diff --git a/app/models/account.rb b/app/models/account.rb
index b4a0b1d67..c0348e611 100644
--- a/app/models/account.rb
+++ b/app/models/account.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
 
   before_create do |account|
     unless account.account_type
-      account.account_type = AccountType.find_or_create_by_name("Free")
+      account.account_type = AccountType.find_or_create_by_name(
+        Growstuff::Application.config.default_account_type
+      )
     end
   end
 
diff --git a/config/application.rb b/config/application.rb
index 04451a75d..0648a5322 100644
--- a/config/application.rb
+++ b/config/application.rb
@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ module Growstuff
     # Configure the default encoding used in templates for Ruby 1.9.
     config.encoding = "utf-8"
 
+    # Configure a default account type
+    config.default_account_type = "Free"
+
     # Configure sensitive parameters which will be filtered from the log file.
     config.filter_parameters += [:password]