What is Country-Based Paywall?
This feature allows users from specific countries to access paywalled content for free. It’s useful for serving public-interest goals while keeping other content behind a paywall.
How to set it up:
1. Accesstype Configuration
- Go to the Accesstype dashboard.
- Navigate to Configure > Country groups.
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Create a country group and save it.
2. Bold Configuration
- In your Bold instance, go to /settings/configure/features and enable Subscription Groups.
- Add Accesstype under Integrations using your AT account key.
- Open a story in the Story Editor.
- Go to Manage Inspector.
- You’ll see a Country Group option below Access Level, with your Accesstype country groups available in the dropdown.

Now you can control free access to stories based on the reader’s country.