Change your plan and billing

Your plan lives under your name in the sidebar, in Plan and billing. It shows your current plan, what it includes, and how many books and stores you use.

Upgrade

1. Pick Monthly or Yearly at the top of the plans.
2. Choose Upgrade to Author.
3. Pay by card on Stripe’s checkout page. You come back to Lanternbee when it is done.

Prices show in dollars, euros or pounds, and the number is the same in each. Once you subscribe, the currency stays the same for that subscription. See plans and fees.

Your first 6 months free

Join the waitlist before 2027 and your first 6 months on the Author plan are free, counted from the day your store goes live. It does not matter when we let you in: the 6 months start when we approve your account and your store opens, not on the day you joined. Create your account with the email address you joined the waitlist with. Creating your account before 2027 counts too. The billing page and your home page show Free until and the date. About 60 and 30 days before that date we email you your choices:

• Author, yearly at your launch price: 50% off your first year.
• Author, monthly at your launch price: 50% off your first 12 months.
• Free: no monthly cost and no fee on your sales, for up to 3 books.

To keep Author, pick Monthly or Yearly and choose Keep Author after your free time. Nothing is charged until your free months end. After that, you get 50% off any plan for your first year, then the normal price. If you do nothing, your store moves to the Free plan on that day. It keeps running and every book stays on sale; if you have more than 3 books, they all stay on sale, and you can add more once you choose Author.

Switch to yearly

On a monthly plan, pick Yearly and your plan card shows Switch to yearly billing. Stripe shows you the new price and what you pay today before you confirm. Switch back to monthly the same way.

Card, invoices and cancelling

Choose Manage billing to open Stripe’s billing page. Change your card, download invoices, or cancel. A cancelled plan runs until the end of the period you paid for, then your account goes back to Free.

If a payment fails, a warning shows on the billing page. Update your card under Manage billing.

Refer an author

The Refer an author card has your own sign-up link. Choose Copy link and send it to an author friend. When they start paying for a plan, you get a month free on your own plan, taken off your next Stripe invoice. The card counts the authors you referred and the free months you earned.

A free month waits until you are on a paid plan yourself.

Questions about a plan? Contact us.