Setting up a site someone gifted you

Someone has paid for your site, so there's nothing for you to pay and no card to add. Open the link in the email we sent you, pick a web address, and your Ghost site is built a few minutes later.

Setting it up

1. Open Claim your site in the gift email. The page shows who it's from, how long it's paid for, and their note if they left one.
2. Choose your web address. It ends in .mymagic.page and can use letters, numbers and hyphens. You can add your own domain later, so this doesn't have to be your final answer.
3. Enter the six-digit code we email you. It goes to the address the gift was bought for, which is what stops anyone else who happens to have the link claiming it. You get five tries.
4. Wait a few minutes. We'll email you a link to your Ghost admin the moment the site is ready.

If the link doesn't work, it was most likely copied incompletely from the email, so try opening it straight from the email again. Gifts are held for 90 days, so an older one may also have run out. Either way, reply to that email and we'll sort it out.

What you've got

A Magic Pages Pro site. That's Ghost, with the hosting, updates, daily backups and support all handled by us.

• 10,000 email newsletters a month
• Your own domain whenever you want to put one on
• The .mymagic.page address until you do

You're not on a trial, so nothing on the site is counting down.

Where to see your gift

Log in to your Ghost admin at yourdomain.com/ghost, click Customer portal in the left sidebar, then Billing. More on finding the portal.

The card there shows four things: whether the site is active, that you're on Pro, the date it's covered until, and who paid for it. There's no price, because there's nothing for you to pay.

If it says "never expires"

That's a lifetime gift. Nothing runs out, nothing is charged, and there's nothing you need to do. The site is yours to keep.

If it shows a date

Your gift covers the site until that day. We'll email you 14 days before it, and again 3 days before, so it can't take you by surprise.

Nothing is charged to you automatically, then or ever. Carrying on is a decision you have to make yourself.

When the gift runs out

Your site stays online and nothing is deleted. The Ghost admin locks, so you can't publish or change anything until someone is paying for the hosting.

To unlock it, open Billing in the customer portal and add a payment method. The site comes back straight away, exactly as it was, with the same address and the same content.

From then on you're billed like any other Pro customer: yearly if you were given a year, monthly otherwise.

If you'd rather not keep it

Do nothing. The site locks when the gift runs out and your content stays where it is, so you can change your mind later. You can export your posts and pages from the Ghost admin at any time before that.