Switch newsletter platforms without losing readers, paying subscribers or your inbox placement
The fee calculator tells you whether moving saves money. The Switch Kit is the checklist for actually doing it: one evening of prep, a clean import, and a 30-day plan so your open rate doesn't fall off a cliff.
Newsletter Switch Kit · $19 one-time · instant download
Checkout opens in early November 2026, before beehiiv's renewal price rise reaches annual customers. Join the list and you'll get one email when it's ready, with a launch discount. Nothing else.
What's in it
- Pre-move checklist: what to export, screenshot and write down before you touch anything (subscriber CSV, post archive, paid plan prices, comp and gift subscriptions, welcome email, custom domain DNS).
- Route guides for the common moves: Substack to Ghost, Substack to beehiiv, Substack to Kit, Substack to Buttondown, and beehiiv to Ghost, Kit or Buttondown. Each covers the importer, the order of steps and the traps.
- Paid subscribers without double billing: how Stripe-connected subscriptions move, the one setting to switch off on the old platform and when, and how to check nobody was charged twice.
- Deliverability warm-up plan: SPF, DKIM and DMARC on your own domain, and a four-send ramp that starts with your most engaged readers.
- Links and SEO: what you can and can't redirect, and how to keep old post links working.
- Three announcement emails (heads-up, moving day, "check your spam") ready to adapt.
- Cost worksheet (CSV for Google Sheets or Excel) to compare a year of fees at your own numbers.
- 30-day after-move checklist with the numbers to watch and when to worry.
Who it's for
Writers with roughly 1,000 to 100,000 subscribers who have decided, or nearly decided, to move. If you're still deciding, start with the free fee calculator; if the numbers say stay, stay. The kit won't change that.
What it isn't
It isn't a done-for-you migration, legal or tax advice, or a substitute for your new platform's own import docs, which the kit links to at each step because importers change. Platform features and prices change; the kit is dated and lists what was checked and when.
Refunds
If the kit doesn't help, ask for a refund within 14 days and you'll get one. No questions.
The Switch Kit is written by Teton Labs with AI assistance and checked against each platform's public documentation. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Substack, beehiiv, Ghost, Kit or Buttondown.
Privacy
If you join the list we store your email address, the two platform choices above, the time and your country (from Cloudflare), and use them only to send the launch email for this kit. We don't sell or share it. You can ask for it to be deleted at any time once our contact address is live; until then, every email we send will carry an unsubscribe link.