Monetize your media with pay-per-view. Set pricing, rental length, accept PayPal/cards, log rentals, and publish using shortcodes.

Lise Rasmussen

<p>Pay-To-View Lite enables time-limited rentals of digital media using PayPal and credit card payments. It’s perfect for selling and streaming your digital content with full control over price and rental duration.</p>
<h3>Pay-To-View for WordPress</h3>
<p>Tired of giving away your valuable videos for free or struggling with complicated membership systems?</p>
<p>You don’t need to anymore.</p>
<p>Meet Pay-To-View, a simple yet powerful pay-per-view rental system built for content creators, educators, tutorials, filmmakers, streaming services, and more.</p>
<p>With Pay-To-View, you can sell time-limited access to your videos, or any digital content, right on your WordPress site. No subscriptions needed — just direct payments and full control over your content.</p>
<p>Your viewers don’t need to register or create accounts. They simply choose a video, make a secure payment, and gain instant access for the limited time you’ve set in your plugin settings.</p>
<p>Creators love Pay-To-View because it’s lightweight, easy to use, and integrates seamlessly with PayPal. You can set your own prices, decide how long rentals last, track every transaction, and publish your videos anywhere using shortcodes.</p>
<p>Turn your video library into a revenue stream — in minutes.</p>
<h3>Pay-To-View Lite Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Accept PayPal and credit card payments   </li>
<li>Set custom currency   </li>
<li>Fixed time-limited rentals and fixed duration for all media files (for example: set the price $3.99 for a 48-hour rental and these settings will be automatically applied to all media files)   </li>
<li>Complete rental log  </li>
<li>Built-in shortcode generator  </li>
<li>Works with most common WordPress media players that support shortcodes (like Presto Player, FV Player, HTML5, etc.) and YouTube & Vimeo  </li>
<li>Automatic confirmation emails to the buyer (you can control Sender, Subject, and Message)  </li>
<li>Admin settings for currency, pricing, and rental duration</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pay-To-View Basic & PRO Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>All Lite features  </li>
<li>Set custom pricing per media file (e.g., one video $2.99, another $4.99)  </li>
<li>Set custom duration per media file (e.g., one video 2 hours, another 48 hours)  </li>
<li>Full customization of the rental button (colors, labels, hover effects) with live preview  </li>
<li>Control if notifications are sent to admin when a rental is made  </li>
<li>Control if confirmation mail is sent to the buyer (Sender, Subject, Message)  </li>
<li>Complete rental log with CSV export  </li>
<li>All shortcodes stored in a list  </li>
<li>Priority bug fixes  </li>
<li>Automatic updates</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrade to Pay-To-View Basic & PRO</h3>
<p>Buy or upgrade to Basic & PRO at: https://liserasmussen.se/pay-to-view/pricing_plans.html</p>
<p>The difference between Basic and PRO is mainly support time and bug fixes; the feature set is identical.</p>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin (full instructions on https://liserasmussen.se/pay-to-view/installation.html) </li>
<li>Go to <strong>Settings > Pay-To-View Lite</strong> and add:
<ul>
<li>PayPal business account email and Client ID (get one here: https://developer.paypal.com/api/rest/)  </li>
<li>Price (fixed in Lite, fixed or individual in Basic/PRO)  </li>
<li>Rental duration (fixed in Lite, fixed or individual in Basic/PRO)  </li>
<li>Currency  </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Add a media file to a post/page. Copy its <strong>slug</strong> exactly — it must match for the rental to work.  </li>
<li>Go to the <strong>Shortcode</strong> page:
<ul>
<li>Add the slug  </li>
<li>Price and duration auto-filled from settings (Lite) or set individually (Basic/Pro)  </li>
<li>Select a media player (Presto Player, YouTube, HTML5, etc.)  </li>
<li>Add media ID or URL  </li>
<li>Click <strong>Generate Shortcode</strong>  </li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Paste the shortcode into your page/post.  </li>
<li>Publish — the rental button will now appear. Visitors can click, pay securely, and watch instantly.  </li>
<li>Every rental is logged automatically (Date, Email, Slug, Expiration, etc.)  </li>
<li>Confirmation emails sent (configurable)  </li>
<li>Visitors never need to register — simple pay, watch, and leave experience.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Demo of how the Plugin Works</h3>
<p>Watch this quick YouTube tutorial to understand how the plugin works:</p>
<p><iframe loading="lazy" title="Demo of the WordPress plugin Pay-To-View - a complete tutorial" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d_1CCzhOQ2g?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Link to YouTube https://youtu.be/d_1CCzhOQ2g</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<ul>
<li>Integrates with PayPal using official JavaScript SDK  </li>
<li>Includes a link to an internal upgrade info page</li>
</ul>
<h3>Upgrade to PRO (Static HTML Page)</h3>
<p>The “Upgrade to PRO” admin menu item loads a static HTML file from: <code>/assets/admin/upgrade-page.html</code>. This page presents feature comparisons and pricing for Basic & PRO.</p>
<ul>
<li>Service: Local static HTML page (no remote API)  </li>
<li>External links: https://liserasmussen.se  </li>
<li>Terms: https://liserasmussen.se/pay-to-view/terms.html  </li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://liserasmussen.se/pay-to-view/privacy.html  </li>
</ul>
<p>No user data is sent externally.</p>
<h3>PayPal Integration</h3>
<ul>
<li>Uses PayPal JavaScript SDK (client-side) to render payment buttons and process transactions  </li>
<li>Client ID required from PayPal Developer Dashboard  </li>
<li>PayPal business email used to receive payments  </li>
<li>No personal data sent externally; plugin does not use IPN  </li>
<li>PayPal Terms: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full  </li>
<li>Privacy: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>GPL-2.0-or-later: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</p>


Pay-To-View Lite


We have used this on our website to rent out our podcast episodes. We bought the pro license because we wanted to customize the rental button with our own brand colors and to set different prices per episode. Super cool plugin! 


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