# Complimentary month instead of year?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963>\
**Category:** Memberships & subscriptions\
**Created:** [September 29, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963 "2021-09-29T12:38:30Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Bildspraket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bildspraket/32/15149_2.png) [@Bildspraket](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Bildspraket)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 12:38pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/1 "2021-09-29T12:38:30Z")

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Maybe it’s just me missing the obvious, but when I set a member to ”complimentary” it seems that it will always give full year. Is there a way to make this a month instead?

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**Author:** ![egg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/egg/32/1691_2.png) [@egg](https://forum.ghost.org/u/egg)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/2 "2021-09-29T13:40:42Z")

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Complimentary lasts forever, until an Admin explicitly removes it from a Member - changing it to a month wouldn’t make any difference!

Are you looking to give a Member complimentary access for a limited time?

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**Author:** ![Bildspraket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bildspraket/32/15149_2.png) [@Bildspraket](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Bildspraket)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/3 "2021-09-29T13:54:36Z")

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I am engaging a few test pilots, and I would like to thank them with a complimentary month. Seems cheap, maybe, but a years membership is 750 USD since it includes advanced coaching.

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**Author:** ![Bildspraket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bildspraket/32/15149_2.png) [@Bildspraket](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Bildspraket)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/4 "2021-09-29T13:55:48Z")

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I was browsing through the options on Stripe, but it seems they discouage us to use the test period function since it may mess things up at a later stage.

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**Author:** ![mattcam](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mattcam/32/5890_2.png) [@mattcam](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mattcam)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2021, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/5 "2021-09-29T18:54:40Z")

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If you are self hosting Ghost then you might want to have a look at `allow_promotion_codes` which requires the following in the config. For me this file is called `config.production.json`. This will give you some flexibility with Stripe.

```auto
"enableStripePromoCodes": true,

```

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**Author:** ![Bildspraket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bildspraket/32/15149_2.png) [@Bildspraket](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Bildspraket)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2021, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/6 "2021-09-30T12:10:44Z")

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Thanks mattcam, that’s a great tip. But I am not self hosting, but using the Ghost Pro service.

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**Author:** ![egg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/egg/32/1691_2.png) [@egg](https://forum.ghost.org/u/egg)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 9:21am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/7 "2021-10-01T09:21:32Z")

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Right now we don’t support automatic cancelation of Complimentary subscriptions - so the only solution is to set yourself a reminder to cancel their subscription!

You’re welcome to post in our “Ideas” category for the feature request to automatically cancel a Complimentary subscription after a certain period of time!

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**Author:** ![Bildspraket](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bildspraket/32/15149_2.png) [@Bildspraket](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Bildspraket)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2021, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/complimentary-month-instead-of-year/25963/8 "2021-10-01T10:19:44Z")

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Thanks, maybe I’ll do that. Meanwhile I solve it some other way.