New revenue from your readers
Allspice gives publishers tools to create and sell premium products directly from the content and audience they have already built.
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Overview
Publishers can use Allspice to offer paid memberships and premium meal plans, with checkout, payments, customer access, and entitlements handled through the Allspice platform and connected payment infrastructure.
For publisher-created products, Allspice retains a 10% platform fee calculated after third-party payment-processing fees. The publisher retains the remaining transaction proceeds, subject to applicable refunds, disputes, chargebacks, taxes, credits, and other transaction adjustments.
Allspice is also developing additional publisher revenue programs around attributed Allspice Premium subscriptions and grocery commerce.
Publisher memberships
Allspice Memberships lets publishers offer paid access directly on their own site.
Publishers control the membership offering, including pricing, benefits, premium content, and which parts of the site require membership access.
Memberships can be used for offerings such as:
- premium recipes
- member-only recipe collections
- exclusive cooking content
- premium meal plans
- subscriber-only site content
- other recurring publisher benefits
Allspice provides the infrastructure behind the membership experience, including supported checkout, account access, recurring billing, entitlements, and content gating.
The publisher remains the seller and provider of the membership and controls the underlying content and customer offering.
Membership revenue
For paid publisher memberships, Allspice retains a 10% platform fee calculated after third-party payment-processing fees.
The remaining transaction proceeds are attributable to the publisher, subject to applicable transaction adjustments.
Premium meal plans
Publishers can also create and sell premium meal plans through Allspice.
Meal plans can combine a publisher's existing recipes into paid products such as:
- 7-day or 14-day meal plans
- seasonal meal plans
- family dinner plans
- high-protein or dietary-focused plans
- holiday cooking plans
- recipe bundles and themed collections
Publishers determine the product, pricing, included recipes, description, and other content associated with the meal plan.
Allspice can provide checkout, payment processing, customer entitlements, and access to the purchased meal plan.
Meal plan revenue
Premium meal plans use the same publisher-commerce model as memberships.
Allspice retains a 10% platform fee calculated after third-party payment-processing fees, and the publisher retains the remaining transaction proceeds, subject to applicable transaction adjustments.
How publisher commerce works
Publisher-created products are sold using the publisher's connected payment account where supported.
A typical transaction works like this:
- The publisher creates a membership, meal plan, or other supported paid offering.
- A reader purchases or subscribes through an Allspice-powered checkout.
- The transaction is processed through the publisher's connected payment account.
- Allspice provides the applicable entitlement or access to the customer.
- Allspice retains its applicable platform fee through the payment-processing integration.
- The remaining proceeds stay attributable to the publisher.
This means Allspice does not generally collect all publisher revenue into an Allspice account and then manually distribute the publisher's share later.
Platform fees and revenue calculation
For publisher-created products and memberships, Allspice retains a platform fee equal to 10% of the Eligible Transaction Amount.
The Eligible Transaction Amount is generally:
The amount collected from the customer, including applicable transaction taxes, less third-party payment-processing fees.
Transaction taxes collected from the customer do not reduce the amount used to calculate Allspice's platform fee.
Example
Suppose a customer purchases a publisher product for $100 and is charged $8 in applicable tax.
- Product price: $100.00
- Tax: $8.00
- Total collected: $108.00
- Third-party payment-processing fees: $3.20
The Eligible Transaction Amount would be $108.00 - $3.20 = $104.80.
Allspice's 10% platform fee would be $10.48.
The remaining $94.32 would remain attributable to the publisher, subject to any later refunds, reversals, disputes, chargebacks, credits, or other transaction adjustments.
If all or part of a transaction is later refunded or otherwise adjusted, the amounts attributable to Allspice and the publisher may also be reconciled.
Payments and payouts
Publisher commerce uses connected payment infrastructure, including Stripe Connect where supported.
Because transactions are processed through the publisher's connected account, publisher proceeds do not generally need to wait for a separate manual revenue-sharing payment from Allspice.
The payment processor handles settlement and bank payouts according to the connected account's payout schedule, eligibility, reserves, and other applicable requirements.
Allspice separately calculates and reconciles its platform fee through the payment-processing integration.
Other publisher revenue programs
In addition to publisher-created memberships and premium products, Allspice is developing additional ways for publishers to participate in revenue generated through the broader Allspice ecosystem.
Allspice Premium subscription revenue sharing
Allspice plans to share 25% of qualifying Allspice Premium subscription revenue with the publisher to whom the subscriber is attributed.
The program is designed so that a reader can remain attributed to the publisher through which they originally established their Allspice relationship, even if the reader later upgrades to Premium through another Allspice surface.
A reader might first create their Allspice account while using Allspice on a publisher's site and later subscribe to Allspice Premium through the Allspice app. Under the Premium attribution program, that subscription may remain attributable to the originating publisher.
The Premium subscription revenue-sharing program is separate from publisher memberships and premium meal plans. Its attribution, calculation, reporting, and payout infrastructure is still being completed.
Grocery and ingredient shopping
Allspice also plans to support additional grocery and ingredient-shopping integrations.
For supported integrations, Allspice intends to pass through 100% of attributable grocery affiliate revenue to the applicable publisher or site, subject to retailer, affiliate-network, integration, and other applicable partner terms.
This program is separate from both publisher commerce and Allspice Premium subscription revenue sharing.
Questions and support
If you have questions about memberships, premium meal plans, publisher commerce, Stripe Connect, revenue sharing, or payouts, please contact Allspice support through the Publisher Portal or at support@allspicelabs.com.
Allspice is designed to give publishers additional ways to monetize their content and reader relationships while keeping publishers in control of the products, content, and experiences they offer.