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Build your audience with free and paid memberships. Let readers join your website, access exclusive content, and support your work through paid subscriptions. Open Settings → Membership → Access to get started.

Free memberships

Under Who should be able to subscribe to your site?, select Public to let readers join for free. Free members can read members-only content and subscribe to your newsletters when newsletters are enabled.
Free memberships don’t require Stripe. Manage email delivery separately in Newsletter settings.

Access settings

Membership → Access has separate controls for visiting your website and signing up.
Separate controls for who can browse the website and who can subscribe

Who can browse your website?

  • Public — Anyone can visit.
  • Private — Visitors need your access code. Your code appears below this setting, with an option to update it. A spinner and Loading access code… indicate when the code is still loading.

Who can subscribe?

  • Public — Readers can sign up for free, with paid subscriptions available if you’ve set them up.
  • Paid members only — Readers must purchase a paid subscription to sign up. Complete paid membership setup first.
  • Nobody — Prevent new signups and turn off newsletters.
Selecting Nobody doesn’t delete existing members. You must end active paid memberships before selecting this option.
Paid memberships are available on the Creator and Business plans. Offer one paid membership with monthly and annual pricing.
1

Connect Stripe

Open Settings → Membership → Tiers and click Connect Stripe.Follow Stripe’s prompts to create or connect an account, then return to Convella.
2

Finish account setup

Check your Stripe account status. If more information is needed, click Continue Stripe setup. If the account is under review, payments become available once Stripe finishes its review.
3

Set your prices

Enter your Monthly plan price and Annual plan price, then click Save.
Stripe handles membership payments and payouts. Once setup is complete, keep subscription access Public to offer both free and paid memberships, or choose Paid members only to require payment at signup.
Connected Stripe account and monthly and annual membership price fields

Members-only content

Open an article’s Settings → Audience, or a page’s Settings → Page access, and choose who can read it:
  • Public — Everyone can read it.
  • Members only — Signed-in free and paid members can read it.
  • Paid members only — Only members with paid access can read it, including complimentary members.
For articles, insert a Paywall from the editor’s More menu to mark where restricted content begins. Set the article’s Audience to Members only or Paid members only so readers without access see a public preview above the paywall. See Publishing articles and Pages for publishing instructions.

Customize your Subscribe page

Open the website editor and select Subscribe to customize your sign-up experience. Use Sign-up form for the form’s appearance and Plans for the benefits shown to free and paid subscribers. See Subscribe page for details, or Managing members to manage your audience.