Discord Server Subscriptions outside the US

Discord's own Server Subscriptions and Server Shop are for US-based owners only, and Discord keeps 10% of each membership, according to its Creator Revenue FAQ, read on 15 November 2026. Owners elsewhere can still sell roles wherever Stripe will open them an account, with a bot that gives and removes the role. Bond, an AI Discord bot, is one, and we build it.

What Discord says

Both answers are in Discord's Creator Revenue FAQ, which we read on 15 November 2026.

On countries, under "When will Server Subscriptions be available in more countries?", the whole answer is one sentence:

Server Subscriptions will not be available outside of the United States.

The same page's Stripe section adds: "We only support Server Subscriptions and Server Shop for US-based users who can provide US banking information and identification."

On the fee:

Discord has a 90 / 10 split, meaning you will receive 90% of the money from each membership and Discord will keep 10%.

It goes on: "Keep in mind, there are various fees that will impact your final payment amount."

Selling roles where Server Subscriptions are not available

Sell the role through your own Stripe account, and let a bot give the role when the payment goes through and take it off when the subscription ends. Stripe decides which countries and kinds of business it opens accounts for, so check that it will open one for you first.

The card fee is then Stripe's, at your country's rate. In the United States it is 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card transaction (stripe.com/pricing, read 15 November 2026), and cards from other countries and currency conversion cost more. A subscription also pays Stripe Billing, 0.7% of what it bills on the pay-as-you-go plan (stripe.com/billing/pricing, read the same day). What the bot itself takes depends on the bot: see Discord paid role bot fees compared.

With Bond, two set-up steps come first: ask Bond to install its Paid roles plugin, then paste a restricted Stripe key on the server's Bond dashboard. After that you tell Bond in Discord what to sell, for example "sell VIP for $5 a month". Bond makes the price in your Stripe account after you confirm, posts a panel with a Buy button, and gives the role when Stripe confirms the payment. Bond takes no cut on any plan. The steps are on how to sell roles on Discord.

What is different from Server Subscriptions

Selling through your own Stripe account is not the same product with the country check removed. Four things change.

Members pay outside the Discord app. They press a button in your server, get a private link and pay on Stripe's checkout page in the browser. There is no checkout inside Discord.

You are the seller. With Server Subscriptions the purchase goes through Discord: its FAQ says that when someone subscribes, "the most that should appear on a billing statement will be the server name and Discord." With your own Stripe account, the account and the sale are yours. Refunds, disputes and questions from buyers come to you, and you handle them in Stripe. Bond cannot refund a payment or cancel a subscription.

Tax is yours. Bond is not the merchant of record and collects no tax for you. Whether you owe sales tax or VAT on a paid role depends on where you and your members are. Ask an accountant.

Money moves on Stripe's schedule. Discord's FAQ, read on 15 November 2026, says it processes Server Subscription payouts "once per month, on or before the 15th". Your own Stripe account pays out on its own schedule, to your own bank.

What the member gets is the same kind of thing: a role, which opens whatever channels you give it. The paid community layout shows one way to set those channels up. With Bond, a member who cancels keeps it until the end of the period they paid for.

Is it allowed?

We found no Discord rule against charging for a role in your own server through an outside payment processor, and several tools do it today. None of that is permission: Discord can change its terms, and your Stripe account's own rules bind you too. We go through what we read, and what we did not find, in is it allowed to sell roles on Discord?