Listener Support Overview

Listener Support lets your listeners make voluntary donations to your show directly on your site — no platform taking a cut, no listeners signing up for anything. It works in two modes that can run alongside each other.

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Link Mode

Benecaster shows a prompt on your episode pages and subscriber account page. Listeners click through to an external platform of your choice: Ko-fi, Buy Me a Coffee, PayPal.me, Patreon, or any URL you control. No payment processing happens on your site.

No Stripe account, no webhook configuration, no additional plugins required. If you have a donation link somewhere, you can use link mode today.

Set up Listener Support (Link Mode) →

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Stripe Mode

Listeners pay directly on your site via an embedded Stripe Payment Element. They never leave your page. Payments are processed through your connected Stripe account and recorded automatically.

Set up Listener Support (Stripe Mode) →

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Running Both Modes

Link mode and Stripe mode are not mutually exclusive. When Stripe is configured for a show, the auto-injected prompt switches to the Stripe payment form automatically. To keep a link-mode prompt on the same page as a Stripe form, place it manually via the shortcode — both can appear at the same time.

Both modes share the same settings area under Benecaster → Settings → Listener Support and Benecaster → Shows → [Your Show] → Listener Support.

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Surfacing Donations on Your Site

Two features let you display and verify the donations you collect.

Donor Wall — The [benecaster_donor_wall] shortcode renders a paginated list of your supporters on any page of your site. Drop it into a page or sidebar and it works immediately — no custom code required. Filters give you full control over which donations appear, how each card is decorated, and what the empty state says.

Donor Wall →

Webhook Signature Verification — When Ko-fi, PayPal, or Buy Me a Coffee send webhook callbacks after a donation, Benecaster can verify each payload’s authenticity before logging it. Configure one secret per platform; requests that fail verification are rejected with a 403 and never written to your donation log.

Webhook Signature Verification →

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Developer Reference

Hooks, filters, and the Listener Support shortcode are documented in the Listener Support Hooks and Shortcode Reference.