# Family billing and the launch offer

Who pays for a Drime Family, which plans include it, how the launch offer works, and what happens when the manager's plan no longer includes it.

Updated: 2026-10-19  
Source: https://drime.cloud/support/family/family-billing

## Who pays

The manager's plan pays for everything:

- the family storage is the manager's storage;
- members get the features of the manager's plan;
- the Family Room is billed to the manager.

Joining a family never cancels a member's own subscription: it keeps running, and its space is used first.

## Which plans include Drime Family

You can create a family with:

- a Lifetime plan of 3 TB or more;
- Professional or Advanced, through the launch offer, for 30 days from October 19, 2026.

A dedicated Family plan will follow. Anyone, on any plan, can join a family by invitation.

## The launch offer

On Professional and Advanced, during the launch offer:

- a **Drime Family is here.** banner at the top of your Drive shows the days left and **Activate Drime Family**;
- a **Launch offer** note on the family page says until when you can activate it.

![The Drime Family is here. banner at the top of the Drive, with Activate Drime Family](https://drime.cloud/media/01M5B2PZEH6T2DX69G77X0HE3Z/e52b68b1b23f-web-family-launch-banner.png)

To activate it, see [Create a family](https://drime.cloud/support/family/create-a-family).

After the launch offer, a family activated during it keeps running as long as its manager stays on Professional or Advanced. Nobody new can activate Drime Family that way.

## When the family is paused

If the manager's plan no longer includes Drime Family, the family is paused. The console shows **Your family is paused**:

- nothing is deleted;
- everyone is back on their own storage;
- inviting, joining and creating the Family Room stop;
- everything comes back with the plan.

This can happen when the manager changes plan, or when the family is handed over to someone whose plan does not include it.

## Purchases in a child's account

A child's account with the **Purchases through you** parental control cannot buy plans: its billing page says that purchases go through the manager. See [Parental controls](https://drime.cloud/support/family/parental-controls).