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Plans and billing

Plans and billing

Buy and manage licences

Buy licences by card, make a website on one, and assign, move, change, cancel or resume them.

  • 4 minute read
  • 4 interactive walkthroughs
  • For workspace owners and admins

Buying licences#

Buy licences, on the Licences page, opens the buying dialog: choose Standard or Pro, monthly or annual (annual shows what it saves), and how many, from 1 to 25 at a time. Your bill now and your bill after are shown for the billing period, with the agency discount where it applies. Today you pay for the new licences up to the end of the current billing period, and VAT is added where it applies.

Payment uses the card on file, in the same window; with no card yet, Add a card to continue takes the details there and then. Some banks ask you to confirm the payment. While they do, the licences show Waiting for payment and start by themselves as soon as the bank confirms, so the window can be closed. If a payment does not go through, nothing is charged and no licences are added.

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AI drafts, you decide4 of 100 drafts used this monthTrial9 days left
Your CompanyLicencesA licence is one website’s plan. Buy licences first, then choose one when you make a website.Buy licences
Licences4One for each websiteSpare1Ready for a new websiteMonthly bill£149.98Ex VATYearly bill£499Ex VAT
Your licencesRight-click a licence, or use its menu
Your CompanyPro, paid monthly · Bought hereYour CompanyActive£99.99 a month
Company AStandard, paid yearly · Bought hereCompany AActive£499 a year
Standard licenceStandard, paid monthly · Bought hereSpareEnds on 30/11/2026£49.99 a month
Managed licenceManaged · Arranged with Cube SystemsCompany BActiveArranged
Your CompanyOpen the websiteMove to another websiteTake off this websiteChange planCancel the licenceRename

Card, billing details and invoices are under Plans and billing.

Step 1 of 7

Buy licences

On the Licences page, for owners and admins. Anyone else is told who to ask.

Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.

  1. 1Open Licences and choose Buy licences.
  2. 2Pick the plan, the billing period and how many.
  3. 3Check your bill after, then pay.

Making a website on a licence#

New website needs a spare licence. With one spare, the website takes it; with several, the last step of the new website wizard asks which one, and the website takes that licence's plan. With none spare, the button is greyed out and a note says why, with Buy a licence beside it for owners and admins. After paying, Make the website carries straight on.

Importing a website file makes a website too, so it needs a spare licence in the same way. Deleting a website frees its licence, which then shows as Spare.

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Licence

Choose which spare licence the website takes. Its plan comes with it.

Pro licencePro, paid monthlyStandard licenceStandard, paid monthly
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Step 1 of 2

Which licence

With several spare licences, choose one here. The website takes its plan.

Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.

Good to know: Only the workspace owner or an admin can buy licences. Anyone else is told who to ask.

Everything you can do with a licence#

Each licence on the Licences page has a menu, and the same actions open with a right-click. Assign to a website gives a spare licence to a website that has none. Move to another website takes it from one website to another. Take off this website makes it spare again. Rename gives it a name of your own, such as the client it pays for; clicking the name does the same.

Change plan switches a bought licence between Standard and Pro, or between monthly and annual. You pay, or are credited, the difference for the rest of the period, and the dialog shows the bill before and after. Each website's Settings also has a Licence card, with Change plan and Move licence, or Assign a licence and Buy a licence for this website when it has none.

Your Company
CubeSitesYour Company
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  • Websites
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  • Settings
AI drafts, you decide4 of 100 drafts used this monthTrial9 days left
Your CompanyLicencesA licence is one website’s plan. Buy licences first, then choose one when you make a website.Buy licences
Licences4One for each websiteSpare1Ready for a new websiteMonthly bill£149.98Ex VATYearly bill£499Ex VAT
Your licencesRight-click a licence, or use its menu
Your CompanyPro, paid monthly · Bought hereYour CompanyActive£99.99 a month
Company AStandard, paid yearly · Bought hereCompany AActive£499 a year
Standard licenceStandard, paid monthly · Bought hereSpareEnds on 30/11/2026£49.99 a month
Managed licenceManaged · Arranged with Cube SystemsCompany BActiveArranged
Your CompanyOpen the websiteMove to another websiteTake off this websiteChange planCancel the licenceRename

Card, billing details and invoices are under Plans and billing.

Step 1 of 3

Right-click or the menu

Open the website, move the licence, take it off, change its plan, cancel it or rename it.

Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.

Before you continue: A website that loses its licence goes offline. Moving a licence, or taking it off, takes the website it leaves offline at once. Its draft is kept, and it can be published again once it has another licence.

Cancelling and resuming#

Cancel the licence ends a bought licence at the end of the period you have paid for, and nothing more is charged for it. Until then it keeps working and shows Ends on with the date, and Resume carries it on as if nothing had happened.

When a cancelled licence ends, the website on it can no longer publish changes, and it goes offline 14 days later. Nothing is deleted: a licence for the website brings it back.

Your Company
CubeSitesYour Company
  • Home
  • Websites
  • Licences
  • Templates
  • Media
  • Cube apps
  • Settings
AI drafts, you decide4 of 100 drafts used this monthTrial9 days left
Your CompanyLicencesA licence is one website’s plan. Buy licences first, then choose one when you make a website.Buy licences
Licences4One for each websiteSpare1Ready for a new websiteMonthly bill£149.98Ex VATYearly bill£499Ex VAT
Your licencesRight-click a licence, or use its menu
Your CompanyPro, paid monthly · Bought hereYour CompanyActive£99.99 a month
Company AStandard, paid yearly · Bought hereCompany AActive£499 a year
Standard licenceStandard, paid monthly · Bought hereSpareEnds on 30/11/2026£49.99 a month
Managed licenceManaged · Arranged with Cube SystemsCompany BActiveArranged
Your CompanyOpen the websiteMove to another websiteTake off this websiteChange planCancel the licenceRename

Card, billing details and invoices are under Plans and billing.

Step 1 of 2

Ends on

A cancelled licence keeps working until the end of the period you paid for, and says when.

Reduced motion is on, so the walkthrough waits for you. Use the arrows or pick a step.

  • Every licence named after the website or client it pays for
  • Spare licences either used or cancelled
  • Cancellations made before the renewal date, not after
  • The website on a cancelled licence given another, or taken offline on purpose

Common questions

Can I buy a licence for a website that has none?

Yes. Open the website's Settings and use the Licence card: Assign a licence uses a spare one, and Buy a licence for this website buys one that goes on the website once paid.

What happens to the other website when I move a licence?

It goes offline straight away and keeps its draft. Give it another licence and publish to bring it back.

Can I cancel a licence someone else arranged?

Licences arranged with Cube Systems, and licences paid for by an organisation, are changed and cancelled by whoever arranged them. The menu only offers what you can do.

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