Membership
Pages, posts and a community behind a plan
A membership turns what you know into recurring revenue: pages and posts behind a plan, a community only members see. Cliux sells the plan monthly, yearly or once, with a trial, through your own Stripe account; gates pages from the Pages tab and posts from the blog's monetisation screen; and gives members a portal. This guide builds exactly that.
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Step 1: Decide what members get
List what is behind the door: pages of material, posts, a community members can post in, a library of files, live sessions you book. Then decide the tiers, if there are any. Two plans with a clear difference between them convert better than one that bundles everything; price them for the depth of access, not the amount of content.
Step 2: Create the plans
Open the Paid Subscriptions app and create each plan: a name, a price and currency, whether it bills monthly, yearly or once, and a free trial of however many days you like. Connect Stripe under Payments & Sales if you have not; the plans are sold through checkout into your own Stripe account with no platform commission.
A member can hold one plan at a time, and you can change, cancel, refund or gift a plan from the console.
Step 3: Lock the content
Pages: in the Pages tab, mark a page as members only, or as requiring a particular plan. Posts: Blog, then Monetization, the same choice per post. Community: set its visibility to members only or private, so the feed and the forum are behind the same door.
A visitor who is not entitled is sent to sign in or join; a member on the right plan sees it whole. There is no separate course or lesson format; the material is pages and posts, structured however you like.
Step 4: Write the public page
The public page sells the change, not the login. Say what a member gets in the first screen, show what the inside looks like, tell your own story briefly, and put real members' words next to the button. The button goes to the plan's checkout, or to the trial if you offer one; keep trials short.
Answer price, commitment and cancellation in three lines near the button. The member portal lets them cancel themselves, which is a selling point worth stating.
Step 5: Onboard members and run it
A member signs up on your site, verifies their email and pays. From then on the members' area holds their profile, their appointments if you take bookings, and a link to the billing portal where they update a card or cancel. Send the welcome yourself from the tool you send from; Cliux sends the receipts and the login mail, nothing more.
In the console you see every member and their status, the estimated recurring revenue and the churn. When a renewal fails, the member becomes past due and the content locks until the card is fixed; when they cancel, access ends when the paid period does.
Going further
Free community or paid
A free community needs heavy moderation and still dilutes attention. A paid door raises the quality of every conversation. Offer something small and free on the public site to build trust, and keep the real material behind the plan; giving away the core makes the plan hard to justify later.
Reducing churn
Publish on a cadence members can feel: a weekly session, a monthly release. Announce it on the community feed, where members already are. There is no digest or win-back mail from Cliux, and analytics counts visits rather than member logins, so watch the community activity and the churn tile in the console instead, and write to quiet members from the tool you send from.
Legal and access basics
Publish terms, a privacy policy and a refund policy for the plan. Access is enforced on every locked page, post and community screen: a pending, past-due, suspended or cancelled member is treated as not entitled, immediately and everywhere, because one rule decides it. Refunds are yours to give from the console; the policy you publish is what you will be held to.
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Follow these steps on a site of your own.
Building and previewing costs nothing. Publishing with your own domain is $9 a month on a personal site, and the agency Starter plan publishes 2 client sites for free.