How to set up Premium Podcast Paid Subscription service

Activate Premium Podcast Paid Subscription service

Fill the premium content information, title, brief description, publish frequency(weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) etc. Click "Save" button. Your podcast channel now is ready to host premium content.

Upload premium media files and set them to be secure mode

Upload files. Click the Premium "Lock" icon to make the premium audio, video, pdf etc media files into secure mode.

Publish the premium podcast episode

Click "Publish" tab in your podbean dashboard. Select the publish level to "Premium content". Your uploaded premium content files will be automatically shown in the "select from account" drop down menu. Choose the one that you want to attach in the post. Fill in the Title, description and click "Publish".

Create Premium Products

Click "Premium" Tab in your Podbean dashboard, then click "Products" subtab. Podbean gives you high flexibility in creating various Paid subscription products to fit in your needs. More detail see "Premium Podcast Products How to".

Congratulations ! You are done.

Yes. This all you need to do. We take care of all the rest for you. Your premium content will be shown in your podcast site with a special premium subscription link. A special premium RSS feed is automatically created. All your premium contents can only be accessed with a valid subscriber user name and password. You can start to get paid by your subscribers instantly.

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How to create Premium Podcast Paid Subscription Products

Add New Product

Click "Premium" tab in your Podbean dashboard. Then Click "Products" to start add your new Premium Podcast paid subscription products.

Recurring or One Time Payment

You can set your Premium Podcast paid subscription plan to be a recurring payment one(e.g. monthly or annual plan) or a One Time payment Season Pass with fixed start and end date.

Trial Period

You can set flexible Free or discounted trial period for your paid subscribers. It can be couple days, weeks or months.

Regular billing Cycle and the Button Style

You have the full flexibility to set the billing cycle as you want, monthly, annually, quaterly, even days or weeks...

There are 6 ready to go button styles for you to choose. You also can use your own customized button.

Access Control

The "Access Option" let you control if your Paid Subscribers can access the content before their subscription date. This feature is used in most of time when you also sell your former season premium podcast episodes in your Podbean "eStore".

How Podbean Paid Subscription works

Publishing the Premium content for Paid Subscription

First, a podcaster publish the Premium Content for paid subscription. A paid subscription link will be automatically created for each Premium post. Podcaster also can add his/her own customizable paid subscription widgets button on sidebar(see above). A user can click the any one of the links and go to the subscribing page.

Subscribing the Premium Content

In the Premium Content subscribing page, the premium content info that the podcaster filled in the Premium setting page will be displayed. A subscriber can pay the premium content subscription via Paypal by clicking the "order now" button. This will lead the subscriber to the Paypal page.

Paid subscription Confirmation Messages

After a subscriber make a payment in Paypal, a confirmation email with paid subscription access information will be sent to the subscriber. The premium content podcaster will receive a Podbean internal msg notice in the Podbean MyInbox.

Premium Payment Info

Each payment transaction will be shown in Podcaster's Premium Accounting page in Podbean account.

Access Paid Premium Content in iTunes

Paid subscribers can subscribe the Premium content in iTunes with a pair of valid user name and password.

Access Paid Premium Content in Podbean.com MySubscription Page

Paid subscribers can access subscribed podcasts any time in Podbean.com MySubscription page with a pair of valid user name and password.

Access Paid Premium Content in Web Sites

The premium podcaster can use Podbean embeddable players to embed the premium content into his/her own web site, blog or myspace page, paid subscribers will access the content in the same way as they do in Podbean.com -- with a pair of valid user name and password.