Give someone a place to write
Pay once for a Ghost® site, and we set it up for the person you're giving it to. They pick their own web address, and they never see a bill.
No account needed
- One payment, nothing renews
- No card needed to claim it
- They never see the price
What a gift costs
Pick how long it should run. Prices show in your own currency, at the same rate anyone paying for themselves gets.
3 months
One payment
Long enough to find out whether writing sticks.
Give 3 monthsCharged at the monthly rate
6 months
One payment
Half a year of publishing, with room to build an audience.
Give 6 monthsCharged at the monthly rate
1 year
One payment
A whole year, and cheaper than twelve months bought one at a time.
Give a yearCharged at the yearly rate
Lifetime
One payment
Never runs out, so they're never asked for a card at all. Limited spots available each month.
Give a lifetimeTheirs to keep, for good
Every gift is the full Pro plan
Exactly what a paying customer gets. It isn't a trial, and nothing is held back because it was a gift.
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Their own site, kept up to date by us
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A newsletter, with 10,000 emails a month included
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Their own domain, whenever they're ready for one
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Any design they like, including one of their own
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As many subscribers and co-writers as they like
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Daily backups they can download any time
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A built-in editor for their photos
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Support from a real person, any time
How it works
Three steps, and only the first one is yours.
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Step 1
You buy it
Choose how long it runs, give us their email address, and add a note if you'd like. You don't need a Magic Pages account.
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Step 2
They get an email
It says who it's from, with your note, and lets them choose their web address. A code to their inbox confirms it's really them.
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Step 3
Their site goes live
A few minutes later, it's ready. From then on it's theirs, and we look after the updates, backups and support.
What they never have to deal with
- A price
- Their account says the site was a gift and who it came from. It never shows what you paid.
- A card form
- Claiming it takes an email address and a name for the site. No payment details, and no subscription in their name.
- Your choice of name
- You can't pick their web address, on purpose. They choose it, and can add their own domain later.
When the time runs out
We email them two weeks before the end, and again three days before. If they want to carry on, they add a card and keep going at the normal price.
If they'd rather not, the site is locked, not deleted. Their posts, images and subscribers stay where they are, so they can pick it up later. Nothing is charged to you, and nothing is charged to them unless they choose it.
A lifetime gift skips all of that
No end date, no reminder emails, and no card request, ever. The site is simply theirs.
Or top it up before it ends
Buy another gift and let us know. We'll add the time to the site they already have, rather than starting a second one.
Who people give these to
Usually someone who has the writing in them already, and keeps putting off the technical part.
- The friend who has been saying for two years that they should start a blog.
- Someone finishing a degree, leaving a job, or starting something of their own.
- A community group that has been stuck on a Facebook page for years.
- A writer on a platform they've stopped trusting, who wants their archive somewhere they own.
"It's a reliable and friendly platform. Human support is such a valuable advantage that MagicPages provides over competitors; it's remarkable."
Questions you might have
No. There are no prices in their account at all, and no invoice goes to them. It says the site was a gift and who it's from, plus your note if you wrote one. Your receipt comes to you.
No, and most aren't. Claiming a gift creates a brand new site for them. All they need is an email address they can read.
Write to us before they claim it, and we'll put the gift on the site they already run instead of creating a second one. Paying off someone's hosting bill is a perfectly good present. It just needs us to move it across by hand.
No, and that's deliberate. They choose it when they claim the gift, which saves you guessing at a name they'd have to live with. It starts as a free .mymagic.page address, and they can switch to their own domain whenever they like.
They have 90 days to claim it. After that the link stops working, but the money isn't gone. Reply to your receipt and we'll either refund you or send the gift again, to them or to someone else.
No. A gift is one payment for a fixed length of time, not a subscription with your card on it. When the time is up, the decision about carrying on is theirs, and so is the bill.
Yes. Buy them one at a time, each with its own recipient. There's a limit of fifteen gifts a month per buyer, which is there to stop people mass-creating sites, not to get in your way. If you need more than that, write to us and we'll arrange it.
Not always. We only take on a set number of lifetime sites each month, because we host them forever and that has to stay sustainable. Gifts share that number with everyone else, so if this month is full, the lifetime option comes back on the 1st.
Give them the site, we'll do the rest
It takes about two minutes, and they'll hear from us the moment you're done.
"If anything about their setup goes sideways, they email me and I sort it out. That's the part you're really giving them."
Jannis, founder of Magic Pages
What you'll need
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Their email address, typed twice so a slip can't lose it
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How long you'd like it to run
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Your name, if you'd like them to know who it's from
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A note to go with it, which is optional but nice
No account needed
One payment, and that's the end of it. Nothing renews, so there's nothing we could charge you again.
