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Start membership
Your portal opens the moment checkout completes. Enter your zone and current flat rate to personalize your yield estimate.
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Membership today. Pay Per Crawl when Cloudflare opens it to you.
Membership opens your portal immediately: a guided setup path, a yield estimate for your zone, and connect requests handled by Boson IT engineering. Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl is in closed beta and controls when crawlers can be charged on your zone; the guide below walks you through it when it arrives.
Three stages
Prepare, measure, go live.
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Enable Pay Per Crawl
Request beta access from Cloudflare if you have not already, then follow the six configuration steps below.
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Shadow mode, then live
Request connect from your portal. CrawlYield measures alongside your static rate first; you choose when to switch to dynamic pricing.
Pay Per Crawl setup guide
Enable it, set a price, choose who pays.
Six steps in the Cloudflare dashboard. Each one links to Cloudflare’s official site-owner documentation.
Closed beta
Request access from Cloudflare first.
Pay Per Crawl is currently a closed beta. If it is not yet visible on your account, request access below; Cloudflare will confirm by email when your account is admitted.
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Prerequisites
You need a Cloudflare account, the zone on Cloudflare DNS or nameservers, and Administrator or Super Administrator access for account-level settings.
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Make the domain visible
Manage Account → Settings → Pay Per Crawl. In Domain Access, set Visibility to Visible for the zone you want to charge.
Visible is not the same as charging. Domain Access Visible only unlocks the controls. You start charging after you Enable and pick crawlers. Account settings
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Enable and set a default price
AI Crawl Control → Payments → Enable. Set a default price per successful crawl. Cloudflare’s documented minimum is $0.001.
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Choose who to charge
AI Crawl Control → Security. For each crawler pick Charge, Allow, or Block. Do not charge or block search engines lightly — that can hurt how your site is indexed.
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Monitor activity
AI Crawl Control → Metrics. Watch which crawlers hit you, how often they are charged, and whether anything looks off.
Accrued balance may not show in the dashboard yet — ask Cloudflare if you need a payout snapshot. Monitor activity
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Connect publisher payouts
Manage Account → Settings → Pay Per Crawl → Connect. Cloudflare is merchant of record. You create a dedicated Stripe Connect account through that dashboard — an existing Stripe account will not work.
Connecting CrawlYield
Shadow mode first. Live when you decide.
Once Pay Per Crawl is active, CrawlYield prices each request in the background and compares it with the static rate you already charge. Nothing changes in production until you switch to live pricing.
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Start membership
Checkout takes a minute. Your portal opens immediately with a setup path that saves your progress.
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Enter your zone and flat rate
The hostname you want to price and the per-request rate crawlers pay today. This personalizes your yield estimate.
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Request connect
Send a connect request from the portal. Boson IT engineering provisions the Worker and confirms shadow mode is measuring.
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Review, then go live
Compare shadow results with your static rate on real traffic. Switch to dynamic pricing when the numbers earn your confidence.
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Common questions
Before you begin
Do I need Pay Per Crawl access before subscribing?
No. Membership opens your portal today. Pay Per Crawl determines when crawlers can be charged on your zone, and the setup guide above covers it when it arrives.
Who pays me for crawls?
Cloudflare. Crawler payments settle through Pay Per Crawl and the Stripe Connect account you create in the Cloudflare dashboard. CrawlYield membership is billed separately by Boson IT LLC.
Can I cancel?
Yes, at any time from the billing page in your portal. The 10% performance share applies only to measured yield above your baseline once you are live.