Document payments
Charge for your playbookworkbooktemplatecookbooklookbooknotebookplaybook, workbook, template, cookbook, lookbook or notebook at the same link.
Put a price on any document you already publish. Readers get the preview you choose, pay on Stripe, and land straight in the full thing. No shop to build, no file to send, nothing to install.
On Studio, Agency, Agency Pro · 2.5% platform fee, you keep the rest
Flip through the free preview above — the paywall at the end is the real one.
- 2.5%
- flat platform fee — no tiers, no monthly minimum
- £1
- minimum price — below that, card fees eat the sale
- 135+
- currencies, whatever Stripe supports for your country
- 1
- personal link per buyer — forwarding doesn’t open it
Where the money goes
Into your account. Not through ours.
We are not a middleman holding your takings until the end of the month. Payments land in your own Stripe account — your name on the buyer’s statement, your payouts, your VAT. We take 2.5% and never touch the rest.
Example sale
Design Magazine
- Merchant of record
- You are. Buyers see your name at checkout, and refunds come from you.
- Payouts
- On Stripe’s normal schedule, straight to your bank. We are not in the path.
- Refunds
- One button. Access is revoked the moment the refund goes through.
- Minimum price
- £1. Below that, card fees cost more than the sale is worth.
Access, not a file
Selling access, not shipping a file
A PDF leaves your hands the moment it is bought. This does not — which is what makes every one of these possible.
You see who read what they paid for
Every sale sits beside the same read analytics as the rest of your documents — how far each buyer got, which pages they went back to. That is the thing that tells you what to write next.
Buyers · read depth
Most re-read page: 18 — the mordant table
You choose what they see for free
Nothing, the cover only, or the first few pages. The preview is the pitch.
4 of 38 pages free, then the paywall
A link per buyer
Each purchase gets its own. Forwarding it does not open the document for someone else — it asks them to buy.
Access that can expire
Forever, or a set number of days from the moment of purchase. Useful for course material and anything that dates.
Buyers keep access forever.
Refund in one click
Access is revoked the moment the refund clears — which is the part a downloaded file can never give you.
Three steps, then you are selling
01
Connect Stripe
Ten minutes, once. Business details, identity, a bank account — a real verification, because it is your money.
02
Put a price on a document
Set the price, choose the free preview, decide whether access lasts forever. One gate, not two.
03
Share the same link
The link you already had is now a shopfront — and the document can still be updated after you start selling it.
Questions
Document payments FAQ
New to this? How to sell a PDF online walks through the options. Selling also sits alongside per-client workspaces on the agency plans.
Who gets the money?
You do, directly. Payments go to your own Stripe account, not ours: your business name on the buyer’s card statement, your payout schedule, your VAT. Living Page takes 2.5% of each sale as a platform fee, and Stripe charges its own processing fee on top.
What stops a buyer sharing the document?
Each buyer gets a personal link, and the pages themselves are served behind a signed check rather than sitting on a public URL, so a forwarded link does not open the document for someone else. No system can stop a determined buyer screenshotting a page they have paid to read — nothing on the web can — but casual sharing does not work.
Do buyers need an account?
No. They pay on Stripe’s checkout page and we email them a link that opens the whole document on any device. Nothing to install, no password to forget.
Can I still edit the document after I start selling it?
Yes. Replace the file and the same link updates for everyone who has bought it, which is the part a downloadable file cannot do — buyers of a downloaded PDF are stuck with the version they got.
What happens to the password and email gate?
Paid access supersedes both on that document. Checkout already captures an email address, so an email gate would be asking for something we already have, and a password on top of a payment is a second lock on the same door.
Which plans include payments?
Paid access is included on Studio, Agency, Agency Pro. You can start free and turn it on when you are ready to charge.
Put a price on it
Upload a PDF, set a price, share the link. Your Stripe account, your money — we take 2.5%.
Included on Studio, Agency, Agency Pro.