Memberships

Your membership area is where you build the inner circle. It is a recurring revenue channel and a private clubhouse rolled into one. Fans pay for a tier (or join a free one), unlock posts and collections you made just for them, talk to each other in your community, and turn up to live calls only they can join.

Everything in this section lives under Membership in your dashboard.

What you can do here

• Create as many membership tiers as you want: paid, free, or pay-what-you-want.
• Reserve an event, or one of its ticket tiers, for members only.
• Post images, video, and audio that only your members can see.
• Group related posts into collections so members can binge a series, an EP, or a behind-the-scenes arc.
• Open community spaces where your members talk to each other, in feeds or threaded forums.
• Schedule live calls for the tiers you choose, one-off or on repeat.
• Run a real-time chat with public channels, tier-locked channels, and direct messages.
• Manage every member: what they pay, what they owe, what they have posted, and their full history.

How it fits together

Free vs paid supporters

You do not need to charge to use memberships. A free tier is a great way to grow your list. Fans sign up with their email, get welcomed into your community, and you can move them up to a paid tier later when you launch something special.

Paid tiers run on recurring billing through your connected payment account. Members can pay monthly or yearly, and you can also offer a pay-what-you-want option with a minimum you are comfortable with.

A typical setup

If you are starting from zero, this is the order most creators work in:

1. Create your tiers. Usually a free tier, a low-cost monthly, and a higher annual or VIP tier.
2. Add benefits to each tier so fans know what they are getting (early demos, monthly calls, signed merch, whatever fits).
3. Write a welcome message for each paid tier so new members get a warm hello the moment they join.
4. Post a few things. A welcome video, a behind-the-scenes photo, a stripped-back demo. Restrict each to the right tier.
5. Open a space so members can talk to each other rather than only to you.
6. Put a call on the calendar so there is a date to look forward to.

From there you keep posting, your tribe grows, and the Members page becomes your home for everything that matters.

Tips before you launch

A few things that save creators a lot of headaches when they roll out a membership for the first time:

• Do not ship empty. Have at least one welcome post, ideally a small collection, ready before you tell fans about your membership. Empty tiers feel awkward. Full ones feel valuable.
• Be specific about benefits. "Behind-the-scenes content" is vague. "One unreleased demo a month, plus a live Q&A" is something fans can picture themselves getting.
• Set a welcome message. It is the first thing a new paid member receives. Make it warm, link to the first post you want them to see, and tell them where to talk.
• Open one space and schedule one call. A community with somewhere to post and a date on the calendar feels alive from day one.

Where to go next

• New to TribeNest? Start with the getting-started guide.
• Want fans to discover your tiers from outside? Pair them with smart links.
• Ready to email your members? Head to emails.
• Already selling? See how store, events, courses, and coaching live alongside memberships.
• Manage your wider audience and contacts in operations.