Whether you're just trying to be nice to a friend or family member, reward a long-time reader, or handle off-the-books payments, Buttondown lets you gift subscriptions to your subscribers. (Some other platforms call these "comped" subscriptions — they're one and the same.)
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Looking for information about purchasing subscriptions as gifts through the subscribe page? Check out our gifting subscriptions guide, which explains how anyone can buy a subscription for someone else using PaymentElement.
Here's how to gift a subscription:
- Navigate to the "Subscribers" page.
- Find the email address of the person to whom you wish to give a gift subscription and click the three-dot overflow menu. The menu appears.
- Select Gift. The "Gift one subscriber?" menu appears.
- Optionally, write the subscriber a message.
- Optionally, set an end date for the gift subscription to lapse on. If you don't configure this field, the gift subscription will last forever.
- Click Gift.
Your recipient will get a notification email when the gift subscription is created. If you wish to cancel the gift subscription, repeat the procedure above and select Ungift from the three-dot overflow menu.