About this plugin
PaywallProject helps publishers sell access to protected content with Stripe-powered subscriptions, gifts, coupons, subscriber management, and reporting.
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Payments and fees
Payments go through Connect with Stripe. Connect your Stripe account in one click, with no API keys or webhooks to set up. PaywallProject charges a platform fee of 10% on each payment, on top of Stripe’s own fees.
The fee is shown on the Connect button before you agree to it.
AI Shield
Keep AI companies from crawling your stories while Google, Bing and other search engines index your site as before. txt — training crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and CCBot, and AI search and assistant fetchers such as ChatGPT-User and PerplexityBot. txt only stops crawlers that respect it, so the tab also gives you a ready-to-copy Cloudflare WAF rule that blocks the same crawlers at the edge, which works even when your pages are served from a full-page cache.
Untick any crawler you want to let in. Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot and DuckDuckBot are never blocked. Off by default.
External services
This plugin connects to the third-party services below. Nothing is sent to a service until you configure it.
Stripe
Stripe processes all payments. com) when a reader checks out, buys a gift, changes or cancels a subscription, when tax is calculated at checkout, and when an administrator manages subscribers or coupons. It sends the reader’s email address, name, billing and shipping address, the plan and price, and for tax estimates without an address, the reader’s IP address.
com, which collects card details directly; card numbers never reach your site.
- Terms: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa
- Privacy: https://stripe.com/privacy
PaywallProject Connect hub (paywallproject.com)
Used for all payments made through Connect with Stripe. Before you connect, the plugin asks the hub for the platform fee rate and sends your site URL. When you connect, disconnect, or refresh the connection, it sends your site URL and the connection credentials.
com/wp-json/ppconnect/v1), which forwards it to Stripe and applies the platform fee. That includes the reader data listed under Stripe.
- Terms: https://www.paywallproject.com/terms-of-service/
- Privacy policy: https://www.paywallproject.com/privacy-policy/
Google reCAPTCHA
Used only when reCAPTCHA is selected as the signup protection. com, which collects data about the visitor’s browser. When a form is submitted, the plugin sends the captcha token, your secret key and the visitor’s IP address to Google to verify it.
- Terms: https://policies.google.com/terms
- Privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Cloudflare Turnstile
Used only when Turnstile is selected as the signup protection. com. When a form is submitted, the plugin sends the Turnstile token, your secret key and the visitor’s IP address to Cloudflare to verify it.
- Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/
- Privacy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Slack
Used only when you enter a Slack webhook URL. When a subscriber signs up, renews or cancels, the plugin posts a message with the subscriber’s email address and plan to that webhook.
- Terms: https://slack.com/terms-of-service
- Privacy: https://slack.com/trust/privacy/privacy-policy
Outgoing webhooks (Zapier and others)
Used only when you add a webhook URL. On the subscriber events you select, the plugin posts the event name and subscriber details (email address, name, plan and status) to the URL you entered. The data goes to whichever service owns that URL, under that service’s terms.