Paywall Plus
Paywall Plus is a customizable paywall and digital publishing platform for newspapers, magazines, radio businesses, and digital publishers.
What Paywall Plus is
Paywall Plus is a customizable paywall and digital publishing platform for newspapers, magazines, radio businesses, and digital publishers. Its subscription portal supports recurring revenue and deep Stripe payment integration. The Newsroom CMS provides configurable editorial workflows, user and media management, tagging, and categorization. A custom Adobe InDesign plugin imports articles from print layouts into the CMS for digital publication. The open JSON API delivers content across web, mobile, and voice channels, while custom iOS and Android apps can receive API-delivered content. Live Blog pushes event coverage to readers as it happens. Advertising includes Google DFP integration and site-wide sponsorships. Promotion options include Google News, automatic social publishing, and newsletter distribution through Newsletter Plus. The platform is available on Android, iOS, web, and API. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland. Pricing is on request and depends on requirements.
Good
- Recurring-revenue subscription portal
- Stripe payment integration
- Configurable newsroom workflows and media management
- Open JSON API for web, mobile, and voice
- Live Blog for event coverage
Watch out
- Pricing depends on requirements
- Pricing is available only on request
- Internet transmission security is not guaranteed
- Custom mobile apps require the maker’s team
Who it suits
It suits publishers operating newspapers, magazines, radio, or digital outlets that need paywalls, subscriptions, CMS workflows, and multi-channel delivery. Organizations can also use its live-blog, advertising, and promotion integrations.
Verdict
Paywall Plus combines subscription monetization with newsroom, content-delivery, live-blog, advertising, and promotion tools. Its quote-based pricing and custom implementation elements should be weighed against the publishing features required.
Plans and prices
From Paywall Plus's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Custom pricing | Priced on request | Pricing depends on requirements · Contact the team to discuss requirements and associated costs. |
The facts
Each one read from Paywall Plus's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Advertising
- Publisher Plus says it is fully integrated with the Google DFP ad server and supports site-wide sponsorship integrations.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Audience engagement
- A Live Blog solution pushes content to readers as events happen.checked 4 Oct 2026
- CMS
- Its Newsroom CMS supports configurable editorial workflows, user and media management, tagging and categorization.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Content API
- The platform provides an open JSON API for delivering content across web, mobile and voice channels.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Mobile
- The maker says its team can create custom iOS and Android apps whose content is delivered through the Publisher Plus API.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Payments
- The paywall has deep Stripe payment integration.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Pricing model
- The maker asks prospective customers to contact its team to discuss pricing based on their requirements.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Print workflow
- A custom Adobe InDesign plugin lets publishers import articles from layouts into the CMS for digital publication.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Privacy and security
- The privacy policy says personal data is held on secure servers hosted by processors and that the company takes reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect it; it does not guarantee internet transmission security.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Product
- Paywall Plus is a customizable paywall solution with a subscription portal and recurring revenue model.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Promotion integrations
- The platform describes Google News integration, automatic publishing to social networks and newsletter distribution through Newsletter Plus.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Support
- Support is available by email or by phone at +353 (0)1 685 9029 and +44 (0)20 386 80795.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2013checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Dublin, Irelandchecked 28 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Publisher platform
- Publisher Plus is an enterprise digital publishing platform for newspaper, magazine, radio and digital publishers.checked 4 Oct 2026
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