Skip to main content
A paid newsletter connects your email list to your subscription offers. Readers who subscribe become paid subscribers; you choose, post by post, whether everyone, free subscribers only, or paid subscribers only can read it. Free subscribers see the start of a paid post and a button to subscribe.
The paid newsletter is part of the Growth plan and above. You can read its settings and numbers on any plan; turning it on and sending paid posts need Growth.

​
Set it up

1

Create the membership offers

In Subscriptions, create the offer readers pay for: a monthly price, a yearly price, or both (for example 9/monthand9/month and 90/year). They are normal subscription offers, so checkout, receipts and the subscriber portal work as usual.
2

Turn on the paid newsletter

Go to Posts → Paid newsletter, pick the monthly and/or yearly offer, give the newsletter a name, and switch it on.
3

Write a paid post

In the post editor, drag the Paywall block to where the free preview should end. In the Audience step, choose Paid subscribers only.

​
Who is a paid subscriber

Anyone with a live subscription to one of the membership offers — active, in a free trial, in a payment retry window, or paused — is a paid subscriber. Paid subscribers carry the paid tag in Subscribers. The tag updates on its own:
  • when someone subscribes, renews, fails a payment, pauses, cancels or is refunded;
  • when you change the membership offers;
  • right before every paid post is sent.
A new paid subscriber who wasn’t on your list yet is added to it (they paid for the newsletter). Someone who unsubscribed stays unsubscribed.

​
Post audiences

The audience works on top of who you already send to (everyone, a product’s buyers, a tag, or hand-picked people).
No paywall block in a paid post? Free subscribers get only the subject, the preview line and the subscribe button — never the body.
In your own HTML (for example through the API), mark the paywall with {{paywall}} or any element with a data-pf-paywall attribute.

​
The public archive

Turn on Show on your newsletter page for a post and, once it is sent, it appears on https://<your-subdomain>.pocketsflow.com/newsletter.
  • Everyone and free posts are readable by anyone.
  • Paid posts show the preview and a paywall with your subscribe buttons. The rest of the post is never sent to the reader’s browser.
  • Paid subscribers enter their email on the paywall and get a reading link. It opens every paid post on that browser for 30 days, and stops working as soon as their subscription ends.
  • If your plan drops below Growth, the archive stays up read-only (the same rule as memberships): your current paid subscribers keep reading every post with their link, the subscribe buttons are hidden, and no new paid post can be sent until you upgrade again.

​
Your numbers

Posts → Paid newsletter shows:
  • Paid subscribers — and how many joined or canceled in the last 30 days.
  • MRR — monthly recurring revenue from the membership (yearly plans count one twelfth).
  • Free → paid — paid subscribers out of everyone on your list.
  • Free subscribers — the people your next upgrade CTA reaches.

​
API and AI agents

Everything above is in the public API and the MCP server: see Paid newsletter API.