Billing and sermon credits
What this covers: What a sermon credit is, what the plans cost, and how to manage your subscription.
A three-minute read
Everything here lives at Settings → Billing & Plans.
What a sermon credit is
One credit processes one sermon — the whole thing. Transcript, all the clips, devotionals, newsletter, blog post, Bible study, podcast episodes. Not one credit per clip or per item. One sermon in, everything out.
The credit is only taken when processing finishes successfully. If it fails partway, you keep the credit and can try again.
Uploading a video doesn’t use a credit. Generating a newsletter or Bible study from a sermon you already processed doesn’t either. Only pressing Process does.
Re-process runs the whole pipeline again from scratch, so it costs a second credit for the same sermon. If you only want to adjust one clip, use the clip editor instead — that’s free.
The plans
One plan, two ways to pay:
- Monthly — $75 a month. Five sermon credits each month.
- Annual — $750 a year. The same content, two months cheaper than paying monthly — 60 sermon credits (the same five a month) granted up front for the year, yours to use whenever.
Both include everything: all content types, distribution to every connected platform, and devotional texts for up to fifty subscribers.
Church planters and bivocational pastors may qualify. There’s a box for a discount code at checkout — get in touch before you subscribe rather than after.
How credits renew
On monthly, your five credits are restored at the start of each month. On annual, all 60 are granted at the start of the year — there’s no monthly reset, which is the point: a heavy season draws on credits a quiet month didn’t.
On monthly, use three this month and next month still starts at five, not seven — the unused two are gone. On annual, the 60 are one pool for the whole year, spent at any pace, but they don’t carry into the next year.
Need more than your plan’s credits — more than five in a month on monthly, or more than 60 across the year on annual? There’s an Additional Usage agreement on the billing page that lets you go over at $10 per extra sermon, invoiced afterwards. Tick it before you need it — it can’t be applied retroactively to a Sunday you were already blocked on.
Managing your subscription
Three links — Manage Payment Method, View Billing History and Cancel Subscription — all open the same secure billing portal, where you can update your card, download invoices for your church’s books, or cancel.
Any credits left in the current cycle are lost when you cancel, so process what you need first. Your published content stays exactly where it is — nothing is removed from YouTube, your website, or anywhere else.
If a payment fails
The billing page will say so plainly. Open the billing portal and update your card — processing resumes once the payment goes through. Church cards get replaced and expire like any other, so this is usually nothing more than that.
Where to check what you’ve used
The billing page shows credits used this cycle, credits remaining, and your subscription status. Worth a glance before a month with a guest speaker or a midweek series.