Question is the restream worth it?

[0xthefr34k]

Hello everyone,
I entered the IPTV world 2 years ago as a seller. At first, I bought a panel with a 10-year subscription and sold access to 10 clients. Later, I got more panels and discovered the restream option — where you buy connections (cnx) and manage them through your own IPTV system (like Xtream UI).
However, I’m confused about the cost difference:

• As a seller, I just need a panel. I can get a 10-year subscription for about $80 (which is $8/year per user) and only pay once. The countdown starts when I create a user on the panel.
• As a reseller , I might get 10 connections for $50/month (which is $500/year), and the countdown starts immediately after paying.

This makes me wonder about the real business flow. Is it like:
Source → Restreamer → Reseller → Seller ?

If yes, how do resellers make profit? Because as a reseller, I pay every month even if I don’t sell all my connections right away. If I buy 10 connections and don’t sell them all in the first month, I lose money. And if I sell them to sellers as panel with credit who also can’t find clients immediately, I still have to keep paying monthly.

I’m trying to understand if this is the correct flow or if I’m missing something.

 

[ragaslin]

You are not supposed to lose anything, as a reseller you buy credits and spent them with your clients same as the original service owner; at least is how most services i know work

 

[Dolus]

That's exactly how it works. If you have no clients you are losing money. As a restreamer, you are not paying only for connections but even for servers. Keep in mind that 10 connections = 10 channels.

 

[ragaslin]

There are more options a d I do It another way, i sell credits to my resellers, and they have they own reseller area on services's web, so when they get a new client they only spend 1 credit for each month and line the client wants; if reseller buys 30 credits he will only reach to 30 after creating 30 new final clients.

 

[herny8]

All above responses are correct.

Server owners - have resellers who buy amount of credits..
1 credit= 1 month of access
you as reseller buy credits as you need. You don't lose money here.
as a restreamer - you buy connections.
1 connection = 1 channel
you need to pay your restream line monthly even if you have no clients. you can lose money here.
example: if you need 20 connections you will be allowed to have only 20 channels live at same time. regardless the amount of channels that your restream line has.
example: your restream line has 300 channels.. you still are able to only have 20 channels live.. yet you can use the other 280 channels being on demand.... but may need to actually put all on demand so you don't run into restarting issues.
example: you have 20 clients - from these clients you have 10 clients online at same time.. then each client watches 1 channel.. that will be 10 channels live.. and still have 10 more to go without issues. make sense?