A publisher might offer a basic subscription and a higher-priced tier with additional reporting or services. Price and tier name do not, by themselves, configure which pages an account can open. (Ghost paid tiers documentation ↗)
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Checking the promise attached to each tier
Illustrative offer: Basic is $5 per month for the archive; Premium is $10 per month for the archive plus a monthly briefing. A test account checks that each tier receives only its promised access and briefing. The example is a product design, not a claim about Ghost’s default setup.
A tier is a package, not a permission record
Test the benefits after an upgrade, downgrade and expiration, as well as a new purchase. A tier describes the product promise; an entitlement describes the access an individual account has actually been granted.
Test the offer as a reader would
Use one account for each tier and try to open the same premium article. Include a recent upgrade and a scheduled downgrade. The test should establish what each reader can open today and when that access is supposed to change.