I don’t have an active Ghost site with Stripe connected so I can’t test this for myself, but according to the help documentation it should be possible to only offer annual subscriptions, and there are screenshots showing this in the articles linked below.
Based on those articles, it looks like you have to enter a price for both monthly and yearly subscriptions when creating the tier, but you control the availability of the tiers in the portal settings. If that feature isn’t available any more for some reason, then the documentation needs to be updated.
From the Portal Settings, you can control which tiers appear on your site at a granular level, including available prices — monthly, yearly, or both.
However, and unless I’m mistaken, it’s only possible to select monthly and/or yearly price availability on a site-wide basis as opposed to on a tier by tier basis. I know @uri was mentioning this “limitation” some time ago in regards to allowing for a highest tier that could only be paid for in a yearly capacity in order to differentiate its exclusivity to all other lesser tiers. When I have a chance I’ll have to check the forum to see if he or somebody else has created an Idea topic for this which I can vote on. If not I’ll set one up.
I say all this as I’m currently assisting somebody migrating from Substack – which does apparently allow for this – and whose Substack newsletter is currently set up to take advantage of this functionality. The only workaround I can see is to set the monthly price at the same level as the already high yearly price, which looks kinda weird/absurd.
Thanks for the answers folks. The problem was actually coming from the tiers where it is mandatory to have monthly membership. I need to manually modify some code now.
Did you find out? I only want to offer a very low “yearly support”, about £6 a year, So it seems too much to charge £1 per month, it’s meant as a donation, not to accesss exclusive content etc.
Settings (the gear from the /ghost dashboard). Then click Membership. Then Customize Portal. Then open the Signup options (left side), then if you have at least one paid tier available, you’ll see checkboxes for monthly and yearly, like above.
yes, i see that. My issue is that I know most of my subscribers want a monthly membership, but many also want the opportunity to do one donation and not be billed again, i.e., yearly. But the format does not seem to be able to do both at the same time. The OP said that he’d created another dedicated membership page, so I was wondering what he meant by that and how he did it
You can absolutely have monthly and yearly available - that’s the default. (But yearly will bill them again a year later so maybe that’s not what you want?). The portal has both options available with a button for visitors to switch between them.
We would like to offer three subscription options, monthly and annually, but one option (Exclusive Member) should only (!) be payable annually. There should be no monthly payment for this subscription. How do I do that?
I have the same issue; I have 2 tiers, both available in MONTHLY and YEARLY mode. But I would love to have just one of the tiers as YEARLY. Is there a way to achieve that?
Portal doesn’t really support that, BUT many themes (not the official ones) offer membership pages that can replace that part of portal. It would not be hard to hide the monthly signup with a theme-provided membership page. (Maybe code injection, maybe some small edits.)
Ghost won’t enforce that there isn’t a monthly plan, but you can set your monthly plan cost to be the same as a year (in case someone sneaks past you), and then just hide the month option.
Thank you Cathy for the kind help, very appreciated. In my case I am seeing some subscribers grabbing all the extra goodies that go with the expensive subscription which would make sense if they paid a yearly subscription but with a monthly is just plain abuse. I will see if I can ask my coder friend helping me to hide it with code injection.
Thanks again!
