Every magazine subscription, print and digital, on one platform
Pelcro unifies billing, paywalls, and subscriber management — so you can automate renewals and control access to premium content, all in one place.
Trusted by Frieze, Education Week, Les Affaires, The Day & hundreds more.
Best for
Magazines that sell, bill and mail subscriptions
- Consumer, trade and B2B magazines that sell print, digital and print + digital subscriptions
- Independent and nonprofit magazines that mail issues in the US
- Magazines that sell gift subscriptions, past issues or merchandise next to subscriptions
- Publishers moving off termed subscriptions to auto-renewal
Features
What magazines run on Pelcro
- Print, digital and combined plans
- Set how many issues ship each billing period and which digital entitlements come with the plan, so one subscription covers both.
- Gift subscriptions
- The buyer pays, the recipient gets a unique redemption code by email, and staff can schedule the gift up to a year ahead with a 200-character message.
- Past issues and one-time sales
- Sell one-time products, such as a past issue, as eCommerce SKUs with a price, an inventory limit and an optional expiry date.
- USPS address verification
- CASS-certified software standardizes US addresses to USPS Publication 28 and adds ZIP+4 and carrier route each time an address changes.
- Mailing lists and presort
- Build issue mailing lists, export them to CSV, and presort Periodicals, Marketing Mail and First-Class Mail with USPS forms and IMb labels.
- Revenue recognized per issue
- Deferred revenue can be recognized over time, per shipment or issue, or when an eCommerce order is fulfilled.
Pelcro AI Studio · AI coding agent
Cut magazine dev work with Pelcro AI Studio
Paywall and checkout changes usually wait on an engineering ticket. Copy a prompt into Pelcro AI Studio and see the change in the live preview instead.
Try these in Pelcro AI StudioMembers-only archive
“Gate the archive for non-members”
Newsletter signup wall
“Build a newsletter signup wall”
Pricing test
“A/B test two price points on the subscription offer”
Built for every publication
Hundreds of magazine publishers trust us with their subscriptions
Whatever you publish, Pelcro handles it — from digital entitlements to print fulfillment, adapting to your publication's focus.
One platform
One platform for everything
Stop paying twice for magazine subscription management.
Subscriber services
Managed customer care that keeps readers happy and subscribed.
Entitlement management
Control exactly who sees what, across print and digital.
Fulfillment management
Automate print delivery end to end, with clean USPS data.
Save time & money
Everything on one platform means fewer tools and lower cost.
The hard parts, handled
Magazine subscriptions come with their own challenges
Publishing takes more than journalism. Pelcro handles the operational weight so you can focus on your content.
Entitlement management
Grant and revoke access to premium content across every format, instantly.
Invoice automation & payments
Generate, send, and reconcile every charge with intelligent retries.
Client portal
Let subscribers manage plans, payments, and preferences themselves.
Flexible paywalls
Meter, gate, or lock content — set up metered, freemium, or hard paywalls in minutes.
Fulfillment management
Automate the full print run — from issue close to the reader's mailbox.
Address verification & presort
Cleanse addresses in real time and automate USPS presorting workflows.
Boosting revenue and lifting customer satisfaction to 92%
The French-language business monthly, publishing since 1928, unified print and digital subscriptions on Pelcro — diversifying paywalls, automating renewals, and handing customer care to Pelcro Care.
Read the full case study“Pelcro's system helped us improve the fluidity of our data flow between systems — and gave us new tools to evolve our marketing strategies.”
Éric Pearson — Head of Direct Marketing, Contex Group
One platform
Everything a publisher needs, in one place
“Pelcro takes care of member management, billing, and authentication — so we can focus on our readers.”
Unify subscriber management
A single, 360° view of every subscriber
See full subscription activity in one place, and automate reports, renewals, and campaigns.
Explore subscriber managementBuild and test subscription offers at scale — no code
Customize print and digital bundles, create dynamic paywalls, and A/B test offers.
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The all-in-one magazine software built for your subscription needs
From the reader experience to the back-end, Pelcro is seamless and easy to use — so you can focus on what matters: your content.
Who we are
Built for publishers, by people who understand publishing
In 2016, frustrated by the lack of a truly modern subscription management service, we created Pelcro to revolutionize the publishing business model. Since then we've helped countless publishers grow, save on costs, and prioritize their content and campaigns.
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FAQ
Magazine subscription questions
- What is magazine subscription management software?
- It is the system a magazine uses to sell, bill and deliver subscriptions, from checkout to the mailing list for each issue. Pelcro keeps each subscriber's subscriptions, payments, addresses and digital access in one record and runs renewals, gifts and fulfillment from the same platform.
- Can readers subscribe to print and digital together?
- Yes. A Pelcro plan can include shipments per interval, which sets how many issues are mailed each billing period, and entitlements for digital access. The reader has one subscription that covers both. See print and digital subscriptions
- How do gift subscriptions work?
- A buyer purchases a subscription for someone else on your site, or your team creates it in the platform. Pelcro emails the recipient a unique code to redeem once the buyer's invoice is paid; if the recipient has no email address, the gift can be mailed. Gifts do not renew automatically; the buyer renews them, which extends the recipient's subscription.
- Can I sell back issues?
- Pelcro does not have a dedicated back-issue feature. You can sell a past issue as an eCommerce product: each SKU has its own price, a finite or unlimited inventory and an optional expiry date, and a shipping address is collected only for products that ship.
- Does Pelcro handle magazine fulfillment?
- Yes. You segment subscriptions into lists, combine them into a fulfillment and export the result, and approving a fulfillment counts down each subscriber's remaining issues. Pelcro also presorts Periodicals, Marketing Mail and First-Class Mail and produces PS 3541, PS 3553 and PS 8125 forms, Mail.dat files and IMb labels. More on fulfillment
- Does Pelcro verify mailing addresses?
- Yes, for US addresses. Once enabled through Pelcro support, CASS-certified verification runs whenever an address is created or updated and adds ZIP+4, carrier route and DPV status. NCOALink processing is available after you sign the USPS forms. More on USPS address verification
- Can Pelcro recognize revenue per issue?
- Yes. Deferred revenue can be recognized over time, per shipment or issue, or when an eCommerce order is fulfilled. Accounting reports are available on Professional and Enterprise plans.
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