Dylan

i've made over 6 figures referring businesses to whop... now the people i work with are doing it too one of my students moved a car detailing business over and it's paid him $6,550.58 so far - 30% of the fee on every sale - no product or customers of his own - completely PASSIVE income right now is the earliest anyone's going to be to this model DM me "PARTNER" if you want the same setup he used, most of it runs itself

whop's co founder talks about how they got their first users... the first version was a marketplace for sneaker software and it filled up with scammers. the second tied the payment to the discord role, so paying members got in and members who stopped paying lost access. that's what the first trading communities and paid discords signed up for. the tiny niche came first and the platform came AFTER, so i broke down how whop got from there to $5.1B: - 13: the age they started - $17m: the series a - 0%: the marketplace fee - $200m: tether - $5.1b: sequoia - what runs on whop today - payments full breakdown in the article:

if you get payments right, you can grow WITHOUT spending more on ads i'd do it in this order: STAGE 1: FAILED RENEWALS (THE LEAK) check: pull every payment that failed in the last 90 days and see how many of those customers ever came back fix: retry failed cards automatically and email the buyer a link to update their card the same day why: these are customers who wanted to stay and got cancelled by an expired card STAGE 2: MEMBER ACCESS (THE DOOR) check: cancel a test membership and see if the discord role or course login goes with it fix: tie access to payment status, so roles get added when someone pays and removed when they stop why: every ex-member still inside is getting for free what your paying members pay for STAGE 3: PAYMENT PLANS (THE CLOSER) check: count the sales calls last month that ended on "i can't pay that all at once" fix: offer a split-pay option and apply for financing, where the provider pays you upfront and collects from the buyer why: a buyer who wants it and can't pay $3k today is the easiest close you'll get all week STAGE 4: DECLINED CARDS (THE WALL) check: open your processor dashboard and read the decline reasons on last month's failed checkouts fix: put bank transfer, paypal and cash app next to the card why: a decline at checkout is a buyer who already said yes STAGE 5: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS (THE BORDER) check: work out what share of your sales come from cards outside your country fix: show those buyers prices in their own currency so the sale clears at domestic rates why: on stripe and whop, a foreign card adds 1.5% on top, and currency conversion adds another 1% STAGE 6: THE FEE STACK (THE TAX) check: add up everything you pay per sale, including the platform subscription and the payment plan app fix: price it against one platform that handles checkout, plans and access with no monthly fee why: kajabi's cheapest plan is $179 a month before you've sold anything STAGE 7: DISPUTES (THE SHIELD) check: work out your dispute rate over the last 90 days fix: turn on dispute alerts so a buyer gets refunded before it turns into a chargeback why: a high dispute rate is one of the things that decides whether you get approved for financing STAGE 8: PAYOUTS (THE CASH) check: count the days between a sale and the money landing in your bank fix: move to next-day payouts why: the ad budget for tomorrow comes out of today's sales STAGE 9: THE CHECKOUT PAGE (THE LAST STEP) check: buy your own product on your phone and count every field you had to fill in fix: cut every field you don't need before the pay button why: each extra step is somewhere a buyer stops to think STAGE 10: YOUR EXIT (THE ESCAPE HATCH) check: ask your platform if you can export your customers and live subscriptions today fix: keep a clean export, and find out which subscriptions can move without buyers re-entering their cards why: a business that can't move its subscribers pays whatever its platform charges next year bookmark this for the next time a renewal fails (if you'd rather we checked all 10 for you, the free audit link is in my bio)

your customers decide whether to stay in the first 10 minutes after they pay you spent everything getting the sale and nothing on the part right after it here are 8 fixes for what happens once someone pays you: 1. access lands in under 60 seconds, no manual step 2. one welcome message with their first 3 steps 3. retry failed cards before anyone emails them 4. send the failed-payment email the same day 5. one login for everything they bought 6. ask why they're leaving inside the cancel flow 7. a win-back offer 7 days after someone cancels 8. tag every sale with where the buyer came from number 3 alone saves customers who wanted to stay and had a card expire

cheat code for scaling your agency... - join whop partner program - list your clients selling online - check their current fees - show them whop - send your referral link - move them over - earn 30% of whop’s cut

don't move your business to whop if you hate: - no monthly software bill - buyers paying in installments - one login for everything - discord roles that sort themselves out - tap to pay at your events - cancelled members removed for you - stripe subscriptions moving in one click - affiliates paid without a spreadsheet - 40,000 people getting paid there every month - $0.30 notifications at 3am

the fastest way to get paid on every sale your clients make if you have a client list and want this running before 2027, read this

signs your business has outgrown its payment setup... - 4+ tools to sell 1 product - checkout on one site, content on another - removing access by hand - ex-members still in the discord - a zap breaks and nobody notices for a week - failed payments nobody chases - no idea what you pay per sale - a monthly bill for every tool