The duration in the paywall works like a rental time from the moment they start to watch. For example, if you enter 1 hour as the duration it means the viewer has access for 1 hour from the minute they first watch. This continues to countdown if they continue to watch the stream or not. […]
All of these features, both for Pay Per View and Subscription, are available from the minute someone signs up for an account, and can be added right away. Once they are set up, or changes are made, DaCast recommends waiting around a minute to make sure everything is set on the server side. If you […]
DaCast collects all earnings ahead of time and credits your account with a balance stating revenue earned. To request payment, you must select an amount of at least $100 USD. Please note that payment might be declined if we are getting refund requests from your viewers, and will work to negotiate this issue first or […]
Currently, DaCast supports two currencies for viewer payments through the paywall. These currencies are: USD Euros To add or remove currencies for viewer payments on your account, click PREFERENCES and then PAYMENT SETTINGS. This will give you a screen below where you can turn on or off either currency:
You can have up to 999,999 promo codes on your Pay Per View pricing. This limit is per channel, and not an account wide limit.
To stop your real name from showing up in email receipts and notifications sent out to your paying viewers, you have to put in a “Broadcaster Name”. To do this, click . The Broadcaster Name field is there.
Yes, you may use local ads as long as you have your own ad network. To do so, just copy-paste the URL of your ad. You can find more info here: https://www.dacast.com/support/knowledgebase/new-integrate-ad-network-directly-account-dashboard/
PPV stands for Pay Per View. Along with Subscriptions, Pay Per View is one of the monetization features offered by DaCast allowing broadcasters to sell their video content from the paywall (viewer payment system) located inside the video player.
There is no option to have an “unlimited” Pay Per View (PPV). However, you can place in an abnormally high PPV time frame instead. The highest possible is 9999 days, which would be good for more than 27 years.
A paywall means that there is content that is behind either a Pay Per View or Subscription and that the viewer will have to make a payment before they can access this content. DaCast uses an approach where payments are registered inside the player. If a viewer hasn’t paid, they will be prompted to either […]