You can easily grant access to your community by setting up a community plan product.
In this article we'll show you how to create a community plan on Podia.
What is a community plan?
Community plans are a type of product that grants access to your community.
Customers must purchase a community plan to be able to access your community area.
You can create multiple community plans with different pricing that grant access to different areas of your community, topics, etc.
Creating a new community plan
Here's how to create a new community plan on Podia.
From your Podia dashboard, click on Products in the sidebar menu.
From the Products page, click on "+ New Product".
On the product creation page select "Community plan" and give it a name.
Click on Create product to create your community plan.
Customizing your community plan
As your community plan is created, it's now time to customize it.
You can navigate between the 3 available tabs to customize different aspects of your community plan:
Details
Pricing
Availability
Here are the parameters for each one of the options.
Details
Details: Name, description, and image.
Included products: Give members access to specific products once they join your community plan.
Categories: Set up categories for your community plan.
Integrations: Sync new product signups with an external mailing list when they complete their account setup.
Pricing
Offer: Create a free plan or set up a price for your new community plan. Community plans only support subscription pricing.
You'll also be able to set up a trial period for paid community plans.
Upsells: Set up upsells that customers can buy after they purchase your community plan. Upsells show up during checkout after the main product is purchased.
Availability
Availability: Determine availability options, such as status, visibility and access
Status: Choose if you want your product to be available to new and existing customers or not. Draft community plans will still grant access to the community area for existing customers.
Visibility: Choose whether you want your product to appear on your site. Hidden products are only available through their specific link or if manually added to your site.
Access: Choose if people can sign up for this product or not.
Limits: Set up a start date, access duration or sign-up limits.
Publishing your community plan
Once you've set up all the details for your community plan, hit the Publish button to make it available for new signups.
FAQs
Can I change the price of a community plan after I publish it?
Can I change the price of a community plan after I publish it?
Yes, you can change the price of a community plan after you publish it.
Changing the price of a community plan will just impact new signups. Existing customers will remain locked into the pricing of their signup.
What billing intervals are available for community plans?
What billing intervals are available for community plans?
Community plans are billed on a monthly and/or yearly basis, with the customer’s billing date determined by the day they joined your plan.
For example, if a customer signs up for a monthly subscription on May 14th, their next billing date will be June 14th.
Can customers sign up for more than one community plan?
Can customers sign up for more than one community plan?
Members are only able to have one active community plan.
If they want to join a different community plan they'll need to change their plan directly from their dashboard.
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