How to sync membership access across Patreon, YouTube, and Memberstack 2.0 on a Webflow site without double-charging users? Answered
I have three membership opportunities planned, unfortunately independent of each other. For clarity, Patreon, YouTube community, and of course direct memberships through Memberstack 2.0 on my own upcoming Webflow / Memberstack 2.0 website. First I want to allow all three membership options, so users have more choice in deciding which platform they favor or trust.
My question/issue is this (as a brand new Memberstack and Webflow user). I want my website gated content to reflect and honor membership from each platform, but I can't exactly ask them to pay twice.
I've looked around the forum for a few hours and haven't seen an answer that I recognize as such. My initial thought based on what I've learned so far is to create hidden (if possible) free membership categories where I use an automation to assign external paid members and given them gated access to content at a similar level as my local paid Memberstack members.
I'd have to come up with some kind of automated sync system, but that is a future step of the problem for now.
However, I don't want to go about it in a clunky manner. Is such a thing possible, and would this be the best way to accomplish the task? Am I overcomplicating something more easily solved another way?
Thanks for your time.
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Hey Peter 👋
That all makes sense. I agree with your suggestion to setup an automation that creates a members in Memberstack when a membership is created in Youtube or Patreon 👍
If those other tools don't have such automations then you will need to manually create and remove the members from Memberstack 🤔
Which means it might be better for you to focus in on just one platform and direct all traffic there instead of trying to maintain 3 separate communities. That last part is just 2 cents, so it's ultimately up to you to make that decision.
I'm using zapier to sync patreon members on memberstack and am running into this issue of patreon members using apple id which has proxy emails, and users don't know their proxy emails for passwordless signin. I think i can solve it if i could use the "find member" step in zapier to search for a Patreon user id which i've added as a custom field. I also think I could solve it if zapier could update memberstack emails. Both of these don't seem possible in zapier, maybe i just need to build a custom app or maybe use Make?
Hey Nick, I am not familiar with Patreon API / back-end features. But was wondering if you have the option to have a custom field for members in Patreon where you could store the member email used in Memberstack / the member ID whichever suits your use-case. That way, you could use that field in the memberstack's 'Find member' step and pass on that email or ID from the custom field to search and sync the member with updates.
Yeah I don't think that's possible in Zapier, it might be possible with custom code. I think the reverse would solve it, if Zapier allowed for the Find Member step to search for a custom field. Maybe I can reach out to them? I do think you allow searching for custom fields in your API right?
Nick, I believe Memberstack allows retrieving a member via the member ID or via the member email currently.
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