You pay $19 once, and nothing charges you again
Most sites in this category give you the document free and put the download behind a monthly plan. We put the whole price on the page, take it once, and then leave. Here's exactly what we'll never do, written down so you can hold us to it.
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$19The entire price of a letter. There is no second number.
What the promise says
LetterRight's no-subscription promise is a commitment to charge $19 once per letter and never bill a customer again. No account is required to buy or download, no card is stored, no trial converts into a plan, and no add-on is ever pre-selected. The only recurring product on the site is an optional $9 monthly pack for repeat senders.
That last sentence is the one most companies would leave out. We'd rather you read it here than find it later.
Eight things we will never do
Each of these is checkable. If we break one, you'll be able to point at this page.
- Require an account to buy or download a letter.You give an email address for the download link. That's the whole of it — no password, no profile, no verification loop.
- Store your card for later.A one-time PayPal payment doesn't create a recurring authorisation. There's no saved payment method sitting behind your purchase.
- Run a free trial that turns into a paid plan.There's no trial. You read most of the draft free because that's how you check it's right, not because a clock is running.
- Pre-check an add-on.The $5 rush-rewrite bundle and the $9 Small Claims Prep Guide start unticked and stay unticked unless you tick them.
- No countdown timer, no fake stock counter, no expiring discount.The price is $19 today and $19 next Tuesday. Manufactured urgency is the thing we're the alternative to.
- Make you speak to a person to stop paying us.There's nothing to stop. If you ever buy the $9 monthly pack, it cancels from the dashboard in one click, with no retention offer.
- Hide the price until after you've done the work.$19 appears before the first question, on every page, including this one.
- Claim to be a law firm or to give you legal advice.We're a self-help document service. That line is printed on every page of the site and inside every document we generate.
Why charge once at all
Because the job is finished. You needed one letter. You have it. Charging you in September for something you did in March would be charging you for nothing.
The subscription model exists for a reason, and it isn't always cynical — a document library genuinely serves people who pull twenty different documents a year. The problem is what happens when that pricing meets someone who needed one thing once. They build the document, hit the download, find a plan, pay it, and then forget. The revenue from that person isn't from the document. It's from the forgetting.
We'd rather build something that has to earn each sale. It's a worse business on paper and a better one to run.
The dataset, mostly. 306 hand-curated state rule sets sit behind six letter types, which is what lets a draft say that Florida gives a landlord 15 days (Fla. Stat. § 83.49) while Virginia gives 45 (Va. Code § 55.1-1226) — and compute the actual calendar date from your move-out.
A generic template can't do that, which is why generic templates are free.
The two pricing models, side by side
The left column is the standard pattern across free-template document sites, described generically. It isn't a quote of any particular company's current price — check theirs on their own pricing page.
| What you're comparing | Subscription document sites (the usual pattern) | LetterRight |
|---|---|---|
| Price to get one letter | $0, then a monthly plan | $19, once |
| Card required before you see it | Yes | No |
| Account required | Yes | Optional and free |
| State statute cited in the letter | Rarely | Always, with section number |
| How you cancel | Phone or chat agent | Nothing to cancel |
| Rewrites | Re-download the template | Free, unlimited |
Pricing in this category moves. We won't put a figure next to a competitor's name that might be wrong by the time you read it — the comparisons at LawDepot, Legal Templates and Rocket Lawyer all say the same thing, and all send you to check for yourself.
Where we do charge more than once
A promise with an asterisk hidden at the bottom isn't a promise. So here is every way LetterRight can take money from you, in one list.
$19 per letter, one time
The main product. Buy a second letter six months later and it's another $19. Nothing carries over, and nothing accumulates.
$5 rush rewrite bundle
Three extra rewrites after purchase, for when they reply and you need to answer. An order bump at checkout. Starts unticked.
$9 Small Claims Prep Guide
Offered after you've bought the letter, never before. Which court, the form filled from your answers, what to bring. Covered free in outline on the small claims guide.
$9/month Landlord Pack
This one recurs. Unlimited notices, saved properties and tenants, letterhead upload. It's the only subscription we sell and the only place an account is required. If you're sending one letter, ignore it.
That's the complete list. There's no per-download fee, no priority tier, no upsell inside the PDF.
The fair objections
"$19 is more than free"
It is. A blank template costs nothing and you can find one in thirty seconds. What you're buying for $19 is the part the template leaves to you: which statute applies where you live, what deadline it sets, what date that lands on given your move-out, and what the penalty clause says if they miss it. If you already know all four, use the free template. We'd say so.
"How do I know the price won't change?"
You don't, and anyone who tells you otherwise is guessing. What we can tell you is the structure: the price lives in one file in the codebase and is printed on every page, so a change would be visible everywhere at once rather than buried in a plan page. And because there's no account and no stored card, a future price change can't reach a purchase you already made.
"What's the lock-in?"
There isn't a mechanism for one. You get a PDF and a Word file over signed links that work on any device without logging in. Nothing is held in an account you'd have to keep, because there is no account.
Who this is wrong for
Two groups, plainly. If you need many different document types over months — NDAs, leases, bills of sale, incorporation paperwork — a subscription library will cost you less per document than $19 each, and it'll have documents we don't make. And if your dispute is contested, large, or already in front of a court, you need a lawyer, not a letter generator. We don't review your facts and we won't represent you.
How buying one letter goes
- Pick the letter and your state. The page shows your state's rule — the deadline, the statute number, the penalty — before you type anything.
- Answer 8 to 14 questions, one per screen. Each one tells you why it's asked before you answer it.
- Read the draft. About 60% is visible, including your dates, your amounts and the statute line. Change an answer and we redraft, free, as many times as you want.
- Pay $19. Email address only. No password, no account.
- Download. PDF, Word, and a next-steps sheet covering how to send it — certified mail with return receipt runs about $6 — and the date to diary if nobody replies.
If you want to know what a good letter looks like before you start, the demand letter guide walks through the seven parts. Deposit deadlines for all 51 jurisdictions, with citations, are in the state deadline guide.
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Common questions
Is there no subscription at all?
For a letter, no. You pay $19 through PayPal as a one-time order, which doesn't create a recurring authorisation, so there's nothing to find in your billing settings afterwards.
The one recurring product on the site is the $9/month Landlord Pack, which you'd have to go and buy deliberately.
Do you store my card?
No. The payment goes through PayPal and we don't hold card details at all, saved or otherwise.
Because there's no account, there's also nowhere for a stored card to live.
What if I need a second letter later?
You pay $19 again. Nothing carries over from the first purchase, and nothing accumulates toward a plan.
If you send notices regularly — a landlord with a few units, say — the $9/month pack works out cheaper past the second letter in a month.
Why not make it free and charge for something else?
Because "free" is how the model we're objecting to starts. Free document, paid download, plan that renews. We'd rather charge a visible $19 at the front than an invisible amount at the back.
You also get to read about 60% of your own draft before paying, which is the part of "free" that has any value to you.
What if the letter isn't right?
Fix it before you pay. Rewrites are free and unlimited up to the point of purchase, and roughly 60% of the draft — including the statute citation and computed deadline — is visible while you do that.
That's deliberate. The check happens before the money moves, not after.
Is a subscription ever cheaper than $19 a letter?
Yes, and it's simple arithmetic. Divide a year of plan fees by the number of documents you'll pull. If that number comes in under $19, the plan wins and you should buy it.
It usually does for someone running a business. It usually doesn't for a tenant chasing one deposit.
Is any of this legal advice?
No. LetterRight is a self-help document service. We draft a letter from your answers and cite the statute our rules dataset holds for your state; we don't review your situation or tell you what to do.
Statutes also change. Every citation on this site should be checked against the current code before you rely on it.
One letter. One payment. Then we're done.
Answer the questions, read most of the draft for nothing, and pay $19 only if it's right. Your state's deadline and its statute number go in automatically.
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Self-help document service. Not a law firm, and not legal advice. We do not review your letter or represent you. Statutes and deadlines change — confirm the current text of any section cited here before relying on it.