A Founders Club gives your earliest supporters a status that still means something after opening week.

## Set it up

Anything the menu marks **Off** shows **Switched off** when you open it: press **Switch on and set it up** (on a phone, **+ Add more** lists them). Changes wait for [**Save**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/saving-changes.md) in the bar at the bottom of the page, or at the top right of an offer's full-screen editor on a phone.

1. Open **Your club**, then **Settings**, then [**How people join**](https://app.useflub.com/manage/go/how-people-join).
2. Under **Free or paid**, choose [**Paid membership**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/start-charging-membership.md), then press **Switch to paid**.
3. Under **How do members pay?**, choose **Just monthly**. Pick your fee under **What's the monthly fee?**, or press **Something else** to type your own. Choose whether **Do new members get a free trial?**, then press **Save price**.
4. Connect Stripe on the same page, so members can pay you. See [How do I launch my club?](https://help.useflub.com/getting-started/finish-setting-up.md)
5. **The founders' price.** In [**What members get**](https://app.useflub.com/manage/go/what-members-get), press [**Flat ongoing benefit**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/member-discount.md). Choose **Set price**, with your signature food or drink item in **What they get** and your founders' price in **What they pay**. Press **Save**.
6. **An opening-month inclusion.** Press [**Treats that keep coming**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/treats-that-keep-coming.md) in the menu, and make the food or drink benefit for founders the first step after the welcome perk, so it arrives in their first weeks. Press **Save**.
7. **A booking head start.** Press [**Club perks**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/club-perks.md) in the menu, then **Add a perk**, with a **Heading** such as "Earlier access to bookings and events", and a **Link** or **Phone** call to action. Press **Done**.
8. **Founder recognition.** Press **Add a perk**, with a **Heading** such as "You're one of our founding members". Add an image if you like. Press **Done**.
9. **A quarterly founders event.** Press **Add a perk**, with a **Heading** such as "Priority access to founder-member gatherings", and a **Calendar** call to action. Press **Done**, then **Save**. Send the invite itself each quarter from [**Broadcasts → Write something**](https://app.useflub.com/manage/go/new-message).

## What members get

A founders' price on your signature item, a benefit in their opening month, earlier access to bookings, recognition as a founding member, and priority for founder gatherings. If your club already has members, they stay in, free, with everything they get today. The fee is for people who join from now on.

## What your staff need to know

The founders' price applies every visit — scan the member's pass to see it. The opening-month treat shows on the pass in the weeks after they join. If payment hasn't gone through, you'll see **Membership paused**. Booking priority, recognition and gathering priority are Club perks, listed under **Club perks** when you scan.

## How you'll know it's working

A paid club's [**Paid members**](https://help.useflub.com/getting-started/paid-members.md) page, under **How it's going**, shows what's coming in. **Members** shows each person's [**Membership status**](https://help.useflub.com/members/membership-status.md).

## Related

- [Founders Club on our inspiration page](https://useflub.com/clubs/inspiration/founders-club)

- [Which kind of offer should I use?](https://help.useflub.com/club-ideas/which-offer-should-i-use.md)