# Paid community

URL: /products/templates/paid-community · Id: `productTemplate:paid-community`

> A Paid community sells monthly or yearly access to gated Content and Gatherings for its members, renewed by Subscription.

A Paid community sells monthly or yearly access to gated [Content](/business/nouns/content) and [Gatherings](/business/nouns/gathering) for its members, renewed by [Subscription](/business/nouns/subscription).

## The business
| Line | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Earns | `subscription` |
| Typical Prices | $10 to $50 a month; $100 to $500 a year |
| First revenue on | A [Demand Budget](/business/nouns/demand-budget) of $100 |
| Supply | `digital`: Agents do the work |
| Motions | [b2c](/business/motions/b2c) |
| One metric per state | Idea: [Problem interviews](/agents/founding#problem-interviews); Building: [Committed ICP members](/agents/founding#committed-icp-members); Live: [Outside paying Customers](/agents/founding#outside-paying-customers); Repeatable: [Month-3 retention](/agents/customer#month-3-retention); Scale: [Net revenue retention](/agents/customer#net-revenue-retention) |
| Seed Plays | [Launch week](/workflows/plays/launch-week), [Events and webinars](/workflows/plays/events-and-webinars), [Creator partnership](/workflows/plays/creator-partnership) |
| Compounding Plays | [Founder voice](/workflows/plays/founder-voice), [Owned newsletter](/workflows/plays/owned-newsletter), [Customer referrals](/workflows/plays/customer-referrals) |

| Offer | Price | Features | Limits | At its bound | On sale |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Member (`member`) | $20 a month | [Content.get](/business/nouns/content/get), [Gathering.register](/business/nouns/gathering/register) | None. | None. | Always |
| Member, yearly (`member-yearly`) | $200 a year | [Content.get](/business/nouns/content/get), [Gathering.register](/business/nouns/gathering/register) | None. | None. | Always |

An Entitlement bounded by a Limit has `kind` `limit`; one without has `kind` `feature`. The `kind` is computed, never set.

[Offer.publish](/business/nouns/offer/publish) puts each Offer on every buy surface: `checkout`, `paymentLink`, `pricingTable`, `portalEntry`, `mcpBuyTool`, `http402`.

## Adds
| Kind | Item | From |
| --- | --- | --- |
| System | [Webinars](/systems/webinars) | This template |

## Wakes
- [Onboarding](/workflows/processes/onboarding)
- [Billing](/workflows/processes/billing)
- [Retention](/workflows/processes/retention)

## Staffing
- [Success Manager](/agents/customer/success-manager)
- [Billing Specialist](/agents/finance/billing-specialist)
- [Content Lead](/agents/marketing/content-lead)

## Floor
- [Renewals](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/renewals)
- [Splits](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/splits)
- [Identity checks](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/identity)

## Controls
- [One-way Action windows](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/one-way-windows)

## Builders
- [SoftwareBuilder](/code/builders/software)
- [SalesBuilder](/code/builders/sales)

## Next
None.

## Example
Clausecheck runs a $20 a month community for freelancers: the clause library, and a live contract clinic each month as a [Gathering](/business/nouns/gathering). Members register for the clinic in one step, and cancelling ends access at the end of the month paid for.