Automated Benefits - Polar

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Polar offers built-in benefit (entitlements) automation for common upsells within the developer & designer ecosystem with more to come.

• Credits. A simple benefit that allows you to credit a customer’s Usage Meter balance.
• License Keys. Software license keys that you can customize the branding of.
• Feature Flags. Simple, API-driven feature access flags with optional metadata.
• File Downloads. Downloadable files of any kind up to 10GB each.
• GitHub Repository Access. Automatically invite subscribers to private GitHub repo(s).
• Discord Invite. Automate invitations and granting of roles to subscribers and customers.
• Shared Slack Channel. Give customers a shared Slack channel via Slack Connect.

Product & Subscription Benefits

Product and subscription benefits are standalone resources in Polar - connected to one or many products or subscription tiers. This approach is a bit different from other platforms, but offers many advantages:

• Easy to enable the same benefit across multiple products & subscriptions
• You can change a benefit in one place vs. many
• No duplicate data or work (error prone)
• More intuitive UI for you and your customers

How customers get access to benefits:

• ✅ Active subscribers of tiers with the benefit enabled
• ✅ Customers who bought a product with the benefit (lifetime access)
• ❌ Subscribers with an expired subscription (cancelled)
• ❌ Users who are not customers

Creating & Managing Benefits

You can manage benefits in two ways:

1. Directly within a product create/edit form
2. Or via Benefits in your dashboard