Revenue plugin for publishers, writers, crowdfunders, charities
WordPress gives you the platform.
This gives you the business model.
Most publishers offer one choice: subscribe, or leave. Fabrica Monetization Kit lets readers pay for what they actually want — a single article, a topic, one author — right in the page, on the site you already own.
✓ Only Stripe fees, no platform cut · ✓ Apple Pay & Google Pay
Your readers want to support you.
Make it easy for them.
Give every reader a way to contribute…
With FMK
- Love everything about us?
Subscribe or Join Us - Interested in a specific subject?
Pay to stay up-to-date on one topic - Follow one of our authors?
Get access to their column, past and future - Want to read this article or edition?
Buy the content you want, it’s yours forever - Say thanks for free content with a donation
Without FMK
Subscribe — or leave. Bye
… let them pay, then get out of the way
With FMK
Start reading → Fabrica Monetization Kit takes payment quickly in-page → Keep reading!
Without FMK
Start reading
… Hit the paywall
… Forced to create an account
… Sent off to confirm email or phone.
… Distracted
… Dragged back through five screens of the shopping cart
... Another abandoned cart
Fabrica Monetization Kit already powers leading publications.
Here’s what they say about it.
UK independent news
Byline Times uses Fabrica Monetization Kit to take payment for a wide range of news products and content access, and to crowd-fund with low fees
Fabrica Monetization Kit removes friction for visitors who want to read or support our publication. Instead of being taken off to a multi-step checkout, they can now subscribe or donate seamlessly within the reading experience itself.
That simplicity has made a real difference to engagement and conversions on Byline Times, while also giving us the flexibility to build reader revenue in multiple ways. Fabrica Monetization Kit’s options feel much closer to how independent media actually works today.
Peter Jukes · Executive Editor, Byline Times
Global investigative journalism
Coda Story uses Fabrica Monetization Kit to take recurring membership payments and one-off donations without platform costs
Before we switched to Fabrica Monetization Kit, we relied on a third-party platform to manage our donations; we paid a monthly fee regardless of the donation activity in any given month.
Since we switched, the ongoing costs are less per year than they were per month, and donations come straight to our Stripe account. Now we can manage membership on our own domain, closely tied to our newsletter system, and it helps keeps the relationship with our supporters ours: the donor data, the design, the whole reading experience.
Jennifer Healy Johnson · Operations Director, Coda Story
Watch it work
A guided tour of the whole kit.
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Not sure yet?
Talk to us before you buy.
£299 a year is a real decision. Book half an hour and we’ll tell you honestly whether Monetization Kit fits your publication — and exactly what moving your existing subscribers would involve.
And if you ever stop renewing, the plugin keeps working. Your subscribers, donors and paid content carry on exactly as before — you only stop receiving updates and email support.
Benefits
More revenue for you
Launch and trial new content products
Subscriptions, one-off sales, editions, and bundles
Earn from the long tail
Let readers pay for one author, a single category, or a standalone edition
Convert visitors to customers
Easily set up in-page calls-to-action
Convert customers to members
Get better data on the content people buy first, to help them stay for more of what they value
Reduce abandoned carts
Offer a simpler, quicker checkout that lowers payment barriers
Save money
Avoid third-party fees
More choice for your readers
Let them contribute for content they want, without contracts and commitment
Even casual readers respect and value writers
Show your audience you respect them too
Offer paid content as an alternative to invasive advertising and tracking
Let them read straight away
Provide a no-hassle, in-page payment system, or register their email at the gate… no cart and account set-up
Turn their money into greater impact
Ensure more of every contribution goes to you, the organisation they support, with nothing lost to a middleman platform
Offer relevant access tiers to content
Each post can be a) open/free, b) reg-walled, c) metered, or d) paid
And more peace of mind too
Your content
Your content and your data sit in your WordPress database, not held hostage by a third party or used to sell their product.
Your revenue
You keep all the money except Stripe’s payment costs. Fabrica Monetization Kit is a flat annual fee, not a growing percentage of your earnings.
Your community
Reader accounts and donor details belong to you; no middleman or third-party platform can change its terms on you.
BUILT FOR THE block EDITOR
Fabrica Monetization Kit provides the four blocks you need to start earning from your content… just drop into any post, page or template
Configure it once, place the Gutenberg Blocks anywhere in the Editor – the plugin does the rest
Block 1
Paywall
Subscriptions, single purchases and donations – all from one block, dropped into any article, in-line where the reader is most engaged. Apple Pay and Google Pay surface automatically on mobile.
Block 2
Membership
Take recurring payments from loyal readers and offer tiered benefits that go beyond access to written content.
Block 3
Contributions
Ask for donations or pitch a crowdfunder in the context of the work being funded: each campaign block can sit in the article or project that helps inspire the gift. The block shows the funding goal, live progress, and the supporter count.
Block 4
My Account
The reader’s account dashboard puts all their subscriptions, purchases, donations and memberships in a single self-service view. “My Account” offers an itemised history of transactions, shows renewal and expiry dates, and lets the reader go to manage payment methods and cancellations in the Stripe Customer Portal.
FABRICA MONETIZATION KIT – For developers & admins
your WordPress · your code
Plug-and-play… but developed for hooks when you need them
- Choose between two modes: WooCommerce (with order syncing) or Stripe-only
- WP User accounts created automatically on first purchase; self-service dashboard
- Stripe Customer Portal handles cancellations, card updates, resubscriptions
- Webhook support for extensions, integrations and modifications
- Allow or deny paywalled content to bots, LLMs or syndication tools via hooks
Snippet 01 · fabrica_monetization_kit_bypass_restriction
Let search crawlers index paywalled content for SEO, but block AI training scrapers.
add_filter( 'fabrica_monetization_kit_bypass_restriction', function( $bypass, $postId, $accessLevel ) {
$ua = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
if ( stripos( $ua, 'Googlebot' ) !== false ) {
return true;
}
if ( stripos( $ua, 'GPTBot' ) !== false || stripos( $ua, 'ClaudeBot' ) !== false ) {
return false;
}
return $bypass;
}, 10, 3 );Full hook reference at /docs/hooks
Snippet 02 · fabrica_monetization_kit_entitlement_added
Pipe new paying subscribers into Mailchimp with the tier as a tag.
add_action( 'fabrica_monetization_kit_entitlement_added', function( $userId, $transactionId, $entityType, $objectSubtype, $entityId, $orderId, $metadata ) {
$user = get_userdata( $userId );
if ( ! $user || $entityType !== 'subscription' ) {
return;
}
mailchimp_subscribe( $user->user_email, [
'tags' => [ 'paying', $objectSubtype ],
] );
}, 10, 7 );Full hook reference at /docs/hooks
FABRICA MONETIZATION KIT: Pricing & BUY NOW
One licence fee. No revenue cut. No hidden extras.
Fabrica Monetization Kit doesn’t take a cut of your earnings.
What you don’t pay
- 10% Substack platform commission
- 10% Patreon platform fees
- 5% Crowdfunding platform cut
- 5% External donations platform fees
If Fabrica Monetization Kit earns you one reader a week who would have left in a bad mood, it has paid for itself
Optional services — customisation and bespoke setup available (ad-hoc or project fee).
Early customers get a bit of hand-holding included, free.
Single site licence for Fabrica Monetization Kit
£299
price is GBP per year, locked in
(this is an introductory price, likely to rise)
- All features and blocks included
- Twelve months of updates and email support
- Annual renewable, but cancel anytime; plugin keeps working (no updates)
Stop renewing whenever you like — the plugin keeps working and your subscribers, donors and paid content carry on. Rather talk first? Book a 30-minute call.
FAQs
Common questions
If yours isn’t here, email info@fabri.ca – we usually reply within a working day.
What is the single biggest problem you’re solving?
Three, really – they tend to come together.
- Friction. Standard payment flows (in WordPress and other publishing CMSs) take readers away from the story to a separate Account Creation process, then a Cart, then a Checkout, then a Confirmation. Conversions die at every step.
- Revenue inflexibility. Most plugins offer one ask: subscribe or leave. We let publishers also take one-off article purchases, category and author bundles, donations, crowdfunding, memberships – every level of reader intent has a matching option.
- Loss of ownership. Hosted alternatives like Substack take a commission, host your content own your audience, and push their own product… you’re gristle in their sausage. Monetization Kit keeps everything on a site you own.
How is this different from just publishing on Substack?
Monetization Kit is built for WordPress, so you retain ownership of your content and your audience. Substack is a hosted platform: it takes a percentage of revenue, owns the customer relationship, and dictates the design.
The Monetization Kit gives you the same ease-of-use – in-page payment, automatic accounts, self-service portal – on a site you actually own. You keep every penny Stripe doesn’t take, your subscriber list lives in your database, and a platform terms-change tomorrow doesn’t affect you.
Building on WordPress also makes the kit useful for organisations Substack wasn’t built for – charities, NGOs, cultural institutions.
I’m on Substack. Will my paying subscribers have to sign up and pay again?
No – as long as you disconnect in the right order. Substack bills through your own Stripe account, so your subscribers, their saved cards and their renewal dates already belong to you. You aren’t changing payment processor, so nobody has to re-enter card details or re-confirm anything.
Monetization Kit ships with a Stripe importer that reads the subscriptions already in your Stripe account, matches each customer to a WordPress user by email address, and gives them access. It shows you a full preview first – including any duplicate customers to resolve – and writes nothing at all until you press Run Import. It can create accounts for subscribers who don’t have one yet.
One warning worth reading twice: don’t disconnect Stripe from inside Substack’s own dashboard – doing that cancels and refunds every active paid subscription. Ask Substack’s support team to disconnect Stripe and remove their 10% fee without cancelling or refunding existing subscriptions. Then run the import.
I’m on Patreon. Can I bring my patrons across the same way?
Not automatically – and be sceptical of anyone who promises otherwise. Patreon is the merchant of record: your patrons gave their card details to Patreon, not to you. There is no subscription of yours to move and no card that can be transferred, so patrons do have to pledge again on your own site. That’s a limit of how Patreon is built, not of Monetization Kit.
What you can bring is the relationship. Export your patron list from Patreon, invite them over, and keep both running for a billing cycle or two while people move at their own pace. Once they’re here, the same pledge is worth noticeably more to you – there’s no platform commission, only Stripe’s fee – and you own the list from then on.
What’s wrong with standard WordPress + WooCommerce?
Nothing, structurally – and Monetization Kit works alongside WooCommerce if you want it to. But the off-the-shelf experience is a multi-page Cart → Checkout → Confirmation flow that loses readers between steps.
Monetization Kit replaces that with a single in-page interaction inside the article. Same database, same orders, same tax reporting if you’re using Woo – just without the redirect that costs you the sale.
How is this different from MemberPress or Paid Memberships Pro?
Those are subscription-only tools – readers either subscribe to a tier or leave. Monetization Kit adds every other revenue model around them: one-off article purchases, category and author bundles, day passes, donations, crowdfunding campaigns, and memberships with offline (non-content) benefits. All with inline checkout instead of a redirect to a separate flow.
Do I need a developer to install it?
No. The plugin installs from a standard WordPress zip upload. The only setup is pasting your Stripe API keys and choosing default prices. Most sites are live in about ten minutes. Early customers get a bit of free hand-holding from us if they need it.
Do you take a percentage of my revenue?
No. Monetization Kit is a flat annual licence – £299/year. You keep everything your audience pays you, minus only Stripe’s standard processing fee. No platform cut, no per-transaction commission, no upsell tier later.
What happens if I let the licence lapse?
The plugin keeps working. Existing subscribers, donors and paid content all continue to function normally. You just stop receiving updates and email support.
Do I need WooCommerce?
Only if you want it. Monetization Kit runs standalone with just a Stripe account, or syncs with an existing WooCommerce setup for unified reporting and tax compliance. Either path is fully supported.
Can readers buy a single article without an account?
Yes. The plugin auto-creates an account from their Stripe checkout in the background, and emails them. They can return and access what they paid for – no friction at purchase time.
Do Apple Pay and Google Pay work on mobile?
Yes. The in-page checkout uses Stripe’s Payment Element, which surfaces Apple Pay and Google Pay automatically on supported devices. Most mobile buyers complete payment in a single tap.
How does this integrate with my mailing platform?
Through hooks. Monetization Kit fires events on every account creation, subscription change, donation and membership change – wire them to Mailchimp, ConvertKit, Buttondown, Beehiiv, a CRM, or whatever you use. We can help you scope the integration.
What about customer data – where does it live?
In your WordPress database. Account records, purchase history, donor details, membership status – all yours. Payment processing happens at Stripe; the money relationship is with them, but the customer relationship is yours alone.
Does it support multiple currencies?
Yes – any currency Stripe supports. Each price carries its own currency, so you’re not locked to a single one.
Will search engines and social previews see paywalled content?
Yes. The plugin ships with configurable user-agent patterns so search crawlers and social preview bots see the full article – meaning your SEO and shareability are unaffected by the paywall.
Can I customise the look of the payment block?
Yes. The blocks respect your theme’s typography and colours by default. A full developer hook and filter library lets you override any rendered element.
Who made this
Built by Yes we work — a small independent studio that has been working on WordPress since 2008.
Fabrica is our plugin family — Monetization Kit is one of its plugins. We build the tools we wished we’d had when we were running publications ourselves.
- Since 2007 — building on WordPress; nearly two decades of plugin and theme work
- Small team — the same people end-to-end; no account managers, no handoffs
- Independent — no VC, no platform, no acquired-by; we work for the publishers, not investors
● Bespoke installation
Need it tailored to your publication?
We also offer hands-on installation, theme integration and bespoke flows on top of the plugin — for publishers and charities who’d rather we did it. Book a 30-minute call and tell us what you need.
Or email info@fabri.ca