Reader support for newsletters on your own page
Put a support-this-newsletter widget on your own page so readers can chip in there — once, or on a recurring basis. The money goes straight to your own Stripe account — we never hold it or take a cut. It's a flat $20 a month, regardless of how much your readers send.
The locked-profile support ask
If you write a newsletter, the usual way to ask for support sends readers to a profile on a platform you don't control — a page under the platform's brand, behind the platform's account wall, with the platform taking a percentage. A reader who finished your piece and wanted to support you has to leave, sign up for something, and land somewhere that isn't yours. Plenty don't make it through. And the support relationship lives on the platform. If you ever move your newsletter, the support ask and the people behind it don't move with you as cleanly as you'd like.
Where CrowdCreate fits a newsletter writer
CrowdCreate puts the support ask on your own page. You paste one snippet onto your site or landing page, and readers support you there — a one-time contribution or a recurring one, their choice. The money goes to your own Stripe account, and at $20 a month flat, no percentage of what readers send goes to a platform. If your newsletter lives somewhere that won't run a script — Substack, for instance, blocks custom code entirely — every account also gets a hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name. You link to it from your footer or welcome message, readers support you there, and the money still lands in your own Stripe account.
- A one-time or recurring support ask on your own page — not a locked profile on a platform you don't control.
- A flat $20/mo with no cut of what readers send; support lands in your own Stripe account.
- The list of who supports you is yours to export; funder PII auto-expires after 13 months.
- If your newsletter platform blocks custom code (Substack does), link to your hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name — it works anywhere.
Where CrowdCreate might not fit
To be clear about what this is and isn't: CrowdCreate is a one-time or recurring support ask, not a membership product. There are no paid tiers, no subscriber-only posts, and no gated content — we don't do member tiers in V1. If your model depends on locking posts behind a paid tier, a membership platform does that and CrowdCreate doesn't. CrowdCreate fits the writer who wants an open support ask on their own page, not a paywall.
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$20/mo flat
One price, no percentage. We never take a cut of what your donors give.
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30-day refund if it's not a fit. Your donor data lives in your own Stripe.
Common questions
Is this a membership tier, like a paid subscription?
No. CrowdCreate is a one-time or recurring support ask — not paid tiers, not subscriber-only posts, not gated content. Readers support you because they want to, and everyone still reads the same newsletter. If you need to lock posts behind a paid tier, that's a membership product, which this isn't.
I write on Substack, which won't let me paste code. Can I still use this?
Yes. Substack blocks custom scripts everywhere, so the widget can't run there — but every account gets a hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name. You drop the link in your footer or welcome message, readers support you on that page, and the money still goes to your own Stripe account.
Does the support money go through CrowdCreate?
No. It goes directly to your own Stripe account. We never hold it or take a cut. We charge a flat $20 a month for the tool; Stripe charges its standard processing fee (2.9% + 30¢ per contribution), which goes to Stripe.
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