Payments
can mean two different things on Overskill, and the Monetize dashboard only covers one of them.
1. Selling access to your app (Monetize / Overskill Payments)
Use this when people pay to use your app, the way you'd pay for a SaaS tool or a membership site.
- Subscriptions: monthly or annual access
- One-time purchases: pay once and keep access
- Gating: you can charge for the whole app or only for certain features
To set it up, tell the builder something like Let me charge $20 a month for access to this app.
It creates a fixed-price plan and adds the hosted checkout. Money goes to your Overskill wallet. Your customers can manage or cancel their subscription with the Manage subscription button.
Before your app can accept payments, you need to fill in your business details in the payment verification panel and pass the approval review. Cashing out to your bank also needs a one-time identity check.
Want other builders to copy your app? Template selling and marketplace submissions aren't available yet. You can share a free remix link so they can make their own copy. You don't earn money from the remix.
2. Selling products or services through your app
Use this when your app is a store or booking tool and the buyer pays for a specific order: a cart total, variants, shipping, tax, or coupons. A fixed-price access plan can't handle that. Depending on how the app was built, this kind of checkout usually runs through:
- a Shopify storefront, or
- an external checkout link (Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, etc.).
Overskill's My own Stripe account (BYO) payment option is not available to every account, and support can't turn it on for an individual account on request. Connecting a Square account as your app's checkout isn't supported.
If the money has to go straight to a business's own Square or Stripe account today, the business can send its own payment link by hand once the order is saved in your app, then mark the order as paid in your app. If your app has no way to do that yet, ask the builder to add one. Like any change, that uses builder credits.
Which one do I need?
People pay me to use this tool
→ Monetize / Overskill Payments.People use this tool to buy something from me
→ a product checkout (section 2).- One app can do both.