--- title: Welcome to Insy — what it is and how it works description: Insy is a platform for selling access — paid communities, Telegram-gated groups and digital products. Here is what you can sell and how the journey works. --- Insy is a platform for **selling access**. You set up what you're selling once, and Insy handles the checkout, the money and the access — including letting paying members into a private Telegram group automatically. No code, nothing to install; everything happens in the Insy app in your browser. ## What you can sell A subscription to a community you run. Members pay — once, or on a recurring plan — and keep access while their subscription is active. Attach a private Telegram group to a community. Insy invites paying members in and removes them when they stop paying, so you never manage the member list by hand. A one-off sale — a file, a guide, a template, access to something you host. The buyer pays and receives what they bought. Communities and digital products are what you create and sell. A Telegram group isn't sold on its own — it's the gate you put in front of a paid community. ## The shape of the journey 1. **Create your account** Log in with an email link, Google, or Telegram. The first login creates your account — there's no separate sign-up form. See [Creating your account](/getting-started/account). 2. **Set up your profile** Your display name, @username, avatar and links. This is what buyers see, and it's the public page your products live on. See [Setting up your profile](/getting-started/profile). 3. **Create something to sell** Make your first community or digital product, set a price, and — for a community — connect the Telegram group you want to gate. 4. **Share your link and get paid** Buyers check out and pay by card or crypto. Insy grants access, takes its cut, and holds the rest as your balance until you withdraw it. See [Understanding fees](/getting-started/fees). > **There's no “become a creator” switch** > > There's no separate seller account, application or "creator mode" to turn on. The moment you create > your first community or digital product, you're selling — from the same account you log in with. ## How buyers pay Checkout supports two rails: **card** through Stripe's hosted checkout, and **crypto** through a hosted crypto-payment page. Which one a buyer sees depends on how their chosen plan is set up. > **Every test is a real charge** > > Insy has **one live environment** — there's no sandbox. Both rails are real payments against a real > account, so test with a small amount on something you control. ## Where to go next The login options and what happens the first time. Set up a paid community and connect a Telegram group. Digital products, prices, coupons and checkout. Get your earnings out and get discovered.