# MailerDot Pricing

> What MailerDot costs: free forever for readers, town leases from $10/month for operators, and one-off event and business listings from $10. No contracts, no setup fees.

- Canonical (HTML): https://mailerdot.com/pricing
- Machine-readable: https://mailerdot.com/api/pricing
- Refunds: https://mailerdot.com/refunds

## Daily newsletter subscription

*Readers.* The daily digest for your town — local news, weather, events, and a community story. A five-minute read, in your inbox every morning.

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free forever | Free | No paywall, no subscription fee, no card. Unsubscribe in one click. |

- 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.
- Buy it: `POST /api/subscribe`
- Buy on the site: https://mailerdot.com/

## Town lease (operator)

*Operators.* 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.

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly lease | $10.00/month | Covers the town's first 1,000 subscribers. Add $5.00/month per additional 1,000 subscribers. |

- 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.
- Price it live: `GET /api/territories`
- Buy it: `POST /api/operator-actions`
- Buy on the site: https://mailerdot.com/for-operators

## Event listing

*Anyone with something on.* An event on a town's public calendar, and on the featured tier, inside the daily email in the run-up to the date.

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free | Free. Reviewed by a person before it publishes. |
| Listing | $10.00 | Screened immediately and published on the town page once paid. |
| Featured | $25.00 | Top placement on the town page, plus a mention in up to 5 daily editions before the event. |

- 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.
- Price it live: `GET /api/listing-quote`
- Buy it: `POST /api/listing-checkout`
- Buy on the site: https://mailerdot.com/promote

## Business directory listing

*Local businesses.* A business in a town's directory for 30 days, and on the featured tier, a weekly mention in the daily email.

| Tier | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Standard | Free | Free. Reviewed by a person before it publishes. |
| Listing | $10.00 | Directory listing for 30 days once paid. |
| Featured | $25.00 | Above the fold for 30 days, plus 1 mention a week in the daily email. |

- 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.
- Price it live: `GET /api/listing-quote`
- Buy it: `POST /api/business-checkout`
- Buy on the site: https://mailerdot.com/advertise/business

## The small print

- 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.