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Tutorial: Sell a Subscription

Sell a paid subscription, billed monthly or yearly, that gives your members ongoing access to content or a community. TinyPages handles all recurring billing automatically through Stripe.

Pro feature

Publishing the welcome emails of step 10 requires the Pro plan. The rest of this tutorial also works on the free plan, which lets you sell one paid product.

  1. Go to Products → click Create product.
  2. Under Access type, choose Member area.
  3. Under Payment type, select Subscription.
  4. Enter your price and keep Month as the billing period. To also offer yearly billing, turn on Offer a yearly plan and set the yearly price: members then choose their preferred billing period on the order page.
  5. (Optional) Turn on Offer free trial: members get immediate access with no charge, and billing starts automatically when the trial ends.
  6. Click Create. Your product page opens.
  7. Click Edit content → build the member area: add lessons, modules, videos, downloadable resources, or any other content your members will receive.
  8. On the product page, click Edit sales page to open the sales page linked to your subscription in the editor:
    • Describe what members get, the value they receive, and the price.
    • Insert a Product block, or a Button block linking to the order page.
  9. Click Publish on the sales page.
  10. On the product page, click Edit post-purchase automation. You can also go to Automations → Create an automation → A purchase → choose your subscription. Write the welcome emails, and for each one click Next, set the day in Send on day, then click Publish:
    • Day 0, welcome: thank them, explain what they have access to, and give them the link to your member area.
    • Day 1, orientation: how to navigate the content, what to start with.
    • Day 3 and after, value and encouragement: tips, featured content, community highlights.

Members can view and cancel their subscription at any time from their member area. To follow your members, click Manage members on the product page: a badge shows who is on a Free trial and who has Cancelled, along with the date their access ends. Your Stripe dashboard keeps the full billing history, including failed payments.