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Practical, no-fluff guides on changing, raising, and migrating Stripe subscription prices, including the membership platforms (PMPro, MemberPress) that can't do it on their own.
The full guide: why you create a new price, how to avoid mid-cycle charges, doing it in bulk, reversing it, and how it works on PMPro, MemberPress, beehiiv, Ghost, and Substack.
Read the guide → StripeUndo a price change cleanly: move subscriptions back, release scheduled changes, the archived-price gotcha to watch, and what proration does on the way back.
Read the guide → ThinkificThinkific only re-prices new enrollments, so your existing students stay on the old rate. Here's how to re-price current students in Stripe, in bulk, on the connect-your-own-Stripe setup.
Read the guide → SubstackSubstack grandfathers your existing subscribers and makes you email support to change them one by one. Here's how to re-price current subscribers in Stripe, in bulk, yourself.
Read the guide → GhostGhost only re-prices new members, so your existing members stay on the old rate. Here's how to re-price current members in Stripe, in bulk, without canceling anyone.
Read the guide → beehiivbeehiiv only re-prices new subscribers, so your existing paid subscribers stay on the old rate. Here's how to re-price current subscribers in Stripe, in bulk, without cancel-and-resubscribe.
Read the guide → Stripe referenceWhat each value does (none, create_prorations, always_invoice), why the default causes surprise charges, and how to change a price without billing anyone mid-cycle.
Read the guide → Buyer's guideHire a service to run your price migration, or do it yourself? An honest comparison of cost, account access, control, and rollback, and when each one makes sense.
Read the guide → Paid Memberships ProWhy PMPro level price changes skip your current members, the manual Stripe way to fix it, and how to bulk re-price everyone in place, no cancel-and-resubscribe.
Read the guide → MemberPressEditing the membership price doesn't touch current members, and canceling them to re-subscribe loses people. Here's how to re-price existing MemberPress subscriptions in place.
Read the guide → StripeWhy you create a new price instead of editing one, how proration_behavior really works, batching to avoid rate limits, next-cycle scheduling, and rollback.
Read the guide → Pricing strategyThe rollout, not the increase, is what causes churn. Grandfathering, timing, messaging, and applying the new price in Stripe without canceling anyone.
Read the guide → StripeMove existing subscribers to the new price at their next renewal with no mid-cycle charge, via subscription schedules or a bulk run.
Read the guide → Pricing strategyKeep your earliest or highest-value customers on their old rate while raising everyone else, by excluding the right subscriptions when you migrate.
Read the guide →More guides on the way. Questions in the meantime? hello@pricepilot.cloud.