Assets & Packages

Assets and packages is how you protect and sell your digital content.

Package management

Our platform offers the ability to combine multiple assets into a bundle, which can then be sold under one price.
We call these bundles packages.
Once the customer purchases a package, they will automatically have access to all assets that have been placed in that package.

Note that packages themselves are not embedded on a webpage.
The asset is still the thing you need to embed on your page because that is where the actual content is located.
The package only serves to bundle multiple assets under a single price.

When a customer clicks on an asset that is a part of a package, the package price will appear in the asset’s price options, and by selecting it, the customer will get access to all assets that are part of the package they’ve just purchased.
To access the assets, the customer will need to navigate to the place on your website where the assets have been embedded.

Creating a Package

Log into your InPlayer Dashboard, go to the Content section, and then to the Packages tab.

Click on New package.

Enter a name for your package. This will appear on the final payment form on the paywall, as well as the notification emails your customers will receive.

Click Save.

Your package is now created and saved.

On the new page, you can set up the package properties.

Just like in the asset section, the right side of the screen is where you can set everything up, and the left side provides a preview. However, since the package itself will not be embedded on your webpage, the preview is more for your own convenience.

Preview

In the Preview section, you can set up the title, description, and thumbnail. Note that the Title, Description and Thumbnail will not appear anywhere on your webpage. They are more for your own use for easier package management.e package Title however, will appear on the final payment form on the paywall, as well as the notification email your customers will receive.

After setting everything up, make sure to click the Save button in the bottom right corner.

Price options

You can set up three different pricing types:

  • ppv –  the customer makes a one-time payment and gets access for a limited time,
  • subscription – the customer accepts a recurrent charge at regular intervals that can be canceled at any time,
  • season – the customer makes a payment and gets access for a limited period, but at the same time accepts a recurrent charge for being able to watch during the next period. The date for the upcoming charge is determined by the merchant.

Note that the season price type needs to be activated on your account by our team, so make sure to contact us at clients@inplayer.com for this.


Setting up a PPV price

Setting up a Subscription price

Setting up a Season price

Deleting a price option

Deleting a price option from a package will make that price option unavailable for new purchases. Any customers that have already purchased it will keep their access, and won’t be affected by this change.

To delete a price option, simply click the bin icon to the right of it.

Manage assets

Here you can add the assets you wish to include in the package. You can add as many assets as you want.

To add an asset, just drag and drop it from the left to the right side.

If you wish to add multiple assets at once just tick their checkboxes and drag and drop them to the right. You can also add all your assets at once by clicking Add all assets button, or add only the assets that are loaded in the list on the left by checking Select all loaded assets and then drag and dropping them to the left. Note that this only selects the assets currently loaded in the list on the left, and not all available assets.

Finally, click Save.

With that, the selected assets will be added to the package.

Additional metadata

Here, you can add additional metadata to your asset, which can be used for various purposes.

Deactivating a Package

To deactivate a package, just open it and click the  button at the top right.

You can always bring a deactivated package back by going to the Packages tab, selecting deactivated from the drop-down menu next to the search field, and just clicking on the package you wish to reactivate.

When you go back to the active packages list, you will find the package there.

This concludes our guide.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us at clients@inplayer.com.