⚡ Subscriptions in France

Subscription management software is used to manage memberships, recurring payments, and access to premium content or services across websites and other digital platforms.

France is a Western European country with a population of around 69 million people.

According to our statistics, subscription management tools are used on 1.9% of websites from France.

Statistics based on 132K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top subscription management tools in France in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is Stripe, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 58.4% share.
It is followed by ProfilePress with 16.2% and Substack with 5.5%.

Stripe 58.4%
ProfilePress 16.2%
Substack 5.5%
Paid Memberships Pro 4.8%
Patreon 4.6%
Recharge 3.1%
MemberPress 2.5%
Ghost 2.5%
Chargebee 1%
Gumroad 0.8%
Payhip 0.7%
Paddle 0.5%
FastSpring 0.4%
Memberstack 0.3%
PressReader 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top management tools that are more popular in France than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

4. Paid Memberships Pro ^(-2)
9. Chargebee ^(-3)
11. Payhip ^(-2)
13. FastSpring ^(-1)
14. Memberstack ^(-1)
15. PressReader ^(-1)
18. Circle.so ^(-1)
19. MemberSpace ^(-3)
21. Outseta ^(-9)
23. Magzter ^(-6)

✨ Best Subscription Management Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 30 subscription management tools used on sites from France, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	Stripe San Francisco, California, United States A payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration. $$$	58.4%
2	ProfilePress Sheridan, Wyoming, United States A membership and e-commerce WordPress plugin that allows users to build paid membership sites and sell digital downloads and subscriptions. Free$129+/year	16.2%
3	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform that enables writers and journalists to create subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	5.5%
4	Paid Memberships Pro Reading, Pennsylvania, United States A WordPress membership plugin that allows users to restrict content, manage memberships, and sell recurring subscriptions. FreeOpen source$174+/year	4.8%
5	Patreon San Francisco, California, United States A membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans. $$$	4.6%
6	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription billing platform for Shopify and BigCommerce stores that manages recurring payments, subscription plans, and customer retention workflows. $99+/month	3.1%
7	MemberPress Cedar City, Utah, United States A commercial WordPress plugin for paywalls, memberships, subscriptions, and learning management that lets site owners control access and monetize content on their WordPress sites. $199.50+/year	2.5%
8	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites. FreeOpen source$18+/month	2.5%
9	Chargebee North Bethesda, Maryland, United States A subscription management platform that handles recurring billing, invoicing, and revenue operations for subscription-based businesses. Free$$$	1%
10	Gumroad San Francisco, California, United States An e-commerce platform serving as a merchant of record that enables creators and digital entrepreneurs to sell digital products, memberships, and other goods directly to their audience. $$$	0.8%
11	Payhip London, United Kingdom An e-commerce platform that enables creators to sell digital downloads, courses, memberships, coaching, and physical products directly to their audience through a hosted storefront or embedded checkout. $$$	0.7%
12	Paddle London, United Kingdom A software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies. $$$	0.5%
13	FastSpring Santa Barbara, California, United States A merchant-of-record e-commerce platform that provides an all-in-one payment and subscription infrastructure for SaaS, software, and digital-goods businesses. $$$	0.4%
14	Memberstack Wilmington, Delaware, United States A platform that allows you to add user authentication, gated content, and payments to your website with a single line of code. Free$29+/month	0.3%
15	PressReader Richmond, British Columbia, Canada An online platform that allows users to subscribe to 6,000+ digital newspapers and magazines. Free$29.99/month	0.3%
16	Beehiiv New York, United States A newsletter platform that allows creators and brands to publish, distribute, and monetize email publications with integrated website hosting and audience management tools. Free$49+/month	0.3%
17	Skool El Segundo, California, United States An all-in-one online community platform that enables creators, coaches, and educators to build private or public groups, deliver structured courses, and monetize expertise through memberships. $9+/month	0.3%
18	Circle.so New York, United States A community-focused platform for creating and managing online spaces with discussions, events, and member-only content. $89+/month	0.2%
19	MemberSpace Hoboken, New Jersey, United States A no-code membership site software that works with any website, letting creators paywall content and charge for access. $49+/month	0.1%
20	Lemon Squeezy Salt Lake City, Utah, United States An all-in-one platform for running SaaS and digital product businesses, now owned by Stripe, that provides payments, subscriptions, and merchant-of-record services. Free$$$	0.08%
21	Outseta San Diego, California, United States A subscription management solution that helps start-ups and small businesses handle logins, memberships, and payments. $47+/month	0.08%
22	Hotmart Belo Horizonte, Brazil An all-in-one e-commerce platform for selling digital and physical products online, with a strong focus on e-learning and online course distribution. $$$	0.04%
23	Magzter New York, United States A digital newsstand offering subscriptions to a vast library of magazines and newspapers. $9.99/month	0.04%
24	SimpleCirc Rochester, New York, United States A fully-featured software platform for magazine and newspaper publishers to manage their circulations.	0.04%
25	Cleverbridge Cologne, Germany A cloud-based ecommerce and subscription management platform for selling software, SaaS, and digital goods. $$$	0.04%

👉 See Also

🌎 Subscriptions in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 132,068 websites from France.
We currently track the presence of 37 subscription management tools across the web.
Of these, 30 were detected on websites from France.
Statistics were last calculated on November 3, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.