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# Adding a staging site to your plan
- URL: https://www.magicpages.co/help/staging/adding-a-staging-site-to-your-plan/
- Published: 2026-07-29T11:10:47.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-29T11:10:47.000Z
- Description: Staging is a €3 a month add-on you switch on from your billing page. What it costs, which plans can have it, and what happens when you remove it.
- Author: Jannis Fedoruk-Betschki
- Tags: Help Center & Guides, Staging Sites

Staging is in beta. If you want to try it on your site, email help@magicpages.co and we'll switch it on for you.

Staging costs €3 a month, or €30 a year, and you add it from the **Billing** tab of your customer portal. Where we can show the price in your own currency we do, so the amount on your invoice may read differently.

The add-on follows your plan's billing cycle. On a monthly plan it's billed monthly, on a yearly plan it's billed yearly.

## Adding it

1. Log in to your Ghost admin at `yourdomain.com/ghost` and open the **Customer portal** link in the left sidebar.
2. Go to **Billing**, scroll to **Available Add-ons** and find **Staging Environment**.
3. Click **Continue**. The next screen shows what you pay now, prorated for the rest of your billing period, and what your next invoice will be.
4. Pay, and that's it.

We then build your staging site for you. It takes a few minutes, and the **Staging** tab reads *Provisioning* while that happens and *Private* once it's ready. Your live site keeps serving readers throughout.

Staging starts as a copy of your live site, so it opens with your real posts, pages and theme rather than an empty Ghost install. [What a staging site is and what you can do on it](https://www.magicpages.co/help/staging/what-is-a-staging-site/) covers the rest.

## If the add-on isn't there

Two reasons it wouldn't show up:

- **Staging is still in beta**, so we switch it on site by site. That's the usual reason.
- **You're on a lifetime plan.** Staging is a recurring add-on and a lifetime plan has no recurring subscription for it to sit on, so it can't be added to one. We are working on that as well, but it will only be available after beta testing.

## Removing it

Go to **Billing**, find **Staging Environment** under **Active Add-ons** and click **Remove**.

That deletes your staging site and everything on it straight away, not at the end of your billing period, so [publish anything you want to keep](https://www.magicpages.co/help/staging/publishing-your-staging-changes-to-your-live-site/) first. Your live site, your members and your subscriptions aren't touched.

Add it again later and you'll get a fresh copy of your live site as it is then.