Billing and plans
Plans, paying, GST invoices — and what happens if a payment is missed.
Only the owner sees Billing. Everyone else sees a notice when something needs paying, asking them to tell the owner.
The plans#
| Starter | Growth | Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Languages | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Team members | 3 | 10 | 25 |
| Media storage | 5 GB | 15 GB | 25 GB |
| Custom domains | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Themes | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| ePaper | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Clickable ePaper stories | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ads and AdSense | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Integrations | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Translate with AI | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Review before publishing | — | — | ✓ |
| Workflows | — | — | ✓ |
Prices are on the Billing page, and include 18% GST. Paying yearly costs ten months — two months free. What you're using shows how close you are to each limit, and What you unlock on higher plans what the next plan adds.
Paying#
- Fill in Billing details — legal name, GSTIN if you have one, and address — and press Save details. They go on your GST invoice, so this comes first.
- Under How you pay, choose Autopay (monthly or yearly, renewing by itself) or Pay once (1, 3, 6 or 12 months, no renewal).
- Press the plan's button and pay in the Razorpay window — card, UPI or netbanking. Autopay can use UPI AutoPay.
- You'll see Payment confirmed — thank you!. A new site goes online and the full dashboard opens straight away.
Pay once#
- Nothing renews. You're emailed 7 days and 1 day before your time runs out.
- Paying again adds the months after the time you already have, up to 12 months ahead.
- Pay once isn't available while autopay is on — cancel autopay first.
During a free trial#
- Choosing Autopay charges today and starts the plan now.
- Choosing Pay once starts the paid time when the trial ends.
Changing plan#
- Moving up happens now: you're charged today and a new billing period starts (Switch now).
- Moving down, or between monthly and yearly, happens at your next renewal (Switch at renewal).
- A plan your site doesn't fit — more team members or languages than it allows — is locked until you're within its limits. Nothing is ever deleted to make room.
Cancelling#
Cancel plan stops the renewal. You keep everything until the end of the time you've paid for.
Invoices#
Invoices lists every payment; View opens the tax invoice, and PDF (or Download PDF on the invoice) saves it as an A4 GST tax invoice to claim input tax credit with. Owners are emailed a copy after each payment, and so is the address in Send invoices to. GST is shown as CGST and SGST within your state, IGST otherwise.
If a payment is missed#
| Stage | What happens |
|---|---|
| Payment failing | Autopay keeps retrying. Everything works; a banner asks you to update your payment. |
| Editing paused | When retries run out, a trial ends, or paid time ends (pay once gets 3 extra days): your site stays online for readers, but nothing can be changed. The menu says Online · editing paused. |
| Site offline | 14 days later, readers see a "temporarily unavailable" page, and the site drops out of search results. |
To recover at any stage, the owner pays on Billing. Everything comes back as it was — stories, settings, team. While editing is paused, Billing, removing team members and revoking invitations still work.