The all-in-one home for a paid community, courses, and events under your own brand
Circle is a hosted community platform that lets a creator or business run branded discussion spaces, courses, live events, paid memberships, and email marketing on its own domain, with native iOS and Android apps, an AI layer, and a checkout that takes a 0.5 to 2 percent platform fee on top of Stripe processing depending on plan; it starts at $89 per month with a 14-day trial and no free plan.
Overview
Circle was founded in 2019 by three people who had just spent years at Teachable watching creators sell courses and then lose their students to a Facebook group. The founding insight was that the community, not the course, is the thing people renew for, and that it deserved a real product rather than a free social network owned by someone else. That framing has held up: Circle is now the default answer for a creator or small business that wants a members area with an actual brand on it, and third-party reporting puts it past $50M in annual recurring revenue on roughly $33M raised, with a Series A led by Tiger Global at a $200M valuation.
What you get for $89 a month is unusually broad. Spaces for threaded discussion, a course builder, an events and live-streaming layer, direct messages and chat, a member directory, gamification, paywalls with recurring billing, a website builder, native mobile apps, a custom domain, and a white-labeled member experience are all on the entry tier. Member counts are unlimited on every plan. What the tiers actually gate is administrative capacity and margin: three admins and ten moderators on Professional, five and fifteen on Business, and a transaction fee that falls from 2 percent to 1 percent to 0.5 percent as you climb.
In June 2026 Circle repositioned around AI, announcing at its Circle Eclipse event that the platform is now AI-native: you describe the community you want and specialized agents assemble the spaces, content, and workflows. Circle AI with a monthly credit allowance ships on every tier, but AI agents and AI workflows are reserved for Circle Plus, the custom-priced top plan that also carries custom SSO, the headless member API, unlimited admins, and the branded app program. That is the one place where Circle stops being self-serve and hands you to a salesperson.
The honest caveat is that the sticker price is not the real price. Email Hub, which is how you actually run lifecycle marketing to members, is an add-on that starts around $99 a month for 10,000 contacts once the first 30 days are up, and the transaction fee sits on top of Stripe's own 2.9 percent plus 30 cents. A community doing $10,000 a month in memberships on Professional is paying $89, plus 2 percent to Circle, plus Stripe, plus whatever Email Hub costs. Model that before comparing the headline number against Skool's $9.
Best for
Creators, coaches, and small businesses running a paid membership or cohort program who want courses, events, discussion, and billing in one branded product on their own domain, and who are doing enough revenue that a 1 to 2 percent platform fee is a rounding error rather than a tax.
Not the right fit for
- Anyone whose community is free and will stay free with fewer than a few hundred members; you are paying $89 a month for billing infrastructure you will never use, and a free Discourse plan or a Discord server does the discussion part for nothing.
- High-volume, low-margin membership businesses; the 2 percent Professional transaction fee stacks on top of Stripe, and at meaningful volume you are handing Circle more in fees than the subscription costs, with the discount to 0.5 percent locked behind a sales conversation.
- Teams that need public, search-indexed discussion as an acquisition channel; Circle can expose public spaces, but its content architecture is not built for search visibility the way a forum like Discourse is, and nobody buys Circle for SEO.
- Buyers who need a branded mobile app on a predictable budget; branded apps require a Circle Plus sales conversation with no published price, which turns a self-serve product into an enterprise negotiation at exactly the point most creators want one.
- Organizations with strict identity requirements out of the gate; custom SSO is a Circle Plus feature, so a company wanting members authenticated against its own directory cannot get there on a published price.
How it works
- 1
You sign up for a 14-day trial without a sales call, pick a subdomain, and point a custom domain at it. Circle serves the whole member experience under your brand, so members never see a vendor logo in the way they do on a free chat tool.
- 2
You structure the community as spaces, which are the equivalent of forum categories: a general discussion space, a wins space, a course space, an events space, a members-only paid space. Each space carries its own permissions, so free and paid tiers see different rooms without you running two products.
- 3
Content lives in three shapes. Posts and comments are the discussion substrate. Courses are lessons grouped into modules with progress tracking and drip scheduling. Events are scheduled sessions with RSVPs, calendar sync, and live streaming or Zoom, with recordings that land back in a space afterwards.
- 4
Money runs through Circle's own checkout on top of Stripe. You define one-time purchases, recurring memberships, and bundles, gate spaces and courses behind them, and Circle handles dunning, upgrades, and affiliates. The platform takes its percentage before the money reaches you, which is the number that decides whether Circle is cheap or expensive for your specific business.
- 5
Around all of this sit the operational layers: automated moderation, gamification, member analytics, an API, native mobile apps, and the Email Hub add-on for broadcasts and segmented campaigns. On Circle Plus the AI agents can build and modify this configuration from plain-English instructions rather than from settings screens.
Feature breakdown
28 features in 5 modulesCommunity structure and discussion
The forum layer, organized into permissioned spaces rather than one flat feed.- Spaces and space groups
- Discussion areas with independent permissions and layouts, capped at 20 on Professional and 30 on Business, which is the quiet limit that catches communities that over-organize early.
- Posts, comments, and a personalized feed
- Threaded discussion with a home feed that surfaces relevant activity per member rather than showing everything in chronological order.
- Chat and direct messages
- Real-time chat rooms and member-to-member DMs sit alongside the slower threaded discussion, so you do not need a separate Slack for the fast conversation.
- Member directory and profiles
- A searchable directory with profile fields; custom profile fields are gated to Business and above, which matters if member matchmaking is part of your value proposition.
- Gamification
- Points, levels, and leaderboards to reward participation, included on every tier rather than sold as an upsell.
- Search with unlimited history
- Full-text search across the archive with no retention cutoff, which is the single clearest advantage over running the same community in a free Slack workspace.
Courses, events, and content
First-class, not bolted on, which is the reason most people choose Circle over a forum.- Course builder
- Modules and lessons with video, text, and files, member progress tracking, and drip scheduling, available on the entry tier rather than reserved for a higher plan.
- Live streaming and events
- Scheduled events with RSVPs, calendar sync, and native live streaming, so a weekly office hours session runs inside the community instead of on a separate webinar tool.
- Automated transcriptions
- Recorded sessions are transcribed automatically on Business and above, turning live calls into searchable text that new members can catch up on.
- Website and landing page builder
- A branded public site sits in front of the gated community, so the sales page and the product live in one system and share the same domain.
- Storage allowances
- 200GB on Professional, 500GB on Business, 1TB on Circle Plus. Video-heavy course libraries are the thing that consumes it.
Monetization
Where Circle earns its margin, and where you should do the arithmetic.- Branded checkout and paywalls
- Gate spaces, courses, and events behind one-time purchases or recurring subscriptions, checked out under your own brand rather than on a marketplace.
- Transaction fee by tier
- 2 percent on Professional, 1 percent on Business, 0.5 percent on Circle Plus, charged on top of Stripe's own processing. This is the number that decides the plan for any community with real revenue.
- Subscriptions, trials, and bundles
- Recurring memberships with trial periods and bundled offers, so a course plus community package is one purchase rather than two products.
- Affiliate management
- Built-in affiliate tracking and payouts, which removes a separate tool for creators who grow through partner referrals.
- Email Hub
- Broadcasts and segmented lifecycle email to members, priced as an add-on from about $99 a month for 10,000 contacts after the first 30 days. Budget for it; most communities end up using it.
Brand, mobile, and identity
How completely the platform disappears behind your own name.- Custom domain on every tier
- The community runs at community.yourdomain.com from the $89 plan up, which is the baseline test most free chat tools fail outright.
- White-labeled member experience
- Circle advertises a white-labeled community on all tiers, so members interact with your brand rather than the vendor's inside the web app.
- Branded email notifications
- Notification email carries your sending identity from the Business tier; on Professional the transactional mail is less thoroughly yours.
- Native iOS and Android apps
- Members get real mobile apps rather than a responsive website, with push notifications, which is a large part of why engagement holds up better than on a forum.
- Branded mobile apps
- Your own app in the App Store and Google Play, including submission support, but only on Circle Plus and only after a sales conversation, with no published price.
- Custom SSO
- Authenticating members against your own identity provider is a Circle Plus feature, which puts it out of reach on a published price.
AI, automation, and administration
The 2026 repositioning, plus the moderation and analytics plumbing.- Circle AI with monthly credits
- Included on every tier with a monthly credit allowance, covering summarization and a library of AI skills applied to content and member activity.
- AI agents and AI workflows
- The Circle Eclipse announcement of June 2026 made agent-driven setup the headline feature, where you describe the community in plain English and agents configure it. Circle Plus only.
- Automated moderation
- Rule-based and automated flagging of spam and abuse, which is the difference between one moderator and three once a community passes a few thousand members.
- Admin and moderator seats
- Three admins and ten moderators on Professional, five and fifteen on Business, unlimited on Circle Plus. Volunteer-moderator communities hit this ceiling faster than they expect.
- Analytics and reporting
- Member, engagement, and revenue reporting inside the platform rather than requiring an export into a spreadsheet.
- API and headless member API
- A general API on the published tiers, with the headless member API reserved for Circle Plus for teams building their own front end over Circle's data.
Use cases
4 documentedCoach running a paid mastermind
Fifty members paying $200 a month, currently spread across a Facebook group, a Kajabi course, a Zoom link, and a spreadsheet of who has actually paid.
One Circle instance on the coach's own domain holds the discussion, the course, the weekly call, and the recurring billing, with the paid space gated automatically when a card fails. The 2 percent fee on $10,000 a month is $200, which is cheaper than the tool sprawl it replaces.
SaaS company building a customer community
Support tickets keep repeating the same five questions, and the company wants power users answering each other in a space that looks like the product rather than like a vendor's forum.
Spaces for product help, feature requests, and announcements run on community.product.com with the company's branding, mobile apps keep power users engaged, and search over unlimited history means the same answer is not rewritten monthly.
Cohort-based course operator
Four cohorts a year, each needing its own private space, a live session schedule, and access that expires when the cohort ends.
Each cohort gets a permissioned space with a drip-scheduled course and a recurring event series, and paywall rules handle access expiry, so running the fifth cohort costs no more operational effort than the first.
Newsletter writer converting readers into a paid membership
Twenty thousand free subscribers and no product; the writer wants a members tier without stitching together Substack, Discord, and a payment processor.
The website builder hosts the sales page, Circle checkout takes the subscription, the paid space and mobile apps hold the membership, and Email Hub runs the lifecycle sequence, all under one domain and one bill.
Pricing
from $89 per month (Professional)Flat monthly platform subscription with unlimited members, plus a percentage transaction fee on every paid membership, course, or event sold through Circle checkout, plus paid add-ons for email marketing.
| Plan | Price | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Professional | $89 per month |
Carries a 2 percent transaction fee on paid memberships and courses, charged on top of Stripe processing. |
| Business | $199 per month |
Transaction fee drops to 1 percent, which is where the upgrade pays for itself: about $11,000 a month in sales makes Business cheaper than Professional. |
| Circle Plus | Custom quoted by sales |
The only sales-gated tier, and the only route to a branded app or SSO. |
Add-ons
- Email Hub (From $99 per month): Covers 10,000 contacts and applies after the first 30 days. Most communities that run lifecycle email end up on it, so treat it as part of the base cost.
- Branded mobile apps (Not published): Requires a Circle Plus conversation with sales; there is no self-serve price for putting your community in the app stores under your own name.
Billing notes
- Prices reviewed in August 2026 are the monthly rates published on the Circle pricing page; annual rates are not shown there, so assume the monthly figure when budgeting.
- The transaction fee is separate from and additional to Stripe's own processing, which is typically 2.9 percent plus 30 cents in the US. A community on Professional is therefore paying roughly 4.9 percent plus 30 cents all-in on each membership charge.
- There is no free plan. The 14-day trial is the only way to evaluate, and it is genuinely enough time because setup is fast.
- Email Hub pricing scales with contact count above 10,000, so a large free list is the thing that inflates the bill rather than the number of paying members.
- The Business upgrade is a margin decision, not a feature decision. Halving the fee from 2 percent to 1 percent saves $110 a month at $11,000 in monthly sales, which is exactly the $110 price difference between the tiers.
Value assessment: For a community that is genuinely a business, Circle is fairly priced and hard to assemble from parts. Courses, events, live streaming, native mobile apps, a custom domain, recurring billing, affiliates, and search over unlimited history at $89 a month would cost more than that in separate tools, and the tools would not share a member identity. For a community that is not yet a business, Circle is expensive in a way the sticker hides: $89 plus 2 percent plus Stripe plus $99 of Email Hub is a real monthly commitment for a group that could sit on a free Discourse instance or a Discord server. The cutoff is roughly whether the community produces revenue. Above that line Circle is good value, below it the fee structure works against you.
Strengths & limitations
Strengths
- The broadest feature set on a published price in this category: discussion, courses, events, live streaming, chat, payments, affiliates, a website builder, and native mobile apps all on the $89 tier.
- Unlimited members on every plan, so growth does not trigger a pricing cliff the way it does on Heartbeat or Bettermode.
- Custom domain and a white-labeled member experience from the entry tier, which is the thing free chat platforms fundamentally cannot offer.
- Native iOS and Android apps with push notifications keep engagement materially higher than a browser-only forum.
- Search over unlimited history, which is the concrete answer to the Slack free-tier problem where your community's knowledge silently disappears.
- A large, well-funded company past $50M ARR with an active product cadence, so the platform you build on is unlikely to disappear.
- The transaction fee genuinely falls as you scale, so success is rewarded rather than penalized, at least until the 0.5 percent tier requires a sales call.
Limitations
- No free plan at all, which makes Circle a poor fit for a small free community and a hard sell for anyone testing whether a community is worth running.
- The transaction fee stacks on Stripe and is charged on gross, so a low-margin membership business pays Circle more than the subscription costs and cannot reach the 0.5 percent rate without a sales conversation.
- Branded mobile apps and custom SSO are both locked behind the unpriced Circle Plus tier, so the two things a maturing community most wants next are exactly the two things with no published cost.
- Admin and moderator seat caps of 3 and 10 on Professional are tight for a volunteer-moderated community and force an upgrade for reasons unrelated to features.
- Public discussion is not a strong acquisition channel here; if you want threads ranking in Google, a purpose-built forum will do it better.
- Email Hub is a meaningful hidden cost that turns an advertised $89 into a realistic $190 or more once you actually run lifecycle marketing.
- Migration out gives you exports of posts, comments, and members, but the space structure, threading, reactions, and member identity links do not survive into another platform in usable shape. The lock-in is real and it is structural rather than contractual.
Head-to-head comparisons
5 alternativesCircle vs Skool
from $9 per month (Hobby)Skool costs $9 or $99 a month against Circle's $89 or $199 and deliberately ships one opinionated layout, while Circle gives you spaces, a website builder, email marketing, and native app configuration. Take Skool if you want a community running this afternoon with gamification that reliably drives daily logins and you do not care about brand control. Take Circle if the community is a product you are selling under your own name and you need courses, events, and a custom domain that actually look like your company.
Full Circle vs Skool comparisonCircle vs Mighty Networks
from $79 per month, or $950 per year (Launch)These two are the closest match in the category: both do courses, events, memberships, custom domains, mobile apps, and a tiered transaction fee of 2 percent falling to 0.5 percent. Mighty Networks is cheaper at the entry point at $79 and stronger on cohort-based courses and its Community Design methodology, while Circle has the deeper monetization and email stack and a more developer-friendly API. Pick Mighty Networks if the product is a course or cohort with a community around it, and Circle if the community is the product and billing complexity is your problem.
Full Circle vs Mighty Networks comparisonCircle vs Heartbeat
from $49 per month, or $40 per month billed annually (Build)Heartbeat starts at $49 a month against Circle's $89, but caps you at 350 members and charges a 5 percent transaction fee at that tier, and its branded mobile app requires the $849 Scale plan. Circle has unlimited members and a 2 percent fee from the start. Heartbeat is the better buy for a small, chat-heavy community under a few hundred people; Circle is the better buy the moment membership revenue is real, because the fee difference alone dwarfs the subscription gap.
Full Circle vs Heartbeat comparisonCircle vs Discourse
from $0 (self-hosted, or the free managed plan), then $100 per month for Pro managed hostingDiscourse is a forum built for public, search-indexed discussion, is open source, has a genuinely free hosted tier, and has no payments layer at all. Circle is a closed commercial platform with courses, events, and a checkout. Choose Discourse if your community is free, large, and you want threads ranking in Google as an acquisition channel. Choose Circle if you are charging members and want courses, events, and mobile apps without assembling them yourself.
Full Circle vs Discourse comparisonCircle vs Bettermode
from $399 per month billed annually ($4,788 per year); $499 per month billed monthlyBettermode targets the B2B customer community, with SSO, GraphQL, a design studio, and knowledge-base and ideas apps, but starts at $399 a month. Circle targets the creator and small business selling memberships, at $89 with courses and a checkout Bettermode does not have. If your community exists to deflect support tickets and feed the product roadmap, Bettermode is shaped right; if it exists to make money directly, Circle is shaped right and costs a fifth as much.
Full Circle vs Bettermode comparisonImplementation & onboarding
- Setup time
- A working community in an afternoon. Signing up, creating spaces, connecting a custom domain, and wiring Stripe are all self-serve and take a few hours combined. Getting the content and the onboarding sequence right is the part that takes weeks.
- Learning curve
- Moderate for the admin, low for members. The spaces model, permission layers, and paywall rules interact in ways that reward reading the docs before you build, and communities that improvise their structure usually rebuild it once. Members need no instruction.
- Onboarding
- Fully self-serve through Business, including the custom domain and payments setup. Circle Plus adds a dedicated customer success relationship and migration help. Circle's team will assist migrations from Mighty Networks, Discourse, Tribe, Teachable, and WordPress on qualifying plans.
- Migration notes
- Migration in is well supported and Circle actively courts switchers. Migration out is the problem. You can export member data, posts, comments, and course content, and your custom domain and Stripe history are yours, but the space structure, threading, reactions, DMs, and member identity links do not import cleanly into Skool, Mighty Networks, or Discourse. Treat the discussion archive as effectively non-portable and factor that into a multi-year decision.
Platform, API & security
- Platforms
- Web appNative iOS appNative Android appBranded iOS and Android apps on Circle PlusCustom domain hosting
- API
- REST API available on published tiers for member, space, and content operations, with a headless member API reserved for Circle Plus so teams can build a custom front end over Circle's data.
- Compliance
- GDPRPayment processing handled through Stripe
- Data residency
- Not published as a selectable option on the pricing or feature pages.
- SSO
- Custom SSO is a Circle Plus feature. Lower tiers rely on Circle accounts and social login.
- Security notes
- Member data and payments run through Circle's own infrastructure with Stripe as the processor. Circle does not publish an audit certification on its pricing page, so buyers with a formal security review should request current documentation directly rather than assuming SOC 2.
Support & resources
- Channels
- Email support on all plansIn-app helpDedicated customer success on Circle Plus
- Documentation
- Extensive help center covering spaces, courses, events, paywalls, custom domains, mobile apps, and the API, plus a well-maintained blog on community strategy.
- Community
- Circle runs its own large community of Circle operators on the platform, which doubles as the product's best reference implementation.
Company
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Remote-first US company
- Ownership
- Venture-backed
- Founders
- Sid Yadav, Andrew Guttormsen, Rudy Santino
- Employees
- Third-party trackers reported roughly 280 to 356 in 2026; Circle does not publish a headcount
- Funding
- Approximately $33M raised. A Series A led by Tiger Global valued the company at $200M, and the founders have publicly stated the business is profitable and past $50M in annual recurring revenue.
Funding history
| Round | Amount | Year | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | Not separately disclosed | 2020 | Early backing following the 2019 founding by three former Teachable employees. |
| Series A | Part of the approximately $33M total | 2021 | Led by Tiger Global at a reported $200M valuation. |
Timeline
- 2019Founded by Sid Yadav, Andrew Guttormsen, and Rudy Santino, all previously at Teachable, on the thesis that the community is what members renew for rather than the course.
- 2021Raises a Series A led by Tiger Global at a reported $200M valuation as creator-economy funding peaks.
- 2022Adds courses and live streaming, moving from a discussion tool toward the all-in-one positioning it now leads with.
- 2024Ships native mobile apps, a website builder, and the Email Hub add-on, absorbing categories creators previously bought separately.
- 2026Announces an AI-native platform at Circle Eclipse in June, adding AI agents and AI workflows that configure a community from plain-English direction, gated to the Circle Plus tier.
Integrations
- Stripe for payments and subscriptions
- Zapier
- Make
- Zoom
- Slack
- ConvertKit and other email tools
- Google Analytics and Meta Pixel
- Webhooks
- REST API
- Headless member API on Circle Plus
Frequently asked questions
11 questionsWhat is Circle?
Circle is a hosted community platform for creators and small businesses. It combines threaded discussion spaces, a course builder, live events and streaming, chat and direct messages, a member directory, and a payments layer for paid memberships, all served under your own domain with native iOS and Android apps. It starts at $89 per month with a 14-day trial and has no free plan.
How much does Circle cost, really?
The published tiers are Professional at $89 a month, Business at $199, and Circle Plus at a custom price. The real cost is higher: a transaction fee of 2 percent on Professional or 1 percent on Business sits on top of Stripe's own processing, and Email Hub starts around $99 a month for 10,000 contacts after the first 30 days. A community selling $10,000 a month in memberships on Professional should budget roughly $89 plus $200 in Circle fees plus Stripe plus any email spend.
What is Circle's transaction fee on paid memberships and courses?
2 percent on Professional, 1 percent on Business, and 0.5 percent on Circle Plus, charged on gross sales through Circle checkout and in addition to Stripe's processing fee. This is the number that should decide your plan. Upgrading from Professional to Business costs $110 more per month and halves the fee, so the upgrade pays for itself at about $11,000 in monthly sales.
Can I run Circle on my own domain and remove Circle's branding?
Yes to the domain on every tier, and Circle advertises a white-labeled community experience on all plans. Branded email notifications start on Business. The one thing that stays out of reach on published pricing is a branded mobile app in the App Store under your own name, which requires the Circle Plus tier and a sales conversation.
Are courses and events real features or bolt-ons?
They are first-class. The course builder supports modules, lessons, progress tracking, and drip scheduling, and events support RSVPs, calendar sync, native live streaming, and recordings, with automated transcription on Business and above. Both are on the entry tier. This is the main reason people pick Circle over a pure forum.
Does Circle have mobile apps and what do branded apps cost?
Members get native iOS and Android apps on every plan, with push notifications, which is a large part of why engagement holds up better than on a browser-only forum. Your own branded app in the App Store and Google Play, including submission support, is a Circle Plus feature and Circle does not publish a price for it.
Will my Circle discussions show up in Google?
Only partly, and you should not buy Circle for this. Spaces can be made public, but Circle's architecture is built for a gated member experience rather than for public search visibility. If organic search traffic from discussion threads is a real acquisition channel for you, a forum platform like Discourse is built for that job and Circle is not.
How hard is it to leave Circle?
Harder than getting in. Circle exports member data, posts, comments, and course content, and your domain and Stripe payment history are portable. What does not survive is the shape of the community: space structure, threading, reactions, direct messages, and the links between posts and member identities do not import usefully into Skool, Mighty Networks, or Discourse. Assume the discussion archive is effectively locked in.
Is Circle better than just running a free Slack or Discord?
It depends on whether you are charging. Slack's free tier hides message history, Discord has no paywall worth the name, neither runs on your domain, and neither will ever look like your product. Circle gives you permanent search, gated paid spaces, courses, events, and a custom domain. But if your community is free, small, and casual, $89 a month plus fees buys you very little that Discord does not already do for nothing.
What changed with Circle's AI in 2026?
At Circle Eclipse in June 2026 the company repositioned as an AI-native platform, where you describe the community you want in plain English and specialized agents configure spaces, content, and workflows rather than you clicking through settings. Circle AI with a monthly credit allowance is included on every tier, but the AI agents and AI workflows themselves are reserved for the custom-priced Circle Plus plan.
Who owns Circle and is it financially stable?
Circle was founded in 2019 by Sid Yadav, Andrew Guttormsen, and Rudy Santino, all previously at Teachable. It is venture-backed with roughly $33M raised and a Series A led by Tiger Global at a reported $200M valuation, and the founders have publicly said the business is profitable and past $50M in annual recurring revenue. It is the most financially secure of the creator-focused platforms in this category.
Editorial verdict
Circle is the safe default for a community that is actually a business. Nothing else on a published price puts discussion, courses, events, live streaming, payments, affiliates, a custom domain, and native mobile apps in one product, and the company behind it is large, profitable, and shipping. Buy it if you are charging members and want the whole membership experience under your own brand without stitching five tools together. Do not buy it for a free community, because there is no free plan and the value proposition collapses without revenue to justify it. And go into the pricing with clear eyes: the honest monthly cost is the $89 plus a percentage of everything you sell plus Email Hub, and the exit cost is a discussion archive that will not move anywhere useful. Those are acceptable terms for a real membership business and bad terms for an experiment.
Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.
Awards & badges
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