Mega guide
Build your own paid newsletter on WordPress with Memberful
Here's a 4-step guide to building a paid newsletter subscription platform with Memberful and Newsletter Glue.
Requirements and costs
To start, here’s an honest look at all the software you’ll need to set up a paid newsletter, along with an estimate of how much it all costs.
- Memberful$25/month + 4.9% transaction fee
- Stripe~2.9% transaction fee + $0.30
- Newsletter Glue$99/year
- WordPress hosting~$5-10/month
- Mailchimp, MailerLite or Campaign MonitorStarts from $10
Total~$50/month
Note: Everything has a basic free version (except WordPress hosting). So initial setup is closer to $5.
4 steps to setting up your paid newsletter
Set up a newsletter subscription plan with Memberful
Lay the foundations so that subscribers can start paying you for your newsletter.
In this article
Connect Memberful with WordPress
Activate the Memberful plugin. Add purchase buttons and customer accounts.
In this article
Restrict access to paying subscribers only
Restrict your newsletter archive for paying subscribers only.
In this article
Build and publish newsletters in WordPress
Use Newsletter Glue to build and publish newsletters from WordPress.
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Get Newsletter Glue plugin
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