Paid Subscriptions

Charge your readers a monthly fee to access your premium content and newsletters. You keep full control over what's free and what's paid, post by post.

Requirements

Paid subscriptions are powered by Stripe Connect. You'll need a Stripe account (free to create) to receive payments. Stripe handles billing, invoices, and payouts directly to your bank account.

Setting up Stripe

Go to Settings → Membership to connect your Stripe account.

Click Connect with Stripe, you'll be redirected to Stripe to complete a short onboarding: business details, bank account, identity verification. This is Stripe's standard process and usually takes a few minutes.

Once done, you'll be redirected back to Writizzy with your account connected.

Coming from Substack or Ghost with paying subscribers? Connect the same Stripe account you used there and your existing subscriptions carry over, no one re-subscribes. Read the paid subscriber migration guide before you disconnect your old platform.

Configuring your subscription

After connecting Stripe, set:

• Monthly price, the amount your readers will pay each month
• Currency, EUR, USD, GBP, or others supported by Stripe
• Default access, whether new posts default to Free or Paid

Then toggle Enable paid subscriptions to make it live on your blog.

What your readers see

Once enabled, your blog shows a Subscribe button. Readers who click it go through Stripe Checkout to enter their payment details. After subscribing, they get immediate access to all your paid content and newsletters.

Readers can manage or cancel their subscription at any time via the Manage subscription link in your blog's menu, this opens the Stripe Customer Portal directly.

Tracking your revenue

The Members page in your dashboard shows your subscriber breakdown and Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). Your actual payouts are managed in your Stripe dashboard where you can see transactions, issue refunds, and configure payouts.

Disconnecting Stripe

You can disconnect your Stripe account from Settings → Membership. This will cancel all active subscriptions at the end of their current billing period, your paying readers keep access until their period ends, then lose it automatically. Think carefully before doing this.

After disconnecting, all content remains visible (Writizzy ignores the paid/free distinction when no payment provider is connected), but new subscriptions are no longer possible.