Benefits
Offer exclusive benefits to your paying supporters
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Create Benefits
Setup exclusive benefits for your paying supporters.
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Sell Access to Benefits
Sell access to your benefits with one-time purchasable products or subscriptions.
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Automated Access Control
Benefit access is automatically granted upon purchase, and revoked when a subscription ends.
Automated Discord Invites
Offer exclusive access to Support channels
- Configure Discord server roles
- Invite & assign roles to paying supporters
- Automatically revoked access when a subscription ends
Access to private repositories
Invite supporters to your private repositories
- GitHub repositories supported
- Invite paying supporters to any private repository
- Automatically revoked access when a subscription ends
File Downloads
Sell any digital product with ease
- Sell e-books, courses, software, & more
- Backers get access to download links
- 10GB file size limit
- SHA256 checksums for secure downloads
- Automatically revoked access when a subscription ends
Sponsor Advertiesements
Sell ad-spots on your GitHub README
- Automate README.md logotypes & offer newsletter ad-spots
- Automatically revoked access when a subscription ends
Premium & Early Newsletter
Exclusive access to "Supporter-only" newsletters
- Grant access to premium newsletters for your most devoted supporters
- Enhance public newsletters with early-access for paying supporters
- Automatically revoked access when a subscription ends
Custom Benefits
Want to offer something special? Build your own custom benefits.
- Share secret notes, e.g Cal.com link to book consultation.
- Configure VAT applicability
From first donation to IPO
Polar offers features to scale with your needs
Products & Subscriptions
Start offering developer first products and services in minutes - paid once, monthly or annually.
Supporter
Access to software releases, my private GitHub repository & support in my Discord server.
Issue Funding & Rewards
Crowdfunded backlog or community bounties with seamless support to split funds with contributors.
Donations
Get appreciation from your community for a great newsletter, release or ongoing development.
Custom Integrations & SaaS
Use our API & SDK to integrate Polar across your docs, sites, apps or services.
Powerful & built-in benefits
We're building common developer upsells so you don't have to
Private GitHub Repositories
Automate access to an unlimited amount of private GitHub repositories.
File Downloads
From e-books, source code to executibles - any file is supported up to 10GB/each.
Free & Premium Newsletters
Write a free, premium or early access newsletter in GitHub flavoured markdown.
Discord Invites & Roles
Give customers exclusive access or premium appearances and permissions.
Sponsor Promotion
Automate README.md logotypes and offer newsletter sponsorship.
Custom Benefit
Create your own and share secret notes, e.g Cal.com link to book consultation.
License keys, private packages & more to come
Supporting all use cases
From sustainable open source, sponsorware to full-fledged SaaS
Increase sales, not overhead
Polar handles VAT, sales tax and billing so you don't have to
Sales Metrics
Professional funding, sales and subscription metrics. Your dashboard can be plotted down to each hour - let's aim high, together.
Merchant of Record
No more VAT headache - we handle the necessary taxes for you.
Payouts
Withdraw your earnings with ease. Supporting Stripe & Open Collective.
Grow community alongside transactions
Crucial for successful developer tools. So it's built-in - for free
Polar Page
Social bio links for developers. Showcase your repos, products, subscriptions, newsletter and more.
Free & Premium Newsletters
Online- and email newsletters for your community. Write in GitHub flavoured markdown & share them with all subscribers.
Official GitHub Option
GitHub offers first-class support for Polar Pages in FUNDING.yaml. Convert stars into community members.
Supporter
Custom experiences powered by Polar
Use our OAuth, API & Webhooks to ship custom integrations across docs, sites, apps and services.
Serving world-class developers, world-wide
I've joined Polar as an advisor!
I think it benefits everyone for devs to have more options to get paid to work on their passions, to support upstreams, and for users to have more confidence/transparency in the software they're supporting/purchasing.
I just used Polar to sponsor someone to improve Polar in Ladybird Browser!
It's honestly such a comfy way to spread the love and share some of my funding with more of our developers!
It's only been two weeks but Polar has been extremely good for funding contributions for Athena Crisis.
Frictionless, fast, easy.
Amazing! Really excited to seeing how this turns out.
Polar is the cutting edge of how open source might be financed in the future.
Pricing
Transparent pricing aligned with your success.
Zero Fixed Costs
No hidden or monthly costs.
5% Revenue Share
We earn when you do.
+ Stripe & Open Collective
Transaction- and payout fees apply.
We've run out of sales pitches
For now. We ship fast and open source. So stay tuned.