How to charge for your courses with a membership

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A membership is a repeating charge: the student pays every month or every year and, while they pay, they have access. That is different from the course price, which is a one-off payment.

There are two plan types:

• All Access — the student reaches every one of your courses.
• Per Course — the plan grants access to a single course, which you choose.

Create a plan

1. Open Courses → Course Memberships.
2. Click New Plan.
3. Enter the Plan Name.
4. Enter the Description.
5. Choose the Plan Type.
6. Enter the Price.
7. Choose the Billing Interval: Monthly or Yearly.
8. Enter the Trial Days, or leave 0.
9. Click Create Plan.

To change an existing plan, click Edit on its card.

⚠️ A plan with no Stripe account connected is saved, but nobody can subscribe to it: charging needs a payments account. Connect it under Billing → Payments before you announce the plan. Until then the plan appears in the catalog with its button disabled, reading Billing not configured.

How a student subscribes

1. The student opens Courses → Memberships.
2. They see your active plans, each with its price and period.
3. They click Subscribe on the one they want.

An invoice from your practice arrives each period. Access starts once the first one is paid: until then the subscription is incomplete and opens nothing.

⚠️ The charge is an invoice, not a card charge inside the app. In Colombia a Stripe invoice cannot be paid by card, the same as the rest of your recurring invoices.

Paid course versus free course

• A course with no price is taken by clicking Enroll in the catalog.
• A course with a price offers two routes on its card: Subscribe to a plan, which opens several courses, or Buy this course, which takes you to your public site and opens only that one. The purchase enrolls the buyer by itself.

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