How to Turn Your Community into a Paid Membership with Stripe

This update makes it easier than ever to turn your community into a paid membership hub, manage access, and monetize your events, workshops, or private groups.

This guide will walk you step by step through the process.

1. Why Memberships?

Memberships allow you to:

• Create private communities or groups.

• Offer exclusive access to content, rooms, or events.

• Collect payments seamlessly through Stripe.

• Organize members in one central space.

Perfect for:

• Coaches and mentors

• Workshop leaders

• Creative communities

• Business networks

2. Setting Up Your Community

1. Log in to your GoBrunch account.

2. Create a new space (for example, a co-working hub or workshop room).

3. Add rooms inside your space:

   • One Landing Room for Non-Members (a public or promotional area).

   • One Landing Room for Members (exclusive access after payment).

You can customize each room with layouts, backgrounds, videos, and banners.

3. Creating a Community in GoBrunch

Inside the panel, click on Communities. You’ll find three main options:

• Members – see and manage your members.

• View Communities – check the list of communities you’ve created.

• Community Links – manage links and access restrictions.

When adding a new community, you’ll see two options:

• GoBrunch – for free or manually managed communities, or if you collect payments outside GoBrunch (e.g., PayPal).

• Stripe – for automated paid memberships.

4. Connecting Stripe

To create a paid membership:

1. Select the Stripe option.

2. Connect your Stripe account to GoBrunch (you’ll need an active Stripe account with complete information).

3. Create a Product inside Stripe. Each product can represent a community, workshop, or special event.

4. Choose between:

   • One-time payments (for single events or workshops).

   • Recurring payments (monthly or yearly memberships).

5. Set your pricing and currency.

6. Assign the rooms:

   • Landing Room for Non-Members (promotional/public).

   • Landing Room for Members (exclusive access).

5. Adding Payment Buttons

Once your Stripe product is connected:

1. Go to your Landing Room for Non-Members.

2. Use the Background Editor and click Add Community Button.

3. Link it to your Stripe product.

4. Customize the button text (e.g., Join Now or Subscribe).

Visitors can now view your promotional room and subscribe directly.

6. Managing Access with Links

You can generate different types of links:

• Link Only – anyone with the link can join.

• Restricted by Email – only specific emails you’ve added can access.

• Stripe Paid Access – users must complete payment to join.

Tip: You can also create exceptions by generating links restricted by email for people you want to add for free (e.g., team members or collaborators).

7. Member Experience

• Non-members land in your promotional room.

• If they click the payment button, they’re redirected to Stripe checkout.

• After payment, they’re automatically granted access to the Landing Room for Members.

• From there, they can explore all the rooms you’ve included in your community.

8. Managing Your Members

From the Communities Panel, you can:

• View all members across all your communities.

• See details such as email, community, and payment method.

• Search and filter members.

• Cancel or remove memberships.

• Create groups inside the chat for more organized conversations.

9. Example Use Cases

• A coaching membership with weekly live calls and recorded replays.

• A private mastermind community with exclusive discussion rooms.

• A workshop series with one-time payments per event.

• A creative hub where members pay monthly to access co-working spaces.

10. Next Steps

You now have everything you need to:

1. Set up a space in GoBrunch.

2. Connect Stripe and define your pricing.

3. Customize your rooms.

4. Share access links and start building a paid community

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