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Payment links and agreements

Charge one client for a package or a deposit, optionally with a contract they sign. One-time links are free on every plan; installments and agreements need Creator or above.

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A payment link is a private link you send to one person to charge them once. On Creator and Growth you can also split it into installments, monthly, or every few days apart, and attach a contract they sign before paying.

It is for the things a membership price does not cover: a coaching package, a deposit, a done-with-you block, a one-off intensive.

It is under Payments and Agreements in the sidebar. One-time links are on every plan including free; installments and signed agreements need Creator or above. You need Stripe connected.

On the free plan, payment links share one earnings limit with your memberships, your store and your event tickets: $500 a month in total (or 75,000 in JPY). Every instalment of a payment link counts, not just the first. Reach the limit and new payment link payments pause, along with new paid members, store orders and ticket sales. Payment plans already under way keep charging. Creator and Growth have no limit.

  1. Press New payment link

    Give it a title, and optionally the client's name and email. The email is where the Send button delivers the link. Nothing is emailed until you press it.

  2. Choose one-time or installments

    One-time is a single charge, on every plan.

    Installments charges the same amount on a schedule you set: monthly (the default), or every few days apart (from 7 to 365 days), for a number of payments you choose, spanning up to three years in total. It stops itself automatically after the last one, so nobody has to remember to cancel it. Installments need Creator or Growth.

  3. Decide what it unlocks

    Three choices: nothing, temporary access to your community for a number of days, or permanent access. Either kind of access can start right away, or open on a date you choose, payment is still taken at checkout, the client just cannot use their access until that date arrives.

    Useful for selling a twelve week programme that includes the community for those twelve weeks, or for a cohort that pays now but starts next month.

  4. Add a contract if you want one

    Write your terms. You can drop in fields like the client's name, your name, the total, the number of installments and the start date, and they fill in automatically on the page and freeze into the signed copy. Signed agreements need Creator or Growth.

    Before the Pay button works, your client verifies a code emailed to them, then adopts a signature, typed or drawn, in one click-to-sign dialog. If you have already adopted your own signature, it is stamped on as your countersignature automatically.

    Drry stores the exact wording they agreed to, their signature, the time, and a fingerprint of the text. You get a certificate page with the full signing history and a PDF, and it warns you if the text was ever altered afterwards.

  5. Send the link

    Send it yourself however you like, or press Send to have Drry email it from your community's own address. A link Drry sends follows up automatically 1, 3 and 7 days later if it is still unsigned or unpaid, and stops the moment your client signs or pays, you send again, or you switch reminders off.

    Press Preview as client on the link's page to see exactly what they will see, without it counting as Opened or letting you sign or pay by mistake.

More than one way to pay

On Creator and Growth, press Offer another way to pay to give the client up to three ways to pay on one link, for example $1,200 in full or 6 monthly payments of $220. The client chooses under Choose how to pay on the pay page, and the price, the payment terms and the Pay button follow their choice. This is what lets a funnel page keep one Enroll now button instead of one per plan. On the free plan the button shows locked.

Send them somewhere after they pay

The optional After they pay section sends your client on from the thank-you screen to a funnel page, your community home, a course, a booking page or an https address you choose. They are sent only once their payment is confirmed.

A page that a live payment link sends people to cannot be unpublished, renamed or deleted. Drry tells you which link uses it, and you point that link somewhere else first.

Reusable links

Turn on Reusable when you want one link to serve many buyers instead of one named client. A reusable link stays active after it is paid, so you can share it as a landing page's offer button, or as the destination for a form, your bio link, or a guide.

Because it is not tied to one buyer, a reusable link cannot target a specific buyer's name or email. And a single-use link cannot be used as the destination on those same repeatable surfaces (a form, a landing page, your bio link, a guide): it would close after the first buyer and break for the second.

Installments, specifically

The buyer cannot cancel an installment plan themselves. That is the point of it, and the pay page says so before they agree.

You can stop one early with Cancel plan. Future charges stop, and they keep what they have already paid for with no refund.

The purchases table, the certificate and the PDF show progress as, for example, 2 of 6 paid, and say so plainly if a payment failed and the plan stopped. The Collected total counts only payments that actually cleared, so an abandoned checkout never inflates it.

Refunds

Each purchase has a Refund button, and it refunds the full amount. A full refund also removes whatever access the link granted.

If a client disputes the charge

If a signed agreement is on file and the charge is disputed with the card network, Drry automatically prepares your response, the signed agreement, its record, and wording tailored to the dispute reason, and drafts it directly on the dispute in Stripe. Nothing is sent to the bank until you review and submit it yourself. You will see an alert describing what was prepared, and the link's certificate page shows the dispute status and deadline.

Agreements with nothing to pay

Not every signature needs a charge attached: a waiver, a media release, or a coaching agreement you bill elsewhere. Open the Agreements tab on the same Payments and Agreements page and press New agreement (or + Create, then Agreement to sign) to make one on its own, separate from payment links. No Stripe connection is needed, and it is available on Creator and above. Your client signs on its own page, the same signing flow as a payment link's contract, and you get the same certificate and PDF afterward. Send one link to a single named client, or turn on Reusable so many people can sign it.

For a link addressed to one client, the Send to client card emails it from your community's own address. The email leads with the agreement (for example, Media release is pending your signature) and mentions no price. Reminders go out 1, 3 and 7 days later and stop the moment the client signs. Sending again replaces the earlier send, with a ten minute pause between sends. If you drop below Creator you can still switch reminders off, but turning them back on needs the plan.

Archive an agreement to move it to its own Archived group, on any plan. An agreement nobody has signed can be deleted outright, owner only, after a confirm; a signed one can only be archived, so its record stays. Bring back on an archived agreement or link, like Reopen on a closed one, needs Creator or above.

Common questions

Does Drry take a cut?

No, same as everything else. Only Stripe's processing fee.

How many links can I create?

No limit, on any plan.

Does a payment link count toward an earnings limit on the free plan?

On the free plan, yes, and it is shared rather than separate. Memberships, your store, payment links and event tickets all count toward one earnings limit of $500 a month (75,000 in JPY). Every instalment of a payment link counts, not just the first. At the limit, new payment link payments pause, along with new paid members, store orders and ticket sales: a paused link's checkout shows a neutral "we're not able to take payments right now" message with no Pay button, not an error. Payment plans already under way keep charging. Upgrade to Creator or Growth to remove the limit straight away, or wait for it to reset next period.

Is the signature legally binding?

It is a standard electronic signature: they verified a code we emailed them, saw the terms, agreed explicitly, and adopted a typed or drawn signature, and we recorded all of it with the time and a fingerprint of the text. Whether that is enough for your situation is a question for your lawyer, not for us.

My link shows a page that does not exist.

Your Stripe onboarding is not finished. Complete it in Settings and the links come back.

Do I need Stripe connected for an agreement?

Only if it is also taking a payment. A sign-only agreement, with nothing to pay, needs no Stripe account.

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