monetization

name	monetization
description	Master router for payments, checkout, subscriptions, paywalls, and monetization. Picks the right provider skill (Shopify, Stripe, Whop, or RevenueCat) before any provider-specific work begins. Read this BEFORE entering the shopify, stripe, whop, or revenuecat skills.

Monetization

Pick the payment provider here, then hand off to skill shopify, stripe, whop, or revenuecat. Do not re-litigate the choice inside those skills.

Providers:

• Shopify — best for physical goods; handles inventory, shipping, and checkout out of the box.
• Stripe — most flexible; requires external Stripe-dashboard setup to go live.
• Whop — fastest; auto-provisioned store and checkout, no external dashboard.
• RevenueCat — native-mobile in-app purchases only (Expo / React Native / iOS). Not for plain web apps.

Skip the routing question if any of these is true

The provider is already known — do not ask, just hand off to the matching provider skill.

• User explicitly named Shopify, Stripe, Whop, or RevenueCat. (Generic words — "payments", "subscriptions", "paywall", "monetize", "let users pay" — do NOT count.)
• A provider is already integrated: a SHOPIFY_* / STRIPE_* / WHOP_* / REVENUECAT_* env var or Replit Configuration is set.
• The integration for shopify-store, stripe, whop, or revenuecat is already connected.
• The conversation already established a provider.
• The user is asking for follow-up CRUD on an existing payment integration.
• The user's intent is clearly to sell physical goods (shipping-required items or inventory-based products) → Hand off to the shopify skill. Signals:
  • Explicit mention of physical/tangible items, inventory management, stock, shipping, or fulfillment.
  • A concrete tangible product noun, even when the user never says the word "physical". Treat nouns like pens, shirts, t-shirts, apparel, clothing, mugs, books, ceramics, pottery, jewelry, candles, soap, posters, prints, stickers, accessories, merch, or merchandise as physical-goods signals. "Build an ecommerce site for selling pens with checkout and payments" is a Shopify request — route to shopify and recommend the Shopify Store integration + Shopify-hosted checkout, NOT a custom Stripe/Express checkout.
  • Digital/download exception (takes priority over the tangible-noun shortcut): if the same item is sold as a digital file, download, print-on-demand digital asset, PDF, template, or other intangible deliverable — e.g. "downloadable poster prints", "printable sticker pack", "ebook" — it is NOT physical goods. A digital/download cue overrides the product noun: do not hand off to shopify. Route digital goods to Stripe (or ask the clarification below if it is genuinely unclear whether the item ships physically).
  • Generic words like "store", "shop", "storefront", "products", "checkout", or "ecommerce" with NO tangible product, inventory, shipping, or fulfillment cue are NOT sufficient — they apply equally to digital commerce. Ask the short clarification below instead of guessing.

Otherwise, ask which provider to use

Pause any plan/task-list work and call the AskQuestion model tool:

{
  "question": "What payment provider do you want to use?",
  "choices": [
    "Shopify (best for physical goods)",
    "Stripe (most flexible)",
    "Whop (fastest, no external setup)"
  ]
}

Add "RevenueCat (best for iOS in-app payments, requires an account)" as a fourth choice only if the app is native-mobile / Expo / React Native, or the user asked about IAP on iOS. Never offer RevenueCat for plain web apps.

Hand off to the picked provider's skill.