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.
We first assume that you have an active Stripe account. If you don't have one, please make sure you create a new account before enabling monetization.
Please note that we currently integrate with Stripe only.
Create an API key for integrating with HN+
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:
If you are enabling
Paid Membership, please make sure you also enable
READ permission on
Invoices and
WRITE permission on
Subscriptions as well.
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.