Activate Your Subscriby Subscription
Choose the right Subscriby plan for your scale — Free, Starter, or Growth — and activate it so you can start launching projects.
Before you can create a project and start collecting subscriptions, you need an active Subscriby creator subscription on your account. This is the platform subscription you pay to Subscriby — separate from the subscriptions your members later pay to you.
By the end of this page, you'll know which tier fits your situation and how to activate it.
The three creator plans at a glance
| Plan | Price (Monthly) | Price (Annually) | Projects | Lifetime memberships | Access codes | Custom handle | Teams | Free plans | Time-Limited Passes | Coupon Codes | Transaction fee |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | 3 | 5,000 | 5 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Addon | Addon | 10 % |
| Starter | $39 / mo | $390 / yr | 10 (12 yearly) | 20,000 (24,000 yearly) | 25 (250 yearly) | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | Addon | Addon | 3 % |
| Growth | $89 / mo | $890 / yr | 20 (25 yearly) | Unlimited | 150 (1,500 yearly) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ Included | ✅ Included | 1 % |
About the “Free plans” column
A free plan is a subscription plan you price at 0 — members join and keep access without paying. Subscriby earns nothing on one, because every platform fee is a share of what you charge, so only the Starter and Growth plans can sell one. On Free, every plan needs a price of at least the $1.00 USD equivalent. There is no addon for this — pricing the plan or moving up a plan are the only two ways.
Free plans authored on the Free tier before this took effect have been taken off sale — they no longer accept new members. Nothing was deleted and nobody lost access: everyone who already joined keeps their membership, and the plan stays editable. Give it a price, or upgrade to Starter or Growth and switch it back on. Downgrading to Free is refused while any free plans are still live, so price or delete them first.
“Addon” in the passes and coupons columns
Both features are bundled with Growth, and both can be bought on a cheaper tier instead of upgrading for them. An addon always bills on the same cycle as your plan, and Free is monthly-only, so the addon is the monthly price there.
| Addon | Monthly | Annually | Bundled with |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passes Addon | $19 / mo | $190 / yr | Growth |
| Coupons Addon | $5 / mo | $50 / yr | Growth |
The annual price applies on an annual Starter plan. See Addons.
About the "Lifetime memberships" limit. This is the only member-count quota — and it applies only to subscribers on non-recurring, lifetime-validity plans (a one-time paid customer whose access never expires). Short-term recurring subscribers, trialists, and bot-only "Leads" aren't counted against it. It's also only applied to new lifetime subscribers joining after you link a resource — earlier lifetime subscribers are grandfathered.
Annual plans are billed once a year and include expanded limits (more projects, more access codes). Think of them as a yearly commitment discount plus a small bump in resources. Month-to-month plans are strictly cheaper per month if you only need a few months of service.
Both paid tiers open with a 7-day free trial, once per account — on the monthly and the annual cycle alike. The transaction fee column above is what you pay once the trial converts: while it runs, your sales stay on the Free tier's 10% rate, since the reduced rate is what the first payment buys. See Transaction Fees.
What's actually different between tiers
Transaction fees are where the real savings are
Every paid subscription your members take out is subject to a Subscriby transaction fee on top of whatever the payment provider charges. That fee drops quickly as you climb tiers:
- Free: 10 % of each transaction
- Starter: 3 %
- Growth: 1 %
If you're processing $1,000/month in membership revenue, that's $100/mo on Free, $30 on Starter, $10 on Growth. At scale the plan price pays for itself many times over.
Project and lifetime-membership caps
Every plan limits how many projects you can run simultaneously, and caps how many lifetime memberships (see the note below) you can serve across them.
- Free is designed for hobbyists or testing — three small projects.
- Starter is where most serious creators land — ten to twelve projects.
- Growth raises both caps substantially — ideal for agencies or anyone running a large portfolio.
Normal recurring subscriptions, trials, leads, and all non-lifetime members are not counted against your plan limits.
Custom handle and public portal
A handle is the unique URL slug used by your public-facing portal page (e.g. my.subscriby.net/my-community). It's how prospective members land on your plans list.
- Free doesn't include a custom handle — the public portal on Free is either disabled or auto-assigned.
- Starter and Growth let you pick your own handle, making the portal URL memorable and brandable. See Creating a project → Handle.
Teams (collaborators)
- Teams is a Growth-and-above feature. Free and Starter creators manage projects alone.
- With Teams you can invite collaborators, assign roles, and split permissions with fine-grained control. See Teams & Roles.
Free subscription plans
- Pricing one of your own plans at 0 — members join and keep access without paying — is a Starter-and-above feature. Unlike coupons and passes there is no addon that adds it to a cheaper plan.
- Subscriby earns nothing on a free plan, because every platform fee is a share of what you charge. On Free, every plan needs a price of at least the $1.00 USD equivalent.
- To give access away on any tier, use access codes instead. The member redeems a code rather than paying, and you get a free allotment every billing cycle.
Coupon codes
- Coupon codes are bundled with Growth, or available on Free and Starter as the Coupons Addon ($5 / mo, $50 / yr).
- They let you discount your own plans by percentage or fixed amount, with expiry dates, redemption limits and per-plan restrictions. See Coupon codes.
- Let the entitlement lapse and existing codes stop discounting, not just stop being authored — so wind promotions down before dropping it.
Time-limited passes
- Time-limited passes are bundled with Growth, or available on Free and Starter as the Passes Addon ($19 / mo, $190 / yr).
- A pass sells one scheduled access window rather than a period that starts at payment. See Time-limited passes.
- Because customers buy windows ahead of time, you cannot drop the entitlement while pass-enabled plans are still selling — turn those plans off first.
Payment methods are always required
Even on the Free plan, Subscriby needs a valid payment method on file. This is because transaction fees (10 %, 3 %, or 1 % depending on plan) apply to every paid subscription your members take out — and we need somewhere to bill those from. You won't be charged for the Free plan itself ($0/mo), but per-transaction fees are collected monthly.
When you activate any plan, you'll be redirected to our secure payment processor (Stripe) to add a card. From that point on, Stripe is the billing method for your creator subscription and your transaction fees.
Activate a plan
Open Plans & Billing
If you've just verified your email and have never activated a plan, Subscriby redirects you straight to Plans & Billing on first sign-in. Otherwise, click Plans & Billing in the left sidebar.
Compare plans side-by-side
The billing page shows every plan's key limits and its price. Toggle Monthly / Annually to flip the pricing view.
Click Try Free for 7 Days
Choose the plan you want to start on. Every paid plan — monthly or annual — opens with a 7-day free trial, and a confirmation dialog summarises what happens before you commit. If you have already used your trial the button reads Subscribe to [Plan Name] instead, and billing starts immediately. You can always upgrade or downgrade later — see Switching Plans.
Your sales stay on the Free tier's 10% rate during the trial
The trial gives you the plan's features, not its commission rate. Sales you take while it runs stay on the Free tier's 10% rate rather than your plan's 1%–3% — the reduced rate is what your first payment buys, and it applies from the moment that payment is received. Full detail in Transaction Fees.
Complete payment via Stripe
A Stripe-hosted checkout opens. Enter your card details, name, and billing address. Stripe handles the whole process — we don't see your raw card number.
Your card is collected up front but nothing is charged until the trial ends, so the subscription converts by itself and you keep your plan. Cancel before then and you are never charged. The trial is available once per account — resubscribing later starts a normal paid subscription billed from day one.
You are warned before the first payment is taken
We email you 3 days and again 24 hours before the trial ends, naming the exact amount your card will be charged and the date it happens. If your Telegram account is linked, the same warning arrives on the bot. The amount comes from your upcoming invoice, so it already includes tax, any discount and the transaction fees your sales accrued during the trial.
Subscription is activated
Once Stripe confirms, you're returned to Subscriby with your new plan active. You can now create projects, add payment methods, and build subscription plans. See Create your first project.
Promotions and discounts on your own Subscriby plan
When Subscriby is running a promotion on a tier, the discount is applied automatically — there's no code to type and nothing to remember. The promotional price is what you see on the pricing table, what you see in the plan comparison, and what you're charged.
This is a discount you receive, not one you issue
This section is about what you pay Subscriby. The codes you issue to your own subscribers are a separate feature — see Coupon Codes.
Your price is locked in
Once a promotional price is applied to your subscription, it stays with you for as long as that subscription lives — not just until the promotion ends. When the campaign closes, new signups pay list price and you keep paying what you signed up at.
You can confirm this yourself on Plans & Billing. A locked-in subscription shows the price you actually pay, a badge naming the promotion, and the current list price beside it:
Your Current Plan: Starter — $29.00 USD / per month 🔒 Early Bird — locked in · List price $39.00
If you don't see a badge, you're on list price — that's the normal state for anyone who signed up outside a promotional window.
Cancelling gives up the locked-in price
A locked-in price belongs to the subscription, not to your account. Resuming during the grace period keeps it, because the subscription never ended. But if you let it lapse completely and start a new one later, you'll start at whatever pricing is current then.
Switching tiers while you hold a promotion
Promotional amounts are set per tier, so what happens when you switch depends on whether the promotion is still running:
- Promotion still open — you get the new tier's promotional price. Moving from a tier discounted by $10 to one discounted by $20 gives you the $20.
- Promotion closed — your existing discount travels with you to the new tier. You aren't pushed back to list price for changing plan, and you don't lose the benefit by upgrading.
Either way, the discount survives upgrades, downgrades, and switching between monthly and annual billing.
Invite links
Some promotions are offered through a link rather than published on the pricing page — a launch partner deal or a marketplace campaign, for example. Opening a link like /promo/summer-deal and then creating your account applies that promotion to it automatically, and the pricing you're shown in the app reflects it from the start.
Two things worth knowing:
- Link promotions are for new accounts. Opening one on an account you already have won't change your existing subscription.
- One promotion per account. They don't stack, and the first one applied is the one you keep.
Early Bird closes 12 September 2026
The Early Bird promotion on Starter and Growth ends on 12 September 2026. Everyone already on an Early Bird price keeps it under the rules above — there is nothing you need to do to retain it.
Switching, cancelling, and pausing
Upgrading
Upgrading is instant: you're prorated for the remainder of your current period, and the new plan takes effect immediately. Increased limits apply right away.
Switching during a trial
Your remaining trial days carry over to the new plan and nothing is charged or prorated at the switch — there is no paid time to account for yet. The 10% rate also holds until your first payment. Full detail in Switching plans during your trial.
Downgrading
Downgrades take effect at your next billing cycle — so you keep the current tier's limits until then. If you're over the lower tier's limits (e.g. more projects than the target tier allows), Subscriby will prompt you to reduce before confirming.
Cancellation
Cancelling ends your creator subscription at the close of the current billing period. After that:
- You can't create new projects.
- Your existing projects stop processing new subscriptions.
- Your historical data remains visible for a grace period in case you reactivate.
See Cancelling your subscription for the full cancellation flow.
Frequently asked
Related
- Subscriptions & billing logic — deeper dive into grace periods, upgrades, downgrades, and cancellations.
- Transaction fees explained — the full mechanics of how we calculate and bill fees.
- Create your first project — the next step once your plan is active.
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