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PVOD platform for premium rentals in your own apps

A PVOD platform on Flicknexs sells premium titles per view with per-quality prices, rental windows, view counts and a scheduled release time.

Flicknexs sells premium video on demand per title with prices by quality, rental windows and view counts, released at a scheduled time inside your own website and apps and paid through your own gateways.

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A PVOD platform sells a premium title as a single rental, at a higher price and earlier than its subscription or broadcast release. Flicknexs handles this with per-title pay-per-view pricing by video quality, rental windows with a start, an expiry, an unseen-expiry and a view count, a scheduled publish time, and one purchase flow in your website and device apps.

Flicknexs provides pvod platform as part of its white-label OTT platform. Flicknexs sells premium video on demand per title with prices by quality, rental windows and view counts, released at a scheduled time inside your own website and apps and paid through your own gateways.

Strategic Value

Why a PVOD platform is a windows problem, not a player problem

01

Premium video on demand exists because a new film or event is worth more in its first weeks than it will ever be again. The distributor wants to charge a premium price for that period, control exactly when the title becomes available, decide how long a buyer may keep it, and then move the title into a cheaper tier without re-uploading. Every one of those decisions is a window: a release window, a rental window, a viewing window, a price window. A platform that only knows how to sell a subscription cannot express them, and a platform that only knows a single rental price cannot express the premium.

02

Flicknexs expresses them per title. Every video carries its own access rule, and the pay-per-view rule includes a price per video quality, a rental window with a start and an expiry, a separate unseen-expiry for buyers who have not yet pressed play, and a view count. The title also carries a scheduled publish time, so the release happens at the minute you announced without anyone staying up to press a button. After the premium period you edit the same title to lower the price or move it into a plan. The purchase itself goes through the gateways you connect, with no commission taken.

03

Rental windows are timestamps, and the international standard for writing a timestamp without ambiguity is ISO 8601, the date and time format that puts year, month, day, hour, minute and offset in a fixed order. It matters more than it sounds for a PVOD platform, because a release announced for a Friday evening means a different moment in every market you sell into. Reading the ISO 8601 overview before you set your first release time will save you the support tickets that come from a buyer who thought the window opened an hour earlier than it did.

Industry standard reference: ISO 8601 date and time format (audited and verified 2026-09-03).
Capabilities & Specifications

What the per-title pay-per-view rule gives a PVOD operator

Eight settings and behaviors in the Flicknexs admin and apps that make a premium rental work. All are in the platform code today.

01

Per-title pay-per-view

Each video, episode or live event can be sold on its own with a price, independent of plans.

A premium title is not tied to a subscription.
02

Price by quality

Set a different pay-per-view price per video quality, for example a higher price for 1080p.

Premium tiers without a second upload.
03

Rental start and expiry

A rental window with a start and an expiry defines how long a buyer keeps access after purchase.

A rental is a period, not a permanent grant.
04

Unseen-expiry

A separate deadline applies if the buyer has not started watching, independent of the rental expiry.

Buyers cannot hoard a purchase indefinitely.
05

View count

Limit how many times a purchase can be played within the window.

A rental is not an open license.
06

Scheduled publish time

Set the exact date and time the title becomes visible and purchasable, with the page prepared in advance.

Releases land at the announced minute.
07

Free preview minutes

Give visitors a set number of free minutes before the purchase prompt appears.

A trailer inside the film itself.
08

Revenue reports by month

Pay-per-view revenue is reported by month alongside subscription revenue in analytics.

Settlement with rights holders from one report.

Source: Flicknexs platform documentation and architecture specification, 2026-09-03.

How a PVOD platform works on Flicknexs, window by window

A premium rental is a set of rules on one title. Here is what each rule does in the admin and what the buyer experiences in the player.

01

The pay-per-view rule lives on the title

Open any video in the admin and its access section offers free, subscription plans, or pay-per-view. Choosing pay-per-view exposes the price fields, the rental window fields and the view count. One premium release can sit beside a subscription catalog and a free channel, each with its own rule. When you later want to move the title into a plan, you change the access rule on that title and the file, the artwork and the analytics history stay put.

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02

Prices by quality make the premium tier

The pay-per-view rule carries a price per video quality. A distributor can list the film at one price for standard definition and a higher price for the 1080p rendition, which is the same file transcoded into the adaptive ladder. The buyer picks the quality at purchase and the player serves the matching renditions. Because the ladder is produced once by transcoding, you are pricing renditions you already have rather than uploading a second master.

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The rental window bounds access after purchase

The rental window has a start and an expiry. From the moment of purchase, the buyer may play the title until the expiry passes; after that the player refuses and the title returns to purchasable. This is the classic rental clock. Set it in line with what your rights holder allows, because a shorter window on a premium title is normal and a longer one is a concession you can make later for a cheaper phase.

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Unseen-expiry and view counts close the two loopholes

Two extra fields handle the cases the rental clock misses. The unseen-expiry sets a deadline for a buyer who has purchased but never pressed play, so a purchase cannot sit dormant for months and then be used. The view count limits how many plays a purchase allows inside the window. Together they make the rental behave like a ticket with an expiry rather than an indefinite license, which is what premium rights holders expect to see in writing.

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Scheduled publish time makes the release a moment

Every title carries a publish time. You prepare the page, the artwork, the trailer and the prices days ahead, set the publish time to the announced release, and the title becomes visible and purchasable at that minute on the website and in every device app. Combined with free preview minutes, a visitor who arrives at the release can watch the opening minutes and then buy. There is no manual switch to flip on release night.

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The purchase is your gateway, not a store share

On the website, the buyer pays through the gateway you connected: Stripe, Razorpay, PayPal or one of the others in the payment service. The platform records the purchase against the account and grants access under the rental rules. In the store-billed phone apps the purchase goes through Apple or Google billing with the product mapped to the title in the admin, and the store fee set by that store applies to those purchases only.

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How to set up a PVOD release in the Flicknexs admin

Five steps for one premium title, in the order that avoids reworking the page after buyers have seen it.

  1. 1

    Upload the master and check the transcoded ladder

    Upload the film and let transcoding produce the adaptive ladder. The default ladder is 720p, 480p and 360p, and you can select a ladder up to 1440p per job if the premium tier needs a higher rendition. Play the result on the website and in a device app before you price anything, because you are about to charge per quality.

  2. 2

    Set the pay-per-view rule and the price per quality

    Open the title, choose pay-per-view in the access section, and enter the price per quality. Decide whether the standard and premium prices differ and by how much. Set the currency to match the plan currency your gateway expects. Save and confirm the purchase prompt shows both options in the player on a test account.

  3. 3

    Enter the rental window, unseen-expiry and view count

    Fill in the rental start and expiry, the unseen-expiry for buyers who never press play, and the view count. Match the rights holder contract exactly and keep a note of the values in your release document. Test with a short window, such as an hour, on a test account so you can watch the expiry behavior instead of waiting days.

  4. 4

    Add free preview minutes and the scheduled publish time

    Enter the number of free preview minutes, typically enough for the opening scene, and set the publish time to the announced release moment in the offset your audience expects. Prepare artwork, synopsis, cast and the trailer now. The title stays hidden until the publish time, so the page can be finished in daylight.

  5. 5

    Test the purchase on every surface, then announce

    On a test account, buy the title on the website through your gateway and, if you sell in the phone apps, through the store billing with the mapped product. Confirm access, expiry and the view count behave. Check the pay-per-view revenue report shows the test purchase. Then announce the release time publicly.

Limits, tradeoffs and what the PVOD platform does not do

These are the questions a rights holder or a finance lead will raise. The answers are exact.

01

Studio-grade encryption is not built in

The platform code protects a premium title with per-title access rules, signed playback URLs with a time-to-live, geo-fencing and a visible logo watermark. Encryption with Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady is not in the platform code; DRM is arranged through the delivery layer on request as part of an enterprise plan. If a studio contract requires encryption for a premium window, plan that scoping before you sign, not after.

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02

The premium tier tops out at the transcoding ladder

Prices by quality apply to the renditions the transcoding ladder produces, which is selectable up to 1440p with H.264 as standard and H.265, AV1 and VP9 on request with automatic H.264 fallback. There is no 4K or 8K tier and no HDR, so a premium price is a price for the highest rendition in your ladder, not for a format the platform does not deliver.

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No offline download for rentals

A rented title streams inside the rental window on the website and in the device apps. There is no download for offline viewing, so a buyer on a flight cannot watch a rental they bought the night before. State this on the purchase page. The upside is that the expiry, the unseen-expiry and the view count are enforced at every play because every play is a stream.

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04

Store purchases follow store rules and store fees

In the Android and iOS apps a pay-per-view purchase goes through Google Play Billing or Apple in-app purchase with the product mapped in the admin. Google purchases are verified against Google and renewal notifications are handled; Apple purchases are recorded from the app, without server-side receipt validation. The store fee is the fee published by that store. Web purchases through your own gateway carry only the gateway fee.

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05

Windows are set per title, by hand

Rental values, prices and the publish time are entered on each title. There is no bulk release calendar that applies a template to fifty titles at once, so a distributor with a large slate should keep its own release sheet and enter titles in batches. Series episodes carry their own rules too, which is flexible for a premium season but means one entry per episode.

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A worked example: an independent film distributor with a premium window

A realistic operator: a distributor releasing one new feature a month on a premium rental, then moving each into its subscription catalog after the window.

01

The distributor holds a slate of twelve features for the year and a back catalog of two hundred titles already inside a subscription plan. Each new feature is uploaded three weeks ahead, transcoded to a ladder that includes 1080p, and set to pay-per-view with a standard price and a higher 1080p price. The rental window is set to the contract length, the unseen-expiry to a month, and the view count to a small number. Free preview minutes cover the opening scene. The publish time is set to a Friday evening in the home market offset.

02

The distributor runs the plan with phone apps. F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Plans are flat fees and Flicknexs takes no commission on your revenue; payment-gateway fees are between you and your gateway. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Each month the pay-per-view revenue report settles with the rights holder, and the subscription report covers the back catalog separately.

03

When the premium window on a feature ends, the distributor edits the same title: the access rule changes from pay-per-view to the subscription plan, or to a lower single price for a second rental phase. Nothing is re-uploaded and the analytics history stays attached. Twice a year it bundles a season of the slate as a scheduled premiere, one title per week, using the publish time on each so the schedule runs itself. The video paywall page describes the same rules in general terms; this slate is what they look like in practice.

Pre-launch checklist for a premium rental

Run this list on a test title with a short rental window before your first real release.

  • The transcoded ladder includes the rendition you intend to sell at the premium price, and it plays on web and in one app.
  • The pay-per-view rule is set with a price per quality, in the currency your gateway and plans expect.
  • Rental start, expiry, unseen-expiry and view count match the rights holder contract and are written in your release sheet.
  • Free preview minutes are set to a deliberate length, because the preview plays before any purchase check.
  • The scheduled publish time is entered in the right offset and the title is invisible before it on the website and in the apps.
  • A test purchase on the website through your gateway grants access, expires on schedule and honors the view count.
  • If you sell in the phone apps, the store product is mapped to the title and a test store purchase grants access.
  • Per-title geo-fencing matches the licensed territories for this release, on top of the platform default.
  • The pay-per-view revenue report shows the test purchase in the right month with the right amount.
  • The purchase page states that rentals stream inside the window and are not downloadable.

How PVOD fits the device apps and the rest of your revenue

A premium rental is a per-title rule, so it works everywhere the title appears and beside every other way you earn.

01

The website is in every plan, the phone apps arrive with F2 and the Android TV and Fire TV apps with F3, with the other television apps as add-ons. A premium feature is bought on the website or in a phone app, and because access is granted to the account, the buyer can then watch on the television app within the same rental window. The film festival streaming platform page shows the same rules applied to a dated program of titles with country limits, and the geo-fencing page covers the territory side of a premium release in detail.

02

On revenue, a PVOD platform on Flicknexs is one of three ways the same catalog earns. Premium rentals run through the pay-per-view rule described here, the back catalog runs through subscription plans, and linear channels or free titles can carry ad tags. The video paywall page describes all three side by side, and the payment gateways page lists the gateways you can connect for web purchases. Because plans are flat with no commission, a distributor can settle with rights holders directly from the monthly report without deducting a platform share.

Plan Availability

Which plan includes PVOD

01

Standard layers

Per-title pay-per-view with prices by quality, rental windows with start, expiry, unseen-expiry and view count, free preview minutes and scheduled publish times are part of every plan. F1 Standard is the web-only plan, with 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. A distributor selling on its website only can run a premium window from that plan.

02

Pricing & billing

F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. F3 Premium includes 1 TB of storage and 10 TB of bandwidth monthly, and adds Android TV and Fire TV apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. The phone apps on F2 add store-billed purchases with the store's published fee; the television apps on F3 add the living-room screen buyers watch on. TV apps are available as add-ons on any plan, allowing you to expand your reach to more devices; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details.

03

Annual savings

Plans are flat fees and Flicknexs takes no commission on your revenue; payment-gateway fees are between you and your gateway. See our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Yearly billing on F1 to F4 costs less per month than monthly billing; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. Bandwidth is the allowance to size against a premium release, because a successful opening weekend concentrates viewing into a few days, and the per-plan figures are on our pricing page.

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Next Steps

What to do next

01

Already on Flicknexs

If you already run Flicknexs, pick one title in your catalog, set it to pay-per-view with two quality prices and a one-hour rental window, and buy it on a test account. Watch the expiry happen. Then set a publish time an hour ahead on a hidden title and watch it appear. Those two experiments teach the whole premium mechanism in an afternoon.

02

Choosing a platform

If you are choosing a platform for premium releases, write down the four windows your rights holders require, release time, rental length, unseen deadline and view limit, and ask each vendor to show where those are set per title. Ask separately whether encryption is built in or arranged, and get the answer in writing. Flicknexs shows the four fields in the admin and states plainly that DRM is arranged on request.

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Before a rights call

Read the companion pages next. The video paywall page covers subscription, pay-per-view and advertising side by side. The film festival streaming platform page applies the same windows to a dated program with country limits. The payment gateways page lists what you can connect for web purchases, and the DRM video protection page explains the protection layers around a premium title.

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Everything you need to know about PVOD on Flicknexs.

Per-title pay-per-view with rental windows is part of every plan, so the cost is the plan. F2 Super includes 300 GB of storage and 20 TB of bandwidth yearly, and adds native Android and iOS mobile apps; see our pricing page for current plan and pricing details. There is no commission on rentals.

The pay-per-view rule on a title carries a rental start and an expiry, which bound how long a buyer keeps access after purchase, plus an unseen-expiry that applies if the buyer never presses play, and a view count that limits plays inside the window. The player refuses once any of them is exceeded.

Yes. The pay-per-view rule holds a price per video quality, so a title can carry a standard price and a higher price for the 1080p rendition from the same transcoded ladder. The buyer chooses at purchase and the player serves the matching renditions. The ladder is selectable up to 1440p per job.

Yes. Every title has a scheduled publish time. Prepare the page, prices and windows in advance, set the time in the offset your audience expects, and the title becomes visible and purchasable at that minute on the website and in every device app without a manual switch.

Edit the same title. Change its access rule from pay-per-view to a subscription plan, or lower the single price for a second rental phase. The file, artwork and analytics history stay attached, so a premium release moves into the catalog without a second upload.

Not in the platform code. Premium titles are protected by per-title access rules, signed playback URLs, geo-fencing and a logo watermark on every plan. Encryption with Widevine, FairPlay and PlayReady is arranged through the delivery layer on request as part of an enterprise plan, so scope it before signing a contract that requires it.

No. A rental streams inside its window on the website and in the device apps, and there is no offline download. The expiry, unseen-expiry and view count are enforced on every play for that reason. Say this plainly on the purchase page so buyers know before paying.

In the Android app a purchase goes through Google Play Billing with the product mapped to the title in the admin, verified against Google. In the iOS app it goes through Apple in-app purchase and is recorded from the app. The store fee is the fee published by that store; web purchases carry only your gateway fee.

Yes. Geo-fencing applies platform-wide and per title, with block or allow country lists. A premium release licensed for a few territories carries its own allow list on top of the platform default, and viewers elsewhere see a refusal. The country comes from an IP-geolocation lookup at playback.

Yes. Free preview minutes are set per title, per episode and per live stream. A visitor watches that many minutes, then meets the purchase prompt with the quality prices. The preview plays before any purchase check, so choose its length deliberately for a premium title.

Analytics reports pay-per-view revenue by month, separately from subscription revenue, and content analytics show plays and completion per title. Export the month for the title in question and settle from your gateway records. There is no per-title split engine, so the report is the input to your own accounting.

Yes. Series carry seasons and episodes, and each episode has its own access rule with pay-per-view prices, rental window and publish time. A premium season can release one episode a week on a schedule, each sold on its own, and then move into a plan when the season ends.

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