Billing
You pay ImageStoria for the library, and DigitalOcean for the storage. They are two separate bills. This page is about ours.
What you pay for
The price is the one on the pricing page. It covers your library at its own address, everyone you invite, and the upkeep of the service.
It does not cover storage. Your pictures are kept in your own Space, which you pay DigitalOcean for. See Connect your Space for what that costs. If you use a cloud AI key, the provider bills you for that as well.
The free trial
A new account starts with the free trial. Its length is shown on the pricing page and on your account page. You do not give a card to start it.
During the trial the library is whole. Nothing is held back. When the trial ends, choose a plan on your account page to keep the library open.
Two ways to pay
| By card | In USDC | |
|---|---|---|
| Which plans | Monthly or yearly | Yearly only |
| How | Through Stripe, on Stripe's own page | A transfer from your own wallet, on Ethereum, Base or Solana |
| Renews by itself | Yes, until you stop it | No, never. You pay for one year at a time |
| Before the period ends | The card is charged again | We email you reminders |
| What we see | That you paid. Never the card number | Your wallet address and the transaction, which are public on the chain |
By card
You type your card into Stripe's page, not ours. We never see or store the card number. The plan renews at the end of each period until you stop it.
To change the card, see invoices or cancel, open your account page. It takes you to Stripe's own page for those things.
In USDC
USDC pays for the yearly plan, at the yearly price. The monthly plan is paid by card.
USDC is a digital dollar. You choose a chain, connect your wallet, and approve one transfer of the exact amount shown. The amount has a few extra digits at the end. They let us tell your payment from everyone else's, so send exactly that amount.
The transfer goes straight from your wallet to ours. We never hold your keys, and nothing can be taken from your wallet later. When the chain has confirmed the transfer, the twelve months are added to your library. That takes from a few seconds to a few minutes.
A transfer on a public chain is public and permanent. Anyone can see that your wallet paid ours, and how much. Your wallet will also charge a small network fee, which does not come to us.
When a period ends
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Reminders
If you paid for a year in USDC, or have stopped a card plan, we email you before the period ends.
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Some days of grace
After the last paid day the library stays open for a few more days. If a card payment fails, we tell you by email and it is tried again during this time.
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The library is paused
Nobody can open it: not you, not the people you invited, not anyone with a story link. Nothing is deleted. Every file is still in your bucket, and you can reach them there with your DigitalOcean account.
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Paying opens it again
Sign in at imagestoria.com, pay on your account page, and the library opens as it was.
Stopping
A card plan. Cancel on your account page. The library stays open to the end of the period you have paid for, and the card is not charged again.
A year paid in USDC. There is nothing to cancel. Do not pay for another year.
Deleting your account
Deleting the account, on your account page, ends the subscription and deletes your library's records: titles, tags, comments, stories, people and settings. This cannot be undone.
Your bucket is not touched. Every file stays where it is, in your DigitalOcean account, until you delete it yourself. Read Leaving first.
Refunds
If something went wrong with a payment, or you paid by mistake, write to us and say what happened. Contact
Receipts
Your account page lists every payment. A card payment also has an invoice from Stripe. A USDC payment has a link to the transaction on the chain.