How to charge people to use my online tool?

Three months ago I launched a site - it is now PR4 and has ~100 users a day.

I would like to charge $1 for each time someone uses my tool.

Is there a program or script to do this?

Any ideas? I am learning php/mysql so could program it myself but am hoping there is something out of the box and secure.

Kisses!!

 

check out paypal integration (if you live in paypal accepted country) or else moneybookers or alertpay integration.
once you decide which one you want to use, you can look for the integration scripts, there are many online, just make sure to look through the code and change anything you don't like to your liking.

 

Care to share your website? This would help answer the question. If it is a popular free tool, try limiting what the user can do with it, or limit number of uses, then have them subscribe, with a recurring billing, and use a service like Clickbank to route them to an internal page with the full, limitless version.

 

You can try to transform your website into a membership website also.

 

$1 each time, that won't fly. Maybe a dollar for a days access. You will not know till you try!

 

Clickbank? Isn't that an e-product affiliate network?

How would that work??

 

Good idea. $1 per days access. Are there any scripts or apps that do this? I guess I could write my own, I kinda assumed there would be a gadget for this already.

 

There are like scripts or plugins for running membership sites depending on your platform and website type.

Dont forget about a donation system where if people find your tools helpful they can donate a amount of money

Webmasters in this case normally ask visitors to consider a donation when they have a few spare bucks in their paypal ac as it costs money to develop, maintain, host and compensation for your time etc.

If you are too forceful or expensive then people can move on to find a better paid or another free alternative so your site bombs

So maybe trial different membership / donation approaches as their is no set right or wrong answer as each site and service is a different situation

 

you need to create site like membership sites. or charge a flat fee per month and provide them signIN/signout option

 

Thanks.

My site is unique - one of a kind, and I want to build a business around it, so would rather charge a fee, not donation.

What I am hearing is that I will have to program a membership and pay per day use application around my existing site??

 

First, PayPal provides a number of simple integration approaches with ExpressCheckout button on your site.
Second, you will need to program a session management engine, that would catch the cookies of a user, query your database and identifies if a user has paid or not. If yes the user get an access to the paid pages, if not the user is informed about payment possibilities.

But the most important is how to get users to the step of payment. Simple solutions like "this is private/paid section, please pay" won't work. You need to give user a 'sausage'. As an idea, allow any user a trial free access to your paid website section. But only for a limited time or number of viewed pages. Only after that, ask for payment.

 

Wow - what a great response!! Thank you!!

 

No problem, Frankenfine, use it at your full power ;-)

 

You can just use cpalead content blocker to let someone get access after completing $1 dollar survey for you

 

I tried cpalead for a few weeks. even tried no skip setting, but users didn't fill it out and users complained it was annoying, so I am going to tell them to pay for the service.

 

Look in the scripts area. A lot of professional scripts there.

 

is it a wordpress site? Can consider using s2member plugin to create a membership access website

 

A membership site is a good way to go.

 

Yeah, a membership site is the way to go. I have several and they make ok money each month. To make it easer for your user, let them register for free, and maybe even try your service 1, 2 or 3 times. Then their membership is still active, they just can't use the service for free, but is asked to kindly pay. And then you either setup a one day pass, a monthly subscriptionor a full year of service, so they can choose which package would fit their needs.

If you go with Paypal, choose to encrypt your Paypal email address (option in Paypal button wizard) to make it harder for bots and other machines to come by and capture your email for harvesting purposes.

 

I think $1/usage is not a good measure. What if I want to use it 200 times per day the whole month?