Metered paywall
Gate the work that is hardest to substitute, not everything.
Build a direct to consumer revenue engine with memberships, content tiers, and community, all within your full control.
D2C revenue · trailing 12 months
$0k/mo
From $28k in Jan
Feature Highlights
Gate the work that is hardest to substitute, not everything.
Your player and feeds check access without a rebuild.
Editorial keeps its tools and its workflow.
The same reader across site, video and podcast.
Launch with the subscribers you already have.
Price the archive, the live coverage and the newsletter apart.
Back catalogue becomes a reason to stay subscribed.
Who reads what, how often, and what they pay for.
Into the CRM and warehouse you already report from.
Your domain, your design, your sender address.
A film release, a creator network, a course, a ticketed season, a members-only publication. The same commerce stack runs underneath all of it, and what sits on top is designed around your brand.
Season One
4 episodes · Members watch first
Episodes
Season OneSeason One
4 episodes · Members watch first
Episodes
Season OneCreate and share custom reports to analyze content performance, subscriber growth, average customer lifetime value, and more.
Revenue overview
MRR
$48.2k
+14%
Subscribers
3,840
+8%
Avg. LTV
$320
+22%
Monthly revenue
Churn
−2.4%
Achieve more with less. Our API and SDKs enable product teams to ship branded offers fast, without requiring additional resources.
yourbrand.com/webhooks
12 events subscribed
crm.yourbrand.com/sync
5 events subscribed
staging.example.com
3 events subscribed
Signing secret
whsec_•••••••k4Xp
Request
POSThttps://yourbrand.com/webhooks
{ "event": "subscriber.created",
"email": "fan@example.com", "tier": "premium", "mrr": 1500 }
Response
200 · 42ms{ "received": true, "queue": "crm-sync" }
Real use cases showing what a given number of paying members is actually worth.
A football media brand
Ad rates fall as the audience grows, so coverage stops paying for itself. Analysis, interviews and transfer news move behind a low-priced membership on the newsroom's own site.
A digital media group
The audience is spread across a website, a video channel, social and a podcast feed, and none of it converts. One destination wired into the existing CMS gives them a single place to pay.
An international motorsport championship
Rights are split across a broadcaster, a video platform and social, so no single place is worth paying for. One destination carries live timing, onboard cameras and a searchable archive.
Kulcho is an owned media platform that turns your readership into a direct subscription business. Build paid memberships, content tiers, live events, and digital products, all under your brand, on your domain, with first-party data you own outright.
Most publishers are live and transacting within a couple of hours. We handle all the technical setup so your team can focus on growth rather than configuration.
You own all of your member data. Every email, purchase history and behavioral signal is yours to export at any time.
Paid subscriptions with monthly or annual billing, pay-per-view content, live event ticketing, digital product sales, and tiered memberships. You can run every revenue stream simultaneously from a single platform, with no separate tools and no separate contracts.
Your CMS publishes content. Your social accounts provide reach. Kulcho is the commerce layer, where your audience pays you directly, subscribes to your content, and generates first-party data you keep forever. It sits on top of your existing stack, not in place of it.
Fully branded to you: custom domain, custom design, custom email sender. No Kulcho branding appears anywhere in the subscriber experience unless you explicitly choose to add it.