One monthly price, sized to your paper.
Pick how many active subscribers you have. With Retention, letters, postcards, emails, and postage are all included, with no per-piece fees. There's no setup fee, it's month-to-month, and we do the data migration.
Paid print and digital subscribers. Newsstand sales and comps don't count.
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Circulation
$95/mo
Your subscriber list, a payment portal for readers, USPS filings, and your statement of ownership.
Add-on to Circulation
Retention
$250/mo
Renewals run for you: emails, letters, and postcards, with printing and postage included.
Website
CMS
$105/mo
Website, paywall, archives, email newsletters, SMS alerts, and social media sharing.
Bundle and save
Circulation + Retention
Save 10%$310/mo
$345 if bought separately
Everything
Save 15%$380/mo
$450 if bought separately
Prices are per month. Card payments are processed at 5%.
| Active subscribers | Circulation | Retention | CMS | Circ + Retention | Everything |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 250 | $60 | $130 | $85 | $170 | $230 |
| Up to 400 | $75 | $180 | $95 | $225 | $295 |
| Up to 600 | $95 | $250 | $105 | $310 | $380 |
| Up to 1,000 | $140 | $390 | $135 | $475 | $565 |
| Up to 1,500 | $195 | $565 | $170 | $680 | $790 |
| Up to 2,500 | $305 | $915 | $240 | $1,095 | $1,240 |
| Up to 4,000 | $470 | $1,440 | $345 | $1,715 | $1,915 |
| Up to 6,000 | $690 | $2,140 | $485 | $2,545 | $2,815 |
Over 6,000 subscribers, a free or requester paper, or several papers? We'll work out pricing with you.
What's included
Everything each product does for you
Circulation
- Your whole subscriber list, print and digital, in one place
- A payment portal where readers renew, pay by card, and update their address
- USPS reports and filings, mailing labels, and address checks
- Your annual statement of ownership
- Renewal notices you can print and mail yourself
Retention add-on to Circulation
- A renewal sequence for every subscriber: emails, letters, and a final postcard
- Timed and personalized to your paper and to each reader
- Printing and postage included, with no per-piece fees
- Failed auto-renew charges and expiring cards recovered
- Win-back outreach after a subscriber lapses
CMS
- A website built for community papers, with hosting
- A paywall
- Archives
- Email newsletters and SMS breaking-news alerts
- Social media sharing
Retention, in plain numbers
Under $5
per subscriber, per year, inside a bundle.
Renewals that run without you.
Renewals lapse because nobody has time to chase them, and every lapsed renewal is a subscriber you already earned once. With Retention, each subscriber gets their own sequence of reminders, timed and personalized, with printing and postage included.
Across CJP papers, 42% of successful renewals come after expiration, if you know how to ask. We keep asking.
How your price is set
You pay for the subscribers you actually have.
- 1
We clean your list
When you join, we go through your list with you. Many papers find people who haven't paid in years still getting the paper.
- 2
We confirm your tier
Your price comes from the cleaned list, not your best guess. Publishers usually overestimate, so many land in a lower tier than they expected.
- 3
We check once a year
Once a year, we go through your list with you again: how renewals are going, who's slipping away, and what to try next.
Questions
What publishers ask us
What counts as an active subscriber?
Paid print and digital subscribers. Newsstand and single-copy sales don't count, and neither do comps.
Do I have to change my website?
No. Circulation works alongside BLOX, WordPress, or whatever runs your site today, and takes over the subscriber side: the list, renewals, payments, and USPS paperwork.
How do card payments work?
Readers pay by card through your payment portal. Card payments are processed at 5%. We handle all the setup, PCI compliance, and security. We pay out monthly with a detailed statement, and can integrate with your QuickBooks.
Is there a contract?
No. It's month-to-month, with no setup fee, and we do the data migration.
Do you handle auto-renew?
Yes, and more thoroughly than most vendors. With Retention, when a charge fails we retry it at sensible times, update expired cards, and chase down the other common failures. Auto-renew doesn't mean 100% retention, and it comes with its own housekeeping. We take that on for you.
What if I don't fit the tiers?
Over 6,000 subscribers, a free or requester paper, or several papers under one owner? We'll work out pricing with you.
From publishers
Papers that handed us the busywork
“Before we started using CJP, I was struggling to keep up with circulation, getting renewals out, on top of keeping up a website, and publishing a weekly paper. Now I can do what I need to do with the paper and have peace of mind knowing the renewals are handled.”
Aimee WilsonThe Blount Countian“By managing subscriptions, we have improved retention, increasing our revenue. Online subscriptions have increased more than three times what we had before.”
JenKiowa County Democrat“The subscriber area in CJP is simple enough that even our technology-averse office manager in her 70s loves it. Posting articles is also very easy. We are certainly saving compared to what we were paying previously.”
Nikki MeyerTruman TribuneLet's look at your list together.
Twenty minutes, no slides. We'll confirm your tier and show you what switching involves.