MicroPayments – Fans Paysite: Paid Creator Subscriptions, Digital Assets, Wallet
Revolutionize how you monetize content with the MicroPayments – Fans Paysite plugin. This versatile solution empowers creators to sell subscriptions, manage digital assets, and operate seamless transactions via an…
Solid choice
MicroPayments is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 67/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (20+ active installs)
How does it stack up?
Side-by-side on installs, updates, ratings & supportDaily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where MicroPayments stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| creators | #78 |
| micropayments | #1 |
| subscriptions | >100 |
| tokens | >100 |
| wallet | #41 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 from 5 reviews
About MicroPayments
From the official readme · v3.2.9Description
Revolutionize how you monetize content with the MicroPayments – Fans Paysite plugin. This versatile solution empowers creators to sell subscriptions, manage digital assets, and operate seamless transactions via an integrated tokens/credits wallet system. Supports all major payment gateways with WooCommerce token packages, ensuring a frictionless payment experience. Perfect marketplace services for authors, educators, and digital artists looking to maximize their earnings through paid memberships and content sales.
Benefits
- Flexible Monetization: Offer creator subscriptions, pay-per-view content, and memberships tailored to various creator needs.
- Direct Content Sales: Creators can directly sell access to posts, videos, downloads, live video streams, enhancing revenue opportunities.
- Versatile Payment Integration: Supports all major gateways with WooCommerce, including PayPal, Stripe, CCBill for broad accessibility.
- Reduced Transaction Fees: Streamline finances with microtransactions that cut down on costs.
- Dynamic Wallet System: Enables secure, in-site transactions with internal credits and support for other popular wallets like TeraWallet and MyCred.
- Enhanced User Engagement: Features like crowdfunding and donations add interactive elements to content monetization.
- Comprehensive Admin Control: Manage access, monitor transactions, and customize content offerings with ease.
- BuddyPress Integration: Enhances community features, allowing for real-time updates and user interactions within the platform.
Key Features
- 3 Wallet Tokens/Credits supported: internal, TeraWallet (for WooCommerce), MyCred
- Tokens for micropayments can be purchased using multiple payment gateways like Paypal, Stripe, Skrill (Moneybookers) NETbilling, CCBill, BitPay (bitcoin) or earned with site activities, depending on setup.
- Authors/creators can sell subscriptions to their content: users can subscribe to authors for a recurring fee (per author) for access to their content
- Webmaster can manage access to content (including pages, posts, customizable post types) by membership/role.
- Authors/webmasters cans sell access to digital content (posts, custom posts as videos, pictures, documents, chat rooms)
- Webmaster can Sell Site Membership: Users can obtain site roles (membership) by purchase or subscription.
- Edit content page in frontend for authors to be able to manage individual post items (integrates automatically with VideoShareVOD videos, Picture Gallery pictures, PaidVideochat webcam rooms).
- 3 paid content options: internal handler, WooCommerce product, MyCred Sell Content
- Comment restrictions: also hide comments with paid content, limit comments per user (per post) except author, coauthors
- WooCommerce content product: setup WC products that need to be purchased for access to post contents (for using with cart)
- BuddyPress / BuddyBoss activity updates for new products, subscriptions, donations
- My Content purchase list shortcode and page, showing all purchased products; products include button to access content
- Multi wallet support (MyCred + TeraWallet WooCommerce)
- Custom token packages as WooCommerce products
- Wallet user page with shortcode [videowhisper_my_wallet]
- Membership upgrade page with shortcode [videowhisper_membership_buy]
- Downloads management: Digital media downloads
- Donations/crowdfunding
Author Subscriptions
- Authors can setup multiple subscription tiers (limited by webmaster settings), with custom label, description, duration (monthly, yearly, one time payment)
- Authors can assign their content to subscription tiers
- Clients can subscribe to author subscriptions, for access to their content
- Optionally, each item accessible by subscription can also be provided for a price per item, for users that don’t want to subscribe
- Customizable author earning ratio for subscription earnings
- BuddyPress/BuddyBoss activity updates when users subscribe to authors
- BuddyPress/BuddyBoss user tab with available subscriptions
- Fans Paysite – Turnkey Fans Monetization Business Platform
Donations, Goals, CrowdFunding
- enable donations for any content page
- configure donation goals and/or crowdfunding
- goals show progress bar and goal details on content page
- crowfunding shows funders and their contributions including percents
- donation button with wallet
- donation dialog with customizable slider, AJAX (user does not leave content page to make donation)
- customizable author earning ratio for donation/crowdfunding earnings
Paid Content: Posts as Digital Products
- Content page aggregates the digital content (post types) available for sale.
- Content types is configurable from MicroPayments settings, as custom posts types available for sale: videos, pictures, downloads, webcam rooms.
- My Assets page enables providers to manage their content and set prices.
- My Content page enables clients to access content they previously purchases.
- Content Upload page enables providers to upload videos, pictures and documents from a single form (integrates Downloads, Video Share VOD](https://wordpress.org/plugins/video-share-vod/ “Video Share / Video On Demand Script”), Picture Gallery )
- Content (custom posts) configured with price, can be sold with the WooCommerce integration as products and clients have to purchase the associated product to get access to that content.
- Custom activity updates to BuddyPress/BuddyBoss/PeepSo with multiple asset mentions, including thumbnails
- BuddyPress/BuddyBoss user tab with author content
- Customizable author earning ratio for content sale earnings
- Moderator roles can access content without paying
- Also hides comments with paid post contents (configurable)
- Coauthors: Asset owner can add coauthors to their assets (posts) and share earnings with them (configurable), access to content/comments
Downloads: Downloadable File Management
- Enable file uploads from backend and frontend (with publisher access list)
- Restrict access by membership roles
- Sell downloads per item (as WooCommerce products or MyCred Sell Content addon)
- Restrict allowed extensions (server side)
- Obfuscated file name on server to prevent naming exploits
Recommended for use with these solutions
- Paid VideoChat – Pay Per Minute Videochat site solution.
- Video Share VOD – Video Share / Video On Demand site solution.
- Broadcast Live Video – Broadcast Live Video Channels site solution.
- Picture Gallery – Picture Gallery – Frontend Image Uploads, AJAX Photo List.
Benefits of using tokens include:
- less transaction fees (clients fund their account once for multiple purchases)
- cost control (clients can have added peace of mind and sensation of control for the fixed amount they pay),
- payment in advance (clients prepay for future services) ,
- increased sales (once the have the tokens they will put them to use faster than real money)
If you find this plugin idea useful or interesting, leave a review to help us drive more resources into further development and improvements.
Demo
- See WordPress integration (after login):
https://videochat-scripts.com/buy-membership/
Extra
More information, the latest updates, other plugins and non-WordPress editions can be found at https://videowhisper.com/ .
Installation
- Install and activate plugin
- Setup membership packages from Paid Membership – Settings – Membership Levels
- Go to Paid Membership – Settings – Billing section and make sure mycred is installed, active and configured
- Use [videowhisper_membership_buy] shortcode to list packages in frontend to users
- Use [videowhisper_my_wallet] shortcode to show wallet with buy credits options
If you find this plugin idea useful or interesting, leave a review to help us drive more resources into further development and improvements.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?
Please report security bugs found in the source code of the MicroPayments plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.
Changelog
3.2.7
- Moved screenshots to SVN assets and updated WordPress.org support metadata.
- The generated Add Recording page now uses the selected VideoWhisper recorder
app, so the bundled Free recorder is used by default and the legacy app stays
available from recorder settings.
3.1
- Creator stats with subscriptions and earnings
- Code improvements
2.9
- Guest upload shortcode [videowhisper_content_upload_guest] with reCaptcha, email notification, visitor support
2.8
- Content listing tabs
- Contet type tabs: All, Video, Picture
- Access filter tabs: All, Subscription, Paid, Premium, Free
2.7
- Coauthors: asset owner can add coauthors to share earnings, with custom percents for each, from asset edit page
- List author and coauthors on content page (for set post types) with links to their BP or WP pages
- Coauthors can access their content (similar to moderators)
- Add/remove featured image when editing content (post)
2.6
- Hide comments with paid content (option)
- Limit comments per user (per post), except author
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MicroPayments: quick answers
Straight answers, pulled from live WordPress.org data.
Live data from WordPress.org · checked Oct 5, 2026
Is MicroPayments free?
Yes. MicroPayments is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is MicroPayments safe to use in 2026?
MicroPayments is a solid plugin choice in 2026, with a few things worth checking first. It runs on 20+ sites, is rated 4.2/5 and was last updated 2 months ago, and scores 67/100 on our health check.
How many websites use MicroPayments?
MicroPayments is active on 20+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 30,739 times since it launched in September 2016. It was downloaded 203 times in the last 30 days.
Does MicroPayments work with WordPress 7.1?
MicroPayments is officially tested up to WordPress 7.0.6, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
What PHP version does MicroPayments need?
MicroPayments requires PHP 7.4 or higher. Most hosts run PHP 8.x today, so it works on any modern WordPress hosting.
When was MicroPayments last updated?
The latest version, 3.2.9, was released on August 8, 2026 (2 months ago).
Who makes MicroPayments?
MicroPayments is developed and maintained by videowhisper.
What are the best alternatives to MicroPayments?
The most popular alternatives to MicroPayments are Tip Jar WP (200+ installs), Adverships Affiliate for Wo… (<10 installs) and GoHeartMe for Creators (<10 installs).
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