Subwave paid subscriptions explained: how access, billing, cancellations, and failed payments all work in one place.
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To read paid posts on Subwave, subscribe to the channel for free, then upgrade to a paid plan, monthly or yearly. You get access to all of the channel's paid posts right away, and you can cancel whenever you want. Here's how it all works.
Creators choose how to share each post, and a channel can mix all three types:
A channel that offers paid subscriptions doesn't have to put everything behind a paywall. Many creators keep some posts public or free and reserve others for paying subscribers.
Start by subscribing to the channel. Once you're a free subscriber, you can upgrade to a paid subscription at any time. Need an account first? Here's how to create your account.
You'll get immediate access to all paid posts on that channel.
You can cancel at any time.
After you cancel, you keep access to paid posts until the end of your current billing period. Then you go back to being a free subscriber: you'll still receive public and subscribers-only posts, but not paid content.
Yes, but only during the grace period, which is the time after you cancel and before your current billing period ends. Once the period closes and the subscription expires, you'll need to subscribe again from scratch to get paid access back.
Your subscription moves into a past-due state, and Stripe automatically retries the charge over the next few days. If every retry fails, the subscription is cancelled and you go back to being a free subscriber, the same as a regular cancellation.
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