Sell a monthly membership to a private place on your own site. Members can read posts, reply, take a course, and manage their own payments. One subscription covers the room and everything around it — the page, the course, the emails — where community tools alone start around $99 a month.
The honest take
Paid communities live or die on one thing: a ritual worth showing up for.
The software should be the cheap part. A place to talk. One important weekly post. Payment that works.
That is what Otium gives you, beside the page and email list that help new members find the room.
Otto builds a page that explains who the room is for, what happens each week, and what members pay each month.
Post as the host, keep the weekly thread at the top, and let members show which replies helped them.
Members can open the course from the same private area. Emails bring them back when there is something worth reading.
Keep posts at the top, remove them, or restore them later. Members return with a code sent by email.
$29 a month for members · customers manage their own plan · you build the room before you pay for anything
Stripe retries the card during a short grace period. If payment still fails, access pauses until the member updates their card.
Yes. You can keep a post at the top, remove or restore posts, delete comments, and post with a host label.
If points and leaderboards are central to the experience, Skool does more. If you want the community beside your page, course, payments, and emails, Otium keeps them together. See /vs/skool for the full comparison.
free to build · a plan to go live · your own Stripe account
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