Membership Add-ons provide a way for members to purchase something in addition to their membership when they make their membership payment. Some great ways to use membership add-ons are to sell calendar ads, website ads, discount cards or listing in a category in your directory.
To begin, go to Labels & Memberships > Membership Add-ons. Then click on "+ Add Membership Add-on" to get started.
Membership Add-on Settings
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Add-on name and description
This is the name and description that will be displayed to your members. Note that we do not display pricing with the add-on, so you can include the pricing information within the name or description as needed.
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Pricing
Here you set the price and interval for the add-on. Add-ons will bill at the same time as the membership payments, it the interval does not match the add-on will be prorated accordingly. For example if you have an add-on that is priced at $120 a year. Members who are on an annual billing cycle will be charged $120 each billing period. Members who are on a monthly billing cycle will be charged $10 each billing period which totals $120 a year.
Free memberships: Please be aware that membership add-ons only charge when a membership charges. If a member signs up for a free membership, there are no membership charges, so they will NOT be charged for any membership add-ons.
Memberships with one-time/lifetime billing: As membership add-ons only charge when a membership charges, they will not be recurring when a member is on a one-time billing plan. Therefore the add-on will be billed once when the member signs up, but no further membership add-on charges will occur after that.
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Applicable for levels
Here you need to specify which membership levels this add-on is available for. When a member is signing up or updating their membership, they will only see the add-ons that are available to their membership level. Click on each applicable membership level to enable it, enabled levels will be highlighted in blue.
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Requires add-on
You may have a membership add-on that requires another membership add-on. For example you may have a membership add-on for a newsletter ad, and another membership add-on that lets members upgrade to a larger ad.
In this case you can select which other membership add-ons are required by clicking on the appropriate add-ons. Required add-ons will be highlighted in blue. If any required add-on is enabled, then this add-on will only be visible when the member selects at least one of the required add-ons.
Managing Membership Add-ons
You can update a member's add-on in the Membership Billing tab of their profile. Members can also change their add-ons at any time and will be billed accordingly (based on your different membership level settings).
Membership add-ons are included in the "Annual Recurring Revenue" figure at Dashboard > Stats. They are also included when you export Membership Payments from Dashboard > Financial, and when you export membership information from the folders (if you include the Membership levels & labels information). You can see the number of members with each Add-on at Dashboard > Stats in the Add-Ons box.