📓Setting Up Paid Content at Penana

Penana is providing a way for aspiring and professional writers to sell their publications and get donations from their audience on our platform!

(Note: To safeguard paid readers' benefits, paid content cannot be deleted.)

You can easily convert your free story to Paid Content by following these steps:

1. Click on any of your stories (we have used “Coen’s Idea Sketches” as an example here

2. Then Click on the “Draft/Manage Story” button.

3. Click on “Publishing options” and switch your publication type from “Free” to “Paid Content”.

4. Once you have set your story to “Paid Content”, a list of default settings will appear as below.

While most of them are self-explanatory, we would like to go over the following items:

4.1 Locked Ranges

Once you clicked “+ Add New” next to the Locked Range item, you will see that there are currently 4 options to choose from:

1. This chapter onwards - Paid content will be set starting from a specific chapter onwards

In the below example, we have set chapters form chapter 3 onwards as Paid Content.

2. Fixed range - Paid content will be set with a specific chapter range

In the below example, we have set chapters 3 to 8 as Paid Content.

3. Lock latest chapters - Paid content will be set from the latest (most recent) chapters

In the below example, we have set the 5 latest chapters as Paid Content.

In this option, we can also click on “+ Add ending chapter” as an alternative to lock a latest chapter range.

In the below example, we have set the latest chapters range as the 5th latest chapter to the 2nd latest chapter as Paid Content.

4. All chapters except latest chapters - Paid content will be set to all but not the latest (most recent) chapters

In the below example, we have set all chapters but not the latest 1 chapter as Paid Content.

All of the above Lock ranges practices are commonly used by popular paid writers and provide an automated process for writers to maintain a paid content publication cycle to cater reader/fan preferences.

4.2 Paying Mode

There are currently 3 paying modes (they can all be applied together):

1. Pay by entire story

2. Pay by chapter

3. Open to Subscribers (Discuss in next section)

If you select “Pay by entire story”, you can charge readers with a set amount of Pena Coins to purchase your entire story. Here we have used 1000 (equivalent to to HKD 10.00) as an example (See Blue boxes).

Similarly, if you select “Pay by chapter”, you can charge readers per chapter with a fee. Here we have used 5 Pena Coins (equivalent to to HKD 0.05) as an example (See Green boxes). Note that Penana also supports TWD, USD, GBP, MYR, SGD as currencies.

Below is an example of how a paid content would look like from readers’ view.

In addition, you may notice that there is a “Open to subscribers” option in Paying Mode when setting up your Paid Content.

To activate this option, you have to create a subscription plan first and then add the story to the subscription plan in Paying Mode.