Setup guides, provider comparisons and the workarounds that do not hold up, for publishers running memberships on Ghost.https://payglue.io/blog/enhttps://payglue.io/blog/we-built-a-safety-net-and-then-did-not-use-it/https://payglue.io/blog/we-built-a-safety-net-and-then-did-not-use-it/PayGlue sits between your payment provider and your members, so every change I make lands on your site. In July I built a practice copy to try changes on first. In August I found out I had stopped using it eight weeks earlier.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/we-followed-our-own-setup-guide-and-it-broke-the-install/https://payglue.io/blog/we-followed-our-own-setup-guide-and-it-broke-the-install/My open-source build passed every test, built cleanly in CI, and could not be installed by following the instructions I wrote. Here is what a laptop, Docker Desktop and one clean clone found that 579 tests never could.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/open-sourcing-your-saas-the-failures-nobody-warns-you-about/https://payglue.io/blog/open-sourcing-your-saas-the-failures-nobody-warns-you-about/I published the source of a tool that connects payment providers to other people's websites, then found the mistakes that had been sitting there for weeks. Hardcoded addresses, defaults that mailed strangers my customers' data, a public build nobody had ever run, and one commit I could not take back.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/foreign-stripe-account-risk/https://payglue.io/blog/foreign-stripe-account-risk/Open a company in a country Stripe supports, connect it to Ghost, done. It works for a while, which is exactly the problem. Here is the failure mode and what to do instead.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCountrieshttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-member-not-found-after-payment/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-member-not-found-after-payment/The payment went through, the webhook was processed, and there is no member. Four causes, in the order they are worth checking, and the one that accounts for most of them.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTroubleshootinghttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-stripe-to-another-provider/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-stripe-to-another-provider/Ghost's native billing and an outside provider can run side by side, which is what makes this safe. The order of operations is what makes it uneventful.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrationhttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-vs-substack-vs-beehiiv/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-vs-substack-vs-beehiiv/Fees and features change every quarter. Who owns the reader relationship, and what leaves with you when you go, does not. This compares the parts that stay true.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/importing-members-into-ghost/https://payglue.io/blog/importing-members-into-ghost/Ghost's CSV import takes eight columns, and the one it does not take is the reason people redo the whole thing a week later. Here is the file to build and the order to build it in.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrationhttps://payglue.io/blog/polar-vs-lemonsqueezy-vs-paddle/https://payglue.io/blog/polar-vs-lemonsqueezy-vs-paddle/Three merchants of record, all of which will take money and handle your VAT. The differences that matter for a Ghost membership are not the ones on the pricing pages.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/running-two-payment-providers-on-ghost/https://payglue.io/blog/running-two-payment-providers-on-ghost/It is a normal configuration rather than a hack or a temporary migration state. Ghost memberships are provider-agnostic by design, which leaves four things to watch.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrationhttps://payglue.io/blog/selling-to-the-eu-from-outside-it/https://payglue.io/blog/selling-to-the-eu-from-outside-it/There is no minimum you have to cross before EU VAT applies to a digital subscription. That single fact catches more publishers than any technical problem in this blog.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTCountrieshttps://payglue.io/blog/substack-to-ghost-migration/https://payglue.io/blog/substack-to-ghost-migration/The posts and the email list come across in an afternoon. The paying subscribers do not come across at all, and every guide that skips this leaves you to discover it on the day.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrationhttps://payglue.io/blog/switching-providers-with-active-subscriptions/https://payglue.io/blog/switching-providers-with-active-subscriptions/The question that stops most provider changes before they start. The answer is uncomfortable and manageable, and knowing it up front changes how you plan the whole thing.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTMigrationhttps://payglue.io/blog/testing-ghost-payments-before-launch/https://payglue.io/blog/testing-ghost-payments-before-launch/Most people test the purchase and stop. The purchase is the part that fails loudly. Here is the checklist that covers the parts that fail quietly, months later, without telling you.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTroubleshootinghttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-patreon-sync/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-patreon-sync/Patreon keeps the audience and the billing. Ghost gets the content and the gate. The catch is what happens on cancellation, and it is worth knowing before you map a second tier.Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-creem-setup/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-creem-setup/Creem is the strictest provider here about webhook signatures, which is a good thing wearing an inconvenient hat. It also has a sandbox switch you can get wrong in a way that fails confusingly.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-gumroad-setup/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-gumroad-setup/Gumroad is the shortest setup of any provider that handles subscriptions properly, because it is the only one where you never touch a webhook screen. Here is the whole thing.Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-memberships-india/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-memberships-india/Two separate problems stack up for Indian publishers on Ghost, and most advice only addresses one. Here is how to work out what will actually pay you.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTCountrieshttps://payglue.io/blog/merchant-of-record-explained/https://payglue.io/blog/merchant-of-record-explained/The difference between a payment processor and a merchant of record decides who files tax in every country your readers live in. The least glamorous decision you will make, and an expensive one to get wrong.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-webhook-not-firing/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-webhook-not-firing/Somebody paid and no Ghost member appeared. Three completely different faults look identical from outside. Here is how to tell them apart in under a minute.Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTTroubleshootinghttps://payglue.io/blog/i-built-an-affiliate-program-and-heres-why-40-felt-right/https://payglue.io/blog/i-built-an-affiliate-program-and-heres-why-40-felt-right/A few beta testers asked me the same question, independently, a few weeks apart: is there a referral program? Not in a 'how do I monetize this' way. More like, 'I've already been telling people about this, it would be nice if that actually counted for something.'Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-make-com-membership-workflow/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-make-com-membership-workflow/Make gives you routers, error handlers and real state, which puts it well ahead of Zapier for this job. Then Ghost's Admin API asks for something no visual builder wants to give it.Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/open-beta-is-live-founding-pricing-starts-at-9eur/https://payglue.io/blog/open-beta-is-live-founding-pricing-starts-at-9eur/The waitlist page is gone. As of today, anyone can sign up for PayGlue, connect Ghost, connect a payment provider, and start using it right away. Checkout works. Founding member pricing is live, starting at 9€.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-kofi-setup/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-kofi-setup/Ko-fi is the fastest setup of any provider here: one token, no webhook registration. It also has a limitation that decides whether it fits you at all.Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-paypal-recurring-memberships/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-paypal-recurring-memberships/PayPal reaches countries Stripe does not, which is often the whole reason to use it. It also works differently from every other provider here. What that means for a Ghost membership.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-paddle-setup/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-paddle-setup/Paddle is a merchant of record with unusually broad tax coverage. It also has no checkout links, which changes how you put a buy button on a Ghost site. Here is the whole setup.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-lemon-squeezy-setup/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-lemon-squeezy-setup/Lemon Squeezy handles the checkout and the tax. Ghost handles the content. Here is how to connect them so a purchase grants access on its own, and a cancellation takes it away.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/we-now-have-a-public-status-page/https://payglue.io/blog/we-now-have-a-public-status-page/If PayGlue is processing webhooks for your Ghost site, you probably want to know when something is wrong before your readers do. Until now, there was no way for you to check. That changes today.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/payglue-is-now-open-source/https://payglue.io/blog/payglue-is-now-open-source/When I started building PayGlue, open source was not part of the original plan. It was not off the table either, I had just never committed to it. Today that changed. The full codebase is public.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTNewshttps://payglue.io/blog/what-a-full-pricing-table-looks-like-when-it-talks-to-ghost/https://payglue.io/blog/what-a-full-pricing-table-looks-like-when-it-talks-to-ghost/A free tier, a one-time payment and two subscriptions, side by side in one table, all landing as the same thing: a Ghost membership. Here is what happens under each button, and where to see the table itself.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTDemohttps://payglue.io/blog/three-buttons-one-dashboard-how-we-embed-payment-links-in-this-blog/https://payglue.io/blog/three-buttons-one-dashboard-how-we-embed-payment-links-in-this-blog/A tip jar, an event ticket, and a button that takes no money at all. All three built in one dashboard, all three deliberately styled differently. Here is why, and where to click them.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTDemohttps://payglue.io/blog/how-this-blog-runs-with-a-payglue-paywall/https://payglue.io/blog/how-this-blog-runs-with-a-payglue-paywall/I could have written another 'why I built this' post. Instead there is a real paywall in front of my own writing, and that is the demo. Here is how it works, and where to walk into it yourself.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTDemohttps://payglue.io/blog/paypal-donation-button-zapier-for-ghost-the-forum-advice-that-sounds-simple-but-isnt/https://payglue.io/blog/paypal-donation-button-zapier-for-ghost-the-forum-advice-that-sounds-simple-but-isnt/Search any Ghost community forum for 'PayPal memberships' and you will find the same suggestion: add a PayPal donation button and connect it to Ghost via Zapier. Here is why that advice is well-intentioned but fundamentally broken for membership sites.Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/stripe-not-available-in-your-country/https://payglue.io/blog/stripe-not-available-in-your-country/Ghost asks for Stripe and stops there. If Stripe doesn't operate where you live, here are the three routes people take and the one that actually holds up.Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTCountriesComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-zapier-manual-workflow-for-non-stripe-payments-and-its-limits/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-zapier-manual-workflow-for-non-stripe-payments-and-its-limits/Zapier is often the first suggestion when Ghost publishers ask about non-Stripe payment support. Here is an honest look at how the workflow is set up, where it breaks down, and what it actually costs.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-n8n-manual-webhook-workflow-setup-and-why-it-gets-complicated/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-n8n-manual-webhook-workflow-setup-and-why-it-gets-complicated/n8n is a powerful open-source automation tool. You can use it to connect payment providers to Ghost, but the setup is more involved than most forum posts suggest. Here is what it actually takes.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonhttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-webhooks-explained-how-payment-providers-talk-to-your-membership-site/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-webhooks-explained-how-payment-providers-talk-to-your-membership-site/What actually happens between the moment a customer clicks 'buy' and the moment Ghost grants them access? A plain-English guide to webhooks, retries, signature verification, and why they sometimes fail.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTTroubleshootinghttps://payglue.io/blog/ghost-polar-the-complete-setup-guide-for-memberships/https://payglue.io/blog/ghost-polar-the-complete-setup-guide-for-memberships/Polar handles the checkout and the EU VAT. Ghost handles the content. Here is the whole connection, including the optional step most people skip and then wish they had not.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSetuphttps://payglue.io/blog/how-to-accept-payments-on-ghost-without-stripe/https://payglue.io/blog/how-to-accept-payments-on-ghost-without-stripe/Ghost asks for Stripe and offers no second option. Here is every route out of that, what each one costs you, and the honest reason to pick each.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparison