# What does the new Complimentary Subscription mean? **URL:** \ **Category:** Memberships & subscriptions\ **Created:** [January 29, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658 "2020-01-29T15:40:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MLFromScratch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mlfromscratch/32/2278_2.png) [@MLFromScratch](https://forum.ghost.org/u/MLFromScratch)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/1 "2020-01-29T15:40:53Z")
For the [3.4.0 release](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/3.4.0) there is a release note about - Added ability to give members complimentary subscriptions My question is just with regards to the use case of it. Generally just curious here. ---
**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:** [January 29, 2020, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/2 "2020-01-29T15:50:57Z")
It allows you to attach a zero-cost Stripe subscription to the member, giving them the same access level as a “paid” member. We’ll be announcing it soon and releasing documentation for it 😌 ---
**Author:** ![MLFromScratch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mlfromscratch/32/2278_2.png) [@MLFromScratch](https://forum.ghost.org/u/MLFromScratch)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2020, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/3 "2020-01-29T15:53:11Z")
Oh okay, interesting. So you can basically give away free subscriptions to members? ---
**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:** [January 29, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/4 "2020-01-29T16:41:11Z")
Yup, exactly! ---
**Author:** ![n1n10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@n1n10](https://forum.ghost.org/u/n1n10)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2020, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/5 "2020-02-01T06:57:25Z")
Great addition @egg! One quick question. Can this only be enabled from within Ghost Admin? I have tried to give a user a complimentary subscription within Stripe, where you can also set and end date ( so for example you could give a user 1 week or 1 month free access to a paid subscription.) But it doesn’t seem to sync back to Ghost. ---
**Author:** ![n1n10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@n1n10](https://forum.ghost.org/u/n1n10)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2020, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/6 "2020-02-02T14:41:50Z")
Disregard my message above @egg. It took a little while for the changes in Stripe to sync back, but it works just perfectly fine now. Sorry for the confusion. ---
**Author:** ![jpm](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/jpm/32/13619_2.png) [@jpm](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jpm)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/what-does-the-new-complimentary-subscription-mean/11658/7 "2020-02-21T07:22:38Z")
Comes in useful when your cousin is begging to get your paid content for free 😃