Choosing a plan

01How licences work

• A licence is one website’s plan: Standard, Pro or Managed. Buy as many as you need and mix them in one workspace.
• When you make a website, you choose which spare licence it takes. With no spare licence, buy one first.
• A licence can be moved from one website to another. The website it leaves goes offline and keeps its draft. Deleting a website frees its licence.
• People are unlimited. Invite everyone who needs to help.

02What the trial can do

The free trial covers one website for 14 days, on the plan you choose: Standard or Pro, and you can switch between them during the trial. Build it, use AI drafts and preview it on any device. It cannot publish, which keeps CubeSites free of spam sites: buy a licence for the trial website to put it live. When the trial ends without a licence, the workspace becomes read-only. Nothing is deleted, and buying a licence picks up where you left off.

03Standard, Pro or Managed?

• Standard suits most business websites: your own domain, the blog, contact forms and the team page, with a generous page limit.
• Choose Pro for a bigger website, Advanced SEO (redirects, structured data and SEO checks), custom code blocks or a larger AI allowance.
• A Pro website also unlocks the REST API, required two-step sign-in and an audit log for the whole workspace.
• Choose Managed to have us build and run the website: our team builds the first version, keeps it up to date, makes changes when you ask and can build bespoke widgets or custom code, with priority phone and email support. You can still change anything yourself. It is arranged with us rather than bought in the app.

04Buy licences

1. 1Open Settings, then Licences.
2. 2Choose Standard or Pro, monthly or annual billing, and how many licences you need. The price, and any agency discount, updates as you choose. Managed is arranged with us instead: get in touch and we will set it up with you.
3. 3Add a card if you have not already. The card form is part of CubeSites and the details go straight to Stripe, our payment provider.
4. 4Press "Pay and start". If your bank asks you to confirm the payment, it does so in the same window. The licences are ready as soon as the payment goes through.
5. 5Make a website and choose the licence it takes, or give a spare licence to a website you already have.

Tip: One card pays for every licence in the workspace. Only the workspace owner and admins can see billing.

05Change or end a licence

• To move a licence between Standard and Pro, or between monthly and annual, change it under Settings, then Licences. You pay, or are credited, the difference for the rest of the period.
• A website on Managed is arranged with us: call or email and we will change or end it for you.
• To stop paying for a website, cancel its licence. It keeps working until the end of the period you have paid for. After that the website cannot publish changes, and the live website goes offline 14 days later. Nothing is deleted.
• Changed your mind before the end date? Resume the licence. Nothing extra is charged.

06Card, invoices and billing details

• "Plans and billing" shows the card on file, the next payment and every invoice, which you can download as a PDF.
• Add your company name, address and VAT number under Billing details, and they appear on your invoices.
• If a payment fails, a notice appears at the top of the workspace and Stripe tries again over the next few days. Update the card to keep your licences. If every attempt fails, those licences end and the workspace becomes read-only until a licence is bought again; published websites stay online meanwhile.

Tip: Prices exclude VAT. If card payments are not switched on for your workspace yet, get in touch and Cube Systems sets the licences up for you.

07Agency pricing

If you build websites for clients, keep them in one workspace. Once you hold enough licences, a discount comes off the whole bill, and "Plans and billing" shows it. For a very large number of websites, talk to us.