Monetize your Minecraft server

How the plugin works

The plugin only dials out, every 30 seconds and every 5 while a checkout is open, which is what flips the rank live without an open port. Grants are state: this UUID belongs in the diamond group, applied even when the player is offline. Commands are effects: give this player a crate key, run exactly once and deferred until the player is online when they need to be. After a restart the plugin reconciles from a snapshot of state, never of commands, so a kit can never be handed out twice.

# plugins/Arcalotl/config.yml
token: "msk_live_8f1c..."        # shown once in the dashboard
api_base: "https://api.arcalotl.com"
store_command: "store"        # also answers /buy and /subscribe
permissions: luckperms       # or: vault, commands

• ServersPaper, Spigot, Purpur, and Folia on 1.20 and newer, with Velocity and BungeeCord proxies. Bedrock players through Geyser see the same menu.
• PermissionsLuckPerms first, any Vault-compatible plugin next, console commands for everything else.
• Offline playersGrants apply by UUID before the next login. Commands that need the player online run on join.
• Next to TebexThe plugin only touches what it granted itself, so an existing store keeps working while you try it.

Setting up a plan

A plan is a price plus what it unlocks: a permissions group, optional commands on grant and revoke, a Discord role if you want one, and whether it renews or is bought once.

Compared with a web store

Minecraft stores have been built the same way for a decade: a hosted web page, a plugin that polls a command queue, and a wallet the store operator pays out from. It works, and it is where the 5% fee, the payout hold, and the "did my rank arrive" ticket come from. Arcalotl keeps the plugin idea and changes the money and the state.

Tebex figures from its Minecraft pricing page and documentation, September 2026.

A web store too, if you want one

The plugin does not need a web store. Players pick a plan in game and pay in the browser, and fewer steps between wanting a rank and holding it means more of them finish. If you want a store page as well, for a link in your Discord or on your server list entry, Arcalotl storefronts come with Minecraft themes and sell the same plans through the same checkout.

Subscriptions, not just ranks

Most Minecraft stores sell a permanent rank once and never hear from that player again. Arcalotl sells that too, but it is built for the other model: a supporter rank that renews monthly, with perks that refresh, an annual option for the regulars, and a recovery sequence for the card that expires in month four. For a store that sells renewals, the recovered ones are the difference between paying for hosting and not.

Because the subscription is the source of truth, the rank never drifts. A payment that fails removes the rank only after the grace period and the reminders. A refund removes it the same hour. A player who upgrades from Gold to Diamond keeps one subscription and one renewal date. None of that needs an expiry command, a cron job, or a rank-reminder plugin.