PaywallProject review
A broad WordPress publishing stack with a free tier and managed plans from $299/month.
Reviewed by iTechGuides Editors · Editorial team · Updated Oct 2026
PaywallProject is a WordPress-based paywall and membership platform for local news publishers. It combines metered and registration walls with subscription checkout, subscriber management, group and gift subscriptions, newsletters, advertising, e-editions, analytics, and print-subscription support. Its audience is publishers that want reader revenue tools connected to a WordPress site, with optional managed hosting and mobile apps at higher tiers.
The plan structure covers different levels of operational responsibility. Self-serve costs $0 per month and includes self-managed installation and configuration, paywalls, newsletters, ads, e-editions, unlimited subscribers, documentation, and email support. Standard costs $299 per month and adds a designed, built, and hosted website, launch support, updates, and maintenance. Enterprise starts at $999 per month and adds custom design and build, migration, native iOS and Android apps, high-volume hosting, SLAs, and priority Slack support. Revenue-share terms vary across the vendor's published pages: the current pricing table lists 5% for Standard, while published FAQs state 0% or 10% in different places.
The platform's strongest fit is its publishing breadth inside the WordPress ecosystem. Stripe handles the documented payment stack, while WooCommerce can support additional payment gateways; integrations also include Newsletter Glue, Advanced Ads, Broadstreet, Plausible Analytics, WPForms, Zapier, Make, and Pabbly. Checkout supports Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, coupons, gift subscriptions, one-time payments, and recurring payments. Publishers can also add segmented newsletters, searchable e-edition archives, revenue and engagement reporting, AI text-to-audio conversion, and subscriber push notifications through the apps. Choose PaywallProject when WordPress, publishing workflows, and an optional managed or app-based service matter most. Publishers seeking a CMS-agnostic platform or a simpler paywall-only tool should look elsewhere.
PaywallProject pros and cons
- Where it wins
- Free self-serve tier with unlimited subscribers
- Metered and registration walls with flexible payment options
- Enterprise plan includes native iOS and Android apps
- Where it doesn't
- Self-serve installation and configuration require publisher effort
- Standard starts at $299/month before revenue-share terms
- Best suited to WordPress rather than multiple CMS platforms
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