I’m thinking of starting a second site (completely different focus), and am thinking about which platform to choose. Ghost handles the newsletter-plus-blog-plus-website thing pretty well. But, I want to set it up as a “pay-what-you-want” monthly subscription, and I don’t see any way to do that with Ghost. Am I missing something? And if it’s really not there, are there any plans to implement it? Thanks!
Thoughts? Anybody figured this out?
It wouldn’t be all that hard to glue it together. The functionality exists in Stripe, and then you’d need to set up their access in Ghost to match, using your webhook/zap/cloud function tool of choice.
Yes, but in checking the Stripe documentation, their PWYW feature is only for one-time purchases. It doesn’t support recurring payments, like a monthly membership payment.
You must create a custom plan page and figure out ways to call stripe API if you want a Pay-what-you-want subscription. Ghost can’t do this, this requires a lot of custom work.
Yes and no. A cloud function could create a new price in response to the price entered by the user, and generate a subscription for them to sign up for.