Hi there! I would like to create a paid membership that issues membership certain amount of credits that can be used to purchase a product on our platform and renew these credits every month. It is the same as ClassPass’s pricing model where you pay a monthly fee and you get credits every month, which you can use to join a class. I use Airtable to manage member’s database. Have you had similar experience to this? What resources did you guys look for? Any tips or recs are appreciated!
Hey Yusuket 
Welcome, and thank you for posting in the forum! 
This is great feedback! We love this! We haven’t seen this come up yet so we don’t have any suggestions at the moment. I am adding this to our insight list. @ChrisDrit have you seen anything like this or have any input!?
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Thanks for pinging me @Josh-Lopez
I haven’t seen anything like this but I do have a creative idea…
To accomplish this, I think you’d first have to find a payment service that allows what you’re describing and I don’t know of any off hand, but they must exist. Further, the service would need to integrate with Zapier (or similar) so that you can understand if a user has paid, if they have any remaining credits, etc… any credit changes could be webhook’ed via Zapier and update Airtable.
Second, I would invision using MemberStack as an auth layer only. So as far as MS is concerned, they are just free, but auth’ed, users.
So something like this:
- A user adds some credits
- If they are already a signed up member, they now have access to whatever those credits allow
- If they are not a signed up member, you could easily redirect them to a MemberStack signup page (hidden & confirmed to only be visible by those with credits)
- New user signs up and can access whatever those credits allow
Again, I believe the crux of this is that payment service and an integration with Zapier.
Hope that helps!
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