How Monaiq works
This page explains the model the rest of these docs assume: what you list, what your customer buys, what they receive, and where the money goes.
Monaiq is a licensing and billing platform with two sides. Sellers list software and AI tools. Buyers pay for them and manage what they bought. Both sides live in the same portal at monaiq.com, and you start as an ordinary account holder either way. You become a seller from your profile, by accepting the seller agreement and completing Stripe onboarding.
What you list
Section titled “What you list”Your catalog is built from three things, and they stack in this order.
A product is the thing a license unlocks. It is your application, your API, your tool.
A feature is a part of a product that a license turns on. Some features are rate-limited, which means they carry a usage limit and can be billed by how much of them a customer uses.
An offering is what a customer actually buys: one of your products, at a price, on a billing schedule, with the features you attach to it. You can publish several offerings for the same product, which is how tiers work.
Products and offerings covers how you create each of these.
What a buyer receives
Section titled “What a buyer receives”When someone buys an offering, Monaiq issues them a license. The license records which product they bought, which features it turns on, and which billing plan it runs on.
Licenses live in the buyer’s account at monaiq.com/manage/licenses, whoever sold them. If your product needs a key to check the license, the buyer finds their credentials on the license detail page. Paid provisioning is asynchronous, so the license appears in Licenses within a minute or two of payment rather than instantly.
A free trial is published as an offering of its own, and a trial runs 7 days. The length is platform-wide, so it is the same everywhere. Trials do not auto-renew.
How the money moves
Section titled “How the money moves”The buyer pays through Stripe. Stripe holds the payment relationship, collects the card details and pays sellers out to their bank account. Monaiq never sees card or bank secrets.
Monaiq’s fee is 7% of each sale. For a subscription, we bill the customer every period and the fee applies to each of those payments. If you refund a sale, the fee is reversed in proportion to the refund. Pricing and fees states the whole arrangement, including the notice you get before a rate changes.
Where AI agents fit
Section titled “Where AI agents fit”Monaiq exposes an MCP endpoint at https://api.monaiq.com/mcp, so an AI assistant can manage
your catalog and help wire the platform into your code. There is no API key to configure for it:
you point your client at the URL and sign in with a one-time code sent to your email.
Where to go next
Section titled “Where to go next”If you are deciding whether to sell here, start with pricing and fees, then the seller overview. If you bought something and are looking for it, go to Buy on Monaiq. If you are wiring the platform into a codebase, go to Integrate.