What a betting tips website must do
One point first: a website that takes bets (a bookmaker) needs a gambling licence from the regulator in your country. This comparison is about betting tips websites, where you publish your analysis and sell VIP access. The difference is explained in our guide on how to create a betting tips website for free.
Whatever the tool, a paid tipster website has to do five things:
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Publish your tips
Free or VIP-only, singles or accumulators, with the odds and your analysis.
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Keep a track record and statistics
Every result, won or lost, and the figures that follow from them. That is what convinces a visitor to pay.
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Take subscription payments
By card, ideally PayPal too, over several durations.
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Open and close VIP access
On payment, then on expiry, without you having to step in.
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Connect your Telegram
If that's where your members are: whoever pays gets in, whoever stops paying is removed.
Keep this list in mind: it is what separates the three options, far more than the design.
Building a betting tips website with WordPress
WordPress is an excellent general-purpose tool, free and open source. To turn it into a paid betting tips website, you need to put several pieces together.
1. Hosting and a domain name
Budget a few euros a month for shared hosting. With the French host o2switch, for example, the entry plan starts at €1.86 excl. VAT a month, domain name included, paid yearly, then renewed at the standard price.
2. A theme
Free or premium, then adapted to your brand. No theme is designed to display a betting tips track record: you will be adapting blog post pages.
3. A membership plugin
This is what creates your plans, takes payments and restricts VIP content to members who are up to date. The two best known:
| Plugin | Price | Payments | Transaction fees |
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| Paid Memberships Pro (free) | €0 | Stripe, PayPal and manual payment, through the core or free add-ons | None from the plugin |
| Paid Memberships Pro Standard | $499 / year | Same, with premium add-ons and support | None from the plugin |
| MemberPress Launch | $199.50 the first year, then $399 / year | Stripe only | 4.9% per payment |
| MemberPress Growth | $349.50 the first year, then $699 / year | Stripe, PayPal, Square, manual | 0% |
Prices checked on 27 October 2026 on Paid Memberships Pro, its payment gateways page and MemberPress. Stripe or PayPal fees come on top in every case.
4. Track record and statistics
Most of the time, each tip becomes a blog post filed under a category. For a strike rate or average odds, you need yet another plugin, or a table kept by hand.
5. Telegram
Adding a member to your VIP channel on payment, then removing them on expiry, takes a specialised plugin, a third-party service or manual work.
6. Maintenance
Updates to WordPress, the theme and the plugins, backups, security: it is up to you to keep on top of them. One update can break a plugin, and a broken membership site means members who pay without getting access.
In short
Hiring an agency
A few agencies specialise in betting tips websites. They build you a WordPress site (most of the time) with the plugins you need. Prices seen in October 2026:
€500 – €1,000
the usual flat fee to build it
≈ 10 days
the advertised delivery time
≈ €20 / month
for maintenance, on top of hosting
The upside is real: you have nothing to put together. But the website is still WordPress, with plugins to update: someone else simply does it for you, for a maintenance fee. Before you sign, ask:
- Who owns the website once it is delivered: you, or the agency for as long as you pay for maintenance?
- Whose name the accounts are in for hosting, the domain name and payments: they must be in yours.
- What maintenance covers: updates, backups, fixes, and how quickly.
- What a change costs after delivery: a new plan, a page, a design change.
Typsa: a tool built for tipsters
Typsa does one job: the website of a tipster who sells subscriptions. Everything you need is already in place, and the technical side is handled for you.
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You create your website in 4 steps
The name, address and your sports, your account, payment for your plan: the website is live, on a typsa.fr address. Your own domain name can be connected from the Starter plan.
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You customise it
Theme, logo, main colour, home image, tagline. The pages (home, VIP plans, results, members' area) are already designed.
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You choose how your members pay
Stripe, PayPal or manual payment, then you create your VIP plans by the day, month or year.
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You publish your tips
Singles, accumulators or rollover challenges, free or VIP, with a confidence rating: Safe, Semi safe or Fun. When you mark a tip as won or lost, your statistics and your members' bankroll update.
VIP access opens on payment and closes on expiry, including in your Telegram channels and groups from the Starter plan. The details are in our tutorial on how to automate payments and VIP access.
The limits, to be complete: you can't edit the code, the layout follows the available themes (5 with Starter, 11 with Pro), and each plan has a monthly revenue cap (up to €300 in revenue a month with Starter, up to €300 in revenue a month with Starter, unlimited revenue with Pro).
Comparison: WordPress, agency or Typsa for your tipster website
| Criterion | WordPress on your own | Agency | Typsa |
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| Setup | Several days | ≈ 10 days to delivery | A few minutes, then customisation |
| Technical skills | Required | None | None |
| Subscriptions and VIP access | Plugin to configure | Configured by the agency | Included |
| Payments | Depends on the plugin | Depends on the plugin | Stripe, PayPal or manual |
| Track record and statistics | Plugin or table kept by hand | Depends on what is delivered | Calculated with every result |
| Members' bankroll | No | Rarely | Included |
| Telegram | Plugin or third-party service | Depends on what is delivered | Included from Starter |
| Maintenance | Up to you | Monthly contract | Included |
| Design | Free, to build | Custom | Ready-made themes, in your colours |
| Access to the code | Full | Depends on the contract | No |
Your first-year budget
The figures below count the tool only. They don't include your time, or Stripe or PayPal payment fees, which apply to every option.
| Option | First-year budget | On top of that |
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| WordPress + free Paid Memberships Pro | from €22.32 excl. VAT (hosting) | Theme, track record and Telegram plugins, setup and maintenance time |
| WordPress + MemberPress Launch | from €22.32 excl. VAT + $199.50 | 4.9% per payment, $399 a year from the second year, and everything above |
| Agency | €500 to €1,000 + ≈ €240 of maintenance | Hosting, changes outside the package |
| Typsa Starter | €238.80 | Nothing for hosting and maintenance |
| Typsa Starter (Telegram, domain name) | €238.80 | Your domain name, from the registrar of your choice |
o2switch hosting at €1.86 excl. VAT a month over 12 months. Typsa: 12 months at the monthly price, no commitment. As on WordPress.com or MemberPress Launch, service fees apply to card payments taken on Typsa: the rate is shown in your dashboard before you switch on Stripe.
In euros, a WordPress site you build yourself costs less in the first year. The real difference is counted in hours: the hours spent putting the pieces together, then maintaining them every month. An agency buys you that time, but at the highest price of the three.
Create your betting tips website
Automated payments and VIP access, live in 5 minutes. No commitment.
Who owns your website?
It is the question people forget, and the one that matters the day you want to change tools.
WordPress
You own everything: the code, the database, the files. You can switch hosts whenever you like.
- +Complete freedom
- −Security and backups are yours too
Agency
It all depends on the contract. Insist that hosting, the domain and the payment accounts are in your name.
- +Ownership is possible
- −Check before you sign
Typsa
You don't own the code: it is an online service that runs for as long as you subscribe. Your payments go to your own Stripe or PayPal account, and your domain name stays yours.
- +Nothing to maintain
- +No commitment
- −No access to the code
If you ever leave Typsa, your domain points elsewhere and your payment accounts remain yours. The website itself, however, can't be moved: that is the price of "nothing to maintain".
Which option suits you
| Your situation | Our advice |
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| You can code, you want a one-of-a-kind website and you have time every month | WordPress |
| You want something custom without touching it, and you have the budget | An agency, with a clear contract on ownership |
| You want to sell your tips this week, with no technical work and no maintenance | Typsa |
Whichever you pick, the tool won't sell for you: your consistency and your track record are what convince people. For pricing, your plan structure and your first members, read our guide on how to sell betting tips. And to see a paid betting tips website built with Typsa in practice, start here.