# Activating Paywall Subscriptions

Subscribing to a paywall involves two steps:

* Buying a subscription
* Activating the subscription

When not activated, subscription is not started and a 1 month subscription can be kept for multiple months before being activated. This can enable investors to invest on paywalls by buying (but not activating) multiple subscriptions from those paywalls and waiting till the subscription price to those paywalls appreciates to sell the previously bought subscriptions on the secondary market to users willing to get a cheaper subscription to the paywall.

### Activating A Subscription

* Find and expand the paywall you are willing to subscribe to

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* Click on the **Start Subscription** button, fill in and validate the form that pops up.&#x20;

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* To view the content behind the paywall, input the id of the NFTicket/eReceipt you received from purchasing the subscription in the **Input nfticket id** field. This will enable the paywall to detect whether your subscription is activated or not. If all the previous steps have been successfully completed, you should be able to see a few seconds after inputting your id in the field, all the content of your paywall

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Congratulations! You have successfully started a subscription
