New: sell roles. Bond takes no cut. Members pay you on Stripe.
See howBond vs Upgrade.chat
Bond is an Upgrade.chat alternative that sells Discord roles through your own Stripe account and takes no cut, on every plan; Stripe's own fee still applies. Install the Paid roles plugin, paste a restricted Stripe key on Bond's dashboard, then say "sell VIP for $5 a month". Upgrade.chat's free plan takes 5.9% of each sale and its paid plans as little as 2.9%, per upgrade.chat/pricing on 15 November 2026.
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What Upgrade.chat is known for
Selling Discord roles and subscriptions. Members buy through Upgrade.chat's own checkout.
What Bond does differently
Bond is not a payments company. Paid roles is one plugin of a bot that also builds and runs the server: channels, roles, permissions, moderation and automations. The sale happens in your own Stripe account and Stripe pays you out after its own processing fee. Bond takes no fee and charges no monthly price for it. Members pay on Stripe's page, Bond gives the role when Stripe confirms the payment, and takes it off when the subscription ends.
One sentence per tier, once Stripe is connected.
@Bond Sell a VIP role for $5 a month
And if you do switch, in three moves.
Members already paying through Upgrade.chat keep paying there until they cancel. Bond does not move anyone's subscription, so the two run side by side for a while.
Connect Stripe to Bond
Install the Paid roles plugin and paste a restricted Stripe key on Bond's dashboard. Upgrade.chat keeps selling exactly as it does today.
Sell new members through Bond
Ask Bond for each tier and try it in test mode first. New buyers pay on Stripe's page through Bond's panel; nobody already paying is moved.
Stop new sales in Upgrade.chat
Its existing subscribers keep paying it until they cancel. Turn it off once the last of them has gone, or keep both.
When to stay on Upgrade.chat.
Stick with Upgrade.chat if you need PayPal or Venmo, a branded storefront, or Telegram as well as Discord, all of which upgrade.chat/pricing listed on 15 November 2026.
It is good at selling Discord roles and subscriptions, and there is no prize for switching a tool you are happy with. Add Bond for the jobs Upgrade.chat does not cover, and leave the rest where it is.
Try Bond on one thing this week.
Free to start, and nothing you have set up in Upgrade.chat changes when you add it.