Run a whole business on it
Memberships, paid posts and payments straight to your own Stripe account.
What you get
Connect your own Stripe account and the site takes payments.
- Free and paid memberships. A free list plus one or more paid levels, monthly or yearly.
- Paid posts and newsletters. Choose which pieces are for everyone, for members or for paying members.
- Paid gated content. Put the best part behind a paywall. Everyone reads the opening. Paying members get the rest, from a single post to a whole course or archive.
- The money goes straight to you. Payments land in your own Stripe account. The only fees are Stripe's normal card fees.
- Members, plans and payments in one place. Nothing to match up between tools at the end of the month.
An example
Say 100 people pay you $4.50 a month for your paid content.
- Money in. 100 × $4.50 = $450.00 a month.
- Stripe card fees. 2.9% plus 30¢ on each payment: about $43.05.
- Stripe Billing. About 0.7% for running the subscriptions: about $3.15.
- Your Busy plan. $247.50.
- What you keep. About $156.30 a month, with a finished piece published for you every week.
Break even. Each subscriber leaves you about $4.04 after Stripe’s fees. It takes 62 subscribers to cover the $247.50 plan. Every one after that is yours.
Charge $19.50 a month instead and each subscriber leaves you about $18.50 after Stripe’s fees. It takes 14 subscribers to cover the $247.50 plan.
Stripe sets its own fees and they vary by country and card. Check stripe.com/pricing for yours.
All these prices are in US$, using Stripe’s standard US rates.
This is an example only. Your own numbers will depend on your prices, your members and your fees.