Mark a playlist as members only and it locks across your Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps at once. Viewers unlock it with a code on their phone — no password typed with a remote. You decide who gets in, and your billing and customer list stay wherever you already run them.
Most tools that gate video want to own your billing, your customer list and your storefront. This one does not. It closes the rows you choose and opens them for the people you name.
Switch a row to members only in your dashboard and it applies to Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV together. Works whatever your video source is — Vimeo, Bunny, a JSON feed or your own CDN.
Create codes and hand them out however you already reach people. Set an expiry for a season pass, or cap how many televisions one code can open.
The television shows a short code. Your viewer enters it on their phone and the TV opens by itself. Nobody types an email address with a remote.
In your dashboard, switch on Members only for the playlists you want to keep back. Everything you leave off stays open to everyone — most channels gate a part of the library, not all of it.
Create a code and give it to whoever should get in. Your own checkout can email it, you can read it out on air, you can print it on a membership card. Set it to expire, or cap how many televisions one code opens.
Their television shows a short code. They open a page on their phone, enter it with your access code, and the TV unlocks a few seconds later. No typing a password with a remote.
Access codes are the middle one and what most channels use. The other two exist because not everyone wants to hand out codes, and because support has to work when nothing else does.
Ask us and we attach a television directly. Needs nothing on your side, and stays the support path however you grant access the rest of the time.
Create codes in your dashboard and give them out however you already reach people. Set an expiry, cap how many televisions one opens, revoke whenever you like.
If your website already knows who your members are, it unlocks the television directly. Your viewer signs in where they always sign in, and no code is typed at all. See the API.
That is the whole record a linked television leaves behind. No name, no email address, no payment details — because none of it is needed to open a TV. Your memberships and your customer list stay in the systems you already run them in.
If you already run memberships somewhere — your own site, a church management system, a checkout you built — Tappla sits underneath it as the native TV layer, rather than asking you to move.
Tappla decides who gets into your TV apps. It does not process the payments or run the plans behind them. If you already have a checkout, a membership system or a church management platform, that keeps working and Tappla sits underneath it as the native TV layer. If you want that layer built into Tappla too, tell us at [email protected]. What customers ask for is what gets built first.
Yes. You mark a playlist as members only in your Tappla dashboard and it locks across all three native apps at once. Viewers see the row with a padlock, and a short code appears on the television that they redeem on their phone. Everything you do not mark stays open to everyone.
No. Tappla does not process payments, and it does not need your customer list to work. You decide who gets an access code — after a purchase in your own checkout, as part of a membership, or for nothing at all — and your billing stays wherever you already run it.
No. Plenty of gated content is not paid: a congregation, a team, a school, a members club. The feature is about who gets in, not about whether anyone paid.
They do not, and that is the point. Typing an email and password with a remote is the fastest way to lose a viewer. The television shows a six-character code, they enter it on their phone alongside the access code you gave them, and the TV opens on its own within seconds.
Yes. Revoking a code takes effect on every television using it at its next check, without anyone touching the device. You can also set a code to expire after a number of days, which is the shape of a rental or a season pass.
Yes. If your site already knows who your members are, it unlocks the television directly: your viewer confirms while signed in on your side, your system tells us that device is entitled, and no code is typed at all. Tappla receives an opaque reference you choose, never their name, email or what they paid. The API is documented in the help center.
Tappla builds the native TV apps and keeps your members-only content members-only. The billing behind it runs on your side today: if you already have a checkout or a membership system, it keeps working and Tappla sits underneath it as the TV layer. If you want that layer built into Tappla too, tell us at [email protected].
From the help center: Setting up members-only content · Granting access from your own site · Writing your own video feed
Native apps on Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV, published under your own developer accounts, with the rows you choose kept for the people you choose.