Subscription billing for paid newsletters.
Monthly and yearly readers, a promo code for the launch, free access for your team, and an expired card fixed from one email instead of a lost reader. Your readers pay through your own Stripe or PayPal account.
From $39 a month, never a percentage of what your readers pay. We never hold your money.
- Mar 1 Renewal due. The card on file had expired.
- Mar 1 A note went out with a link to update the card. Maya kept reading.
- Mar 4 New card added from the link.
- Mar 4 Renewal paid.
One reader's year. Nothing here needed you.
A newsletter's year of renewals, in 46 seconds.
The Sunday Edit's readers pay it directly, and an expired card comes back on its own.
Payments run through the accounts businesses already trust
Stripe
PayPal
GoCardless
Adyen
Paystack
Flutterwave
Authorize.Net
Braintree
QuickBooks
Xero
HubSpot- Slack
The four things that matter when readers pay you.
Monthly or yearly, and the switch between them
Offer both, with two months free on yearly if you like. A reader who moves from monthly to yearly is credited for the month already paid, on the invoice, in words.
A promo code for the launch, a free plan for the team
LAUNCH20 for the first month, a batch of codes for a partner, an expiry date on both. A 100% code gives staff and contributors free access on the same plan as everyone else.
An expired card is one email, not a lost reader
Most lost readers never meant to leave; their card expired. A short note goes out in your name with a one click link to update it, and the reader keeps reading while it gets sorted. A card declined for another reason is retried at a sensible time first. You see what came back.
A page where readers help themselves
Update a card, switch plans, download an invoice, cancel. Your logo and colors, a link you put in the footer of every issue. The 'how do I change my card' emails stop.
How a newsletter with 3,000 readers runs on yRecurring.
The Sunday Edit is a weekly newsletter with about 3,000 paying readers. The platform they started on took a cut of every subscription, owned the reader list, and sent a generic payment failed email that most readers ignored.
- 01Monthly at $9 and yearly at $90 with two months free, and a LAUNCH20 code for the relaunch week.
- 02A subscribe link in every issue and a billing link in the footer, both in the publication's name.
- 033,000 readers moved over one Sunday afternoon from a spreadsheet, renewal dates intact; nobody was charged twice.
- An expired card gets a short note with a link, and the reader keeps reading meanwhile. 37 renewals came back in the first year without an email from the editor.
- The how do I change my card replies went to zero. Readers do it themselves.
- No cut of any subscription, and the reader list can leave with them any month.
What your customers see.
A checkout page you share or embed, and a place where they see their invoices, update a card, or change plans without emailing you. Your logo, your colors.
Move your readers over on a Sunday afternoon.
Export your readers from the platform you use now as a spreadsheet, upload it, and check the preview line by line. Nothing is written until you approve it, and no reader gets an email about an old payment. Renewal dates carry over, so nobody is charged twice.
Why trust us
Payments run through your own Stripe, PayPal or bank debit account. We never hold it, and card data never touches our servers.
From $39 a month. Never a percentage on any plan, so you keep every dollar of growth. See pricing
Your data exports any time, in open formats, and your price is locked for two years. How we keep it safe
Before you move a single customer.
What happens when a reader's card expires?
An expired card cannot be charged again, so the reader gets a short note with a one click link to update it, and keeps reading while it gets sorted. A card declined for another reason is retried at a sensible time first. You see every one that came back, and the few that did not.
Does it send the newsletter too?
No. yRecurring handles the paying part: who has paid, for how long, and what to do when a card fails. Your newsletter tool keeps sending; connect the two so access follows the payment.
Can readers pay in their own currency?
Yes. Price the plan in the currencies you want to accept, and each reader sees theirs.
How do I give my team free access?
Create a 100% off code and share it. They sign up like any reader and are never charged.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. Self serve plans are month to month, and you can export every reader, invoice and card status any time, in open formats.