Membership & paywall development
We build membership and paywall systems that turn content into recurring revenue: subscriptions, tiers, PPV and private areas.
A paywall locks content behind payment; a membership adds recurring subscriptions, tiers and private areas. SpicyHTML builds both for the adult industry with adult-friendly recurring billing and content protection.
Selling a piece of content once is exhausting: you are only ever as good as your last sale, and every month starts from zero. A membership turns that grind into predictable, recurring revenue — the single biggest shift a creator or studio can make. But recurring billing in the adult industry is a minefield of declined cards, churn and gateways that simply refuse the vertical. We build membership and paywall systems engineered around those realities.
When a membership makes sense
If you already sell content but income swings wildly from month to month, if you have a loyal audience that would happily pay for ongoing access, or if you are giving a platform 20-30% of every dollar, a membership is the answer. It converts one-off buyers into subscribers and turns your back catalogue into an asset that keeps earning.
What we build
Subscription tiers with different content and price points, pay-per-view for premium drops, private member areas, and gated galleries and video. Everything runs on adult-friendly recurring gateways (CCBill, Segpay and similar), with content protected by signed URLs so a shared password doesn't leak your whole library. We can build it on your own site or as a full multi-creator platform.
Retention is the whole game
Acquiring a subscriber is expensive; keeping one is where the profit is. We design for low churn from day one: frictionless login and access on any device, a steady drip of fresh content so members feel the value every week, and automated dunning that retries failed payments and recovers cards before they cancel. A few points of churn reduction compound into a dramatically larger business over a year.
Billing that actually goes through
This is where most adult memberships quietly bleed money. Mainstream processors ban the vertical, and even adult gateways decline a meaningful share of transactions. We integrate the right gateways, add 3-D Secure and smart retry logic, and support multiple payment methods (including crypto) so a declined card on one rail is recovered on another instead of becoming a lost subscriber.
Analytics you can act on
MRR, churn, lifetime value, conversion by tier, failed-payment recovery rate — you get a dashboard that shows what is actually happening, so pricing and content decisions are based on data, not gut feeling.
How we work and what it costs
We start with a discovery call to understand your audience and content cadence, ship a working membership as an MVP, then iterate on real retention data. A membership on your existing site is quoted as a fixed project; a full platform is quoted in phases. The first call is free and ends with a realistic estimate.
Recurring billing in adult means specific gateways and rules. We know them, so your subscriptions actually go through.
Frequently asked questions about Membership & Paywall.
Which billing do you support?
Adult-friendly recurring gateways like CCBill and Segpay.
Can I have multiple tiers?
Yes, unlimited tiers with different content and prices.
How do you reduce churn?
Smooth access, fresh content and automated dunning on failed payments.
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