A small monthly fee can turn a café from somewhere people like into somewhere they default to.

## 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 daily coffee 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 "a regular hot drink" in **What they get** and your price in **What they pay**. Press **Save**.
6. **The monthly cake.** Press [**Weekly & monthly offers**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/weekly-monthly-offers.md) in the menu. Choose **Same every time**, then **Free item**, with "a slice of cake". Under **When it repeats**, set **Repeat every** to 1 month, choose **Specific weekday**, then **First** and your day. **Custom…** 30 days.
7. **A lunch upgrade.** Press **Add another standing offer**, choose **Same every time**, then **Free item**, with "a free side, soup or drink upgrade with your lunch". Tick every day you open under **When it repeats**, and under **When it can be used**, press [**Add limits**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/offer-hours.md) to your lunch hours. **Custom…** 1 day. Press **Save**.
8. **Local events first dibs.** Press [**Club perks**](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/club-perks.md) in the menu, then **Add a perk**, with a **Heading** such as "Early booking for café events and workshops". Press **Done**, then **Save**. Send the actual invite from [**Broadcasts → Write something**](https://app.useflub.com/manage/go/new-message).
9. **A bring-a-neighbour day.** Open **Weekly & monthly offers** in the menu again, then press **Add another standing offer**, choose **Free item**, with "a coffee for a neighbour, at your member price". Under **When it repeats**, set **Repeat every** to 1 month, choose **Specific weekday**, then **First** and your day. **Custom…** 1 day. Press **Save**.

## What members get

A member price on their regular hot drink every visit, a slice of cake each month, a free lunch upgrade at lunchtime, first word on local events, and one neighbour-priced coffee a month. 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 coffee price applies every visit — scan the member's pass to see it, along with the cake, lunch upgrade and any neighbour coffee when due. If payment hasn't gone through, you'll see **Membership paused**. Local event alerts are a Club perk, 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

- [Local Membership on our inspiration page](https://useflub.com/clubs/inspiration/local-membership)
- [Coffee Club](https://help.useflub.com/club-ideas/paid-memberships/coffee-club.md)
- [Which kind of offer should I use?](https://help.useflub.com/club-ideas/which-offer-should-i-use.md)