Sell Ads Plugin – Sell Ad Space as Monthly Subscription

You want to sell ads? Do you want to sell your ad space easily, directly and without any advertising network? This is exactly the solution of Sell Ads Plugin:

• Rent out advertising space monthly.
• Rent out ads directly to advertisers, with no network in between.
• Set the price for your advertising yourself.
• Shady advertisements can simply be rejected.
• Gives website owners control back over what they advertise and their price: you decide who may rent out ads on your pages.
• Try the whole thing first: test mode lets you click through every step without setting up Stripe.
• Get an e-mail the moment someone pays for an ad space, so a sale never sits unnoticed in your dashboard.
• Revolutionizes the way advertising can be sold on WordPress.

👉 TEST the plugin on our Demo website

PROBLEMS SOLVED BY THE SELL ADS PLUGIN

All features of Sell Ads are designed only to help you to sell your valuable ad space monthly, simple and safe. Sell Ads gives you:

• Finally no need of low-paid ad networks anymore.
• Opportunity to earn more money from direct advertising sales.
• Anyone can now rent out advertising space, whatever the size of their audience.
• Advertisers pay securely through Stripe with credit card, Apple Pay and more.
• Payments go straight into your own Stripe account. Use your own Stripe API key and pay us nothing at all, or connect with Stripe in one click and pay a 7 % Sell Ads fee.
• Website can benefit from secure and long-term advertising revenues.
• New website owners, small blogs and million-user platforms can all rent out ads immediately, on the same terms.

WHO SELL ADS IS FOR

• Blogs and niche sites with a loyal audience. If your readers care about one subject, that space is worth far more to the right advertiser than an ad network will ever pay you for it.
• Small and new websites. Ad networks turn you away below a certain traffic level. Here there is no minimum: if one advertiser thinks your page is worth it, you can rent out ads from day one.
• Anyone tired of being paid per thousand views. A monthly subscription is planned income that does not move with the season or with someone else’s algorithm.
• Site owners who want to stay in control. You set the price, you see every ad before it goes live, and you can reject or cancel anything at any time.
• Publishers who care about page speed and privacy. Ads sold here are a plain image and a link. No third-party ad scripts, no tracking cookies, nothing loading from an ad network.
• Developers and agencies. Place an ad space anywhere with a shortcode or a single function call in the theme, hand the finished setup to your client, and let them rent out ads without ever touching the code.
• Newsletters, magazines, local portals and clubs that already know their advertisers by name and only need a way to rent out ads and take the money every month.

WHAT MAKES SELL ADS DIFFERENT

• You can keep 100 % of the price you set. With your own Stripe API key the plugin takes no commission and no revenue share — only Stripe’s own processing fees apply. If you would rather not deal with API keys, connect with Stripe in one click instead and a 7 % Sell Ads fee applies on top of Stripe’s fees. The choice is yours and you can switch at any time.
• The money goes to your own Stripe account. Not to us, not to a network that pays out sixty days later. Rent out advertising space today and the payment is yours as soon as Stripe settles it.
• No ad network in the middle. No revenue share, no rules about what counts as acceptable content, no waiting to reach a payout threshold.
• It runs itself. The advertiser pays, uploads the banner and the link, and gets a self-service link to cancel — all without a single e-mail back and forth with you. You rent out ads while you sleep.
• Try everything before you sign up anywhere. Test mode walks you through every step, including the buyer’s side, without a Stripe account and without taking a payment.
• Nobody is left waiting. You get an e-mail the moment someone pays, and any request you do not answer within 14 days has its subscription cancelled automatically, so an advertiser never keeps paying month after month for a space that never went live.

FEATURES

• Rent out ads in any number of positions as a recurring monthly subscription through Stripe.
• Set your own price and currency per ad space, plus your own headline and button text.
• Place an ad space with the [wpsap_ads id="…"] shortcode or with wpsap_show( id ) anywhere in your theme.
• Two ways to take payments: your own Stripe API key (no fee from us) or Connect with Stripe in one click (7 % Sell Ads fee).
• Test mode: click through the whole plugin, buyer’s side included, with no Stripe account and no payment.
• Buyers pay by credit card, Apple Pay, Google Pay and the other methods you have enabled in Stripe.
• After paying, the buyer uploads the banner and the target link themselves — the pages for this work on a phone as well as on a desktop and keep their look in every theme.
• Review every ad before it appears: accept, reject, or publish it from your dashboard.
• An e-mail reaches you as soon as a payment is confirmed. On by default, to any address you like, sent through whatever this site already uses for e-mail, so an SMTP plugin is picked up automatically.
• Requests left unanswered for 14 days are cancelled automatically, so nobody keeps paying for a space that never went live.
• Buyers can cancel themselves at any time through the Stripe billing portal — and so can you, from the WordPress dashboard.
• Every order in one list with its status, the amount paid, and the buyer’s e-mail address.
• Link your own Terms of Service, Uploading Policy and Cancel Policy pages, and add your own notes to the upload page, the thank-you page and Stripe’s payment page.
• No third-party ad scripts and no tracking cookies are added to your site — an ad is an image and a link.
• No account with us, no registration, no external dashboard — you rent out advertising space from your own site, under your own name.

HOW THE SELL ADS PLUGIN WORKS

Sell Ads gives you:

1. Visit the plugins page within your dashboard and select ‘Add New’.
2. Search for ‘Sell Ads’.
3. Activate Sell Ads from your Plugins page.
4. Select «Sell Ads» in the Menu.
5. Choose how you take payments: enter your own Stripe secret key and webhook secret, or click «Connect with Stripe».
6. Create your advertising campaign.
7. Place your campaign where you want to rent out ads.
8. Buyer pays, uploads advertisement and product link.
9. Request is sent to your dashboard.
10. Buyer receives a link to the Stripe billing portal and can cancel at any time.
11. If you accept the request, you can post the ad.
12. Also the Site owner can cancel in wordpress dashboard at any time.
13. This monthly advertising deal remains active until one of the two parties cancels.
14. Requests you do not answer within 14 days are cancelled automatically.

WHY RENT OUT ADVERTISING SPACE INSTEAD OF JOINING AN AD NETWORK

An ad network pays you for attention it resells. You hand over your best positions, the network finds the advertiser, keeps a share nobody ever shows you, and sends what is left once you pass a payout threshold. When you rent out advertising space yourself, that middleman disappears. The advertiser pays your price, the money lands in your own Stripe account, and the arrangement renews every month until one of you ends it.

The difference is easiest to see in the numbers. A thousand views of a banner might earn a couple of euros through a network. The same position, rented for a month to a company that wants to reach exactly your readers, is worth what that company is willing to pay — and that is a conversation about your audience, not about impressions. Site owners who sell ads directly regularly find that one direct advertiser is worth more than a month of network revenue.

There is a second difference that has nothing to do with money. Networks load their own scripts into your pages. They set cookies, they slow your site down, and they decide what appears next to your writing. When you rent out ads through this plugin, an advertisement is an image and a link, served from your own site. Nothing is loaded from anywhere else. You see every banner before it goes live, and anything you do not want simply gets rejected.

Finally, a network can turn you away. Most have traffic minimums, and a new blog rarely clears them. To rent out advertising space you need no minimum at all. If a single advertiser thinks your page is worth fifteen euros a month, you have income that a network would never have given you.

WHAT TO CHARGE WHEN YOU RENT OUT ADS

There is no formula, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. What follows is how most people who sell ads directly arrive at a number.

Start with what the space is worth to the advertiser, not with what it costs you. A visitor who reads a long review of espresso machines is worth a great deal to someone selling espresso machines, and very little to everyone else. The narrower your subject, the more you can ask.

A practical starting point is to look at what an ad network currently pays you for that position over a month, and to ask for several times that amount. You are offering something the network cannot: a guaranteed, exclusive placement for a whole month, with no competition rotating through it. If you have never run ads at all, start low enough that saying yes is easy — many site owners rent out ads for their first month at a price they later double.

Set the price per ad space, not per site. A banner directly under the header and a small square far down the sidebar are not worth the same, and this plugin lets each campaign carry its own monthly price, its own headline and its own button text.

Remember that this is a subscription. A modest monthly price that renews for a year beats a large one-off payment that never repeats. When you rent out advertising space as a monthly arrangement, predictability is the product.

WHERE TO PLACE AN AD SPACE ON YOUR SITE

You can place an ad space anywhere a shortcode works: in a post, on a page, in a widget area, or directly in a theme template with a single function call. The positions that sell ads most reliably are the ones a reader passes on the way to what they came for.

• Directly below the header. The most valuable position on most sites, and the one to price highest.
• In the sidebar, above the fold. The classic place to rent out advertising space, still effective on desktop.
• Inside long articles. After the introduction or between sections, where attention is already engaged.
• At the end of a post. Readers who finish an article are the most receptive audience you have.
• In the footer. Cheap, always visible, and an easy first sale for advertisers testing you out.

Nothing stops you from running several at once. Many site owners rent out ads in three or four positions at different prices, so that a small advertiser and a large one both find something they can afford.

WHAT YOUR ADVERTISERS EXPERIENCE

Selling is easier when buying is easy. The whole point of this plugin is that an advertiser can rent out advertising space from you without ever writing you an e-mail.

They see your ad space with your headline and your price, and click the button. Stripe takes the payment — card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, whatever you have enabled. They land on a page where they upload their banner and enter the link it should point to. They get a confirmation, plus a private link that opens the Stripe billing portal, where they can see their invoices and cancel whenever they like.

Then it is your turn. The order appears in your dashboard, you get an e-mail about it, and you decide: accept and publish, or reject. If you do nothing for fourteen days, the subscription is cancelled automatically, so nobody keeps paying for a space that never went live.

For the advertiser, the appeal is that they deal with you and not with a platform. They know exactly which site their ad appears on, they know the price, and they can stop at any time. That is why direct arrangements to rent out ads keep running for months, while network placements are forgotten the moment a budget changes.

TYPICAL SETUPS

Every site is different, so treat the following as illustrations rather than promises. They show how differently people rent out advertising space with the same plugin.

A niche blog. A woodworking site with a few thousand monthly readers might rent out ads in a single sidebar position for 30 € a month to a tool supplier. One position, one advertiser, one predictable payment. This is the simplest way to rent out advertising space and the one most people start with.

A local news site. Three positions at three prices: a header banner for the regional bank, a sidebar square for the garden centre, a footer strip for the driving school. Each advertiser renews independently, and the site owner never sends an invoice.

A comparison or review site. Here the readers arrive with an intention to buy, so the ad space is worth considerably more. Such sites often rent out ads at prices a network would never reach, because the advertiser knows exactly what kind of visitor they are paying for.

A hobby project. A model railway forum might rent out advertising space for 10 € a month purely to cover hosting. Small numbers, but recurring, and far more than an ad network would pay for the same traffic.

A site that wants no tracking at all. Some publishers rent out ads specifically because it lets them remove every third-party script from their pages. An image and a link load from their own server, and nothing else follows the reader around.

An agency running client sites. One setup, repeated: place the ad space, set the price, let …