Subscription Pricing Calculator

We have 3 Goals for the Subscriptions for Authors Pricing Calculator:

• Help you map out your expenses in terms of both time, money, and other resources so you can optimally price your tiers.
• Help you track your income and writing schedule as well as project your subscription income in the future to see if your tiers will be sustainable for months and years to come.
• Give you a playground to be able to test and experiment with new tier ideas and price points so that you can find out what will work best for your business before making any changes live.

We know that pricing your subscription is hard.

What is the best price for my tier(s)? What do expenses such as payment processing and platform fees look like? How about shipping and printing for physical goods?

And the most important question: at the end of the day, how much money will I make from my subscription and will this be sustainable?

Well, we created a calculator to help you answer all of those questions .

Here’s a link to the Subscription Pricing Calculator: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1igyzvCKTM4R4rYLCtrHoLgMYmEq_Cxn_EN8a56I7M9g/edit?usp=sharing

Note: You will have to make your own copy of the Google Sheet before editing it yourself. You can do this by clicking on the file tab in the top left corner and then clicking on “Make a Copy” to save it to your own Google Drive.

There is also a tutorial video all about how to use the calculator effectively that you can find here: