If your members keep asking to give membership as a present, you can sell it. A buyer pays once for a fixed length, and nothing renews. Only a [paid club](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/start-charging-membership.md) can sell them.

## Steps

1. Open [**Your club → Settings**](https://app.useflub.com/manage/go/settings), then **Gift memberships** under **Joining**.
2. Switch on **Sell gift memberships**. This adds "Give it as a gift membership" to your splash and join pages.
3. Under **Lengths and prices**, tick the lengths you want to sell, from 3 to 24 months. We suggest prices from your own monthly and yearly prices. Change any of them and it saves as you go.
4. Under **Time to open it**, choose how long the recipient has to open it. Their months only start once they do.
5. Leave **Send on a chosen date** on to let buyers pick a day for it to be emailed, at 8am.

![The Gift memberships settings, with Sell gift memberships switched on and 3, 6 and 12 months ticked](../../../assets/gift-memberships/gift-memberships--settings.png)

A later price change only affects new purchases. Gift memberships already sold still open at the length paid for, even if you pause joining.

## What happens next

The buyer pays once, with no account. The recipient opens their link, joins the way anyone does, and pays nothing. A gift member doesn't get your free trial. If they already pay for a membership, the gift is added on and their next payment moves later.

Sales are in [**Members**](https://help.useflub.com/members/find-a-member.md), on the **Gift memberships** tab. Each row is tagged, for example **Link shared · not opened**, **Opened**, or **Refunded**. Gift members on the **Members** list carry [their own tags](https://help.useflub.com/members/membership-status.md).

![The Gift memberships tab: totals for sold, opened, waiting and refunded, then one row per gift membership with its status](../../../assets/gift-memberships/gift-memberships--sales.png)

## Refunds, and when it ends

Refunds are made in Stripe, and show here as **Refunded**. Refund a gift before it's opened and the link stops working. Refund one that's already been opened and the membership still runs to its end date. The row reads **Refunded · already opened**.

Gift members count as active members on [your Flub plan](https://help.useflub.com/account/your-plan.md) while their gift runs. Once it ends they stop counting, unless they carry on paying or do something that counts.

We email the member 30 days and 7 days before their gift ends. They can press **Carry on** to start paying, with nothing taken until the day it ends. If they don't, their membership goes on hold. The buyer is never contacted or charged again.

## If your club closes

When you [close a club](https://help.useflub.com/account/close-a-club.md), or [stop using Flub](https://help.useflub.com/account/cancel-your-plan.md), a gift link that hasn't been opened says "We've closed our club, so this gift membership can't be opened." We stop sending gift emails and the 30-day and 7-day reminders. Gifts already sold aren't refunded or honoured by us: how you honour them is up to you. The closing page tells you how many are still unopened. If you reopen in time, emails that were waiting go out.

## Related

- [What does a member's Membership status mean?](https://help.useflub.com/members/membership-status.md)
- [How do I let someone join my club free?](https://help.useflub.com/members/invite-someone-free.md)
- [How do I charge for membership?](https://help.useflub.com/your-club/start-charging-membership.md)