Native Payment Methods
A connector can bring its platform's own in-app payment to your project, with no redirect and no card entry, settled inside the chat. What that means for your plans, your portal and your fees.
Most payment methods are gateways: a member taps Subscribe, opens a checkout page, and comes back. Some platforms have a payment of their own inside their app, settled with the store credentials a member already has on their phone. A connector that supports it brings that method to Subscriby as a native payment method.
How a native method behaves
- It belongs to the connector. The connector's Built-in payments switch, on the project's Connectors page under the connector's Configuration tab, decides whether the method is on sale. Switched off, it leaves the payment-method picker and the plan currency list, no new method of that kind can be added, and the bot stops offering an existing one at checkout. Sales already made and their subscriptions are untouched; switching it back on offers it again.
- It is priced in the platform's own currency. A plan sold through a native method is priced in that currency, and Subscriby converts the value to USD for your fees at the rate the platform publishes. See Transaction fees.
- It is a one-time charge. Platforms do not run recurring billing through their in-app currencies, so plans priced in one are lifetime or fixed-length purchases, never renewing ones.
- It lives on the platform, not on the portal. The member pays inside the platform's app, so the portal filters native methods out of its picker. A plan priced only in a platform currency shows no payment method on the portal; share the bot link for those plans instead. See Sharing your project.
- Live only. There is no test mode; test with a small amount on your own account.
Enabling one
Open Payment Methods → Setup a Payment Method and pick the native method the connector offers. There are no credentials to enter: the connector is already connected. Toggle Active and save.
Each native method has an exclusive option, which hides every other method inside the bot so the only way to pay in the chat is the platform's own. The portal is unaffected by it, so members who prefer a card can still pay there.
Payouts follow the platform's rules, not ours. Before enabling a native method, read how its platform pays you out (some pay in cryptocurrency and hold funds for a period) and check that you may receive it where you live.
Per connector
Telegram's native currency is Telegram Stars (XTR), paid in one or two taps with Apple or Google in-app purchase credentials, worth about $0.013 a Star, and withdrawn through Fragment in TON after a holding period. Pricing, the exclusive-Stars option, the member's checkout screens and the fee maths are on Telegram Stars.
Related
- Choosing a provider — native methods beside the gateways.
- Transaction fees — how fees are calculated on a platform currency.
- Making payments (for members) — what a native checkout looks like for the member.
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