Percentage fees feel small until they are not.
When you first sign up to a platform that charges 5% or 10% of every transaction, it sounds fair. You are not paying anything up front. You only pay when you earn. What is not to like?
The problem shows up around month three, when your channel is doing well. You have built a subscriber base, the tips are landing, the renewals are coming in - and suddenly you are writing a cheque of £100, £200, maybe more every single month to a platform that, frankly, is not doing very much.
The maths
It is simple. At £1,000/month in subscription revenue with a 10% fee, you are paying £100/mo in perpetuity. At £5,000/month, that is £500/mo. For what? The platform is not growing with you. The infrastructure cost to serve an extra subscriber is negligible. But your cost keeps climbing.
The switch
Most tipsters who move to a flat-fee model - something like £49/month regardless of revenue - do it after running the numbers properly for the first time. The conversation usually goes: "Wait, I have been paying how much?"
The switch takes less than an afternoon. You set up a new bot, point your audience to a new link, and you are live. The next day, you wake up and you have not paid anyone a cut.
The argument for commission tools
To be fair: commission-based platforms tend to have simpler onboarding for the very first subscription. If you are testing the waters with 3 subscribers, the maths does not matter much. But the moment your channel is making real money, the economics flip decisively against you.
Flat-fee SaaS is not a new concept. It has worked this way forever. It has just taken a while for Telegram monetisation to catch up.