Product & Subscription Benefits
Product and subscription benefits are standalone resources in Polar - connected to one or many products or subscription tiers.
This approach is a bit different from other platforms, but offers many advantages:
- Easy to enable the same benefit across multiple products & subscriptions
- You can change a benefit in one place vs. many
- No duplicate data or work (error prone)
- More intuitive UI for you and your customers
How customers get access to benefits:
- ✅ Active subscribers of tiers with the benefit enabled
- ✅ Customers who bought a product with the benefit (lifetime access)
- ❌ Subscribers with an expired subscription (cancelled)
- ❌ Users who are not customers
Creating & Managing Benefits
You can manage benefits in two ways:
- Directly within a product create/edit form
- Or via
Products>Benefitsin your dashboard (below)
Powerful Built-in Benefits
Polar offers a lot of built-in benefits for common upsells with more to come. Checkout the specific setup guides for each below.
- GitHub Repository Access. Automatically invite subscribers to private GitHub repo(s).
- License Keys. Software license keys that you can customize the branding of.
- File Downloads. Downloadable files of any kind up to 10GB each.
- Discord Invite. Automate invitations and granting of roles to subscribers and customers.
- README Promotion (Ad). Logotype promotion in README.
- + More coming soon
Create a Custom Benefit
Click on + in the Product Benefits page or New Benefit within a product. A panel will show up with the form below.
Description
Shown to end users as the title/description of your benefit. Keep it short, make it compelling.
Type
Choose one of our built-in benefits or go with a Custom type.
- Form updates based on your choice
- Going for a built-in benefit? Review our guides for the specific benefit of choice.
Note (Custom Benefit)
Secret message only customers can see, e.g Cal.com link, private email for support etc.
For custom integrations you can also distinguish benefits granted to customers to offer even more bespoke user benefits.
Tax Applicable
Is the benefit a taxable service or product? Enabling us to automatically capture & remit EU VAT if applicable from customers.