--- title: "Is it allowed to sell roles on Discord?" description: "What Discord's guidelines, terms and Monetization Policy say about charging for a role, what we did not find, and the Stripe rules that bind you as the seller." canonical_url: "https://www.bondbot.gg/blog/is-it-allowed-to-sell-roles-on-discord" last_updated: "2026-11-15" --- # Is it allowed to sell roles on Discord? What Discord's guidelines, terms and Monetization Policy say about charging for a role, what we did not find, and the Stripe rules that bind you as the seller. Guides · published 2026-11-15 · 4 min read We found no Discord rule that bans charging for a role in your own server through an outside payment processor, and several tools do it today. Discord's Community Guidelines do ban selling Discord assets such as accounts, servers and server permissions, and its Monetization Policy is written for its own selling features. If you sell through Stripe, Stripe's rules bind you too. This is not legal advice. We build [Bond, an AI Discord bot](https://www.bondbot.gg/) that sells roles through the owner's own Stripe account, so we had a reason to read all of this. Below is what each document says, quoted, with the date we read it, and what we looked for and did not find. ## What Discord's rules say We read these on 15 November 2026. **The Community Guidelines** ([discord.com/guidelines](https://discord.com/guidelines)) have one line about selling: > Do not sell or purchase Discord assets, including accounts, usernames, servers, server permissions, or custom server invite links. Our reading: that is about trading Discord's own things, such as an account, a server or a vanity invite, and charging members for a role in a server you run is a different act. But "server permissions" is in that list, and a role is a set of permissions. A paid role that made the buyer a moderator would look a lot like selling server permissions. Bond refuses to sell any role that carries more than an ordinary member's permissions, or that sits above your moderators. The guidelines also point sellers elsewhere: "If you plan to monetize your content, please review the additional rules outlined in our Monetization Policy and Monetization Terms." **The Terms of Service** ([discord.com/terms](https://discord.com/terms)) say: "Discord's Paid Services Terms apply to any purchase you make through Discord, and Discord's Monetization Terms apply to any sales you make through Discord." Both are about sales made through Discord. **The Monetization Policy** ([support.discord.com](https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/10575066024983-Monetization-Policy)) says what it covers in its second paragraph: > This Monetization Policy applies to all of Discord's user monetization features, including Server Subscriptions, App Subscriptions, and Server Shop. It then lists content that may not be monetized on those features, including other people's intellectual property without permission, sexually explicit content, online dating, political campaigns, charity fundraising, gambling, drugs and alcohol, multi-level marketing and financial scams. Our reading: the policy may not bind a sale made outside Discord, but its list is a fair guide to what will get a server in trouble. ## What we did not find We found no Discord sentence that bans charging for a role in your own server when the payment goes through an outside processor such as Stripe. Our reading: the documents above either cover sales made through Discord or ban trading Discord assets. Tools that do exactly this run today: LaunchPass, PayBot and others sell Discord roles through Stripe. None of that is permission. Discord can change its terms, and it can act on a server it thinks breaks them. Read the current guidelines and terms yourself before you start charging, and again now and then. ## What Stripe's rules say When you sell through your own Stripe account, Stripe's terms bind you, because the account is yours. Its [restricted businesses list](https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses) (last updated 22 September 2026, read 15 November 2026) calls itself "representative of our restricted businesses but not exhaustive". Among what it prohibits: - "Games of chance including gambling, internet gambling, casino games, sweepstakes and contests" - "'Get rich quick' schemes, including investment opportunities" - "Pyramid schemes" and "Multi-level marketing services offering commission or recruitment-based sales" - "Pornography and other mature audience content" - "Negative option marketing, negative option membership clubs and reduced price trials with unclear or hidden pricing" - "Sale or distribution of music, films, software or any other licensed materials without appropriate authorisation" Among what it restricts, meaning it needs Stripe's approval: "Investment and brokerage services, including real estate-based investments", "Other financial services", and "Sale of in-game currency or game items, unless the business is the operator of the virtual world". Our reading, not Stripe's words: a paid trading-signals server may fall under the financial services entries, and a server that sells game items it does not run may fall under the last one. Gambling, adult, signals and pyramid-style servers put the Stripe account at risk. Discord points at the same list for its own feature. Its Creator Revenue FAQ says a server using Server Subscriptions "may not offer anything listed on Stripe's Prohibited and Restricted Businesses List." ## What you take on as the seller Selling a role makes you the seller. - **Refunds and disputes.** They come to you, and you handle them in Stripe. With Bond, a one-time purchase refunded in full or disputed loses its role, but Bond cannot issue a refund or cancel a subscription. Its key cannot. - **Tax.** You are the seller and Bond is not the merchant of record, so whether you owe sales tax or VAT is your question. Ask an accountant. - **What you promise.** Say plainly what the role gives, such as which channels it opens, and keep it. Discord asks sellers on its own features for "honest content descriptions". It is good advice for any sale. If that all fits your server, [how to sell roles on Discord](https://www.bondbot.gg/use-cases/paid-roles) has the setup, and [Discord paid role bot fees compared](https://www.bondbot.gg/blog/discord-paid-role-bot-fees-compared-2026) has what each tool takes.