Can I buy a Magic Pages site as a gift?

Yes. You pay once, we email the person you're giving it to, and they set the site up themselves. You don't need a Magic Pages account to buy one, and nothing renews afterwards.

Gifts are bought on our gift page, which shows the current prices in your own currency.

What you're buying

Every gift is a full Ghost site.

You do choose how long it runs: 3 months, 6 months, a year, or lifetime. Three and six months are charged at our monthly rate, and a year at the yearly rate. That makes a year cheaper than twelve months bought one at a time. The rates are the same ones a customer paying for themselves would get.

What we need from you

• Their email address
• How long you'd like it to run for
• Your name, if you'd like them to know who it's from
• A note to go with it, which is optional

We don't ask for their new .mymagic.page subdomain. They pick that when they set the site up, so you can't get it wrong on their behalf.

What happens after you pay

We email them a link to a page that shows what they've been given, along with your note. They choose an address ending in .mymagic.page, and we send a six-digit code to their inbox to confirm it's them. That check is why forwarding the link doesn't hand your gift to somebody else.

Their site is built a few minutes later, and we email them a link to their Ghost admin. From then on the hosting, updates, backups and support are ours to handle.

What they don't see

They never see what you paid. Their billing page says the site was gifted and who it came from, and shows no price at all.

Claiming a gift takes an email address and a name for the site. There's no card to hand over, and no subscription is created in their name.

Will you charge me again?

No. A gift is one payment for a fixed length of time, not a subscription with your card on it. There's nothing behind it for us to charge.

When a timed gift runs out, carrying on is the recipient's decision and the bill would be theirs. We email them about it twice before that happens, and nothing is charged to you. Here's what they see when it runs out.

If they never claim it

The link works for 90 days. After that it stops working, but the gift isn't written off. Reply to your receipt and we'll either refund you or send it again, to a different address if you need.

Buying more than one

Buy them one at a time, each with its own recipient. Two limits apply in any 30 days: fifteen gifts per buyer, and five to the same address. Both exist to stop people mass-creating sites rather than to get in your way. If you need more than that, email us and we'll arrange it.

A second gift for the same person gives them a second site, not more time on the first one. If you'd like to add time to a site they already have, email us instead of buying another gift.

Lifetime gifts

A lifetime gift never runs out, so the person you give it to is never asked for a card at all.

Lifetime gifts come out of the same limited monthly pool as lifetime plans. We host those sites for as long as Magic Pages runs, and that has to stay sustainable. When a month's spots are gone, the lifetime option disappears from the gift page until new ones open. We've written up how we work out that number and why it changes month to month.