A Tollbooth for your Content

TollBit allows you to quickly set up a paid API in front of your website in as little as 15 minutes with no coding. This effectively puts your data behind a paywall, and allows you to immediately start charging bots for on demand access.

Overview

To onboard onto TollBit, you will go through the following steps.

1. Create an account on our platform. Go to our dashboard to set up an account for your organization.
2. Invite other users to your newly created org. You will likely need to invite IT, legal and finance users to your org to complete onboarding, review terms, and set up your payout method.
3. Add your properties. Invite your IT team to do some lightweight configuration in your DNS settings to fully verify your properties.
4. Set up analytics. We support the most popular CDNs and can quickly get you valuable insight into your bot traffic.
5. Set up your bot paywall. Strictly enforce your robots.txt to prevent unwanted bots from scraping your website.
6. Onboard to the marketplace. Set a price on your content.

Getting Started

To get started, go to our dashboard to set up an account.

When first creating an account on the platform, you will be prompted to create your organization. This should represent your top level company. If you were a publisher ACME Inc., and you had websites example1.com, example2.com, your organization should be called "ACME". The websites example1.com and example2.com will be added as properties afterwards.

Note that each org can only have one payout method linked. This is fine for most orgs, but if your company prefer to keep accounting separate for a subset of your properties, you can create additional orgs after your first org and add properties to those, and then add payment separately for each org.