{"currency":"USD","taxIncluded":false,"documentation":"https://mailerdot.com/pricing","products":[{"id":"reader-subscription","name":"Daily newsletter subscription","audience":"Readers","description":"The daily digest for your town — local news, weather, events, and a community story. A five-minute read, in your inbox every morning.","url":"https://mailerdot.com/","quoteEndpoint":null,"checkoutEndpoint":"/api/subscribe","offers":[{"id":"free","name":"Free forever","priceCents":0,"price":"0.00","recurrence":null,"description":"No paywall, no subscription fee, no card. Unsubscribe in one click."}],"notes":["Readers never pay. Coverage is funded by clearly labelled local sponsorships and listings.","There is no premium reader tier and no plan to add one."]},{"id":"town-lease","name":"Town lease (operator)","audience":"Operators","description":"Exclusive commercial rights to one U.S. town's daily newsletter. The edition writes and sends itself — an operator never writes a word — and the operator takes half the net on every listing sold in their town.","url":"https://mailerdot.com/for-operators","quoteEndpoint":"/api/territories","checkoutEndpoint":"/api/operator-actions","offers":[{"id":"monthly","name":"Monthly lease","priceCents":1000,"price":"10.00","recurrence":"MONTH","description":"Covers the town's first 1,000 subscribers. Add $5.00/month per additional 1,000 subscribers."}],"notes":["The price is a function of the town's subscriber count, not a plan chosen at checkout: $10.00/month covers the first 1,000 subscribers, then +$5.00/month per additional 1,000.","Increases are announced by email in advance and take effect at the next billing cycle — never mid-cycle — and are cancelled automatically if the subscriber count falls back first.","An operator takes 50% of the net on every listing sold in their town.","Cancel any time. A served period is not refunded; see the refund policy for the exceptions.","A lease never includes the subscriber list — operators see counts only."]},{"id":"event-listing","name":"Event listing","audience":"Anyone with something on","description":"An event on a town's public calendar, and on the featured tier, inside the daily email in the run-up to the date.","url":"https://mailerdot.com/promote","quoteEndpoint":"/api/listing-quote","checkoutEndpoint":"/api/listing-checkout","offers":[{"id":"standard","name":"Standard","priceCents":0,"price":"0.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Free. Reviewed by a person before it publishes."},{"id":"listing","name":"Listing","priceCents":1000,"price":"10.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Screened immediately and published on the town page once paid."},{"id":"featured","name":"Featured","priceCents":2500,"price":"25.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Top placement on the town page, plus a mention in up to 5 daily editions before the event."}],"notes":["One-off prices, not subscriptions.","Free submissions go into a review queue and publish only if a person approves them. There is no timeline on that; the paid tiers are screened immediately.","Both paid tiers are screened before a payment link exists, so a listing that fails the screen is never charged."]},{"id":"business-listing","name":"Business directory listing","audience":"Local businesses","description":"A business in a town's directory for 30 days, and on the featured tier, a weekly mention in the daily email.","url":"https://mailerdot.com/advertise/business","quoteEndpoint":"/api/listing-quote","checkoutEndpoint":"/api/business-checkout","offers":[{"id":"standard","name":"Standard","priceCents":0,"price":"0.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Free. Reviewed by a person before it publishes."},{"id":"listing","name":"Listing","priceCents":1000,"price":"10.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Directory listing for 30 days once paid."},{"id":"featured","name":"Featured","priceCents":2500,"price":"25.00","recurrence":null,"description":"Above the fold for 30 days, plus 1 mention a week in the daily email."}],"notes":["One-off prices, not subscriptions. The 30-day run starts the day payment clears.","Free submissions go into a review queue and publish only if a person approves them. There is no timeline on that; the paid tiers are screened immediately."]}],"townLeaseFormula":{"basePriceCents":1000,"tierSizeSubscribers":1000,"additionalCentsPerTier":500,"operatorSharePercent":50,"explanation":"tier = subscribers <= tierSizeSubscribers ? 1 : ceil(subscribers / tierSizeSubscribers); priceCents = basePriceCents + (tier - 1) × additionalCentsPerTier. Ask /api/territories for a specific town rather than computing it, if you can."},"notes":["All prices are in U.S. dollars and exclude any sales tax or VAT, which the merchant of record calculates and collects at checkout.","No setup fees, no contracts, no minimum term.","Creem (Armitage Labs OÜ) is the merchant of record for every charge: it appears on the cardholder's statement, issues the invoice, and remits sales tax and VAT. MailerDot never sees a card number.","Live prices are on the API — /api/pricing for this catalogue, /api/territories for a specific town's lease price, and /api/listing-quote for listings in a specific town."]}