Purchase a subscrition for a friend

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  aboranous · Member · May 10, 2021 at 1:18 am

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  Is there a way I can purchase a year subscription for a friend as a gift?

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  csabarakasz · Staff · May 10, 2021 at 1:45 am

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  Hi there,

  I believe it is not possible to purchase a gift subscription on WordPress.com.

  In order to do something similar than you would like, you could buy a year subscription with your email address and later add the other person’s email address to your account. After that, contact support to transfer over your account to the person you added. Might seem complicated but would work!

  I am not a hundred percent sure whether this solution would work for sure, so you could wait to see if a Staff confirms it here in the thread. They usually respond fairly fast!

  Hope this helps!

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  csabarakasz · Staff · May 10, 2021 at 1:50 am

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  Here is an other workaround: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/gift-someone-a-domain-name?replies=2#post-1227907

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  kokkieh · Staff · May 10, 2021 at 6:07 am

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  Hi there,

  We don’t have a gift upgrade option on WordPress.com. So the only way to do this is for the person to first add you as an admin to their site. Then you can buy the subscription using your account, contact support to transfer it over to the site owner’s account instead, and then remove your account as a site admin.