Are there any plans or possibilities to allow a minimum tier such as ($1 a month), but allow them to select how much they would like to pay above and beyond, or even a one-time payment?
[I don’t work for Ghost, and this advice may be worth exactly what you paid me for it: $0]
One time payments are supported already. See Tips & Donations
There’s no creation of a subscription or member for one-time payments. You could set it up with Zapier or another automation tool if desired.
Ghost doesn’t support pay-what-you-like-subscriptions. Neither does Stripe, although Stripe is not bothered at all by having lots of prices in the system, or by subscriptions that have quantities. (Platforms that use Stripe and allow pay-what-you-want for subscriptions are actually making an API call to Stripe to create a new price as needed.)
So… you could make lots of different subscription tiers at different prices within Ghost, and website visitors would hopefully find one that matches what they want to pay. [Check how many tiers your plan supports before proceeding with this.]
[Caution: This behavior is not directly supported by Ghost. Use at your own risk.] You could also set up a subscription in Stripe directly, and then link to it. Stripe can be set up to let someone increase the quantity of the subscription (although not change the price – but that’s functionally the same thing.) That’s what I’m doing here:
Interestingly, Stripe will notify Ghost of the new subscription, and Ghost will create the member (or upgrade them if the email matches) and put them on the first paid tier. Again, this is probably unintended/unsupported behavior.
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You can encourage users to send tips and then send them a link to claim a tier as a gratitude. Since Stripe will capture that individuals contribution anyways. If you have n8n, you can automate this behavior as well..