Your Complete Guide to Squarespace Member Sites 🔐 Squarespace 7.1 + 7.0 Tutorial

[@Rad-Zach]

Wow - that slash (/) tip is gold! Thank you!

[@BigCatCreative]

It's the best way to get around the Squarespace back-end!

[@schooloftao]

Thanks Cat, this was amazing clear. Appreciated!

[@JUSLYKHONEY911]

This video is golden and I'm so glad that I came across it. I'm currently having issues with the payment processor when sending invoices over $1000.00USD. Any input on this or a video would be great. It's caused me some headaches. Luckily I have great client who want to work with me and were patient when sending a direct stripe link for payment.

[@yogawithjessa3614]

This was really helpful. Thank you. But how do you add your member site link to your homepage?

[@BigCatCreative]

As in a link to purchase or a link to login? Product Blocks for purchase, and you can use the Login link mentioned in the video to add it to any text or button!

[@SirHargreeves]

Just to clarify the pricing plan options, I cannot give the options of ‘Sub for 1 year’ and ‘Fixed amount’? I’d like to offer both options at the same time.

[@BigCatCreative]

I'm not entire sure sorry because I know that Squarespace has recently rolled out some new pricing options. Check with their resources here: support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404628246669-Paywalls-and-pricing-plans#toc--add-a-pricing-plan or support team on this one!

[@lisawelch5322]

Thanks for the video. If I have already designed a separate course on my website outside the member site, can I make that course available in the members site as well, or do I have to recreate the course for it to appear in the members site?

[@ManesbyMorgan]

Ok the only thing is is I don’t have a member site tab in my settings! Any tips on how to fix this?

[@johngo6283]

This is a very helpful video and deserves a lot more views than what is currently getting. Thanks for posting this. Question for you. What’s your take on the new in-house payment processing system from Squarespace where you don’t have to connect to Stripe directly?

[@BigCatCreative]

I haven't really dived into it yet as it's not available in my country! It sounds good! Though I use stripe and have never found it problematic to use so I will probably just stick with what I already have set up. If you're a new user though, starting from scratch, then I guess it would be good!

[@Rad-Zach]

Also - great video - thank you!

[@radicaljoywithmolly7355]

My login button isn't showing up on the members homepage. My customer account button is set to go but still no login showing up. I haven't set up payment processing since this is a free membership. Does that have something to do with the issue?

[@BigCatCreative]

I recommend reaching out to Squarespace so they can help you troubleshoot this :) Squarespace.com/support

[@philhan6241]

Thanks, very useful. Any tips for preventing members from sharing membership credentials with friends etc? Is it possible to force users to sign into the membership site with social media / Gmail, for example, or limit login to a particular MAC address?

[@BigCatCreative]

I don't think so. Unfortunately sharing logins and passwords is generally unavoidable, but I don't think it's really something to worry about too much, most people won't do this!

[@philhan6241]

@@BigCatCreative That's a shame. A lot of sites are wise to this issue and although not completely avoidable, you can make it much more difficult. A lot of sites allow an option to force people to log in via a social media account or with 2FA to limit abuse. Some sites tie a membership to a particular device through MAC address tracking. It may not be massively widespread, but if you are offering memberships of a few hundred $, it can be costly, depending on what space you are in. I offer online courses, and I've had a problem with students passing on membership details to their buddies and fellow students. If just 5 of them do it, assuming a course price of $200, I'm down $1000.

[@jacobwagler]

The newer squarespace isn't showing any way to make this membership public...

[@BigCatCreative]

You will need to set up a pricing plan and paywall for your member site after which it will be public! You can review the steps here: support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360050832631-Member-Sites?platform=v6&websiteId=60d9330e7ab7a92da75122ce

[@jacobwagler]

@@BigCatCreative thanks I appreciate the help!

[@coffeewmike]

9% is insane

[@Wilhemina]

is there a discord/slack like community chat type of thing within the member site feature? seems like its mostly to sell courses and not really "member" or am i missing something?

[@BigCatCreative]

There isn't! Member sites is really just a way to password protect/create logins for areas of your site, but aside from that there's no extra features really.

[@Wilhemina]

thank u for clarifying ! Hopefully the roll it out soon cause ppl need support in member only sites and we’d have to set up a whole other website for that feature 😅