The campaign pass, and how the trial works
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The campaign pass is one advance-copy campaign with up to 100 readers for $12, once, valid for 60 days from the day you buy it, no subscription, for the author with one book to launch. It does not carry Creator's tools. The Creator and Pro trials are 14 days with a card on file, and they start the day you open your first campaign or delivery link, not when you sign up: a $0 hold, nothing charged until day 14, a reminder on day 11, cancel in one click. One card starts one trial, ever.
The short answer
The campaign pass: one launch, no plan
For the author with one book to launch. $12, once, buys one advance-copy campaign with up to 100 readers. The pass is valid for 60 days from the day you buy it, whether or not you have started a campaign on it: an unused pass expires, and a campaign still running when the 60 days end is paused; readers keep the copies they have. Start your campaign soon after you buy. Delivery links, reader requirements, held reviews and cross-post tracking come with Creator, not with the pass. Nothing renews; when the campaign completes, the pass is spent. Readers, reviews and followers you gained stay yours, as everything does.
The free Author plan already runs one small campaign (up to 25 readers, no delivery links); the pass is for a launch that needs more. If you hold an unused pass, the next campaign you start on the free plan uses it, so that campaign can hold up to 100 readers rather than 25.
Buy it from the Pricing page or Settings › Billing (Buy a pass). If you already hold a plan, every campaign already has Creator's limits or better, and the pass is not offered.
The trial: when it starts and what it holds
Creator and Pro come with a 14-day trial, and it starts the day you open your first campaign or delivery link, not when you sign up or choose the plan. (Sending your first letter by e-mail or publishing your first sample for followers starts it the same way.) Until that day the plan costs nothing and holds nothing.
- That day: a $0 hold on your card. It is not a charge; it is how we know it is one card, one person. A card starts one trial, ever.
- Day 11: we write to you, in the product and by e-mail, with the day the first payment is taken.
- Day 14: the first payment, at your price (the founding price for beta authors), monthly or yearly as you chose.
- Cancel in one click from Settings at any point before day 14, and nothing is charged. A campaign you opened keeps running to its close with the limits it started under; readers who have the book keep it.
A card that has already started a trial does not start another: the plan begins on day one at its price, and the picker says so before you continue.
In the beta
Nothing here applies until billing opens: there is no pass to buy, no card is taken and nothing can be charged. (When billing does open, the trial asks for a card: there is one trial door, and it is the one described above.) Beta authors keep the founding price of Creator and Pro for twelve months from the day their trial starts (Plans, and what the beta unlocks).
Where this lives
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- Plans, and what the beta unlocks: Readers never pay; there is no reader plan and never will be. Writing here is free forever: books, series, the Journal and followers are never limited on any plan. What the plans are for is the launch: advance-copy campaigns, the readers who come with them, and the people who help. Author (free) has one pen name and one small campaign at a time (up to 25 readers, no delivery links); Creator ($9 a month or $90 a year) runs 3 campaigns at a time with up to 100 readers each; Pro ($19 or $190) is unlimited with 5 pen names and 2 collaborators; Publisher ($59 or $590) is the imprint, billed yearly by invoice with 5 seats. A $12 campaign pass runs one campaign (up to 100 readers) without a plan, valid for 60 days from the day you buy it. The 14-day trial needs a card and starts with your first campaign or delivery link, not at signup. During the closed beta nothing is charged and every author feature is unlocked.
- Running an ARC campaign: Studio, Campaigns, New campaign walks through the book, dates and reader spots, ideal readers (genres, tropes, languages, regions, requirements), delivery (formats, files, your message) and how to launch (draft, scheduled, or now). Applications gather under Applications with each reader's match and reliability; approve or decline one by one or in batches, and every decision notifies the reader.
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