Setting up Stripe

HN+ currently offers the following way for monetizing your site.

Apart from the last option where you add your own adveritising items, the first three all require you to receive payments from other people. HN+ makes this seamless by integrating with your Stripe account. In this document, we will explain what is required to set up your Stripe with HN+ in detail before you can monetize your HN+ site.

HN+ integrates with your Stripe account via an API key. Even if you have an existing Stripe API key, we strongly recommend creating a separate API key dedicated to integrating with HN+. To create an API key, within your Stripe account, click on the Developers section as shown below.

Click on the API keys tab.

Find a button with a label Create a restricted key.

In the key creation page, type in a name for the key (e.g. HN+ monetization API key). Then you will need to grant this API key a set of write permissions for the following items:

Once you have set these permissions, save the changes. You can now copy the API token as shown below.

You can then paste the key within your HN+ monetization settings page as shown below.

When you save, HN+ will verify that the API key is valid and also create a new Product within your Stripe account. Within this product, we will create prices and plans required for various monetization features you can use.