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Zoom💰 Payments
Monetize your community through paid memberships, premium offerings, paid courses, event tickets, and much more.
Payments overview
What you’ll learn:
- Setting up payments
- Creating your first paid product
- All available payment settings
- Collecting payments through invitation links
All options for Heartbeat Payments
Frequency
- One-time payment
- Installment plans
- Weekly payments
- Monthly payments
- Quarterly payments
- Annual payments
Where payments can be attached:
- Overall community access
- Group access (manage access to paid channels, docs, courses, & events)
- Event access
Other options
- Free trials
- Promo codes
Creating promo codes
What you’ll learn:
- How to create promo codes in Stripe for your Heartbeat products
- Where members will enter promo codes
Moving existing customers to Heartbeat
What you’ll learn:
- Migrating payments for existing community members
- Migrating payments for new community members
Using paid invitation links
What you’ll learn:
- How members will experience a payment link
- Paid invitation links for new members
- Paid invitation links for existing members
- Where to include Heartbeat payment links on your own website
Creating a tiered community
What you’ll learn:
- Setting a tiered structure (i.e. bronze, silver, gold tiers)
- How members can upgrade/downgrade between tiers
- Using upsell pages with tiers
- Payment proration during upgrades & downgrades
Creating a paid-only community
What you’ll learn:
- Attaching payments to the “Member” role
- Forcing re-subscription to access any community content
- Shifting free members to paid memberships
Moving a paid group into paid tiers
What you’ll learn:
- How to shift from a “paid group” to a “paid tiers” structure
- How Heartbeat handles price changes for active subscriptions
Preview the paid member experience
What you’ll learn:
- Payment experience for new members
- Payment experience for existing members
- Updating billing information in Heartbeat
- Upsell experience for members
🤔 Frequently Asked Questions
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Setting up Payments
- How to Set Up Heartbeat Payments
- How to Create a Paid Product
- How to Add a Terms of Service to Payments
- What's the difference between 'remove from group' and 'require re-subscription' when setting up payments?
Customizing payment options
- How to create promo codes for Heartbeat Payments
- Can I have a paid and free community?
- Can I make a member exempt from paying for the paid group?
- How can I set up a free trial for a paid group?
- How can I request a new currency to be added?
What paid members see
- How do paid members sign up?
- How can a member update their billing?
- What happens when a member stops paying for their paid membership?
- Can members who are not part of a paid group sign up for the paid group through HB?
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- 💰 Payments
- Payments overview
- All options for Heartbeat Payments
- Creating promo codes
- Moving existing customers to Heartbeat
- Using paid invitation links
- Creating a tiered community
- Creating a paid-only community
- Moving a paid group into paid tiers
- Preview the paid member experience
- 🤔 Frequently Asked Questions
- Setting up Payments
- Customizing payment options
- What paid members see
- Stripe