# Manual creation of subscriptions

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/manual-creation-of-subscriptions/22754>\
**Category:** Memberships & subscriptions\
**Created:** [May 15, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/manual-creation-of-subscriptions/22754 "2021-05-15T12:03:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 15, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/manual-creation-of-subscriptions/22754/1 "2021-05-15T12:03:51Z")

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Does Ghost support the creation of manual subscriptions, or are subscriptions tightly coupled to Stripe?

The issues at hand is that Stripe does not support a lot of payment methods in the context of recurring payments. Our company is based in Europe and, in contrast to the US, most customers aren’t used to using a credit card for payments. What we’d like Ghost to support is:

(1) Customer does a one off payment for a fixed period of access to our content (eg. 3 or 6 months)  
(2) We add a member to Ghost and manually link a subscription to that member

Does Ghost support this workflow?