Pricing a pay-per-view post

Choose Pay-per-view under “Who is it for?” and a Price to unlock field appears. Type the price in whole currency, like 9.99. The publish button then reads Publish · $9.99.

The field accepts digits and a dot, up to six characters. A pay-per-view post must have a price above zero — leave it empty and the button stays dimmed with “Pay-per-view needs a price.” The highest price EVVA will store is 1,000,000 cents, which is $10,000.00.

What the fan does

They see the price on the card

A locked post shows Locked and a pill reading Unlock with your price.

They open the post and confirm

The panel explains that the item is sold by you and that EVVA will open it once the money is confirmed. The button reads Confirm and unlock.

They pay

By card, by a device wallet, or from an EVVA balance.

The post opens on its own

Not instantly. EVVA waits for the payment to be confirmed, and the panel is explicit about that: “Your card was submitted. This item opens on its own once the platform confirms the money.”

If confirmation takes longer than the panel waits, the fan is told “The platform has not confirmed this yet. Nothing more is needed from you — close this, and the item opens here as soon as it does.” Nothing is lost, and they do not need to pay again.

A fan pays once and keeps access. As the composer puts it: “Fans pay once and keep access.” A lapsed subscription never takes a purchased post away, and conversely a subscription never includes pay-per-view posts — see Who can see your post.

The price and the seller are resolved by EVVA from the post itself. The fan’s browser cannot name an amount at checkout even if it tries — a request that does is refused. Your price is the price.

What you keep

The composer draws a You keep box, and what it shows is your share of the sale: the price less EVVA’s platform fee. On a direct sale — a fan you brought to the post yourself — that fee is 25%.

The fee depends on who brought the buyer, so the share on one sale is not always the share on the next. The commercial terms, including how the fee is set, are at https://legal.getsimplio.com/terms-conditions.

Changing the price later

You can change a post’s price, with one catch: if a file on that post is also attached somewhere else, changing the price can change how that file has to be protected, and the change is refused rather than silently applied. The message names the file’s existing protection level. See Reusing a file on more than one post.

Setting a price to zero is not a way to make a pay-per-view post free — the audience and price are paired, so switch the audience to Everyone instead.

Two controls worth knowing about

Add to a collection puts the post into a set, described in the composer as “Collections let fans buy a whole set at once”. Use it when several posts belong together and you would rather sell them as one thing than one at a time.

Blur the preview decides how the locked card looks to a fan who has not bought yet: “Fans see the real still, blurred, with your price on top.” It chooses whether that blurred still is used — it does not change the blur itself, which is fixed during processing. See The watermark and the blurred locked preview.

Changing a price later does not reach back to a sale already made. A fan who has bought the post keeps it at what they paid, and no price change takes it away from them.