Leaky Paywall Monthly Update – February 2023


A more efficient experience

The year is picking up steam and the best way to forge ahead is to streamline everything: your reader experience, your subscriber funnel, even your own workflow.

This month, we’ve got tools, tips, services, and products, all designed to make you more efficient and create the best possible experience for your readers.

Ready? Let’s go.


New Product:

Quick Register

Streamline your free registration with this Leaky Paywall premium extension. With Quick Register, your free-level registrants can create their account without being diverted to a separate registration page.

You can customize the on-page drop-in with only an email address – a random password will automatically generate for them – or you can add other fields you find necessary. However you set it up, less friction in your subscriber funnel means a more seamless reader experience.

Learn more about Quick Register.


Featured Update:

New Insights Dashboard

Get crucial conversion data at a glance with the newest updates to our Insights Dashboard.

Our Insights platform collects real-time information on how your subscriptions are growing and how your content is performing. The new streamlined dashboard helps you make quick decisions on which topics and articles have prompted your readers to subscribe. Get a feel for the ratio of your free-to-paid registrations for a better understanding of reader behavior.

Learn more about Insights
or
get a guided tour of everything Insights has to offer.


New Service:

Changing Subscription Prices in Stripe

Updating your subscription prices for existing users in Stripe can be quite an undertaking. If your subscriber base is low, it can be done manually. If, however, you have a significant number of subscribers, you may want to take advantage of our automated, bulk update. This service comes with an in-person session to ensure that the process runs smoothly.

Ready to update? Get in touch.


Featured Publisher

Relevant

Relevant Magazine’s subscription experience hits all the right notes. The overall publication is aesthetically pleasing, easily-navigable, and chock-full of content.

And one of the first things you notice on every page is the footer bar hinting at a premium experience.

Even while it allows generous perusal of general articles, this Christian lifestyle magazine gently nudges readers toward the subscription option. When they reach a premium article, they can see full hero image and the first teaser text, before being prompted to subscribe.

The subscription nag leads to a clean, succinct subscription page with a tidy summary of the benefits a paid subscriber can expect.

Directly below the benefits statement are the well-designed subscription cards, which offer the magic three-choice layout most appealing to readers. They also neatly promote their gift subscriptions and offer an answer to what must be their most frequently-asked subscription section.

Go explore Relevant for yourself.


Featured Tip:

Get started with Stripe payment gateway
Stripe is a versatile payment gateway that integrates directly with Leaky Paywall. Let us walk you through the set-up, step-by-step.

See the walkthrough.


Tech Corner:

Recent Updates

Leaky Paywall

  • Updated Article Countdown nag
    • Integrate zero nag with registration redirect extension
    • Update settings location
  • Just released Leaky Paywall 4.19.3
    • Display manual payment as an option on the registration form – allowing publishers to accept checks as payment
    • Update calculation and display of currency symbol in Insights
    • Display Stripe customer portal on template shortcode
    • Update help doc URLs
    • Update logic for renewal reminders
    • Fix deprecation notices for PHP8
    • Add Insights link to admin bar menu
  • Released Reporting Tool v1.4.2
    • Add processing to allow for large datasets without timing out
    • Update handling for created and level_id keys
  • Update to Name Your Price Extension

Recent Success Stories

Is your website annoying your readers? Here are seven ways to make your website more reader-friendly.
Paywall Podcast E30: Publishers often redesign their sites and add features without considering how these changes will affect the user experience. As a result, many websites are difficult to navigate… Read more.
Is your website annoying your readers? Here are seven ways to make your website more reader-friendly.
Paywall Podcast E30: Publishers often redesign their sites and add features without considering how these changes will affect the user experience. As a result, many websites are difficult to navigate… Read more.
Which articles are converting paid subscribers?
With our new Insights from Leaky Paywall, you can now easily track which articles are generating the most paying subscribers and free registrations. This powerful tool gives you visibility into… Read more.
Which articles are converting paid subscribers?
With our new Insights from Leaky Paywall, you can now easily track which articles are generating the most paying subscribers and free registrations. This powerful tool gives you visibility into… Read more.
Upgrade your free newsletter with paid subscriber benefits
As a publisher, it’s important to have a newsletter to drive your visitors back to your website. Read more.
Upgrade your free newsletter with paid subscriber benefits
As a publisher, it’s important to have a newsletter to drive your visitors back to your website. Read more.
Improve subscriptions on Andover News with a Quick Registration
Want to improve the growth of your paid subscriptions? Pete from Leaky Paywall just reviewed the local news site AndoverMAnews.com. Read more.
Improve subscriptions on Andover News with a Quick Registration
Want to improve the growth of your paid subscriptions? Pete from Leaky Paywall just reviewed the local news site AndoverMAnews.com. Read more.
Subscription predictions for 2023
Tyler Channel and I talk about trends that we have seen put into action as well as what publishers said they were planning on in 2023. This episode turned into… Read more.
Subscription predictions for 2023
Tyler Channel and I talk about trends that we have seen put into action as well as what publishers said they were planning on in 2023. This episode turned into… Read more.
What are subscription retention best practices?
We received a question from Flyer Magazine on how best to handle subscriber retention emails. After reviewing the website, the video below turned into a retention and new subscriber generation… Read more.
What are subscription retention best practices?
We received a question from Flyer Magazine on how best to handle subscriber retention emails. After reviewing the website, the video below turned into a retention and new subscriber generation… Read more.

More tips and updates are always available on our site. 

Until next time, be safe and be well!

Thanks,
Pete Ericson & Jeremy Green
LeakyPaywall.com

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