Publisher commerce & revenue sharing
How the platform fee works when you sell memberships and meal plans through Allspice, and how you get paid.
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Overview
You can sell paid memberships and paid meal plans through Allspice. Allspice provides checkout, payments, reader accounts, and access control.
On products you sell, Allspice keeps a 10% platform fee, calculated after payment processing fees. You keep the rest, subject to refunds, disputes, taxes, and other adjustments.
Publisher memberships
With Memberships you charge readers a recurring fee for access on your own site. You set the price and the benefits, and choose which recipes, articles, and pages are members-only. Benefits can include your paid meal plans, ad-free reading, and unlimited chat with your site's cooking assistant.
Allspice runs checkout, recurring billing, member accounts, and content gating. You are the seller, and you control the content and the offer.
Membership revenue
Allspice keeps a 10% platform fee, calculated after payment processing fees. The rest is yours, subject to the adjustments described below.
Paid meal plans
A paid meal plan packages your existing recipes into a product readers buy once, such as a 7-day plan, a holiday menu, or a high-protein week. You choose the recipes, the price, and the description. Allspice handles checkout and gives buyers access to the plan. See Meal plan products.
Meal plan revenue
Meal plans use the same model as memberships: Allspice keeps a 10% platform fee, calculated after payment processing fees, and the rest is yours.
How publisher commerce works
Sales go through your own connected Stripe account:
- You create a membership or meal plan.
- A reader buys or subscribes through Stripe checkout.
- The payment is made to your connected Stripe account.
- Allspice gives the reader access.
- Allspice's fee is deducted automatically as a Stripe application fee.
- The rest stays in your Stripe account and is paid out on your payout schedule.
Allspice doesn't collect your revenue and pay you your share later.
Platform fees and revenue calculation
For products and memberships you sell, Allspice keeps a platform fee of 10% of the Eligible Transaction Amount.
The amount collected from the customer, including any transaction taxes, less third-party payment processing fees.
Taxes collected from the customer are not subtracted before the fee is calculated.
Example
A customer buys a $100 product and is charged $8 in tax.
- Product price: $100.00
- Tax: $8.00
- Total collected: $108.00
- Payment processing fees: $3.20
The Eligible Transaction Amount is $108.00 - $3.20 = $104.80.
Allspice's 10% platform fee is $10.48.
The remaining $94.32 is yours, subject to later refunds, disputes, or other adjustments.
What you'll see in Stripe
Processing fees aren't known until the payment settles, so at checkout Allspice's application fee is taken as 10% of the full charge. Shortly after, Allspice refunds part of that fee to bring it down to 10% of the amount after processing fees. Both entries appear in your Stripe dashboard.
If a payment is refunded in full or in part, Allspice refunds the same proportion of its fee.
Payments and payouts
Sales are processed through Stripe Connect, so your money doesn't wait on a separate payment from Allspice. Stripe handles settlement and bank payouts on your account's payout schedule, subject to Stripe's own eligibility and reserve rules.
Other publisher revenue programs
Grocery and ingredient shopping
Grocery shopping in the widget doesn't earn revenue for Allspice or your site by default. If you have your own Instacart affiliate API key, contact support@allspicelabs.com and we'll set up a secure way to add it to your site, so 100% of that Instacart revenue goes to you with no Allspice commission. Grocery revenue is usually small.
This is separate from publisher commerce.
Questions and support
For questions about memberships, meal plans, Stripe Connect, fees, or payouts, contact Allspice support through the Publisher Portal or at support@allspicelabs.com.