Pelcro
Subscription and recurring billing platform for publishers, associations and nonprofits
Pelcro is a subscription management and recurring billing platform for publishers and membership organizations, covering paywalls, payments, entitlements, fulfillment, and identity in a single system. It replaces the patchwork of separate billing, paywall, fulfillment, customer service, analytics, and authentication tools that publishers often stitch together, reducing context-switching and data drift across systems.
The platform supports dynamic paywalls (metered, freemium, and hard), recurring billing with smart retries and dunning, print and digital subscription management, membership tiers, one-time and recurring donations, e-commerce checkout with cart and order management, newsletters with free and paid tiers, group licences with seat management and SSO, and advanced billing logic including trials, add-ons, proration, and metered usage. Pelcro AI agents handle billing, collection, renewals, and reporting with human review of exceptions, and include plain-English data querying. Integrations include payment processors, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and installation via JavaScript on most CMS platforms.
Pelcro is built for media companies, magazines, newspapers, B2B publications, nonprofits, and professional associations. Pricing is packaged as a free plan with a customer cap, three paid editions (Advanced, Professional, Enterprise) with increasing customer caps and features, and optional add-on AI credit bundles. Enterprise includes custom reports, custom integrations, onboarding services, account management, and multiple website support. No implementation or setup fees apply unless customizations, migrations, or integrations are required, and there are no transaction fees beyond payment processor charges.
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