and we will be happy to advise you.
What we need from you after the order:
- WordPress access data as admin
- Access data, xPub Key or API access data of the selected Lightning Payment Service Provider.
