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Magazine subscriptions and memberships for independent publishers

Issue-based subscriptions that follow your publishing schedule. Time-based memberships that renew monthly, quarterly or yearly. Fulfilment tools and subscriber management included.

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Totally free for your first 20 signups.

With Subsail you can sell print and digital subscriptions and memberships to readers worldwide. It takes just minutes to set up on your website.

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Totally free for your first 20 subscriptions or memberships.

Two ways to sell to your readers.

Two billing mechanics to cover your needs. Offer one, or both.

Subscriptions

Tied to issues. Charge when you publish. Best when the magazine is the product and your schedule is fluid.

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Memberships

Tied to time. Charge by month or year. Best when regular income, belonging and membership perks are key.

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Direct sales provide solid cashflow you can plan around.

Don't wait months for sales reports and payments from distributors when you can capture revenue up-front today.

Typical distributor model

Delayed reporting and payments can leave you funding contributors, printing and shipping from your own pocket, and with no contact with readers.

With Subsail

Collect revenue up-front and see sales in real-time. Communicate directly with your readers and fund future issues.

Read why subscriptions are so powerful

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Subsail has allowed us—and our customers—to manage subscriptions far easier than our previous system, and auto-exporting data to our fulfilment partner has been a huge timesaver.

Sam and Elliot Stocks

Easy to set up, easy to manage.

Subsail is a simple, powerful way to sell to your readers: an easy-to-add checkout, plus tools for taking care of your audience and getting data ready for fulfilment.

1. Add your products

Create subscription or membership products. Choose postage rates, included issues, and how renewals work.

2. Send readers to your checkout

Add a link to your Subsail hosted checkout from your website or share it on social media.

3. Monitor your sales

In Subsail, check your sales figures, your feed of activity and easily access your readers and orders.

4. Export for fulfilment

When you need to send out magazines, quickly export your data formatted for multiple platforms like ShipStation and Newsstand (and CSV).

Sell anywhere. Manage in Subsail.

Continue selling through Shopify, Big Cartel, Squarespace etc.
Import orders into Subsail and enjoy a much easier way to view, manage and fulfil them.

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And there’s a lot more to discover in your Subsail account.

Easy exports for your fulfilment process.

Create reader segments.

Auto send new orders to Newsstand.

Update subscriber addresses.

Manage cancellations and refunds.

Auto import orders from ecommerce platforms.

Sync reader info with your Mailchimp lists.

Sync members to Ghost.

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Subsail has been an absolute game-changer for the Goodnewspaper. I've tried virtually every subscription tool on the market and none of them are as simple to use as Subsail.

Branden Harvey