Migrate Start9 boxes — Keysat goes with you. If the Keysat project disappears tomorrow, your already-issued licenses keep verifying: the public key is embedded in your software, the private key is on your machine.
-Backed up automatically by StartOS as part of your normal backup routine.
-If your customers prefer paying with credit cards over Bitcoin, you’ll be able to plug Zaprite into Keysat as an alternative payment provider. Same Keysat license-issuance flow, but the payment can come through Stripe-via-Zaprite for cards or any of Zaprite’s Bitcoin rails (BTCPay, Strike, Unchained). Trades off some sovereignty — cards mean Stripe KYC and customer PII flowing through Zaprite — in exchange for a much wider addressable audience.
-Keysat stays sovereign-by-default. Card payments are something you opt into per Keysat install if your business needs them. Shipping in v0.3.
-Source-available license · pay your operator-style trade-offs deliberately, never by default.
-Keysat’s gating happens at the operator’s self-license, not at the buyer’s. Every Keysat instance ships at Creator (free); pay only when you outgrow it.
+Every Keysat instance ships at a highly functional Creator tier; pay only when you outgrow it.
Honest supporter tier. Same features as Pro; you’re funding Keysat’s development.
+Perpetual license + direct one-on-one support, for creators who want Keysat to keep getting better.
- No fake feature gates: Patron is feature-identical to Pro. Pricing is a flat annual fee — we don’t take a percentage of your sales. -
Creator is free forever, capped at 5 products / 5 policies per product / 10 active discount codes — plenty for a solo creator selling one-time or perpetual licenses. Pro lifts every cap and unlocks recurring subscriptions plus the Zaprite payment gateway (cards, Apple Pay, bank transfers, in addition to Bitcoin). Patron is Pro with a public supporter badge; same features, you’re funding development. See the tier comparison above for the full breakdown.
+Creator is free forever, capped at 5 products / 5 policies per product / 10 active discount codes — plenty for a solo creator selling one-time or perpetual licenses. Pro lifts every cap and unlocks recurring subscriptions plus the Zaprite payment gateway (cards, Apple Pay, bank transfers, in addition to Bitcoin), billed annually. Patron is everything in Pro, sold as a one-time perpetual license instead of an annual subscription, plus direct one-on-one support and a public supporter badge — you’re funding development. See the tier cards above for the full breakdown.