How do I start charging for membership?

Switch to Paid membership, set a price, then connect a bank account through Stripe. Nobody already in your club is asked to pay — only someone who joins from now on.

Steps

1. Open Your club, then Settings → How people join.
2. Under Free or paid, press Paid membership, then Switch to paid.
3. Under What membership costs, choose How do members pay? — Just monthly, Just yearly, or Both, and yearly is cheaper.
4. Pick a price, or press Something else to type your own.
5. Choose Do new members get a free trial? — No, 7 days, 14 days or 1 month.
6. Press Save price.
7. Further down the page, under Taking payments then Your Stripe account, press Sign in at Stripe if you already use it, or Start to create a new account. Stripe asks for your bank account, your business details and a photo of your ID — about 15 minutes.
8. Finish Stripe’s own form. You’re brought back here when you’re done.

What happens next

Everyone already in your club keeps everything they have — free, for good. Only someone who joins after you switch is asked to pay the price you set.

New members still can’t actually join until Stripe has everything it needs. Until then, the page tells you what’s missing. Once it’s ready, the money goes straight into your own bank — never through Flub.

Want to try it before taking real money? Under How members pay right now, switch to Test payments — Stripe’s own test cards work, nothing real moves, and this applies to every club under your account, not just this one.

Once you’ve taken your first payment, open How it’s going and press Paid members (Results on a phone) to see what’s coming in. See How is my paid membership doing?

Once you charge, members can also buy a fixed-length membership as a present. See How do I sell gift memberships?

If you later close the club, you choose whether paying members are stopped at the end of their period, stopped now, or kept charging. Reopening doesn’t restart a membership you stopped.

Related

• What happens if I change my membership price?
• How do I finish setting up before I launch?