Passes Addon

The Passes Addon unlocks Time-Limited Passes — plans that sell access to a scheduled window rather than by the month — on the plans that do not already include it.

For the general rules — how addons are billed, added and removed — see Addons. This page covers what is specific to passes.

Which price you pay

The addon follows your plan's billing cycle, so the price depends on the plan you are on:

What paying annually saves you

The annual discount on a plan and on the addon are not the same size, so they are worth seeing side by side:

Both are worth taking if you are staying the year. Just do not read the addon's annual price as the same 2-months-free deal the plans give you — it is a smaller reduction.

Adding it

Add it from Billing → Plans, in the Addons section. It takes effect immediately, and you are charged only for the days left in your current billing period. As soon as the payment succeeds you can create pass plans — in the dashboard, the Telegram bot, the REST API and MCP alike.

Example: adding mid-month

You are on Starter monthly ($39), billed on the 1st. On 15 September you add the addon.

Example: adding to an annual plan

You are on Starter annual ($390), renewing 1 March. On 1 September you add the addon, with six months left to run.

Removing it

Removing takes effect at the end of the billing period you have already paid for, with no refund. Passes keep working until that date, then stop.

Example: removing mid-month

You are on Starter monthly with the addon, billed on the 1st, and you remove it on 10 September.

You cannot remove it while you are still selling passes

Subscriby will not let you drop the Passes Addon while you have subscription plans with passes switched on. Those plans are promises your own customers have paid into, and taking passes away underneath them would break windows people have already bought.

The message tells you how many plans are involved. Any of these clears it:

• Turn passes off on those plans. Prefer disabling a plan to deleting it — new sales stop, while windows people already bought still go ahead.
• Wait for the remaining windows to finish, then remove the addon.
• Cancel those plans outright, if you have genuinely retired them.

Moving up to Growth while you have it

Growth includes passes, so the addon is removed for you as part of the same change, and the time you had not used yet is credited against the upgrade. You are never charged twice for passes.

Example: Starter plus addon, moving to Growth

You are on Starter monthly ($39) plus the addon ($19), billed on the 1st. On 15 September you move up to Growth ($89), with 16 of 30 days left.

Passes keep working the whole time. They simply come from your plan now instead of the addon.

Moving down from Growth while selling passes

Going from Growth to Starter or Free while you have pass plans would take passes away, so Subscriby blocks it — and offers the addon as the way through. The notice you see carries a Keep Time-Limited Passes button that moves you down with the addon already attached, in one step.

The addon starts at the end of your current billing period, at the same moment the cheaper plan does. Growth still includes passes until then, so there is never a point where you are paying for both.

What happens to your pass plans when the addon ends

Nothing is deleted, and nothing your customers bought is cancelled.

Add the addon again — or move to Growth — and everything unlocks with your plans exactly as you left them.

Questions

See also

• Time-Limited Passes — how passes themselves work
• Addons — the general billing rules
• Transaction Fees — the separate charge taken on your own sales