Subscriber Advantage

[Jim Butler]

Starting on Subscriber Day for February subscriptions (January 20, 2026), subscribers will receive 15% off all their subscription and add-to-next products if they have 4 or more active subscriptions in their Subscription Manager. This allows subscribers to save money on shipping and earn the same 15% discount by adding products to their subscriptions regardless of their Paizo Plus tier.

All January subscriptions (Pathfinder Maps and Starfinder Maps) will receive a 15% discount on subscription products and add-to-next products regardless of how many active subscriptions you have. Subscriber Day for both of these products is next Monday, December 22nd.

We will be adding additional details on your Subscription Manager and promoting Subscriber Advantage on subscription pages.

Subscriber Advantage: Enjoy 15% off all subscription and add-to-next products when you maintain 4 active subscriptions.

• Displayed prices include all discounts but do not include taxes and shipping.
  
• Shipping always uses the least-expensive carrier.
  
• Paizo Plus discounts and Store sale prices don’t apply to subscriptions or add-to-next products.

As always, thanks for supporting Paizo!

-Jim

[FrontLineFodder]

Thanks Jim,

To me, this looks more targeted at those who don't have the Legendary tier already.

When you say "Paizo Plus discounts and Store sale prices don’t apply to subscriptions or add-to-next products."

We know Sale prices do not apply to add-to-next products (disappointed having to do seperate international shipments for the BF sales), however I infer you mean Paizo Plus discounts do not stack on top of the new Subscriber Advantage discount (which is expected).

From what I can tell currently Paizo plus discounts do apply to subscription and add-to-next products. (unless this is changing from Subscriber Day onwards)

[Yoshua]

Thanks for the update, looking forward to seeing how this works out.

Have not seen any word one the lost 30% singles discounts that battles subscribers had on the original store. Still holding out hope that this is something being worked on as it is a big bonus for subscribers to be able to purchase singles at a discount. The 15% discount is nice, but not automatic with the battles sub, have to sub to 4 items or get legendary, and not as large of a discount as we were getting.

Question:

If you are in the subscriber discount bucket does that actively disqualify you from store discounts, or will the larger of the 2 discounts apply?

[Jim Butler]

FrontLineFodder wrote:

Thanks Jim,

To me, this looks more targeted at those who don't have the Legendary tier already.

When you say "Paizo Plus discounts and Store sale prices don’t apply to subscriptions or add-to-next products."

We know Sale prices do not apply to add-to-next products (disappointed having to do seperate international shipments for the BF sales), however I infer you mean Paizo Plus discounts do not stack on top of the new Subscriber Advantage discount (which is expected).

From what I can tell currently Paizo plus discounts do apply to subscription and add-to-next products. (unless this is changing from Subscriber Day onwards)

Right now, everyone is receiving a 15% off discount for subscriptions. We did this to match the 15% off for Legendary as we worked through the site launch. Going forward, the only way to get 15% off subscription products will be to have 4+ subscriptions. Paizo Plus won't apply to subscriptions, other than the gold it generates.

-Jim

[Jim Butler]

Yoshua wrote:

Thanks for the update, looking forward to seeing how this works out.

Have not seen any word one the lost 30% singles discounts that battles subscribers had on the original store. Still holding out hope that this is something being worked on as it is a big bonus for subscribers to be able to purchase singles at a discount. The 15% discount is nice, but not automatic with the battles sub, have to sub to 4 items or get legendary, and not as large of a discount as we were getting.

Subscription discounts will only apply to subscription products. Right now, case subscription get a 30% discount, Bricks get a 25% discount, Singles get a 20% discount, and Epic Monsters get a 20% discount. If you maintain 4+ subs, you'll get 15% off all other items using add-to-next.

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If you are in the subscriber discount bucket does that actively disqualify you from store discounts, or will the larger of the 2 discounts apply?

You'll be eligible for all store discounts for anything you normally purchase through the store. So, if we run a big 50% off sale you'll get 50% off your store purchases. Subscription purchases (and those added through add-to-next) only receive your eligible store bonuses (15% for add-to-next products; up to 30% off for miniature sub products, etc.).

-Jim

[Nicolas Paradise]

So is this basically returning the old subscriber benefit and does it stack with Legacy advantage or Legacy Advantage AP? So 4+ subs and Legacy AP = 30% off AP's and 15% everything else?

[Jim Butler]

Nicolas Paradise wrote:

So is this basically returning the old subscriber benefit and does it stack with Legacy advantage or Legacy Advantage AP? So 4+ subs and Legacy AP = 30% off AP's and 15% everything else?

Nothing stacks. The top discount is for Legacy Paizo Advantage - Adventure Path customers at 30% for Adventure Path subscriptions and cases of Pathfinder Battles. 25% for Pathfinder Battles Bricks; 20% for Pathfinder Battles Boosters, and 15% for maintaining 4 or more subs.

-Jim

[FrontLineFodder]

Jim Butler wrote:

Right now, everyone is receiving a 15% off discount for subscriptions. We did this to match the 15% off for Legendary as we worked through the site launch. Going forward, the only way to get 15% off subscription products will be to have 4+ subscriptions. Paizo Plus won't apply to subscriptions, other than the gold it generates.

-Jim

Thanks for the clarification, Jim — I had forgotten that the new store is currently applying a 15% discount for everyone during the launch period.

Just to confirm my understanding: once this transition period ends, even if we have Legendary tier in Paizo Plus, unless we maintain 4 or more active subscriptions, our subscription and add-to-next items will ship with no discount, since (as you’ve said) “Paizo Plus won’t apply to subscriptions.”

This is where the new store is becoming more challenging for international customers here. With the higher shipping costs, add-to-next is essential for bundling orders in a way that makes shipping reasonable.

Because store sales and Paizo Plus discounts don’t apply to add-to-next items, taking advantage of sales requires placing separate orders, which means paying shipping again and often removes most or all of the benefit of the sale.

I wanted to share how this combination of rules affects customers who rely on add-to-next to manage shipping costs.

[Jim Butler]

FrontLineFodder wrote:

Jim Butler wrote:

Right now, everyone is receiving a 15% off discount for subscriptions. We did this to match the 15% off for Legendary as we worked through the site launch. Going forward, the only way to get 15% off subscription products will be to have 4+ subscriptions. Paizo Plus won't apply to subscriptions, other than the gold it generates.

-Jim

Thanks for the clarification, Jim — I had forgotten that the new store is currently applying a 15% discount for everyone during the launch period.

Just to confirm my understanding: once this transition period ends, even if we have Legendary tier in Paizo Plus, unless we maintain 4 or more active subscriptions, our subscription and add-to-next items will ship with no discount, since (as you’ve said) “Paizo Plus won’t apply to subscriptions.”

That is correct.

Quote:

This is where the new store is becoming more challenging for international customers here. With the higher shipping costs, add-to-next is essential for bundling orders in a way that makes shipping reasonable.

Because store sales and Paizo Plus discounts don’t apply to add-to-next items, taking advantage of sales requires placing separate orders, which means paying shipping again and often removes most or all of the benefit of the sale.

I wanted to share how this combination of rules affects customers who rely on add-to-next to manage shipping costs.

Shipping is becoming a bigger issue every day, and I think the only solution we have is partnering with other companies to distribute our products from AU/EU locations. That's on my radar, but the first priorities have been "stand up a new ecommerce store and work out all the new backend processes." We're in that phase now and likely will be for some time. But I definitely hear you on this issue; I just need some stuff to get checked off my list before we can start working on international solutions. Thanks for your patience.

-Jim

[FrontLineFodder]

Jim Butler wrote:

FrontLineFodder wrote:

Thanks for the clarification, Jim — I had forgotten that the new store is currently applying a 15% discount for everyone during the launch period.

Just to confirm my understanding: once this transition period ends, even if we have Legendary tier in Paizo Plus, unless we maintain 4 or more active subscriptions, our subscription and add-to-next items will ship with no discount, since (as you’ve said) “Paizo Plus won’t apply to subscriptions.”

That is correct.

Thank you for making that clear.

Jim Butler wrote:

Quote:

This is where the new store is becoming more challenging for international customers here. With the higher shipping costs, add-to-next is essential for bundling orders in a way that makes shipping reasonable.

Because store sales and Paizo Plus discounts don’t apply to add-to-next items, taking advantage of sales requires placing separate orders, which means paying shipping again and often removes most or all of the benefit of the sale.

I wanted to share how this combination of rules affects customers who rely on add-to-next to manage shipping costs.

Shipping is becoming a bigger issue every day, and I think the only solution we have is partnering with other companies to distribute our products from AU/EU locations. That's on my radar, but the first priorities have been "stand up a new ecommerce store and work out all the new backend processes." We're in that phase now and likely will be for some time. But I definitely hear you on this issue; I just need some stuff to get checked off my list before we can start working on international solutions. Thanks for your patience.

-Jim

Thanks for acknowledging it again Jim

[Dragonhost]

You gonna restart the Society Subscription again then?

[Jim Butler]

Dragonhost wrote:

You gonna restart the Society Subscription again then?

If our partner adds support for digital subscriptions, we will again have Society subs. We have requested that functionality, but we don't have an ETA for when or if that will be added.

-Jim

[AFigureOfBlue]

Would a potentially viable approach at a technical level be to just treat a Society subscription (or other digital subscriptions) as another regular subscription, just with no shipping charge on the items, and then distribute the actual Society PDFs to subscribers in the same way that the free PDFs that come with physical subscriptions are already being distributed?

[Justin Franklin]

Just to be clear this is going to make me cancel my subscriptions as there is no benefit to subscribing unless you maintain 4. I was going to keep my 2 Rulebook line subs, because I like to have physical copies of those, but I guess I will remove those as well.

[Mr. Fred]

Hey, I just ordered a a few products and it looks like it will be shipped apart from the subscription schedule, has this awesome feature to group shipment disapeared as well with the awesome new store ?

[Jim Butler]

Mr. Fred wrote:

Hey, I just ordered a a few products and it looks like it will be shipped apart from the subscription schedule, has this awesome feature to group shipment disapeared as well with the awesome new store ?

Please make sure that both subscriptions have the same shipping address. If they do, you'll see the orders combine when the first reminder email is sent on January 15th.

-Jim

[0xTJ]

Mr. Fred wrote:

Hey, I just ordered a a few products and it looks like it will be shipped apart from the subscription schedule, has this awesome feature to group shipment disapeared as well with the awesome new store ?

I was confused by the same issue for a while. After the transition to the new store, I had 3 different entries all for my current address in the subscriptions, plus an address where I no longer live.

Changing the addresses to all use one entry initially worked, but after refreshing still didn't combine properly. I tried cancelling and re-adding my accessory subscriptions, but those now show the wrong months and next items ("NPC Core Battle Cards" for March 2026 and "Starfinder Accessory Subscription Product TBA" for December 2026). So I have now reached out to CS about it.

[Yoshua]

Are we no longer getting the monthly announcement for upcoming releases? January 20th is coming soon and my subscriptions on the store page are still generic place holders with no prices.

[kcunning]

Yoshua wrote:

Are we no longer getting the monthly announcement for upcoming releases? January 20th is coming soon and my subscriptions on the store page are still generic place holders with no prices.

Echoing this, especially since I'm considering skipping the remastered Guns N Gears (I don't really need two copies of very similar books), but I don't know if that'll be in the Jan 20th shipment or not.

[Meddlemaker]

kcunning wrote:

Echoing this, especially since I'm considering skipping the remastered Guns N Gears (I don't really need two copies of very similar books), but I don't know if that'll be in the Jan 20th shipment or not.

Guns N Gears Remastered been available for almost a year now, it wouldn't be in the next shipment anyway.

[kcunning]

Meddlemaker wrote:

kcunning wrote:

Echoing this, especially since I'm considering skipping the remastered Guns N Gears (I don't really need two copies of very similar books), but I don't know if that'll be in the Jan 20th shipment or not.

Guns N Gears Remastered been available for almost a year now, it wouldn't be in the next shipment anyway.

Alright, I must be thinking of another remastered book, then, because I remember the warning coming down a while ago from other subscribers that something had been moved to the Rulebook subscribers list.

[Perses13]

Dark Archive Remastered is probably what you're thinking of.

[Maya Coleman]

kcunning wrote:

Meddlemaker wrote:

kcunning wrote:

Echoing this, especially since I'm considering skipping the remastered Guns N Gears (I don't really need two copies of very similar books), but I don't know if that'll be in the Jan 20th shipment or not.

Guns N Gears Remastered been available for almost a year now, it wouldn't be in the next shipment anyway.

Alright, I must be thinking of another remastered book, then, because I remember the warning coming down a while ago from other subscribers that something had been moved to the Rulebook subscribers list.

Yes, the next remastered rulebook is Dark Archive as Perses13 said above!