Your audience is already yours. Stop renting the way you charge them.
Years of readers who pay nothing, because charging them has meant four tools, each taking a cut.
Public posts at /blog/{slug}, the paid ones behind a members-only space, the list, the checkout and the renewals, all in one account on your own domain.
Start free
A paid membership and its protected community, configured in one flow.
Five logins become one record.
| You pay for | Same job, here |
|---|---|
| A newsletter platform's revenue share | Subscriptions, end to end: any period, trial price, renewal caps, retry ladders, grace periods, self-service pause. Subscriptions and dunning → |
| Membership plugin | Access grants on the contact record; spaces whose view, like, comment and publish permissions are CRM contact filters; or a library of articles behind the portal login, free or after purchase. Spaces and permissions → |
| Separate email tool | One broadcast to a saved segment or a filter written on the spot, sent from your own sending domain or the built-in sender, with live opens, clicks and unsubscribes. Broadcasts → |
| Landing pages and forms | Custom-domain hosting with automatic SSL, lead forms and branching quizzes that create the contact, and checkout as a page element. Pages and checkout → |
| Community app and its fee | Unlimited spaces, threaded comments, audio posts, badges that award themselves, moderation. |
| A percentage of your revenue | Nothing. “AXL does not take a percentage cut of your revenue.” Your payment provider still charges its own processing fee. |
Paid tier by lunchtime, dunning ladder by the afternoon.
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0 to 30 min
Get paid
Create a subscription product: monthly price, trial price, access duration. Drop a checkout on a page and connect a gateway, with Stripe and PayPal among 20+ providers.
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30 to 60 min
Build the gate
Set a space's view permission to a contact filter meaning “has an active subscription”, and switch on the “Get access” button. The teaser is a child page in the site builder; the full piece goes in the space.
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60 to 90 min
Stop the leak
Import your list from CSV or XLSX, idempotent on email and phone. Then one ladder: renewal failed → wait 1 day → message → wait 3 days → revoke access.
When a renewal fails, the scenario starts the recovery sequence automatically.
Or describe the whole membership once and read it back.
Connect once, then paste the prompt
claude mcp add axl --transport http https://app.axl.tech/mcp
You, to your agentSet up a paid membership: a “Members” subscription at $9/month with a 7-day $1 trial, a landing page in my brand style with checkout, and a space only active subscribers can view. Then a failed-renewal ladder: wait a day, message, wait three more, revoke. Publish nothing.
- → get_default_brand_style · create_product · create_site_page
- → edit_site_page_html · create_simple_scenario · connect_scenario_nodes
What a human still does
Connect the payment gateway. Point the domain's A record. Press publish. Flip the scenario on.
Why it stops there
Publishing and sending are separate, deliberate steps. The guardrails →
What the week looks like afterwards.
- •Write Tuesday's post, publish the teaser, send the issue to one segment. The paywall and the renewals run without you.
- •Know which reader opened, read and bought, all in one record instead of three exports.
- •Recover a failed card instead of losing the member silently.
What bloggers ask before they move.
Not a separate one. A blog is a parent page with each article as a child at /blog/{slug}, published through the site builder or by an agent. There is no automatic taxonomy and no RSS feed. If a feed is essential, say so before you migrate.
No. Card credentials live with your provider, so subscriptions are re-created by the members or migrated on the provider's side. Contacts, tags and history import cleanly; see what moves and what does not →
No. AXL Starter is $49 per month and includes 5,000 contacts. Contacts above a plan allowance cost $0.002 each, and payment-provider processing fees are extra. For comparison, Skool Pro takes 2.9% of transactions and the Circle fee appears above.
Yes. A post can be a digital product at a fixed price or pay-what-you-want with a minimum, with the checkout on the page. A file arrives on a download link that expires after six hours.
They pause and resume from the portal themselves; a scenario can also do it after a failed card.
Charge your readers this week.
Start free · no cut of your revenue