ScripTreeApps pricing — for developers

Platform cut

The platform's cut is a smooth function of the listing price. On a $9.99 sale it's 20.0%; on a $1.99 sale it's ~32% (because Stripe's $0.30 per-transaction floor eats more of the gross); on a $99 sale it asymptotes near 17%. The exact number is shown live in the price-input slider when you set or edit a listing's price.

Stripe processor fees (2.9% + $0.30) are passed through to the buyer. There is no monthly subscription to be a producer.

Paid apps must be priced at $1.99 or higher — below that, Stripe's per-transaction floor eats most of the producer net. Anything below $1.99 has to ship as a free app.

The 3-month window for new paid apps

Every new paid app gets 3 months free on Main to find an audience. At the end of each subsequent 3-month period, the platform checks whether your listing earned at least $10 in platform revenue. If you cleared the threshold, you keep your spot on Main automatically. If you missed it, you have two options:

• Top up. Pay (threshold − actual platform revenue) + $1. Example: earned $7 of platform revenue → top-up = $3 + $1 = $4. You stay on Main for another 3 months.
• Move to The Museum. Decline the top-up and your listing transitions at the period boundary. The Museum apps remain installable and you keep earning from any new sales.

$5 paid-visibility bypass — for new paid apps

Shoppers can opt in to a filter that hides paid apps younger than three months — the “hide new paid apps” toggle on the apps page. As a producer, you can pay $5 per listing to bypass that filter for the duration of the window. Your listing will appear in search even when the filter is on, and it will look identical to listings that are past the three-month mark — there is no visible badge that distinguishes a paid bypass.

This is disclosed only here, on the developer-facing page, by design — shoppers see the option to filter without seeing which listings paid to opt out of it.

Free apps on Main

Free apps live on the Free Apps shelf by default. To put a free app on Main instead, pay $10 up front, then $10 every 3 months to stay. Decline the renewal and the listing returns to Free Apps at the period boundary.

Returning from The Museum

Three paths back to Main:

1. Pay $10 for one 3-month window on Main; you're then evaluated like any other Main app.
2. Earn it organically — paid apps can clear the threshold from The Museum discovery and return automatically.
3. Run a sponsored campaign to drive sales to either of the above. The Museum apps ARE eligible to buy sponsored placements; the campaign carries the same labeled-Sponsored badge as any other tier.

Optional New & Updated badges

You can opt your listing into a New badge for its first three months and an Updated badge for three months after you mark a version update. Both default off; producers opt in per listing from the producer dashboard.

Optional public source code

Every listing's repository is private by default. You can flip a per-listing toggle to publish the source on /source. Stars, an authored README, and basic file browsing render GitHub-style. Publishing source does not change the bundle download or the storefront listing.