[Shipped!] Enable team billing (seats, licenses, users, etc.) Completed
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1) The problem → I want a company/administrator to be able to purchase a fixed or custom number of seats for their team.
2) Why is this important → It massively increases my LTV, retention, and sales volume.
3) What will happen if this goes unsolved → I have to manage these funky workarounds with coupons and free accounts. However, those are really imperfect since the sub-accounts don't lose access when the admin stops paying. I'll likely need to use another tool or build something custom.
4) Possible solutions → Create a team management UI for admin accounts. Admin should be able to select a plan with a dynamic or pre-set number of seats, and then invite/add members via this UI. Those sub-accounts should inherit permissions from the admin account's status.
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We plan to implement this functionality into the product in the coming months. Right now, we need your feedback.
Julian created a prototype + a demo video to show how the first version could work.
https://www.loom.com/share/8ca1143c714f444ba7f46bded4bf20c5
Here's the link to test after watching: https://ms-team-accounts.webflow.io
What do you think? Would this exact setup work for you business? What would need to change to be usable?
We would like to solve this use case in 2023.
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Hi Devs, I'm attempting to implement multi-seat purchasing & team billing of my 'Pro' plan. Ideally the user would buy say 10 seats and then assign them to various email addresses of their colleagues. From reading the last bullet of the Paid Plan section here https://docs.memberstack.com/hc/en-us/articles/7384849448091 it looks like this is not supported. So 2 questions:[This post was migrated from our community forum]
Please build something that lets a person register multiple members at once - with a group discount.
This is important to me because we just used Memberstack for our online conference (imported registrants from another registration system) and would like to use it as our registration system for our next conference. But we want to give people a cheaper group rate if they register 3 people or more. Right now, it seems like a person can only register themselves, but companies often have one person register multiple employees on their behalf. Out of about 900 registrations at our last conference, there were about 100 group registrations.
My current workaround is … I really don’t have one. I could make a “group rate” membership plan that was cheaper or provide a coupon code but I’d have now way of controlling who used it and it won’t let multiple people register at once or detect if a person is part of a group. We could also have people call us to register them individually on their behalf at a cheaper rate but we have a lot of groups register and we don’t have the staff for this.
Hey Kevin! Thank you for this. When you say an "unlimited number of seats" do you imagine a company would would have the option to pay for an unlimited number of seats or that they could pay once for an unlimited number of seats?
I think either is valid. From my personal perspective I won't be charging for seats but I do want an admin on the customer side to have the ability to manage access for their team.
Potentially the longer term ask would be around the ability to define user roles and access controls for those users, instead of inheriting permissions from the admin account as mentioned in the initial post.
I have situations where I often need to provide access to one or two additional persons at a company. For example, I have a paid "yearly member" and they ask for access for someone on their team. So I'll create the additional member manually and assign them a free membership. I then have to add notes in a few places (Stripe, my CRM, etc) as well as a calendar event so that I can check to see if the membership has been renewed and if not then I need to cancel and close the free member associated with the paid member. If I could assign the person to a free membership that expires automatically then at least I don't have to worry about that piece of the puzzle.
I think either is valid. From my personal perspective I won't be charging for seats but I do want an admin on the customer side to have the ability to manage access for their team.
Potentially the longer term ask would be around the ability to define user roles and access controls for those users, instead of inheriting permissions from the admin account as mentioned in the initial post.
Expiring Free Memberships:
I have situations where I often need to provide access to one or two additional persons at a company. For example, I have a paid "yearly member" and they ask for access for someone on their team. So I'll create the additional member manually and assign them a free membership. I then have to add notes in a few places (Stripe, my CRM, etc) as well as a calendar event so that I can check to see if the membership has been renewed and if not then I need to cancel and close the free member associated with the paid member. If I could assign the person to a free membership that expires automatically then at least I don't have to worry about that piece of the puzzle.
Wanted to voice my support for this item. It would enable me to sell into a large organization and expand over time.
I'd also note that having an unlimited number of seats makes sense as an option.
Hey Kevin! Thank you for this. When you say an "unlimited number of seats" do you imagine a company would would have the option to pay for an unlimited number of seats or that they could pay once for an unlimited number of seats?
https://discourse.webflow.com/t/subscription-option-that-allows-multi-seat-management/206696/3
We need this functionality as well. Any updates on when it will be available or work arounds?
From @marc-lee-pack-1:
In the memberstack core product, I would really like to see support for corporate accounts whereby a customer (membership type) can have an 'admin' who can self manage: billing, member provisioning (adds/removes).
In lieu of that capability, we’re building a very basic companion web app that will allow corporate customers to self manage their members outside of members tack and facilitate the flow of additional 3rd party data to members.
I've built something similar to this functionality in Memberstack but it required using their webhooks and a separate API to manage adding/removing persons. Essentially, you add a free-plan with the permissions of normal paying members. You can gatekeep this plan through Memberstack's webhook, removing anyone that attempts to add themselves without the permission of an admin. Not too difficult but definitely would require some coding.
We have three seperate clients interested in this feature now. To me, for Memberstack to be a tool that's used in a B2B / corporate environment, this feature is critical. Otherwise, it's important to share that Memberstack is B2C (or individual memberships) focused only.
Whilst this no doubt comes with more work for Memberstack, it allows them to add a new pricing structure to their fees ('Business' dashboards that specifically allows this and similar functionality).
We're entering the research phase for this feature. 🎉
There are a BUNCH of things that "team accounts" could mean, so any additional context/inspiration you can provide will help us move more quickly.
Thanks all! Stay tuned for more updates.
Is there a way to create a "Team plan" account that has multiple users. Which means that several users can log in to a specific website at the same time within one "Team plan" or account? As the owner of the "Team Plan" account, how do I manage access for individual users?
Does each individual have to create their own account or can everyone use the same one (administrator account)?
Can you please clarify this for me, because I have no idea how to handle this on my website, where I will be offering a "Paid Plan" (for individuals) and a "Team Paid Plan" (for a studio).
Thanks in advance!
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Rok Bračko Thank you for posting your question 🙏
We're currently in the design phase for the feature you need. We don't have an official solution at this time.
We really want this at PromptPal. We see companies signing up and their respective teams using one account. Ideally we'd give the option for companies to create a team account seat allocation.
We hope this will be available soon, as we're looking to implement this in about 4 weeks.
Dean Fankhauser I don't have an ETA at this time. It's possible this feature will go into development at the end of the quarter or early next quarter. So it's very unlikely that we can start and finish this feature in the next 4 weeks considering the rest of our roadmap 😞
I'm trying to do something like this—but, the use case is studio management.
2+ accounts (e.g., Parent1, Parent2, Child1, Child2) linked with a single ID. Memberstack would recognize them as a family. The parents are admins with permissions. The children just have profiles, really. I'm determined to kick Jackra**it's archaic software to the curb.
Please guys, let's do it! It's a super important feature for a SAAS system, specially to do upsells. Probably, it will help the memberstack grow the revenue as well.
Hello! Is this being worked on? The product I'm working on needs this function. :-)
This prototype is SUPER exciting!
Here is the only thing I see missing....any one of these would help with larger groups:
- sign-up the group via a unique URL
- sign-up the group via a unique code
- send out bulk invitations (e.g. admin can drop in 200 email addresses into a field, and then invitations are sent out in bulk)
My use case is groups of 0-30, 31-100, and 101-150.
For the larger groups, the admin inputting in each individual email address is going to become quite tedious. How about if the admin signs up the group, they can then share a unique URL or a unique code for input with the group, and then the group can do the sign-up on their own?
Or bulk email invitations?
Please share a timeline for this release! Thank you for your work on it.
This would be an absolute game changer for our ability to scale with Memberstack!!
Edward Atkinson Awesome! What's your use case? Can you think of a parallel company or paid product which allows you to invite 50+ people? (We're trying to account for you use case, but don't fully understand the situation).
Hi Duncan from Memberstack , I provide teaching and educational services to groups/cohorts in institutions, community, high schools, and universities. So I have entire classes, or entire years of a class, or multiple sections of different classes, all signing up at the same time for annual memberships.
So I frequently have groups of 50-60, up to about 150, but in the near-ish future may be getting into even larger groups (multiple hundreds) that sign up as one giant cohort.
Are there limits on the # of members?
The first version of team accounts will not have search or pagination... meaning we will likely need to implement some sort of team cap. It's not clear what that number will be yet 🤔 I'll follow up once we know more
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