Crate is two products that usually need two vendors: a membership library and a physical subscription box, sharing one set of plans and one admin.

Members pick a tier, start a trial, pause, upgrade, or cancel and still keep the period they paid for. Packing staff open a list of boxes that need to go out this week. You are not stitching Stripe Customer Portal onto a blog and hoping the warehouse can read it.

Included: - Plans with free trials, immediate upgrades, and downgrades that wait for the next renewal - Pause and cancel that do not invent surprise back-charges - Posts and issues gated by plan — a cheaper member cannot open the expensive issue - A packing queue with every parcel stage, from “not started” to “out the door” - Owner, packing and member roles, already seeded with the awkward cases (failed card, cancelled-but-active, gone)

If you sell coffee, vinyl, snacks or a paid newsletter with a box on the side, this is the operating system — not another landing page.