To offer a discount on Fansly, open Plans/Promos in your Creator Dashboard and choose one of three tools: the Promotion button on a tier for a public, time-limited price; multi-month plans on the tier's Plans/Pricing tab for fans who pay several months up front; or Create Discount for a private link with its own percentage, length and redemption cap. Free trials are made with that same discount-link form.
None of the three changes your base price, which is the point: you can run an offer and let it end without editing the tier itself. This guide covers the settings and limits as Fansly documents them. Whether a discount is wise for your page is a strategy question, covered in the discount guardrails guide and the free trial links guide; both are written for OnlyFans, but the reasoning carries over. For the tier mechanics underneath every offer, start with Fansly subscription tiers explained.
Which Fansly offer fits which job
Fansly's How Do I Offer a Discount article describes the three tools, and a separate article on free trials and lifetime subscriptions fills in the edges. The decision table puts them side by side.
| Offer | Use it when | Where it is set | Who can be kept out | Main risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tier promotion | You want a visible sale for new subscribers over set dates | Promotion button on the tier | Expired subscribers and anyone who has used a promotion before | Regular subscribers see a price they did not get |
| Multi-month plan | You want fans to commit for longer at a lower monthly equivalent | Plans/Pricing tab inside Edit Subscription Tier | No exclusion setting is described | You owe the whole term once a fan pays up front |
| Discount link | You want a private deal for a group, a partner page or a giveaway | Create Discount at the bottom of Plans/Promos | People who have already used a discount on that plan, plus a redemption cap | Links travel beyond the people you meant them for |
| Free trial | You want a cautious fan to see the page before paying | The discount-link form, set to free for a number of days | The same options as any discount link | Fans who forget to cancel are charged the full price, which can lead to refund requests |
| Long fixed term | You want to give one person access for years | A discount link with a very long period and a cap of one | A cap of one keeps it to one redemption | It ends eventually and has to be recreated |
Setting up a tier promotion
A promotion puts a temporary price on a tier without touching the base price. The discount article lists the steps:
- Go to the subscription tier on Plans/Promos and click Promotion.
- Write the promotion message and enter the discounted price.
- Decide whether expired subscribers, or people who have used a promotion before, can redeem it.
- Set a start date and an end date.
- Click Save. To change it later, click Promotion again.
Two side effects matter. Promotions are visible to everyone who visits your profile, and the same article says followers are notified when a new promotion starts, so a sale doubles as an announcement. Fansly's exclusions article frames the two eligibility toggles as a way to keep offers aimed at new fans and stop repeat discounts.
On the fan side, Fansly's Special Subscription Deals article describes a promotion as a reduced price for the first month, after which the subscription renews at the regular rate, with the after-promotion price shown on your profile. Write the message so the renewal price is impossible to miss.
Multi-month discounts on the Plans/Pricing tab
Multi-month plans reward fans who pay for a longer block. The set-up runs through Edit Subscription Tier and the Plans/Pricing tab, where you switch on the lengths you want, enter a percentage for each and click Update; Fansly calculates and shows the adjusted price. The discount article lists 2-, 3- and 6-month options and says savings can reach 50% on longer plans.
Fansly contradicts itself on the lengths. Its Your Audience article, edited the following day in December 2025, mentions only 3- or 6-month commitments. Trust your own Plans/Pricing tab over either article. Fans find these offers in an Additional Plans section on your profile, according to the Special Subscription Deals article. Before you switch one on, check that the discounted monthly equivalent still covers your costs; the tier pricing worksheet shows a floor calculation.
Discount links and free trials
Subscription discount links are private offers you share yourself. Scroll to the bottom of Plans/Promos and click Create Discount. The discount article lists every field on the form:
- A label, visible to you, so you can tell links apart later.
- The tier the link applies to and the plan it renews at; by default it is a one-month subscription to your first listed tier.
- The maximum number of redemptions.
- The discount percentage, with the resulting price shown in the Amount field.
- How many days pass before the fan is charged the full price again.
- Whether people who have used a discount for this plan before can use this one.
- Optional start and end dates for a time-limited link.
The same article calls this a way to offer a special rate or even a free one, which is how a free trial is made: a discount link that costs nothing for the days you choose. Fansly's free trials article confirms trials are allowed. The Terms of Service set the fan-side rule: at the end of a trial the fan is charged the full subscription price each period until they cancel, and they must cancel before the trial ends to avoid the charge. Say that plainly when you share a trial link.
You cannot test a link on yourself. The discount article says a creator cannot redeem their own discount links, so the offer will not appear when you open it, even though fans who arrive through it see the deal. Links can be copied, edited or disabled later; a disabled link moves to an Inactive list and can be reactivated.
Fansly's redemption limits article adds that once a user redeems a subscription discount, that link becomes invalid for them, and it still uses the older name Gift Links. That sits alongside the reuse toggle on the form, which governs people who have used other discounts on the same plan. If a giveaway depends on repeat redemptions, test the behaviour on a small link first.
Can you offer a lifetime subscription?
Not as a feature. The free trials article says free lifetime subscriptions are not an option right now, and suggests setting a subscription to run for an extended period, such as several years, then creating a new one when it expires. It points to the discount set-up guide for the how, and the discount-link form is where duration lives, through the number of days before full price applies.
The Creator Hub reads differently. Its set-up-your-subscriptions page suggests discount links for giving lifetime access to close friends. Treat the help-centre article as the operative answer, since it addresses the question directly, and use a long fixed term with a redemption cap of one when you mean to reach a single person.
Measuring whether an offer worked
Give every offer its own tracking link. Fansly's Tracking Links article says each link reports claims, follows, subscriptions and revenue from people who arrived through it, with built-in links for the For You page, Suggestions and Search. A claim only counts when the visitor logs in or registers, so a link's numbers start after sign-in, not at the first click.
Then judge the offer after it ends, not on launch day. The Statistics page compares any period with the one before it, and its Audience tab shows new subscribers, renewal rate and expired subscriptions. A promotion that adds sign-ups but leaves renewals flat has bought a month, not a fan. The earning side of that trade-off, and where discounts sit next to paid posts, tips and tickets, is mapped in how to make money on Fansly.
Promotion launch checklist
- Name the job: new subscribers, returning fans, a longer commitment or one person.
- Pick the tool from the decision table, not from habit.
- Check the discounted price, or the monthly equivalent, against your cost floor.
- Set the eligibility toggles: expired subscribers, previous promotion users, previous discount users.
- Set a redemption cap on any link you share outside your own audience.
- Add start and end dates, even for links, so nothing runs forever by accident.
- Write the renewal price and the cancel-before-trial-ends rule into the message.
- Create a tracking link for each place you will share the offer.
- Remember followers are notified when a promotion starts; time it for when you can answer messages.
- Afterwards, disable spent links so they move to the Inactive list, and compare renewals with the previous period.
Limits of this guide
Everything here comes from Fansly's help centre, Creator Hub and Terms as they read on 1 October 2026. Several of those pages disagree, on multi-month lengths, on lifetime access and on repeat redemptions, and the help centre does not say whether a promotion's eligibility toggles also apply to fans arriving through a discount link. Where an offer involves real money or a giveaway, test it small and ask Support in writing.
This page also leaves out whether to discount at all. A trial or sale can train fans to wait for the next one, and the guardrail pages linked at the top cover that judgement. Consumer law on advertised prices and trial terms varies by country, so if you promote offers widely, check the rules where your fans live.