Agency Accounts #

What Are Agency Accounts? #

Agency accounts let you manage multiple client accounts from a single dashboard. Instead of logging into separate accounts for each client, you get a centralized view where you can create sub-accounts, monitor campaigns, allocate credits, and switch between clients instantly.

This is designed for marketing agencies, consultants, and resellers who manage the app on behalf of multiple businesses.

The two pages that make this work — Sub Accounts and SaaS Mode — each have their own place in the sidebar rather than being tucked inside Settings. This page is the overview; the day-to-day mechanics live on Sub-Account Management.

Shared Credit System #

One of the key differences between agency accounts and regular accounts is how credits work:

• Credits are shared between your agency account and all sub-accounts.
• When a sub-account uses credits (for AI responses, campaigns, etc.), the credits are deducted from your agency’s balance.
• Sub-accounts do not see the credit balance — they only see their usage. You, as the agency, manage the overall credit pool.

Example: You have 1,000 credits in your agency account. Client A sends a campaign to 50 contacts (50 credits). Client B’s AI bot responds to 30 conversations (30 credits). Your remaining balance is 920 credits.

Creating Sub-Accounts #

1. Click Sub Accounts in the main sidebar — it’s its own page, right above Settings.
2. Click the green Add account button (top right).
3. Fill in your customer’s details across the 3-step modal: account (name, email), business (business name, address, description), and features.

4. Click Create Account.

A confirmation screen shows the generated login password — copy it before closing. The client also receives it by email. Full walkthrough: Sub-Account Management — Creating a Sub-Account.

Showing a Prospective Client a Live Demo #

Before a client signs up, you can give them a live preview of the chat assistant running on their own website — with no install required on their end. Use the Client demo link.

Not currently available. The Client demo link section from the previous version of the app isn’t part of the chat widget’s Manage screen today, so the steps below can’t be completed yet. They’re kept here as a description of how the demo link works.

How it works: you paste the client’s website address, and the platform generates a shareable link. When the client opens that link, they see their own website with your chat widget floating on top — fully live and ready to chat. Nothing changes on their actual website, and they don’t need to touch any code. The preview lives entirely at your link.

How to get there: open Settings → Channels → Channels, click into the Chat Widget card, find the Client demo link section, type or paste the client’s website address (for example theirbusiness.com), and click Copy demo link. Then send that link to the client however you like — email, WhatsApp, a message, anywhere.

A couple of things to know:

• Some websites don’t allow themselves to be shown inside another page (a security setting on their end). When that happens, the demo link still works — it shows a clean preview frame with the website address, and the chat assistant is still fully live to try. The conversation experience is identical; only the website backdrop differs.
• The demo uses your real widget configuration, so any messages the client sends while testing come through to you like any other chat widget conversation.

Client Login Credentials #

When you create a sub-account:

• The client receives an email and password they can use to log in to their own account, at your white-labeled sign-in page.
• Giving clients login access is optional — you can manage everything on their behalf if you prefer.
• If the client logs in, they see their own dashboard with their campaigns, contacts, and chats. They do not see your agency dashboard or other sub-accounts.
• Credit balance is hidden from sub-accounts since you manage the shared credit pool.

Switching Between Sub-Accounts #

There are two ways to switch into a client’s account:

The account switcher, from anywhere:

1. At the top of the sidebar, click Switch account.

2. Search for the sub-account by name or email, or scroll the list.
3. Click it. The dashboard reloads under that sub-account’s identity.

From the Sub Accounts page:

1. In the sidebar, click Sub Accounts.
2. Find the sub-account in the list. On that row, click the More menu (three-dot icon at the far right).
3. Click Sign in as user.

Either way, while you’re inside a sub-account the switcher pill in the sidebar turns amber and shows Assisting: . Click it and choose Back to my agency to return to your own dashboard. The amber Assisting bar at the top of the page has the same exit; click its × to hide the bar for the rest of your visit if you need the space.

If the client has two-factor authentication turned on, you are not asked for their code: you already signed in as yourself, and the code would go to the client, not to you.

Credit Usage Tracking #

As an agency, you can track how credits are being consumed across all sub-accounts:

• Stat tiles on the Sub Accounts page — aggregate live/paused campaign counts and how many sub-accounts have issues.
• Per-sub-account tracking — how many credits each sub-account is using, from that row’s More menu.
• Credit usage details — a dedicated per-sub-account view showing purchased credits, consumed credits, remaining balance, usage by reason, top campaigns by spend, and a filterable transaction table.

This visibility helps you understand your costs, identify high-usage clients, and set appropriate pricing for your services.

Credit Reselling (aka SaaS Mode) #

Credit reselling lets you sell credits to your sub-accounts at your own pricing, creating a revenue stream for your agency. This whole area lives under its own sidebar page called SaaS Mode — the same feature you may know as “Credit Reselling,” under its industry-standard name. It’s available on the Agency plan and is gated behind the white-labeling feature flag. If your plan includes white labeling — which every lifetime deal tier that lists it does — reselling is already yours: you are not limited to managing the app for clients, you can sell plans under your own brand, at your own prices, through your own Stripe or PayPal. Nothing extra to buy.

How It Works #

1. Open SaaS Mode — click its entry in the main sidebar (it sits beside Sub Accounts, near the bottom of the menu), or click the SaaS Mode pill at the top of the Sub Accounts page.
2. Turn on credit reselling for a sub-account in its Edit modal (Sub Accounts page → row More menu → Edit → Credit Management) by switching the mode from Manual to Reselling. Reselling is only offered once your agency has white-labeling on its plan.
3. Set your pricing — define credit packages and per-credit pricing that your sub-accounts see when they purchase credits.
4. Minimum pricing enforcement — the platform enforces a minimum credit price to ensure sustainable pricing across the platform.
5. Sub-accounts purchase credits through your custom checkout, powered by whichever payment provider you connect — Stripe, PayPal, or both. Payments go directly to your own account with that provider.
6. Credits are delivered automatically to the sub-account after purchase. The credits land in the client’s own purchased balance, and the same number of credits is deducted from your agency pool — that deduction is your cost of the sale, while the client’s payment goes to your own payment account.

Credit economics #

When a client buys credits, those credits are added to the client’s own purchased balance, and the same number of credits is deducted from your agency pool. The client’s money goes to your Stripe account; the pool deduction is your platform cost for the sale. Your profit is the difference between the price you set and what those credits cost you — which is also why the minimum price per credit exists (you can’t price a pack below the platform’s own credit cost).

Keep your pool covered: checkout requires your agency pool to hold at least as many credits as the pack being bought. If at payment time your pool still can’t cover the purchase, the platform automatically charges your agency’s card on file to top it up — and if that auto-charge fails, the client’s payment is refunded and no credits are delivered.

Example: You sell 150 credits for $25. The 150 credits land in the client’s purchased balance, the $25 goes to your Stripe account, and 150 credits are deducted from your agency pool. If those pool credits cost you $15, your margin on the sale is $10.

Purchased credits cover everything the client spends — AI replies, tools, follow-ups, and the non-AI WhatsApp costs too (number rent and, from 1 October 2026, the per-message carrier fees). All of it draws from the client’s purchased balance first; your agency pool only covers whatever that balance can’t. There is no separate per-client markup on the WhatsApp costs (the Client rate field only re-prices Max and Mini AI actions), so if you resell on WhatsApp, price them into your plans. SMS is not one of them: SMS always runs on a Twilio account you connect yourself, so Twilio bills you for it directly and no credits are involved.

What happens when a client’s balance reaches zero #

A reselling client’s spend stays isolated to the credits they bought as long as their monthly allowance is zero. With no allowance, the moment their purchased balance reaches zero the AI bot stops responding for that sub-account — it does not fall back to your agency pool — and the client buys another plan or credit pack through your checkout to resume. That is the hard cut-off that keeps one client’s usage from draining your agency balance.

If the sub-account still has a Monthly allowance set (see Credit management modes), that allowance keeps landing every month and is spent from your pool exactly as in manual mode, so the client carries on after their purchased credits run out. Set the allowance to zero on the sub-account’s Edit modal if you want the pure pay-to-play behaviour. (SMS is billed to you by Twilio directly either way, so there is no credit charge involved.)

The Self-Serve Sign-Up Flow #

The goal of credit reselling is that you do not manage sign-ups by hand. The flow looks like this:

1. You publish a payment link (in an email, on your website, in an ad).
2. A new client clicks it, pays, and a sub-account is created automatically. (If the plan has a free trial, they start it without paying anything — the charge happens automatically when the trial runs out.)
3. The client gets a login email with a temporary password.
4. They sign in, get onboarded, and take it from there.

You only step in if they need help — billing top-ups, payment retries, etc. all run on autopilot.

There are three ways to wire this up: Stripe (recommended, fully built-in), PayPal (also fully built-in, and the usual answer when Stripe isn’t available where you are), or a Custom Payment Provider (any other system you already use — requires a bit of integration work).

Setting Up Credit Reselling #

1. Click SaaS Mode in the main sidebar.
2. If this is your first time here, you land in the setup wizard. Pick one of the three paths:
   • I Have an Account / Connect Stripe — recommended. See Option 1: Connect Stripe below.
   • Use a Custom Payment Provider Instead — for any other payment provider you want to drive yourself. See Option 2: Custom Payment Provider below.
   • Connect PayPal instead — built-in like Stripe, with the money landing in your PayPal Business account. See Option 3: Connect PayPal below.

Stripe is the path of least resistance. If Stripe isn’t available in your country, or your clients simply prefer PayPal, connect PayPal — it is just as built-in and needs no integration work. Keep the custom payment provider route for a billing system you already have and want to keep (Mollie, Paddle, GoCardless, your own backend, etc.).

You can connect Stripe and PayPal at the same time. Your clients then get a button for each and pick whichever they prefer.

Option 1: Connect Stripe #

This is the recommended path. The platform handles the checkout, account creation, and credit delivery for you — you just hand Stripe the keys.

Step 1 — Create a restricted Stripe API key #

1. In the SaaS Mode wizard, you’ll be prompted for your Stripe Secret Key.
2. Open your Stripe dashboard in a new tab → Developers → API keys → Create restricted key.
3. Give the key a name (e.g. DM Champ Reselling) and grant these permissions:
   • Checkout Sessions → Write
   • Products → Write
   • Prices → Write
   • Subscriptions → Write (tags each client’s subscription so renewals — and free trials converting to paid — credit the right account, and lets the platform check a tier for active subscribers before you delete it)
   • Customers → Write, Setup Intents → Read and Customer portal → Write (used when a client saves a card for auto-recharge or manages their subscription)
   • Account → Read
   • Webhook Endpoints → Write (lets the platform check that your webhook is registered with the right events and fix it for you if it isn’t — see Webhook health check below)
4. Click Create key, then copy the key.

Already connected with fewer permissions? You don’t need a new key. In Stripe open Developers → API keys, click your existing restricted key, tick the missing permissions and save — the platform picks them up on the next request. The tell-tale symptom of a key missing Subscriptions is the error “Could not verify if this tier has active subscribers” when you try to delete a pricing tier.

5. Paste it into the wizard and click Save & Continue.

Step 2 — Register the Stripe webhook #

1. The wizard shows you a webhook URL. Copy it.
2. In Stripe → Developers → Webhooks → Add endpoint.
3. Paste the webhook URL as the destination.
4. For the events, select checkout.session.completed (initial purchases), invoice.paid (renewals, and the first charge after a free trial ends — without it, a client’s renewal is charged in Stripe but their credits are not topped up), customer.subscription.updated (plan switches made in the Stripe customer portal — without it, a client who upgrades keeps their old allowance until you fix it by hand) and customer.subscription.deleted (cancellations — without it, a client who cancels in Stripe keeps showing as subscribed here).
5. Stripe shows a signing secret for the new webhook. Copy it and paste it into the wizard, then click Save & Continue.

Webhook health check #

As soon as you save the signing secret, and once a day after that, the platform uses your Stripe key to check that your webhook endpoint is enabled and subscribed to all four events. If events are missing and your key has the Webhook Endpoints → Write permission, they are added for you automatically. If the platform can’t fix it (no endpoint found, endpoint disabled, the key lacks the permission, or Stripe rejects the key because it expired or was revoked), the SaaS Mode dashboard shows a “Webhook needs attention” warning telling you exactly what to do. Fix it promptly: while the warning is up, your clients’ renewals are still charged in Stripe but their credits are not topped up.

Step 3 — Set up pricing tiers #

1. Define the credit packages your clients can buy (up to 20 tiers — e.g. Starter — 1,000 credits / $29, Pro — 5,000 credits / $99), and optionally the features each tier unlocks.
   • Need the same plan on two billing cadences — say monthly and yearly? Set it up once, then click the Duplicate icon (next to the trash icon on the tier) instead of building it again. The copy carries every setting of the original — credits, price, features, limits, trial — with (copy) added to its label, and is not published yet: switch its Billing to Yearly, adjust the price and label, then save, and it gets its own Stripe product and price. The copy is always added at the end of your Plans list on purpose: your payment links and embed code point at plans by their position in the list (see Step 4 — Share your payment links), so nothing you have already put on your website moves.
2. Choose how the plan bills with the Billing selector: Monthly, Yearly or Every N weeks. On Monthly nothing changes — the price you enter is charged every month. On Yearly, the price you enter is the price for a whole year, while the Credits per month field still means exactly that — the credits the client gets per month. So 1,000 credits / $290 / Yearly is a client paying you $290 once a year and receiving 1,000 credits every month. Their allowance is granted month by month — the first month when they buy, then automatically each month after, with the count resetting at every yearly renewal — rather than twelve months of credits dropped in on day one. That matters for your pool: a yearly sale doesn’t take a year’s worth of credits out of it at once. If the client cancels, the monthly grants stop. Every N weeks is for any other cadence: pick it and enter the Weeks between payments (1 to 52) — every 4 weeks, say, which is 13 payments a year instead of 12. On a weekly-style plan the price and the credits both apply per billing period: a 1,000 credits / $29 / every 4 weeks plan charges $29 every four weeks and grants 1,000 credits every four weeks. Changing a saved plan’s billing cadence creates a new price in your Stripe, so existing subscribers stay on what they signed up for.
3. Give the plan a free trial if you want one. Free trial (days) takes anything from 1 to 90 — leave it at 0 for no trial — and Trial credits sets how many credits the client starts with (it defaults to the plan’s monthly credits, and you can lower it — to a minimum of 1, because a trial account with no credits at all couldn’t finish its own setup). With a trial set, a new client is not charged at signup: they get the trial credits on day one and can use the plan straight away. When the trial period ends, Stripe charges the plan price automatically and the client moves onto the full monthly allowance from then on. A few things to keep in mind:
   • Trial credits come out of your agency pool, exactly like any other plan credits. A generous trial on a plan you promote widely is a real cost, so set the number deliberately rather than leaving it at the full monthly allowance.
   • A trial is for new signups. A signup through your payment link or embedded checkout gets the trial exactly as configured on the plan. A sub-account that already exists — created by you, previously subscribed, or already trialled — buying from its own Billing page is charged straight away, no second trial. A client who cancels during the trial is never charged and keeps whatever trial credits are left.
   • Card or no card — your call. By default the trial still asks the client for a card at signup, and Stripe charges it when the trial ends. Switch off Require card to start trial and the checkout skips the card entirely: the client starts with just an email. If they haven’t added a card by the time the trial runs out, the plan simply ends — their sub-account is marked cancelled, no more credits are granted, and they keep what’s left of the trial credits. A no-card trial converts less automatically than a card-on-file one, so it pays to remind the client to add their card before the end.
   • Hard expiry after trial — take the unused credits back. Next to the card switch sits Hard expiry after trial: when the trial ends without an upgrade, unused trial credits come back to your pool and the client’s account is locked until they subscribe. Leave it off (the default) and nothing changes from the paragraph above — the plan is cancelled, no further credits are granted, and the client keeps whatever trial credits are left, so their AI carries on answering until those run out. Switch it on and, the moment a trial ends without an upgrade, the unused trial credits go back into your agency pool and the client’s account is locked: sending and AI replies stop and they see “Your free trial has ended. Contact your provider to continue.” Only what they didn’t spend comes back — a trial they actually used costs you what they used. The lock lifts by itself as soon as they buy any plan, and you can lift or change it yourself from the sub-account’s Edit modal, using the same block controls as for a client who falls behind on payments. (A block you had already placed by hand is never touched by any of this — your reason for it outranks ours.) Hard expiry works on card-required and no-card trials alike; on a no-card trial the checkout tells the buyer up front that their plan and any remaining trial credits end automatically after the trial unless they add a payment method.
4. The Channels group carries the plan’s Channel limit — a number, not a toggle, working exactly like team seats and the AI Agent limit. Pick Not set (the default — the plan doesn’t manage the number, so whatever the account already has stays as it is), Unlimited, or Custom with the exact number of messaging channels clients on this plan can have connected at once — including 0, for plans where you connect and manage the channels yourself. The limit is applied when a client subscribes and refreshed on every renewal, and a limit you’ve set by hand on one specific sub-account (in its Edit modal) is never overwritten by a renewal. It controls how many channels, not which ones — that’s the next group. The count is per connection, not per channel type: every WhatsApp number takes one slot of its own (WhatsApp Web and the Business API alike), while Instagram and Messenger arrive through the same Meta page connection and together occupy a single slot. A client at their limit sees a clear message when they try to connect another channel; reconnecting one they already have is never blocked.
5. Inside each tier’s feature list you’ll also find a Channel Types group listing the channel types a client can be given — Chat Widget, WhatsApp Business API, WhatsApp Web, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Email, SMS, and iMessage. Channel types are switched on by default unless you turn some off, so you can reserve specific channels for higher tiers — say, a widget-only starter plan and WhatsApp Business API from your Pro tier up. Clients on a tier that excludes a channel see it locked on their Channels page with a note to upgrade.
6. The feature list also carries a Team group, so each plan can define its own team-seat allowance. One picker, Team seats, decides both whether clients on the plan get team members at all and how many: pick Not included (the default — clients on this plan can’t invite teammates), one of the presets (3 / 5 / 10 / Unlimited), or Custom with any exact number — Starter with 3 seats, Professional with 10, Enterprise unlimited, or whatever fits your pricing. The allowance is applied automatically when a client subscribes and refreshed on every renewal, so there’s nothing to set by hand per client. Two things to know: Not set means team members are included but the plan doesn’t manage the number — whatever seat limit the account already has is left alone — and a seat limit you’ve set manually on one specific sub-account (in its Edit modal or via the API) is never overwritten by a renewal, so one-off exceptions survive billing cycles. There’s also a Productivity group (Tasks, Daily Summaries, AI Media Library) if you want to reserve those for higher plans.
7. The Contacts & AI Agents group carries the plan’s AI Agent limit — a number, not a toggle, working exactly like team seats. Pick Not set (the default — the plan doesn’t manage the number, so whatever the account already has stays as it is), Unlimited, or Custom with the exact number of AI agents clients on this plan can have — including 0, for plans where you build and manage the agents yourself and clients shouldn’t create their own. The limit is applied when a client subscribes and refreshed on every renewal, and a limit you’ve set by hand on one specific sub-account (in its Edit modal) is never overwritten by a renewal. A client at their limit sees a clear message when they try to create or duplicate an agent; copying an agent into a sub-account from your agency side is never blocked by it.
8. The Unused credits group decides what happens to a client’s leftover credits when the plan renews. Keep at most is how many months of allowance a client on this plan may carry: at each renewal their unused balance is trimmed to at most that many times the monthly allowance, and then the new credits land on top — 1 keeps one month’s worth, 0.5 half a month, 0 carries nothing over. Expire unused credits after is a number of days: credits that have sat unused that long are dropped at the first renewal after they reach that age, and because spending always comes off the oldest credits first, a client who uses their allowance every month never loses any. Leave both empty — the default, and what every plan you already sell keeps — and nothing is capped or expired. They are worth setting on a cheap or trial-priced plan, where a client who barely uses the product otherwise builds up a balance your pool is on the hook for. A value set on one specific sub-account beats the plan’s, so you can still make an exception for a single client. See Capping what rolls over.
9. Set the per-credit price — this is what clients pay for ad-hoc top-ups.
10. Click Save & Continue.

Contacts are a yes/no feature, not a number. The same Contacts & AI Agents group carries Unlimited Contacts as a simple on/off item, and there is deliberately no field to type a contact number into. Switching it off does not give you a contact cap to set — so unless you have a specific reason, leave it on. The three limits you can express as an actual number are Channel limit, AI Agent limit and Team seats, each with Not set / Unlimited / Custom.

There is no per-plan cap on campaigns or broadcasts. Agents are the thing to limit if you want to keep a starter tier small — use the AI Agent limit above.

Tiers are subscriptions, not one-time purchases. Each pricing tier is a recurring subscription — charged every month, once a year, or every N weeks depending on its Billing selector — and it runs until the client cancels. Monthly and yearly plans grant the credit allowance every month; a weekly-style plan grants it every billing period. For one-off top-ups, use the per-credit custom-amount option instead. Because tiers are live subscriptions, a tier that still has active subscribers cannot be deleted — cancel or migrate those clients first.

⚠️ The tier’s feature list wins at every renewal. When a client subscribes to a tier, and again each time it renews, their features are reset to exactly what that tier includes. So if you switch an extra feature on for one client from Edit Sub Account, add it to their tier as well — otherwise it drops off at their next renewal. (Custom one-off credit purchases don’t touch features.)

Selling a plan on a specific white label domain #

If you run more than one white label domain, each tier gets a Sold on picker (it only appears once you have two or more domains). Leave it on Main domain and nothing changes. Pick one of your other domains — say, your Lead Finder domain — and:

• That tier’s checkout carries the domain’s branding, and after paying the buyer lands on that domain, not your main one.
• The buyer’s sub-account is assigned to that domain automatically, so their emails and login branding follow it from day one (the same assignment you can set by hand on the sub-account’s White label picker).
• Clients signed in on that domain see a Plans card on their Credits page listing only the plans sold there, with an upgrade button — so a client on your Lead Finder domain can subscribe without ever seeing your main brand.

Plans sold on your main domain never show up on your other domains, and the other way around.

If you later make another domain your main one, every plan that was on Main domain is pinned to the domain it was actually selling on, so nothing changes for the clients buying there.

You’ll land on a You’re All Set! screen with a checklist (Stripe account connected, pricing tiers configured, webhook registered) and a tip to test with Stripe’s test card 4242 4242 4242 4242. From there, View Dashboard takes you to the SaaS Mode dashboard.

Clients switching plans #

If you let clients manage their own subscription from the Stripe customer portal, they can move between your plans themselves. Here is what that does to their credits.

• Upgrading mid-cycle tops them up straight away. A client on Starter (100 credits a month) who moves to Professional (1,000 a month) on day 10 receives the difference — 900 credits — right away, and the full 1,000 from their next renewal onwards. Stripe charges the price difference for the rest of the period; the credits come out of your pool, as always.
• Downgrading never takes credits back. Whatever the client has already been given stays with them, and nothing returns to your pool. The smaller allowance applies from their next renewal.
• Switching up and down repeatedly can’t earn the allowance twice. The platform remembers the highest allowance the client’s current period has already been funded with, so Starter → Professional → Starter → Professional inside one month hands over the 900-credit difference once, not twice.
• Plan features, seats and limits follow the new plan immediately, in both directions.

Two things to get right in your Stripe customer portal settings:

• Keep “customers can change quantity” switched off. Quantity multiplies what the client is charged but never the credits they receive — a client who sets quantity to 3 pays three times the price and still gets one plan’s allowance.
• Scheduling downgrades for the end of the billing period is the sensible default on the money side. A downgrade that takes effect immediately puts the client on a smaller plan for a period they already paid the higher price for, and none of the credits already granted come back to you.

Step 4 — Share your payment links #

The dashboard’s Payments tab lists your payment links. The links use the domain you’re logged in on: open the dashboard from app.dmchamp.com and they start with app.dmchamp.com; log in from your own white-label domain and they carry your domain instead — a note under the links reminds you of this. (You can also just swap the domain part of a copied URL by hand.) The checkout page itself is always white-labeled with your logo and brand.

There’s also Copy Embed Code on the same tab if you want to drop the pricing cards directly onto your own website.

Running Meta ads? The embed code also forwards Meta’s ad click ID (fbclid) from your page onto the checkout buttons, and a plain payment link accepts it too (...&fbclid=...). Together with a Meta Pixel ID on your white-label domain, that lets Meta attribute the signup to the ad. See Tracking Meta ads conversions.

If you have PayPal connected as well, each plan carries a PayPal link next to its Stripe one, and the embed code puts one button per connected payment method on each pricing card.

Each payment link points at a plan by its position in your Plans list (the first plan is tier=0, the second tier=1, and so on). If you delete a plan, the plans after it move up one position — so re-copy your links and embed code from the Payments tab after deleting a plan, otherwise a button on your website can end up pointing at the wrong plan or at one that no longer exists. Plans are shown to your clients in the order they appear in your Plans list.

What buyers can enter at checkout. Besides the card, Stripe’s checkout page asks for the buyer’s email, phone number and billing address, and offers an optional Business Name field plus an “I’m purchasing as a business” checkbox where they can add their VAT / tax ID. The business name and tax ID are stored on the customer in your Stripe account, so you can pick them up for your own invoicing.

The phone number is asked for by default, and you can switch it off. On the Payments tab, under Checkout Fields, turn off Ask for a phone number at checkout and buyers only enter their email, card and billing address. It applies to your payment links and your embedded checkout straight away — no need to re-copy anything — and accounts that sign up with it off simply have no phone number on file, which changes nothing else about how they work.

⚠️ Do not delete the products that the platform creates inside your Stripe account. When you set up pricing tiers, the platform automatically creates matching Stripe products and prices. Deleting them in Stripe will break your payment links. Manage your pricing from the SaaS Mode dashboard, not from inside Stripe.

Option 2: Custom Payment Provider #

Pick this path if Stripe is not an option. The platform gives you a single webhook URL field — you’re responsible for the rest of the plumbing. There are two things you need to wire up yourself:

1. Initial sign-up — when a new customer pays your payment link, you call the platform’s API to create the sub-account.
2. Auto top-ups — when a sub-account’s credits run low, the platform calls your webhook so you can charge the card and grant more credits.

What you build yourself #

• Products / payment links in your own payment provider (Stripe outside Stripe Connect, Mollie, Paddle, GoCardless, manual invoicing, etc.).
• A workflow that runs on successful payment, which calls the platform’s API to:
  • Create the sub-account (POST /v1/sub-accounts).
  • Optionally email the client their temporary password.
• A workflow that handles auto-recharge webhooks from the platform: charge the saved card on file, then call the platform’s API to add credits.

You don’t have to code this from scratch — Zapier, Make, n8n, or any low-code tool can call the platform’s REST API and your payment provider’s API in sequence.

Step 1 — Find the API reference #

The full API documentation lives at help.dmchamp.com → API Reference → Sub Accounts.

Open help.dmchamp.com directly, not your white-label docs URL. The API reference is filtered out of white-label documentation so your clients don’t see it.

The Sub Accounts section shows the create-sub-account endpoint, the response shape (including the temporary password you can use in your welcome email), and the available feature flags you can pass when creating an account.

Step 2 — Configure the auto-recharge webhook #

1. In the SaaS Mode wizard, choose Use a Custom Payment Provider Instead.
2. Enter your webhook URL — the endpoint on your server (or Zapier / Make / n8n) that will handle low-balance events.
3. Click Send Test Event to verify the endpoint is reachable. The result panel shows the HTTP status your server returned, the round-trip latency, the response body, and the exact JSON payload sent — so you can build and debug your handler end-to-end without waiting for a real client to run low. Test events have test: true in the payload so your server can short-circuit before charging anyone.
4. Click Save Webhook URL.

Once configured, whenever a sub-account’s credit balance drops below their auto-recharge threshold:

• The platform sends a notification to your webhook URL with the sub-account’s details and how many credits they need.
• Your server processes the payment however you like (charge the client’s card, create an invoice, deduct from a prepaid balance, etc.).
• After payment is confirmed, your server calls the API to grant the credits to the sub-account.

For the technical details on the webhook payload and API call, see Sub-Account Auto-Recharge (Custom Payment Provider).

Option 3: Connect PayPal #

Pick this path if Stripe isn’t available in your country, or if your clients would rather pay with PayPal. It is built-in exactly like Stripe — the platform runs the checkout, creates the sub-account and delivers the credits — and the money goes straight into your own PayPal Business account. You need a PayPal Business account with a REST app created in it; there is nothing to build.

Connecting PayPal doesn’t replace Stripe. If you have both, your clients get both buttons, on their Billing page and on your pricing cards.

Step 1 — Connect your PayPal app #

1. In the SaaS Mode wizard, choose Connect PayPal instead.
2. In a new tab, open your PayPal developer dashboard and create a REST app on your Business account.
3. Copy the app’s Client ID and Secret and paste them into the wizard.
4. Pick the environment: Live for real payments, or Sandbox if you want to test the whole flow first with PayPal’s test buyers. The Client ID and Secret must come from the same environment you pick, and Sandbox payments are not real money — switch the connection to Live before you share your links.
5. Click Save & Continue. The platform checks the credentials with PayPal right away; if PayPal rejects them, nothing is saved and you can paste them again.

Step 2 — Register the PayPal webhook #

The webhook is how your PayPal account tells the platform that a payment went through, a subscription renewed, or a payment was refunded. Without it, your clients pay but their credits are not delivered.

1. The wizard shows you a webhook URL. Copy it.
2. In the same PayPal REST app, add a webhook with that URL and subscribe it to these events:
   • CHECKOUT.ORDER.APPROVED
   • PAYMENT.CAPTURE.COMPLETED, PAYMENT.CAPTURE.DENIED, PAYMENT.CAPTURE.REFUNDED, PAYMENT.CAPTURE.REVERSED
   • PAYMENT.SALE.COMPLETED, PAYMENT.SALE.REFUNDED
   • BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.ACTIVATED, BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.CANCELLED, BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.SUSPENDED, BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.EXPIRED, BILLING.SUBSCRIPTION.PAYMENT.FAILED
   • VAULT.PAYMENT-TOKEN.DELETED
3. PayPal gives the new webhook an ID. Copy it, paste it into the wizard and click Save.

Your plans are the same plans either way — set them up once as in Step 3 — Set up pricing tiers and they are sold through whichever payment methods you have connected.

What your clients see #

• Top-ups — a Pay with PayPal button on their Billing page, next to the card option, at the same per-credit price you set.
• Plans — every tier gets a PayPal checkout link alongside its Stripe one on the Payments tab, and Copy Embed Code emits one button per connected payment method, so a pricing card on your website can offer card and PayPal side by side.
• Automatic top-ups — see below.

Automatic top-ups on PayPal #

One setting, Automatic top-ups charge, decides which of your connected methods handles automatic top-ups: Stripe, PayPal or your own webhook. Only one of them can do it at a time, even when you have Stripe and PayPal both connected — everything else (manual top-ups, plan checkout) keeps offering both.

Set it to PayPal and each client connects their own PayPal account once, from the Auto recharge card on their Billing page. From then on, whenever their balance falls below their threshold, the platform charges that saved PayPal account for the top-up at your per-credit price and delivers the credits automatically, exactly as the Stripe card flow does. A client who hasn’t connected PayPal yet is simply not charged — their balance runs down until they connect one or buy credits by hand — and if PayPal declines a charge, no credits are delivered and the platform tries again the next time the balance dips below the threshold. Clients can remove their PayPal account from the same card whenever they want.

If you later disconnect PayPal in SaaS Mode and it was the one handling automatic top-ups, they fall back to Stripe if you have it connected, or to your own webhook if you configured one.

Good to know about PayPal #

• A plan always asks the client for a PayPal account, even on a free trial. Trials still work — nothing is charged until the trial ends — but PayPal requires the buyer to approve with an account up front, so the plan’s Require card to start trial switch makes no difference on a PayPal checkout. If you rely on no-account trials, sell that plan through Stripe.
• Prices are charged exactly as you set them. PayPal adds no separate tax line at checkout, so put whatever tax you owe into the price of your plans and your per-credit price.
• Switching plan means cancelling and re-subscribing. A client on a PayPal subscription can’t move to another tier in place: they cancel the current one and buy the new plan through its own link. (Clients paying by card can still switch in the Stripe customer portal — see Clients switching plans.)
• A refund doesn’t take the credits back. If you refund a PayPal payment from your PayPal account, the refund is recorded here, but credits already delivered stay on the client’s balance — the same as with Stripe.

Pricing Configuration #

• Pricing tiers — define credit packages your clients can purchase (up to 10, e.g., “Starter Pack: 100 credits for $15”), configured on SaaS Mode’s Plans tab. Each plan bills monthly, yearly or every N weeks (a yearly price still grants its credits month by month; a weekly-style plan grants them every billing period) and can carry a free trial of 1–90 days with its own trial credit amount, with or without asking for a card up front, and with or without hard expiry (unused trial credits back to your pool, account locked, if the trial ends without an upgrade). See Step 3 — Set up pricing tiers. Each plan gets its own payment link on the Payments tab — a Stripe one, a PayPal one, or both, depending on what you have connected. Each plan can also cap what a client carries between renewals: the Unused credits group sets Keep at most (months of allowance kept) and Expire unused credits after (days), applied to every client on the plan — see Capping what rolls over. You can also manage all of this from code — see Manage your pricing tiers over the API.
• Per-credit pricing — set a custom price per credit for flexible top-ups. Custom (ad-hoc) credit purchases must be between 10 and 10,000 credits per transaction. Tier subscriptions cover fixed amounts; the custom amount handles anything in between. An optional note (up to 200 characters) is shown to clients directly under the price on their Billing page — useful when you price in one currency but charge in another, e.g. “USD 0.25 per credit at our reference rate”. The price and the note can also be read and changed from code — see Set your per-credit price over the API.
• Minimum credit pricing — the platform enforces a minimum price per credit to maintain platform sustainability. You can set your price at or above this minimum.

Sub-Account Credit Dashboard #

Each sub-account’s Credit usage details (from its row’s More menu on the Sub Accounts page) shows:

• Credits purchased and total spend
• Credits consumed and remaining balance
• Usage trends over time, broken down by reason and by top campaigns

What the dashboard shows. When a sub-account uses your agency’s API key, the dashboard shows their credit usage but hides the underlying dollar cost. Usage totals count only credits actually consumed — promotional bonuses, monthly renewals, and plan adjustments are excluded so the “credits used” figure reflects real activity.

Campaign Copying to Sub-Accounts #

You can copy a proven campaign from your agency account (or any sub-account) into one or more sub-accounts at once — the bot setup, opening message, FAQs and knowledge base, custom functions, and media all come across, so you don’t have to rebuild it by hand. The copy arrives as a Draft, and a few account-specific things (WhatsApp templates, channels and phone number, contact list) are re-done on each sub-account.

Start from the Sub Accounts page — open a row’s More menu and choose Copy campaign here. To copy an AI Agent instead, use Copy agent here in the same menu, or the Copy this agent into a sub-account icon on the agent’s row on the AI Agents page. To hand a client a whole set-up in one go rather than a single Agent, use a Snapshot — see Snapshots.

For the full step-by-step, what gets copied, and what to redo, see Copy a Campaign to a Sub-Account.

Sign-In Mode (acting as a sub-account) #

You can enter a sub-account’s dashboard directly from your agency account, as if you were the client. This is the same feature some platforms call “assist” or “impersonate” — here the action is labelled Sign in as user.

1. In the sidebar, click Sub Accounts.
2. Find the sub-account in the list. On that row, click the More menu (three-dot icon at the far right).
3. Click Sign in as user.
4. The dashboard reloads as that sub-account — full access to their campaigns, contacts, chats, and settings.
5. When finished, click the amber Assisting: pill at the top of the sidebar and choose Back to my agency.

This is especially useful for providing hands-on support to clients without asking them to share their login credentials.

Managing Sub-Account Features #

Depending on your agency tier, you can control which features each sub-account has access to. Feature allocation is managed per sub-account and through your pricing tiers.

From a sub-account’s Edit modal you can fine-tune it individually: toggle which features it has, hide specific pages from its side menu and settings, choose who receives its alert emails (see Notification Routing), set a monthly cap on its own-API-key spend, and turn its Max AI tier on or off.

The feature editor includes a Channel Types group that decides which messaging channels the client can connect — Chat Widget, WhatsApp Business API, WhatsApp Web, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, LINE, Viber, Email, SMS, and iMessage. Channel types are switched on by default unless you turn some off; a channel you’ve switched off shows as locked on the client’s Channels page, with a note that it isn’t included on their current plan.

If the client is on a paid tier, put the feature in the tier too. Toggles you set here are replaced by the tier’s own feature list every time that client’s subscription renews. Use the Edit modal for one-off adjustments, and the pricing tier for anything the client should keep.

Max AI tier and your own API key. If your agency runs on its own API key, enabling Max for a client changes that client’s AI usage from “free via your key” to 0.25 credits per action billed to your agency pool. The same goes for the Mini tier, which comes with Max — it runs on our infrastructure too, at 0.15 credits per action, never on your key.

Need Help? #

If you have questions about agency accounts or sub-account management, reach out via our email support.