Last time, we laid out all the problems of why most creators want to move away from adult website platforms and start their own porn site. However, if you can’t solve the payment processor issue first, then don’t think about anything else. Don’t worry; your porn star career is not over yet. There are still some alternative ways to build porn site without worry about payment processors. These 3 ways include using cryptocurrency, gift vouchers/coupons, or hiring a professional to write you a plugin.

1. ways to build porn site: Using Crypto as Payment

The first and probably most familiar way to accept payments is to use Bitcoin. Some porn websites have integrated this payment method for a while now. For example, one of the biggest porn sites in the market, NaughtAmerica.com, offers an option at checkout to use crypto as a payment method.

Personally, I don’t mind accepting crypto, especially since I have a source that I can use for free. There are also benefits that might be great for the customer as well. Sometimes, you might be afraid to use your own credit card on a site that you are not familiar with, fearing scams. This is a simple matter of identity; you may not want to reveal who you are.

Privacy and Security Concerns

As the owner of a porn site, edgethatguy.com, I can confirm that there are very little details about you that I can see. Mostly, I only see your email address and username. I can’t see your password, and even your credit card number is covered by the payment processor, so there’s no chance anyone can do something malicious. I understand the desire for privacy, especially for a porn site. At least it won’t show up on your statement for anyone to track if you are using crypto.

By the way, as for my website, I cover that for you. The card statement will show a completely safe site, unrelated to porn. It’s a complicated process that involves hiring a programmer to write a plugin, and in no way can anyone track that you have subscribed to my site. Rest assured.

Getting Started with BTCPay Server

If you want to use crypto as a payment option, here’s what you need to do. First, head to BTCPay Server and read everything you can.

BTCPay Server is a free, open-source, and self-hosted Bitcoin payment gateway that allows you to accept Bitcoin payments online or in person without any fees.

There are clear instructions on how to register, open your wallet, and set it up. After completing those steps, move on to the ‘Integrations’ section on the manual to find the method that you use for selling your product. This can be through platforms like Wix, WooCommerce, etc.

Integrating with WooCommerce or the platform that you use for selling

For example, on my website, I use WooCommerce to create products called ‘1-month membership’, ‘3-month membership’, and ‘6-month membership’. The names don’t actually matter; I could name them Cola, Pepsi, and Sprite if I wanted to. The point is to set a rule that once a customer buys ‘Cola’, it grants them the rights to change their status from ‘customer’ to ‘subscriber’ for 1, 3, or 6 months. While customers can’t access the full website and watch the full videos, subscribers can. Kind of a smart way to do things, huh?

In this case, I’ll need to integrate BTCPay with my WooCommerce because I use the checkout method via WooCommerce.

One thing to note: when connecting the API (don’t worry, it’s explained step by step in the manual), if you try to enter https://btcpay.mydomain.com (substituting mydomain.com for your actual domain name) and it doesn’t work, try this instead: https://btcpay.adultxtheme.com.

Once you’ve finished setting up, go to the Payment tab in WooCommerce and open the BTCPay option. Then you are good to go.

pros and cons

Pros: It’s free to use. And a lot of users prefer this anonymous way of transaction in porn. And you don’t have to worry about chargebacks at all; once it’s done – it’s done.

Cons: Not everyone uses crypto. A lot of people still don’t trade crypto despite how popular it has become. Most still use a normal payment method like credit cards. From my website, I get about 3% out of every 100 orders that use crypto. So it’s very few in number.

2. ways to build porn site: selling store credits or gift card

This might sound easy after you’ve read it, but trust me, when I tried to find a way out of this frustrating problem, I had to try tons of methods. Tons!! And there’s no one writing a blog like this, telling you what to do one step at a time. It took me months to find this method—a way that you don’t even have to pay any money for and is quite effective in the long run. So, if you want to thank me for this, there are two ways.

If you are a hot guy, let me edge your cock (with or without a camera is fine, ha!). If you are just here to build the porn site and don’t want to get involved, recommend me to the hot guy that you know! Maybe he’d be down to collaborate with me.

Remember that this method is a zigzag version of the direct one, so it’s not going to be perfect. There is some manual labor involved, and both methods below have their own pros and cons.

The idea of these methods is to think back to why you are reading my blog in the first place. The answer is that you can’t find a solution for a payment gateway or payment processor. And why can’t you find those solutions? It’s because the porn business is considered high risk, and few are willing to take you in.

Those who do charge such an expensive fee of 10-20%. But the headache is that most of them will ask you to have a merchant account. Even if you do have one, it doesn’t mean it’ll be the one near your country, and transferring money from your merchant account to your bank account in your country will cost some additional money.

So to fix this problem, just don’t sell porn. End of story. When you don’t sell porn, you can use anything—any payment method like PayPal, Stripe, you name it.

WooCommerce has the payment option built into their checkout process, so you can simply use that. Furthermore, since it’s not considered a high-risk business, you will be charged a fee of only 2-5% instead of paying 10-20%.

2.1 Using a Store Credits System

The first thing you need is a plug-in called ‘Advanced Coupons‘. It’s a free plug-in that can do a few things. There is also an option to upgrade for many other features if you decide to use it. In our case, we will use the free function called ‘Loyalty Points’. You will install this plug-in on your main website.

Setting Up Your Websites

What you need to do is open up two websites: one is your main site, and the other one is the site used for selling the store points.

You have to create fake products on the second site. You can use any method you want. For example, if you plan to have three subscription plans on your main site—1, 3, and 6 months costing 10, 25, and 40 USD—then you can create three fake simple products with the same costs: 10, 25, and 40 USD.

Once the customers buy the product, they will have to send you proof. Then you will go ahead and give them store points on the main site.

It’s very easy to adjust the store credit; simply find the customer’s name and add the credit to their account. After this, when they buy things from the main site—either a subscription or maybe PPV—they can use store credit to pay.

Pros and Cons

Pros: The advantage of this method is that it’s free and quite flexible. Imagine if you find some gift voucher plug-in to use with the second website. Then you don’t have to set up any fixed-price products; customers can type in any amount they want. That gives a lot more flexibility.

Cons: The downside is that is quite a manual way to do things. The customer has to wait for you to adjust the store credit for them. But to be honest, OF creators take days to reply to DMs, so this shouldn’t be such a big deal.

2.2 Using gift voucher.

This process can be quite confusing and may take some time to understand. Therefore, I recommend reading it slowly and testing each step to fully grasp the concept. Below, I will outline the main ideas and what you need to do.

Purchasing the Plugin

First, you will need to buy a plugin called ‘WooCommerce PDF Voucher‘. I assume most of you are using WordPress. If you are using another platform like Hostinger AI create or Wix, this plugin will not work for you.

Unfortunately, this plugin is not free. You will need to purchase it for around $50, and you will have to buy it twice if you want to use it on both websites. The plugin does not work without a license, and you need to activate it on both sites.

After downloading and installing the plugin, navigate to WooCommerce → Settings → PDF Voucher and check the boxes as instructed. Do not change any other settings.

This plugin allows you to create gift vouchers. When a customer purchases a voucher on the 2nd site, they will receive an email containing a PDF file with the voucher code. This code can then be used on the main website to make a payment. It sounds easy, but I yanked my hair out so many times before I found the solution.

Creating Gift Vouchers for our gay porn site

Let’s start by creating gift vouchers on the second website. You need to decide how many different values of gift vouchers you want to sell. For example, if you have three subscription types, you should create three gift voucher values of $10, $25, and $40 for 1/3/6 months membership.

When someone buys a $10 gift voucher on the second website, they will receive a code to use on the first website. However, there are some challenges with this process:

• How will the first website know the code on the voucher? The code won’t be generated until the product is sold on the 2nd site.
• Even if the first website knows the code, how will it know the value that code represents?
• How will the voucher code appear on the first website in terms of coupon codes for the client to use? After all, when clients have to pay, they have to use a kind of coupon code to get a discount. Those coupon codes won’t magically appear on the first site.

Steps to Create a Gift Voucher for our gay porn site

1. Create a simple product on the second website, setting the price to match your membership (start with $10). Select product categories as ‘gift voucher’ it will already auto generate for you when you install the plug-in.
2. Go to the PDF voucher tab and configure it as I show here.
3. The most important step is to generate a batch of voucher codes. Use the lowest button in the settings to choose how many codes you want to generate. For example, if you create 100 codes, you can sell the $10 voucher up to 100 times. Each time a code is used, it will not be duplicated.
4. Copy those 100 codes into a notepad.
5. Finish and launch the product on the second site.
6. Go to the main site, create the same simple product valued at $10 and enter the same 100 codes in the ‘voucher codes’ box. Do not generate new codes.
7. Launch the product on the main site. You should now see the $10 gift voucher available for sale.
8. Purchase all 100 vouchers at once and ensure the order status is set to ‘completed’.
9. Once you complete the payment, the coupon codes (that have xxx-xxx-xx matching the voucher codes) will be auto-generated on the main site, each with a value of $10.

When customers buy the gift voucher on the second site, they will receive an email containing the voucher code. They can then use this code on the first website to redeem it as a coupon, as all voucher codes on the first site have been converted into coupon codes.

After completing the steps for the $10 voucher, repeat the same process for the $25 and $40 vouchers. If you want to minimize your efforts, you can generate 1000 codes at once, allowing you to sell up to 1000 vouchers without needing to refill them frequently.

In fact, you don’t need to sell only $10, $25, and $40 gift cards. You can sell, let’s say, $200 as well. When the customer uses that code to pay $40 on the main site, the value of the coupon code will automatically adjust to be $160. So you don’t have to worry about duplicate or shared codes between users.

Be careful not to change settings unnecessarily. For instance, if you check the box that says, ‘unlimited usage’, the plugin will automatically create coupon codes once the voucher is purchased. However, these codes will not match the original voucher codes, they will be random string of numbers, and you will not know them in advance, preventing you from creating matching coupon codes on the main website.

Lastly, there is a potential loophole. If someone is clever enough, they might attempt to use the same voucher code on both websites. Because technically the voucher code on the 2nd site also create the coupon code on the 2nd site as well when it’s purchased. So they can use that code buy things on the 1st site. Then use the same code to buy a new voucher on 2nd site. Thus getting free $$ to use as a loop.

To prevent this, you should exclude the category ‘gift voucher’ from being purchased with a coupon on the second site. This way, even if they have a valid coupon code, it cannot be used to buy a new voucher.

Pros and Cons

Pros: Once you understand how it works, it’s almost an automatic process. Once in a while, you just need to refill the code. And if a group of your friend want to do porn site as well. You can simply use this gift voucher site to sell all the voucher for other porn site as well. Simply create seperate voucher code for pornsite1, pornsite2 so those code are not duplicate and works only for that specific site.

Cons: Not free. If you are not good with IT or building websites, it takes a lot to understand this, I think. Not to mention in real world you would need to adjust how the form look, config some wording in the email so clients knows what do do next after purchasing. And if it were me, i ll took out the account page on the 2nd website altogether. So the guess wont be busy trying to use the code on that website but foucs on teh email instead.

3. ways to build porn site: Hiring a Professional for Plugin

The last method is probably the way you will get close to what you have in mind. It’s just that it costs money and it also has its pros and cons. We will solve the problem by doing what the motto of this world tells us all along: ‘Money can buy anything.’

While some people will say, “Oh! It’s not true. It can’t buy love.” Well, in this case, it indeed can buy you a nice porn website.

Whatever platform you use, if it’s popular to a certain point, there will always be someone good at programming that you can hire. The most famous web platform is probably WordPress.org, but even less popular platforms like Wix will have programmers who can perfect a checkout method that might work for you. Here are some ideas that I have implemented in the past.

3.1 Implementing Invoice Checkout

After the customer selects their subscription plan and presses checkout, the plugin should generate an invoice in PDF file format and send it to the customer’s email. There are many plugins available in the market that can do this, both free and paid. Just find one that works for you.

Inside the invoice, there should be a payment link attached. For a basic plugin, you can just use a normal PayPal payment or any other service that has a click-and-pay method. After that, you should receive a notification email that you have received payment, then go ahead and activate that customer’s subscription plan.

So, it’s a bit of a manual process, but as I said before, even when you want to buy some PPV from OF creators and send them DMs, it will take a while, and in some cases, days before they reply back. So, this is not a big deal in my opinion.

You have to admit that you are not a professional porn studio like Men or SeanCody, so the level of practice is probably not the same.

3.2 A Complete Checkout Process

Now, if you want a complete version of checking out, then it might be a bit challenging. First, find an inventory management website that has a payment gateway built in. Some people might wonder what this inventory website does since some of you might already use things like WooCommerce, which manage the site and itself is already inventory managed.

Understanding the Factory and Store Relationship

Let’s think of a factory that has inventories for products of all kinds kept in stock. This place is not selling products themselves but has small stores selling for them at different locations. These stores might not even be in the same brand or business, but if they run out of some products on their supply side, they order it from here.

Those stores (if they have a website) can use things like WooCommerce to manage their supply. But if the main factory wants to check their own supply and even grant stores an access to the availability stocks, despite having a job to deliver many products to many stores, some might be the same brands just different branches, but some might be different companies altogether. That’s when they need an inventory system as a whole.

A lot of outsourced programs can do that for the factory. You will just have to find one that is open for individuals like you to use as a service. It’s probably best to locate one in your country or at least have some connection to, so you can get the money right away. If they are not the payment processor themselves but have a payment gateway that is supported worldwide, then it doesn’t matter.

Setting Up Inventory Items

Once you start to match your store with them, you just need to create fake items in the inventory. For example, 1-month subscription = online course 1, 3-month subscription = online course 2, and so on.

Then, pay for API usage and ask a programmer to connect the API from your website, such as through WooCommerce, to this inventory. Every time a customer orders a 1-month subscription, the item ‘online course 1’ will be created, and what they pay to buy is this online course 1, not item from your porn site.

The API will have to feed the data back to your website once payment is completed, so it automatically grants the customer membership access.

This benefits both you and your customer, as on their side, the statement on credit cards will show a non-porn site, which is what most customers want for their privacy anyway.

Considerations and Costs

But as I said before, it does cost money and effort to find some service that is available for you. Then you have to find a programmer who is trustworthy enough and has the skills to finish the method based on whatever platform you are using. You will also need to pay for API usage per month. If you buy a low quota and it’s all used up, then customers won’t be able to pay.

So, you always have to track the number of traffic, see how many average visitors on the site you have, and how many of them actually click to subscribe. Then over-buying based on the usage of those two average numbers. I found this method helps you save some money while still having enough resources for your site to run smoothly.

Pros and Cons

Pros: You get what you want. If not 100% of what you have in mind, it will be close, and it should work out in some ways.

Cons: It costs money, big or small, depending on how grand you want to make your porn site operate. In some cases, if you use a platform that is not very flexible in management, it can be troublesome to find any programmers at all.

Summary

Many people want to start their own porn sites, but the main hurdle is finding a cheap payment processor. Don’t worry, there are alternative ways to handle payments, such as using cryptocurrency, gift vouchers, or hiring a professional to develop a plugin.

1. Using Crypto as Payment

Crypto is a popular option for accepting payments in adult business, escort and casino online. Websites like NaughtyAmerica.com already use it. Crypto provides privacy and security, as it doesn’t reveal personal details like credit card numbers. Setting up a BTCPay Server can facilitate this process.

2. Selling Store Credits or Gift Cards

This zigzag method involves using store credits or gift vouchers. It’s a manual process but cost-effective. By creating fake products and using plugins like Advanced Coupons, you can manage store credits. Alternatively, the WooCommerce PDF Voucher plugin allows for creating gift vouchers, which customers can use as payment on the main site.

3. Hiring a Professional for Plugin

If you have the budget, hiring a developer to create a custom plugin can streamline the checkout process. This could involve generating invoices or using an inventory management system to duplicate transactions as non-porn purchases, ensuring privacy for customers.

Each method has its pros and cons, but with some creativity and investment, you can successfully manage payments for your porn site while maintaining customer privacy and security.

What is my winner method?

If I have to choose one of these three methods, I will probably pick the third option and make the checkout process as an invoice. That should be enough for amateur porn starts like us who are not big studios producing and just want to own our website. Sure, it involves some manual work. But as I said, even on platforms like OnlyFans, when you want to order something extra like PPV or chat via DM, it usually takes time before the creators write back to you, so waiting is not a big deal. Just make this clear on your site from the beginning, like ‘the approval process might take up to 48 hours, but I’ll do it as fast as I can,’ and then I think it should be okay.

These two articles were heavy to write. It took a lot of energy from me to organize and express the ideas. I’ll probably take a break with some light topics for a few blogs in the coming weeks. I will come back to write about the technical parts in detail, like hosting services, website building themes, and such, soon.