Get paid for your mods
On Modhold you keep almost everything your supporters and buyers pay you, we take nothing from tips, and part of every ad and Pass dollar goes to the authors whose mods people download.
What you keep
Other mod sites and marketplaces commonly pass only 20% to 40% of what players spend on to the people who made the mod, and membership sites usually keep 10% or more of what supporters pay. On Modhold you keep 91% of every supporter tier, paid mod and bid, and none of a tip (only the card fee comes out).
Some sites advertise a big share of their revenue for authors, but the percentage never appears in the program's own terms, and you're paid in points through a formula you can't see. Ours is a signed agreement, and the math is on this page.
Two ways to get paid
Connect once on your Payouts page. You don't need a Stripe account or password: Stripe asks for your details and bank on its own secure page. Card payments to you land in your bank as they're made, with Modhold's 9% and Stripe's card fee (about 2.9% + 30¢) taken at that moment.
PayPal payments, and card payments before you connect Stripe, come to Modhold for you. Modhold pays those fees, and sends your share by the 15th of each month for the month before. Under $10 rolls over to the next month.
They pay $5.00. Modhold keeps $0.45, Stripe's card fee is about $0.45, and about $4.10 reaches your bank. Every month they stay.
The ad and Pass pool
Every month Modhold adds up what it made from ads and the Modhold Pass, takes out the cost of running the site (payment fees, storage, hosting, security), and gives 45% of what's left to authors. Your part is your share of that month's unique downloads: one per player per mod each month, so nobody can pump it by downloading over and over.
| Ads and Passes bring in | $10,000 |
| Running costs | − $2,000 |
| To authors (45%) | $3,600 |
| An author with 11% of downloads | $396 |
| Ads and Passes bring in | $250,000 |
| Running costs | − $50,000 |
| To authors (45%) | $90,000 |
| An author with 11% of downloads | $9,900 a month |
Examples to show how it works, not promised earnings. The pool is on top of your supporters, sales and tips.
Invite authors, earn for life
Every author gets an invite link on their Payouts page. When another author joins through it, gets their charter and publishes a mod, you earn a share of what they make from the ad and Pass pool:
You invite an author who grows to 11% of downloads on a busy site ($9,900 a month from the pool). You earn $990 a month in the first year, then $297 a month after that, and they still get their full $9,900.
- One level: you earn on the authors you invite, not on the authors they invite.
- Only real unique downloads count. Inviting yourself, or faking downloads, voids it.
- It covers their ad and Pass pool share, not their own sales, supporters or tips.
Refunds and disputes
Modhold doesn't give refunds: whether to refund a buyer is your call, with the Refund button on your Payouts page. If a buyer's bank reverses a card payment, it comes back out of the account it was paid into, and we tell you if it happens.
Ready?
Apply for a charter. Once you're an author, sign the Author Payout Agreement on your Payouts page and add where we pay you.