Hosted member website guide

With Memberful’s member website, you can seamlessly integrate members-only emails, exclusive content, and enticing teasers for visitors — all in one place while elevating your unique voice and messaging.

How to build a member website

1. Sign up for Memberful.
2. Create your plans.
3. Enable the member website.
4. Customize your site settings.
5. Customize your branding.
6. Create a landing page.
7. Create evergreen pages.
8. Create dynamic posts.
9. Customize your site menu.
10. Test the member experience.
11. Go live.

Sign up for Memberful

To get started, sign up for Memberful.

Create your plans

You'll want to set up some membership plans that people can subscribe to.

Log in to your Memberful dashboard, navigate to the Plans tab, and click New Plan. Fill in the details and settings for your plan and click Create Plan.

Learn more about creating membership plans.

Thinking of selling multiple plans? Enable the upgrade / downgrade settings.

Customize your branding

Navigate to Customize → Branding to add your logo and brand colors. These customizations will be applied to all your Memberful-hosted pages, posts, and emails.

Learn more about customizing your branding.

Enable the member website

To enable Memberful's hosted website feature, navigate to Website → Settings and turn on the Enable your member website toggle.

Customize your site settings

Navigate to Website via the menu on the left sidebar of your dashboard to customize your member website's settings, such as making it public or private, choosing a theme, adding social media profiles, and more.

Learn more about customizing your site settings.

Create a landing page

To sell memberships to your audience, you can create a customized landing page hosted by Memberful by navigating to Website → Settings and turning on the Enable your landing page toggle.

You can then customize it by navigating to Website → Manage → Landing Page → Edit landing page.

You can also make your landing page the first thing visitors see when they land on your site. (If a visitor skips it, and your site is public, we'll remember that for the next 30 days if they return to your site.)

If the welcome page setting is toggled off, then your homepage will be the first page visitors see when they land on your site.

Learn more about creating a custom landing page.

Create evergreen pages

You can create pages (or external links) for your member site via Website → Pages. Pages are great for evergreen content like an “About Us” page or “FAQ” page.

Depending on whether you made your site private or public, you can decide if it should be visible to all members (including free and inactive), all active members, or all active members subscribed to specific plans. You can also edit the navigation label and page URL.

Learn more about creating and publishing pages.

Create dynamic posts

You can create posts for your member site via Website → Posts. Posts can be used to share exclusive, dynamic content with your paid and free members. Think blog posts with embedded videos and beautiful visuals.

For each post, you can decide if it should be visible to all members (including free and inactive), all active members, or all active members subscribed to specific plans, and whether or not members can leave comments and likes. Also, in addition to publishing your post on the member website, you can also choose to email the post to members.

Learn more about creating and publishing posts.

Customize your site menu

Navigate Website → Pages to customize your site menu. You can:

• Edit your navigation labels
• Re-order the navigation menu
• Promote a page to your homepage (it would be the Posts index by default after you create your first Post)

Learn more about customizing your site menu.

Test the member experience

Nice job — your member site is complete!

You can view your site anytime, as an admin, from the link found by clicking Website in the menu on the left sidebar of your dashboard.

Also, while your Memberful account is in test mode, you can use Stripe’s test credit cards to go through the signup and onboarding experience as a test member. Just make sure to visit your site in a different browser than the one where you're signed in to your Memberful dashboard.

Go live

When you’re ready to start processing orders, choose your currency and connect to your Stripe account via Account → Activate account. Please note that we will automatically delete all your test orders and member accounts when you switch to live payments.

Nice work connecting to Stripe! 🚀

Now you’re ready to start selling memberships to your audience. Here are a few ideas to make your launch a success:

• Announce the membership on your social media pages.
• Link to your member sited in your social media profiles and upload special banners for launch month.
• Send a membership-specific email blast and add a link to the membership landing page in your email signature.
• Host a livestream or post a video to announce the membership.