Open Beta Is Live: Founding Pricing Starts at 9€

That’s the short version. Here’s the longer one, because closed beta actually did what it was supposed to do, and it’s worth writing down.

What closed beta proved

I opened closed beta with one goal: get PayGlue running on a real Ghost site, with a real payment provider, through a real billing cycle, before asking anyone else to trust it with their memberships. On June 17 I hit that milestone. A tenant connected Ghost and Polar end to end in production, credentials encrypted at rest, Ghost Admin API sync working against a live site.

From there it was mostly about breadth. Polar was the only provider live back in June. Since then I have shipped Lemon Squeezy, PayPal, Gumroad, Paddle, Ko-fi, Creem, and Patreon, eight providers now running on the same webhook relay. If your payment provider isn’t Stripe and Ghost doesn’t know what to do with it, there’s a decent chance PayGlue already does.

**One thing worth repeating, because it still confuses people: **

I also open sourced the whole thing in June. PayGlue-OS is on GitHub under BUSL 1.1, which converts to Apache 2.0 in 2030, and self-hosting is free, no license fee, run it on your own infrastructure and never depend on mine. That part isn’t changing today. If you’d rather not wait on a hosted account, the code is right there.

The rest of closed beta was less visible but just as necessary: a downloadable DPA, a public sub-processor list, a security manifest. The boring compliance work that makes a payment-adjacent tool trustworthy instead of just fast.

What’s different starting today

Closed beta meant an invite gate and a waitlist. Open beta means neither. Sign up, connect Ghost, connect your provider, done. No code, no waiting for a batch invite.

Checkout is live too, which it wasn’t a week ago. Founding member pricing works like this**: 9€/month, and your rate locks in for life (108€/year if you go annual)**, instead of the 59€/month (590€/year annual) regular price once public pricing kicks in. That’s tier one. As more people join, the entry price and the locked rate both step up, five steps in total, so tier one is genuinely the cheapest this will ever get.

I am not going to pretend there’s a queue of people fighting over the first spots. There isn’t, not yet. What’s true is that the earlier you’re in, the less you pay for life, and that’s the whole point of a founding tier.

What’s still coming

Recurring plans, Solo, Studio, and Agency, already exist in the product and are visible on the site, but they’re marked “coming soon” for now. The founding tier is the only thing you can actually buy today. Whop and Hotmart are next on the provider list. If there’s one you’re waiting on that isn’t there yet, tell me, it genuinely shapes what I build next.

And if hosted PayGlue still isn’t your thing, PayGlue-OS keeps existing exactly as it did yesterday: free, self-hosted, no dependency on me at all.

Cheers, André