What’s new in 4.1
PaywallProject 4.1 lets an AI app help with subscriber support, adds refunds and subscription actions to wp-admin, reminds readers who leave checkout, and protects e-edition PDFs.
What’s new in 4.0
PaywallProject 4.0 adds recurring coupons, free plans by email domain, Newsletter Glue sync, profile photos and AI Shield, and makes Connect with Stripe the one way to take payments.
How to Get Your First 100 Paid Subscribers With a Free Registration Wall
Most local publishers tend to be too generous with their free views. In our experience, they let readers have 10 or more free stories a month before asking for anything, even a free registration. It comes from a good place.…
How a Small-Town Newspaper Built Digital Subscription Revenue
A newspaper in a town of 758 people, in a county of 17,000, started selling online subscriptions with PaywallProject. It began with virtually no online subscribers. $2,500+ A month in subscription revenue, up from almost nothing at launch 3× Email…
Case Study: 127% Subscription Revenue Growth for a City News Site
A digital news site serving a city of about 180,000 people moved to PaywallProject. Since then, its monthly subscription revenue has more than doubled and its email list has tripled. 2× Monthly subscription revenue, more than doubled since the move…
Should You Stop Printing? A Publisher’s Guide to the Print to Digital Transition
When should a newspaper stop printing? Most advice says “it depends.” We think there’s a clearer answer: stop when your paid digital subscriptions can carry the paper. The best reason to end print is that something better has taken its…
No Paywall, Still Profitable: How One Local Publisher Turns Free Readers Into Paying Members
Most publishers assume you need a hard paywall to generate reader revenue. One local news publisher is proving otherwise. This publisher has no paywall at all. Every article is free to read. Yet readers are still paying, and the numbers…
How Local News Publishers Can Cut Subscriber Churn With Newsletters
Subscriber churn is quiet. It doesn’t announce itself. One month a reader is engaged, and a few months later they’re gone, and most publishers never find out why. Here’s a number worth sitting with. A publisher losing 10% of subscribers…
Actionable analytics that drive paid subscribers for news publishers
It’s often difficult to cut through the noise when looking at an analytics dashboard. In most cases, a sea of data with no clear metric for what you, the publisher, should be focusing on. While top-level numbers like revenue and…
Article Gifting: A Simple Way to Win New Subscribers
Your best subscribers are already your best marketers; they just need an easy way to share. That’s exactly what our new article gifting feature does. Here’s how it works: subscribers on eligible levels can send any article to a friend…