Next Up: Payment Processing 🍭

With our Community Hubs and Members Area coming together, it's time to tackle something we've been working toward for a while: a clearer way to purchase and renew your Candy Kisses membership.

Payment processing has traditionally been a difficult part of running an adult-related business. Mainstream processors can restrict adult content and escort-related businesses, leaving communities like ours with fewer options for accepting payments.

We want members to know how our system will work, what they're paying for and when their access needs renewing. Here's the direction we're taking.

Candy Card Points at the centre

We're bringing membership purchases into our Candy Card Rewards system. You'll be able to earn points through eligible community activities or purchase points, then redeem them for membership access.

We've already removed shrinking points and set the redemption value at one Candy Card Point for one dollar toward eligible rewards.

We're also preparing a Litecoin payment option for purchasing points. The page will explain how to make your payment and have it confirmed and credited to your account.

Choose your membership and your time

We're planning dedicated pages for Candy Creator, Professional Access and Elite Professional, each offering one, three or six months of access.

Each package will show its cost in Candy Card Points. You'll choose the membership and access period that suit you, then redeem the required points.

These will be prepaid memberships, with no automatic renewal. When you're ready for another period of access, you'll choose another package.

How redemption will work

We're testing a process where redeeming your points gives you a single-use reward code for your chosen membership package. You'll apply that code at checkout to cover the package in full and activate your access.

Each new membership period will require a new redemption. One reward code will cover the package you selected, rather than continuing to renew indefinitely.

Our intention is for membership packages to be redeemed with points, while money payments are used to purchase those points. We're checking the checkout process before confirming the final instructions.

What about existing lifetime memberships?

If you already hold one of our existing Candy Creator for Life or Professional for Life memberships, that arrangement will stay in place. You won't need to repurchase the lifetime access you already have.

A little more work behind the scenes

This is a preview of what's coming, rather than an announcement that everything is ready today. We still need to finish the pages, test purchases and redemptions, and make sure membership access starts and ends correctly.

Using points doesn't remove payment providers' requirements; we still need a payment setup that supports our community and how it operates.

Once everything is ready, we'll share clear instructions for purchasing points, redeeming rewards and renewing your membership.

Thank you for growing with us, Sweethearts. We're getting these pieces into place so you can spend more time enjoying your little corner of something sweet. 💕

Sweetly signed,

Deja Dawn