How to create a gated free plan in Memberstack for agency partners without requiring credit card details? Answered
Hi there! I run a media business with a paid, premium option and hoping someone with more Memberstack savvy can help me problem solve:
- Background:
- our free content isn't gated by a memberstack subscription. We currently only offer paid plans to our subscribers through memberstack.
- Our premium, paid content offering is behind a paywall membership through memberstack/stripe.
- We are launching a newer product where our paid subscription is paid for separately through one of our agency partners, then they can distribute codes (or a password protected landing page) to their customers to allow their customers to sign up & use our product for free for a year.
Problem to solve: - I know the easy way to do this is to set up an agency-specific coupon in Stripe to distribute to their customers to use at checkout. I don't want to do this.
- I want to avoid having to collect credit card information from the customers in Stripe.
- I cannot have this plan showing up as an option to the general public.
- I do not want to set up a new memberstack account to do this.
- Is there a way to either:
- A - set this up in stripe so that there is no credit card collected?
- B- Set up a gated Free Plan in Memberstack that will allow JUST the customers of this particular agency to sign up for this plan
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Hey Erin DaCruz, you can have the signup form for this particular plan as a password protected page in webflow and the agency users could try accessing the page with the code and signup for the free plan accordingly.
In case there are going to be multiple agencies and there are gonna be different plans assigned based on the agencies, you could store all the signup codes these agencies are gonna give their customers in a database (even webflow cms works) and have a signup form which asks for this agency specific code, and have an automation which checks if the code exists in the database then assign them the free plan, if not redirect them to access denied page or anything of that sort.
Another way to go about it would be to have a feature that what few sites have, 'Request access', where the users fill up a form with necessary details and you can have an automation if they are agency customers, create an account for them, assign them the free plan and send them an email with the reset password page so that they can set their password and get access to the gated content etc.
You could take any approach which seems fit for your use-case and user flow. Hope this gives you some idea.
Thanks!
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