Pricing and fees
Paid and free listings, the three fee rates and how they are applied to each payment.
Paid and free listings
A listing is either paid or free, chosen on the Pricing tab of the editor. Paid listings use recurring prices (monthly or yearly) that you import from your own Stripe account. Free listings have no checkout, no price, no refund policy, no fee and no licence keys; the licence API answers that the plugin is free.
Anyone signed in can download a free plugin. Each download is recorded, which feeds the buyer's Downloads page and your download counts.
Fee rates
The fee is a percentage of every subscription payment. Which percentage applies depends on how the buyer arrived.
| The buyer arrived | Fee | On a 10.00 payment |
|---|---|---|
| Through your own link | 0% | 0.00 |
| Marketplace | 5% | 0.50 |
| Marketplace, founding author | 3% | 0.30 |
- Your own link is
peakstone.app/r/your-name. It is remembered for 30 days in the buyer's browser. - Founding authors are the first 10 approved authors. 9 of 10 spots are left. They keep the founding rate on marketplace sales for as long as their plugins stay listed.
The fee calculator on the fees page works out what reaches your Stripe account for your price and your number of paying servers.
How the fee is taken
Checkout is created on your Stripe account as a direct charge, so you are the seller of record. Peakstone's share is a Stripe application fee, taken at the moment the buyer pays. Stripe pays the rest to you on your normal payout schedule and charges its own processing fees to you.
The rate is fixed when the subscription starts and stays the same for every renewal. The fee is calculated on each payment and rounded down to the cent, the way Stripe rounds an application fee percentage.
What is never charged
There is no listing fee, no monthly fee and no payout fee. Free listings cost nothing.
Refunds and changes
- When a payment is refunded, the same share of the fee on that payment is refunded to you automatically.
- Buyers ask for refunds by email. Peakstone forwards the request to you and you have 72 hours to answer. If you do not, Peakstone refunds that subscription's most recent payment from your Stripe account.
- Fee changes come with at least 30 days' notice, and a subscription keeps the rate it started with.
The legal text is section 10 of the Terms of Service.