Earning from your show

Turn on Show ads in Product Affiliate Ads and add your affiliate code (your Amazon Associates tag, like yoursite-20). Episode pages then show a product recommendation that follows what is being said and changes as the conversation moves, and purchases through it are credited to your code, so the money is yours. Podspun does not take a cut.

This is separate from the Referral Affiliate Program, which pays you for sending new customers to Podspun. One product-ad setting can cover everything, or use Set ads separately to control podspun.com and each of your websites individually.

To earn from product affiliate ads, yes: sign up for Amazon Associates and paste your tag into Product Affiliate Ads. On podspun.com, a blank code means no ad shows at all, so you never promote products without earning. On your own websites, a blank code falls back to Podspun's code until you add yours.

This Amazon code is unrelated to the Referral Affiliate Program, where you share a Podspun referral link and Podspun pays you when referred customers subscribe.

Only when you turn it on. Every website hosted on Podspun shows a small Powered by Podspun, a Heroic Company credit in its footer, and its Podspun link is a plain link unless you choose otherwise. A Visual Artist website says Powered by Artspun, a Heroic Company, and its Artspun link opens the Artspun page.

To make that link your referral link, open Referral Affiliate Program and tick Carry my code on my sites' footer credits. It applies to every site in the account, and you can turn it off again in the same place.

Yes, if your source is YouTube and the channel is set to Ads play under How videos play in Podspun.com Setup. That mode uses YouTube's standard player, the kind YouTube runs ads on, and the revenue flows to YouTube and you exactly as it does on youtube.com. Podspun takes no share. See the full answer under Will my YouTube video ads run on Podspun.

Open Affiliate Listings under Store & Donations and click Add listing. Give it a title, photos, the retailer's name, the retailer's link, and the price as the retailer shows it, then set it to Active. Affiliate listings show with or without a Stripe connection, because the card opens the retailer in a new tab and never goes through your cart. Only your own products need Stripe.

To put them on a page, add or edit a Store Products Grid block and set its Source to Affiliate listings or Both. Group listings with collections (made under Store Settings, Affiliate Collections) and the block can show one collection at a time. Every card says Sold by and the retailer's name, and any page that shows one carries a short affiliate disclosure line. Available From and Available Until hide a listing outside a window, so a seasonal pick drops off on its own.

Amazon links carry your own Amazon Associates tag from Product Affiliate Ads, added when the page renders. The link you pasted is stored as is, so any tracking the retailer added stays on it. Links to other retailers are never changed.

Open Store & Donations in your account. Connect a Stripe account under Payments (money goes straight to your own Stripe, and one connection also powers donations and paid memberships), add products under Products (physical or digital, with options like size and color, photos, and stock counts), then turn the store on in Store Settings. Your website gets a store page automatically, and the Store Designer lets you arrange it in your site's own look. Product details include a breadcrumb trail above the images and purchase options, with links to Home and Shop followed by the product name. This also appears in the Product block in custom product layouts. Orders arrive under Orders, where you mark them shipped or refund them; digital products deliver themselves by email. You can set the store up while your site is still a preview; checkout opens when the site is turned on.

The store costs nothing monthly. Podspun's share per sale falls as you sell more in a month (5% on the first $500 a month, 3% to $2,000, then 1.5%), plus card processing.

Open Store & Donations in your account and turn donations on. You choose the suggested amounts, whether monthly and yearly giving are offered, and whether supporters can leave a note or appear on a public supporters list. Your website gets a donate page automatically, and the Donate block can put a giving card on any page.

Donations need the same Stripe connection as the store (set up under Payments). Gifts go to your own Stripe account; Podspun's share is 1.5%. Receipts live under Receipts, and recurring gifts can be canceled from the receipt's link.

Open the product under Store & Donations, Products, and in the Drop section set Preorder to Yes. Type the expected shipping in Ships By as a plain phrase or date (for example, late November 2026); buyers see it as Ships by late November 2026. Save the product.

A preorder is bought like any product: the button reads Preorder instead of Add To Cart, payment is taken at checkout through your connected Stripe, and the order arrives under Orders for you to ship when the goods are ready. Stock counts still apply, so a preorder with a Stock of 0 shows Sold out. A preorder can also have an opening and closing time.

Open Promo Codes under Store & Donations and click Add promo code. Type the code buyers will enter, like FANGORIA20, choose Percent off or Amount off, and set Status to Active. The discount comes off the products in the cart. Shipping and tax are never discounted, and tax is worked out on the discounted amount.

Starts and Ends limit a code to a window, so a campaign code stops working on its own. Partner names the outlet or campaign a code belongs to, and the list shows the paid orders and sales for each code. Each code has a partner link: a visitor who opens it has the code applied in their cart, and a buyer can also type the code in the cart. Checkout checks the code again, so a code set back to Draft or archived stops working right away. Orders that used a code show the discount and the code under Orders.

Open the product in Products (or the listing in Affiliate Listings) and type a short word or phrase in Badge, like Festival edition or Exclusive. It shows at the top of the card in your site's accent color.

Each item takes one badge, so the label stays readable. Leave Badge empty for no label.

Make a category for each group in Store Settings, then file each product under its category in Products.

On the page, add a Store Products Grid block for each group, set Source to Your products, and pick the group in Merch Category. For example, one grid for festival merch and another for your everyday line.

Give each grid a Heading and, if you like, an Intro: one line under the heading saying what the group is. The heading, the line and the products then read as one section.

When the grids are groups inside one larger section, such as several partner shops under one Affiliate Store heading, set each grid's Heading Size to Subsection. Its heading then shows smaller than the section titles, so a group reads as part of the section above it. Offer Grid blocks have the same setting.

A grid with nothing to show a visitor leaves the public page, heading and Intro included. That is the case for your own products until Stripe is connected under Payments: they show on your preview address and stay hidden on your real domain. A heading that should show either way belongs in a text block above the grid.

Open Store & Donations, go to Products, and open the product. In the Drop section choose the Time Zone the times are typed in, then set Opens On and Opens At, and, if the sale has an end, Closes On and Closes At. Save the product. Leave both blank to keep selling with no end.

Before the opening time the store shows when the drop opens and takes no orders; after the closing time it shows Ended. Both are checked again at checkout, so a cart that was filled early or late is refused with the opening time or the words This drop has ended. A checkout that started while the drop was open keeps its payment window and can finish even if the close passes during it. Edition Size (for example, Edition of 50) is shown to buyers as information; the Stock count is what stops sales.

Every store surface (the product card, the product page, and the Drop block) shows the same state, worked out from the product's opening and closing times, its stock, and its Preorder setting, in this order:

• Before it opens: a clock panel marked Upcoming, with the opening time in the visitor's own time zone and a countdown on one line, such as 17d 02h 00m 49s, and no buy button. The Drop block can show an Email me when it opens link here.
• Open: Add To Cart, and when a closing time is set, the same clock panel marked Open now (Closing soon in its last two days) counting down to the close.
• Preorder: the same, with the button reading Preorder and the line Ships by followed by your phrase.
• Sold out: the words Sold out and nothing to press. Under Store Settings, Sold Out can hide sold-out products from the store grid instead.
• Ended: the words Ended (This drop has ended on the product page) and nothing to press.

A visitor watching the page sees the button appear at the opening time and disappear at the closing time without reloading. Checkout applies the same rule on the server.

Open the page in the editor, add the Drop block (in the Store section of the block picker), and choose the Product. The block shows the product's first photo, its title (or the Heading you type), the Story written on the product, its edition size, its opening and closing times in the visitor's time zone, a countdown, and the action for where the drop stands: Add To Cart, Preorder, or, before it opens, an Email me when it opens link.

Choose a list under Alert Me List to show that link before the opening time. A visitor who is not signed in gets your website's Join pop-up, which names the drop and has that list ticked; a signed-in member asks in one click. When the drop opens, each of them gets one email on its own, with the product's picture and a button to the drop. The product's Drop section lists everyone waiting, and they are in your Contacts. Leave Alert Me List blank to show no link. Set Show Story to No to show only the price, the times, and the action. The buy button needs your Stripe connected under Payments; the alert link does not.

Open Auctions under Store & Donations and click Add lot. A lot is one item up for bidding: give it a title, photos from your assets, a description, and its provenance and condition. Set the Starting Amount, an optional Reserve, and the Bid Increment in your store currency, then choose the Time Zone and the opening and closing date and time. Save it as a draft, use Put in preview to show it on the site without bidding, and click Open bidding when you are ready.

Every lot gets its own page at /auctions/<lot>, and your site's Auctions page lists every visible lot after its own content. The Auction Lots block puts lot cards on any page, either every lot open for bidding or lots you choose. Lots show with or without a Stripe connection; only the winner's payment needs one, set up under Payments.

The Starting Amount is the smallest first bid. After that, every bid must beat the current high bid by at least the Bid Increment. The lot page always shows the minimum next bid, and a bid below it is refused with that number.

A Reserve is the lowest amount you will sell for. Bidders see that a reserve exists, never the figure. Bids below the reserve are still taken, so bidding can build toward it; at the close, the lot sells only if the winning bid reaches the reserve, and otherwise it ends Unsold. Leave the Reserve blank for a no-reserve lot.

Once you click Open bidding, the starting amount, reserve, increment, window, and soft-close settings are locked. The only change allowed after that is extending the close, and that extension is recorded on the lot and shown to bidders.

The soft close stops a last-second bid from ending an auction before anyone can answer it. Each lot has a Soft Close Window and an Extend By value, both in minutes, and both set before bidding opens. When a bid lands inside the last window's worth of minutes, the close moves to that moment plus the Extend By value. That can happen more than once; bidding ends when a full window passes with no new bid.

Every extension is recorded on the lot and appears in the bid history, and the lot page tells bidders that a late bid extends the close. The scheduled closing time you set never changes; what moves is the effective close. Set the Soft Close Window to 0 to turn the soft close off for a lot.

Closing is handled on the server, on a schedule, whether or not anyone is looking at the page. A bid that arrives after the close is refused, and a bid that arrives in the same instant as the close either extends it or is refused, never both.

Bidders are members of your website. A free member account is enough: on a lot page a signed-out visitor sees a Sign in to bid card, enters their email, and the sign-in link brings them straight back to the lot. No password is needed. Manage members under Members.

The lot page shows the photos, description, provenance and condition, the current bid or the starting amount, the number of bids, the closing time in the visitor's own time zone with the auction's zone named beside it, the minimum next bid, the state (Preview, Open, Closed, Unsold, Awaiting payment, Settled, or Canceled), your fulfillment terms, and the bid history. History shows each bidder under an alias (a first name and initial, or Bidder and a number), never an email. The page refreshes itself every 20 seconds while bidding is open and says so if a refresh fails.

A bidder who is outbid gets an email with a link back to the lot. Your own view of the bid history, under Auctions, shows every bid asked for, accepted or refused, with the member's email beside the alias.

When a lot closes with a winning bid at or above the reserve, the winner is awarded the lot and emailed a Pay now link. The lot page shows the same button to that member and nobody else. Payment runs through Stripe on your own connected account, for exactly the winning amount, and the winner has the lot's Payment Window (72 hours unless you set another value) to pay. A physical lot collects a shipping address at payment; put shipping and delivery terms in the lot's Fulfillment Terms and Shipping Note, since no shipping charge is added to the bid.

Once paid, the lot shows as Settled, the winner gets the usual receipt, and the order appears under Orders like any store order, marked as an auction. Podspun's share is the same per-sale cut as a store sale.

If the deadline passes unpaid, the award expires and the lot lands in Unpaid awards on the Auctions page. Nothing happens automatically: there is no second-chance offer and no charge. Contact the bidder, relist the item as a new lot, or click Mark handled to take it off the list. Canceling a lot keeps its record and voids a pending award; a paid lot is refunded from the order, never by canceling the lot.