# Connect Fangate or Dropp payment links

_Billing · 4 min read · Updated 2026-10-23 · https://lanachat.ai/guides/connect-fangate-or-dropp/_

Fangate and Dropp Fans let fans pay with a payment link instead of Telegram Stars. You connect them with an API key from their own settings, and their sales are brought into LanaChat next to your Telegram sales.

Only the workspace owner can connect them.

## 1. Add the workspace keys

1. Create a key on the provider's side. In Fangate: **Settings → API → Create key**. In Dropp Fans: **Account → API keys → New key**.
2. In the Console, open **Agency settings** (Users group of the sidebar), then the **Integrations** tab.
3. On the **Fangate API** or **Dropp Fans API** card, paste the key and press **Save key**.
4. Press **Test connection** to check that the key works.

From then on only the last 4 characters of the key are shown. **Replace** changes it, **Disconnect** stops the integration.

> Warning: An API key works like a password. Never send it in a chat or an email.

## 2. Connect each creator to Fangate

Fangate works creator by creator. Open the creator in **Creators** and connect her Fangate account (the Fangate window sends you there when she isn't connected yet). The **Connection** step offers two ways:

- paste a **Fangate API key** made for this creator, or
- press **Choose an agency account** and pick her from your Fangate agency.

The key needs these permissions: **Manage content**, **View transactions** and **Manage webhooks**. Press **Connect creator**. Credentials are encrypted on the server, never saved in your browser.

## 3. Turn on payment notifications

Still in **Connection**, press **Enable payment notifications**. This sets up the webhook that tells LanaChat each time a fan pays. Once done, the line reads **Payment notifications are connected**, and the button becomes **Check webhook connection**.

**Connection recovery** has two repairs: **Replace webhook signing secret** (when a webhook exists but its secret was not saved) and **Replace API key**.

## 4. Sell media through Fangate

Open **Vault** and press **Fangate** at the top, or open one photo or video and press **Fangate checkout**. The window has three tabs.

**Media**: prepare a media for sale.

1. Fill in the **Title**, a **Public description** (at least 15 characters) and the **Price** in the account's currency.
2. Choose the **Media origin**: Not AI generated or modified, Fully AI generated, or AI modified (the creator or another person). For AI media, tick the confirmation.
3. Answer **Does another person appear in this media?** (if yes, consent is required) and choose whether to **Allow buyers to download**.
4. Press **Upload & create checkout**. The upload continues on the server, so you can close the window.

When it is ready, **Copy link** or **Open checkout**, and **Edit price** at any time. **Create employee checkout** makes a new link for the same media, with the sales attributed to one team member.

**Pending**: media waiting for Fangate's moderation, consent and price reviews, and payments not confirmed yet.

**Payments**: the wallet and every payment. **Sync last 30 days** syncs the payment history again. Only confirmed sales count as revenue; pending payments and payout holds are separate states.

## What happens next

- Each Fangate sale appears in the **Sales logs** of the Dashboard with the source **Fangate**, in its original currency. See [Sales logs](https://lanachat.ai/guides/sales-log/).
- Commission is counted on the amount the link actually settled. When that amount is not known, the Console uses the gross minus the provider's public fee (Fangate 8%, Dropp Fans 10%). See [Commission on sales](https://lanachat.ai/guides/commission-on-sales/).

## Related

- [How fans pay: Telegram Stars and payment links](https://lanachat.ai/guides/fan-payments-stars-and-links/)
- [LanaChat's share of your sales](https://lanachat.ai/guides/commission-on-sales/)
- [Vault: upload media, previews and folders](https://lanachat.ai/guides/vault/)
- [Sales log](https://lanachat.ai/guides/sales-log/)