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Newzflash vs Supertab
Supertab, formerly LaterPay, sells items, passes, and subscriptions through a publisher checkout. Newzflash is one article from a balance the reader has already loaded.
Updated October 2026
Pick Supertab if
you run a publisher site that wants passes, subscriptions, and AI licensing in one checkout.
Pick Newzflash if
you want one prepaid balance that works across partner sites, with each price shown before you unlock.
What it sells
Supertab
Publisher checkout for pay-per-item, time passes, and subscriptions. Supertab handles payments, fraud, and chargebacks.
Newzflash
One prepaid wallet across partner publishers. Articles are $0.05 to $0.50.
Price
Supertab
Set by the publisher for each item, pass, or subscription.
Newzflash
Shown before every unlock. The price is the reader's to accept or skip.
Money the reader holds
Supertab
Paid at each purchase through Supertab's checkout.
Newzflash
A prepaid balance that does not expire and does not auto-renew.
Beyond articles
Supertab
Time passes, subscriptions, and AI content licensing through Supertab Connect.
Newzflash
Pay per article only. Subscriptions stay with the publisher.
LaterPay is gone; its company is Supertab
The LaterPay service this comparison used to describe stopped processing sales in November 2020, after its payment provider withdrew. The company kept going. LaterPay AG was renamed Supertab AG in 2022, under the same registration, and its founder runs Supertab. So the comparison is with Supertab, the company that carries the old business forward.
What Supertab sells now
Supertab's publisher platform offers pay-per-item, time passes, and subscriptions behind a hard paywall, with microtransactions aggregated and payments handled as merchant of record. In 2026 it has been used for short-term access passes at Maine Trust for Local News and for a partnership with the Local Media Consortium. It also sells AI content licensing, including a WordPress plugin and Supertab Connect.
I could not confirm from public pages whether Supertab still offers a reader a pay-later tab at the first click. This page does not claim that it does.
Where Supertab is stronger
A publisher that wants one vendor for passes, subscriptions, and AI licensing has a real case for Supertab. Its checkout is built for the publisher to set each price and product, and the merchant-of-record service takes on payment handling. For a local news site that already works with its network, that is a finished offer.
Where Newzflash is different
Newzflash is one thing: a single article, with the price shown first. The reader loads a balance, and each unlock comes out of it, at $0.05 to $0.50. The same balance works on every partner publisher. Unused money does not expire and does not renew. Payments run through Stripe, and Newzflash does not store card details.
Newzflash does not sell passes, subscriptions, or AI licensing. It is also onboarding publishers across North America, so the wallet only works where partners are live.
How to decide
Pick Supertab if the publisher wants passes, subscriptions, and AI licensing in one checkout. Pick Newzflash if the reader should see one price, pay from a balance they already loaded, and move between partner sites on the same wallet.
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