What's new in Secretus: Teams, annual plans, and self-serve checkout
The last few weeks shipped the features people asked for most: a way to cover a whole team on one plan, yearly billing, and — finally — a real checkout so you can start a paid plan yourself in under a minute. Here's the rundown.
Teams: one Business plan, up to five people
If you're on the Business plan, you can now bring your team along without buying separate subscriptions for everyone. From your profile you generate a single-use invite link, valid for seven days, and send it however you like. When a teammate opens it and joins, their account is lifted to your Business tier automatically — files, API access, longer audit retention, all of it.
The invite links carry their token in the URL fragment, which browsers never send to a server, and each link works exactly once. You can see who used which invite, revoke unused ones, and remove members at any time, up to five seats. No email system is involved — you copy the link and share it over whatever channel you already trust.
Annual plans: two months free
Every paid tier now has a yearly option priced at ten months instead of twelve — so an annual plan is effectively two months free versus paying monthly. On the upgrade page you'll find a Monthly / Annual toggle; pick whichever fits how you'd rather budget. Nothing else changes: same features, same limits, just a lower effective rate for committing to a year.
Self-serve checkout: no more "contact us"
Previously, moving from the free trial to a paid plan meant emailing us and waiting. That's gone. The upgrade button now takes you straight to a secure hosted checkout, and your plan activates the moment payment clears. If you're already subscribed, the same buttons route you to a billing portal to switch plans, update your card, or cancel — and there's a hard guard against ever being charged twice.
Payments are handled by Stripe as merchant of record, so on your statement the charge appears via Link and your receipts and invoices are emailed to you automatically. You can download past invoices as PDFs from your profile at any time.
A note on the free trial
New accounts still start with a 14-day trial with full access and no card required. When the trial ends, your account and any secrets you've received stay intact — you just choose a plan to keep creating new ones. Nothing is auto-charged, because we never took a card to begin with.
As always, none of this changes the core guarantee: secrets are encrypted in your browser, and our servers never receive plaintext or decryption keys. The billing system knows what plan you're on — never what you shared.