CrawlerToll Pro for WordPress · 14-day free trial
The paywall where the content itself is the lock.
CrawlerToll seals your premium posts at the content layer — crawlers and casual readers get the preview, paying customers get the key. Readers pay by card on your own Stripe account or in USDC to your own wallet, from Coinbase Wallet or any browser wallet; AI agents pay in USDC. We never touch the money.
Free is the whole paywall.
The wp.org plugin is a real product, not a demo. Everything a single-price paywall needs ships free:
- ✓Recognises 30 declared crawler user-agents and publishes your RSL-style licence lines
- ✓HTTP 402 offers with a flat per-site price
- ✓The sealed paywall: the post body is encrypted on the page; the key releases only against a settled payment
- ✓Cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay on your own Stripe account
- ✓USDC over x402 straight to your own wallet — readers with a wallet, and the rail AI agents pay on
- ✓Visual paywall cut in the editor, receipts with refund links, QR transfer of an unlock to another device
Pro is the revenue tooling on top.
Access tiers and bundles
Price × duration per section: a 24-hour pass, a 30-day pass, or no expiry. Bundle a whole path so one payment roams every article under it. Prices are server-derived — a tampered offer never yields a discount.
Metered free articles
N free reads per 30 days per path, with an abuse ceiling per IP you can tune. The meter is a free-allowance identity, never an account — readers stay anonymous.
Per-path pricing and rail routing
/premium/* at one price, /blog/ at another, with wildcards and longest-prefix wins. Route individual crawlers to a different rail when you need to.
Realised revenue, traffic, logs, alerts
What was actually collected, by rail, next to what was priced. Who is at the door — people, declared AI crawlers, search engines, undeclared automation — and the sealed funnel from views to walls to unlocks. Decision logs with export, retention you control, daily or weekly summaries.
Unlock webhooks
HMAC-signed unlock.succeeded events to your own systems, with a durable outbox and automatic retries. Feed your CRM, your analytics, or your newsletter tool the moment someone pays.
One plan. Flat rate. No cut of your revenue.
Starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required. Annual billing saves $25.90.
Pro
or $4.90/month · single site
- ✓Everything in free
- ✓Access tiers, bundles, metered free articles
- ✓Per-path pricing with wildcards, per-crawler rail routing
- ✓Revenue dashboard, decision logs with export, retention control
- ✓Daily and weekly email alerts
- ✓Signed unlock webhooks
- ✓Email support
EU VAT handled at checkout · Cancel anytime from the customer portal · Multi-site or agency? Talk to us
✓ Purchase complete — welcome aboard.
Check your inbox: Freemius just sent your license key and a download link for the Pro plugin. Install it alongside the free version (it deactivates automatically), then go to Settings → CrawlerToll → Account and paste the key. Questions? [email protected].
Live on your site in about ten minutes.
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Install the free plugin
From wp.org: Plugins → Add New → “CrawlerToll”. Crawler recognition, RSL policy, flat-price 402s and the sealed paywall work immediately — no account needed.
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Connect your own payment rails
Paste your Stripe keys and your USDC address under Settings → CrawlerToll. Cards settle on your Stripe account, USDC lands in your wallet. There is no CrawlerToll balance, payout or fee.
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Start the trial or buy Pro
Checkout is handled by Freemius (EU VAT included). You get a license key and the Pro download by email; paste the key under Settings → CrawlerToll → Account and the Pro tabs unlock.
Full setup guide: WordPress docs · What the hosted part stores: Unlock service
The honest answers.
Do you take a cut of my revenue?+
No, and we cannot: card payments run on your own Stripe account and USDC is paid to your own wallet. CrawlerToll holds no payment credential of any kind — no Stripe secret, no platform account, no facilitator key. Pro is a flat subscription for the plugin and the unlock service.
What does the free version do vs Pro?+
Free is the whole paywall: recognition of 30 declared crawlers, RSL policy, flat-price 402s, the sealed-content engine, and both payment rails. Pro adds access tiers and bundles, metered free articles, per-path pricing, rail routing, the revenue dashboard, logs, alerts, and unlock webhooks.
Will this hurt my SEO?+
No. Sealed posts serve a public preview that stays crawlable and indexable, with paywall structured data (JSON-LD) so search engines understand the setup. The sealed body is withheld from excerpts, feeds, and the REST API — consistently, for every non-paying reader.
Does it work behind Cloudflare, or with Pay Per Crawl?+
Yes. CrawlerToll runs inside WordPress on any host or CDN. Cloudflare's gateway moves money at the edge for its own customers; CrawlerToll is the paywall above it — sealing, human readers, card and USDC rails, tiers — and the two coexist.
What is the unlock service, and what if it is down?+
A small hosted key-escrow. A content key is released only against a settled payment, and a payment can't be used for a different purchase. If an unlock is interrupted, the same buyer can finish it with the same payment within 24 hours, while any pass it bought is still live; anything else is refused. If the service can't be reached, no payment can start. If a card payment goes through and the article doesn't open, the reader's browser finishes it on the next try, without a second charge. There is no SLA at launch; see the docs page for exactly what it stores.
What about refunds?+
Pro starts with a 14-day free trial, no card required. If you then subscribe and are not satisfied, ask within 14 days of your first paid charge for a full refund through Freemius, our reseller.
How does the trial work?+
14 days of full Pro, no card required. At the end, subscribe from the customer portal or let it lapse — the plugin falls back to the free feature set. Nothing breaks and nothing you sold is locked away.