⚡ Subscriptions in the United Kingdom

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

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is a Western European country with a population of over 67 million people.

According to our statistics, subscription management tools are used on 3.3% of websites from the United Kingdom.

Statistics based on 159K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

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

The most popular is Stripe, which dominates the market with an overwhelming 58.5% share.
It is followed by ProfilePress with 9.2% and Patreon with 6.5%.

Stripe 58.5%
ProfilePress 9.2%
Patreon 6.5%
Recharge 5.9%
Substack 5.7%
MemberPress 4.9%
Paid Memberships Pro 4.4%
Ghost 1.4%
Payhip 1.1%
Beehiiv 1%
Gumroad 0.8%
Chargebee 0.8%
FastSpring 0.7%
Paddle 0.7%
Memberstack 0.3%

🚀 Highlights

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

4. Recharge ^(-1)
6. MemberPress ^(-1)
9. Payhip ^(-4)
10. Beehiiv ^(-1)
13. FastSpring ^(-1)
15. Memberstack ^(-1)
16. Circle.so ^(-5)
17. MemberSpace ^(-1)
18. Recurly ^(-6)
19. Computer Fulfillment ^(-17)

✨ Best Subscription Management Tools

Below is a more detailed list of the top 25 of the 31 subscription management tools used on sites from the United Kingdom, 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. $$$	58.5%
2	ProfilePress Sheridan, Wyoming, United States A membership and e-commerce WordPress plugin that allows users to build paid membership sites and sell digital downloads and subscriptions. Free$129+/year	9.2%
3	Patreon San Francisco, California, United States A membership platform that allows creators to run a subscription-based service for their content and sell digital products directly to their most dedicated fans. $$$	6.5%
4	Recharge Santa Monica, California, United States A subscription payment solution with Shopify and BigCommerce integration and powerful APIs. $99+/month	5.9%
5	Substack San Francisco, California, United States An online publishing and social platform for writers and journalists that enables creating subscription-based newsletters, podcasts, and multimedia content delivered directly to subscribers. Free$$$	5.7%
6	MemberPress Cedar City, Utah, United States A commercial WordPress plugin for paywalls, memberships, subscriptions, and learning management that lets site owners control access and monetize content on their WordPress sites. $199.50+/year	4.9%
7	Paid Memberships Pro Reading, Pennsylvania, United States A membership plugin for WordPress that allows you to restrict content and manage member subscriptions with recurring payments. FreeOpen source$174+/year	4.4%
8	Ghost Singapore An open-source content management system built on Node.js that serves as a publishing platform for blogs, newsletters, and membership-based websites. FreeOpen source$18+/month	1.4%
9	Payhip London, United Kingdom An e-commerce platform that enables creators to sell digital downloads, courses, memberships, coaching, and physical products directly to their audience through a hosted storefront or embedded checkout. $$$	1.1%
10	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	1%
11	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. $$$	0.8%
12	Chargebee North Bethesda, Maryland, United States A subscription management platform that handles recurring billing, invoicing, and revenue operations for subscription-based businesses. Free$$$	0.8%
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. $$$	0.7%
14	Paddle London, United Kingdom A software-as-a-service commerce platform that provides payments, tax compliance and subscription infrastructure for software companies. $$$	0.7%
15	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%
16	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	0.3%
17	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	0.2%
18	Recurly San Francisco, California, United States A subscription management and recurring billing platform that enables businesses to automate subscription lifecycles, payments, and revenue operations. $249+/month	0.2%
19	Computer Fulfillment North Billerica, Massachusetts, United States Provides circulation fulfillment services and an online subscription center for business publishers.	0.2%
20	PressReader Richmond, British Columbia, Canada An online platform that allows users to subscribe to 6,000+ digital newspapers and magazines. Free$29.99/month	0.1%
21	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$$$	0.1%
22	Fourthwall Santa Monica, California, United States A platform that allows creators to set up membership sites where fans can directly support them by buying products and making donations. Free$$$	0.09%
23	Outseta San Diego, California, United States A subscription management solution that helps start-ups and small businesses handle logins, memberships, and payments. $47+/month	0.09%
24	Magzter New York, United States A digital newsstand offering subscriptions to a vast library of magazines and newspapers. $9.99/month	0.08%
25	Buysub Des Moines, Iowa, United States A digital subscription management platform that specializes in magazines.	0.08%

👉 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 159,418 websites from the United Kingdom.
We currently track the presence of 36 subscription management tools across the web.
Of these, 31 were detected on websites from the United Kingdom.
Statistics were last calculated on May 5, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.