You can now pay for a Magic Pages site and give it to somebody else. The person you're giving it to sets the site up themselves.
It's live at magicpages.co/gift.
How it works
You choose how long it runs: 3 months, 6 months, a year, or lifetime. Then you give us the recipient's email address. You don't need a Magic Pages account. You don't need to pick their web address either.
We email them a link. It opens a page showing what they've been given, with your note if you left one. They choose an address ending in .mymagic.page. A six-digit code to their inbox confirms it's them, and the site is built a few minutes later.
Gifts are held for 90 days. If one goes unclaimed, reply to your receipt and we'll either refund you or send it again.
Handing someone a bill isn't a gift
The person receiving a gift never sees what you paid. Their billing page says the site was gifted and who it came from, with no price anywhere on it. Claiming it takes an email address and a name for the site. No card, and no subscription in their name.
A gift is a whole Ghost site, coming with all the features we offer. That means 10,000 newsletters a month, their own domain whenever they want to put one on, and the hosting, updates, backups and support handled by us.
When a timed gift runs out
We email the recipient 14 days before the end of the term, and again 3 days before. If nobody takes it over, the Ghost admin locks until someone is paying for the hosting. Adding a payment method unlocks it straight away, exactly as it was.
You're never charged a second time. A gift is one payment for a fixed length of time, so there's no subscription behind it for us to charge.
Prices and availability
The gift page shows prices in your own currency. 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.
Lifetime gifts come out of the same limited monthly pool as lifetime plans. When a month's spots are gone, the lifetime option disappears from the gift page until new ones open.
Two help articles cover the rest: Can I buy a Magic Pages site as a gift? for the giving side, and Setting up a site someone gifted you for the receiving side.
