Websites
Subscription website with restricted access
Paid content or services: clubs, private libraries, paid communities. It relies on renewing the subscription being more worthwhile than cancelling it.
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Where the difficulty lies
The hard part is retention, not development
Technically, a subscription is registration, payment and an access check: it will work within a week. But revenue comes from retention, not from the launch, and retention depends on what is inside and how often it is updated. This is thought through before any code.
A subscription website without regular content stops making money in the second month — people cancel exactly when there is no longer a reason to log in.
Education platform and courses →[ 02 ]
What’s included
What’s included in a subscription website
In the base package
- Registration and access levels
- Recurring payments and renewal
- Trial period
- Restricted sections by plan
- Personal account with payment history
On request
Click an item and it goes straight into your request
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How we work
How work on a subscription website goes
Plans and what is inside
The plan grid, what each level unlocks, what it is filled with and how often. Access structure follows from this.
Access and restricted sections
Access levels, restricted sections, what a guest, a trial user and a paying member see.
Payments and renewal
Recurring payments, trial period, renewal, payment reminders, history in the account.
Launch and retention
Launch, tracking cancellations, the points where people leave and what to do about them.
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Stack and what we need from you
Stack and what we need from you
Tech stack
- React + Vite
- Recurring payments: a provider with subscriptions
- Access levels and permission checks
- Restricted content
- Payment reminders and notifications
- Hosting on our side or yours
What we need from you
- What exactly is inside and how often it is updated
- Plan grid
- Cancellation and refund terms
- Whether there is a trial period and how many days
- Feedback on mockups within ___ business days
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Pricing
How much a subscription website costs
from
per project
The price depends on the number of access levels, whether there is a trial period and the complexity of the payment setup. We name the exact figure after reviewing plans and content.
Get an estimateIncluded in the price
Registration and access levels
Recurring payments and renewal
Trial period
Restricted sections by plan
Account with payment history
Priced separately
Cancellation and refunds with complex rules
Affiliate and referral programme
Retention analytics and cohorts
Revisions after approval round ___
Support and development — from ___ per month
We fix the estimate before work begins. A more complex payment setup and refund rules are estimated separately.
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