⚙️ 5.2a Additional Membership Settings

on top of the default membership offerings, we have a new selection of features to further expand the services you can offer to your community members appointments memberships can be applied to appointments as well it works the same way it does for other experience types you can set up booking limits when configuring your membership settings, and members will be able to access your appointments with benefits depending on your membership settings appointments are still in testing and are not available for all communities to make it so that a membership covers appointment bookings as well, head to your appointment and choose to edit it once editing, expand the "membership" field to configure what benefits membership holders should have when signing up for that particular appointment more details can be found in the appointments article https //help sweatpals com/36 11 appointments shared memberships with this option enabled, you can give your membership holders the option to share their membership benefits with other users using this, you can create family or group plans tailored around sharing access to the membership if you'd like to limit the number of members that can be added to plan, make sure to enable the limit amount of invited members toggle this will ensure that your holder can only invite a set number of members to share the benefits guest passes guest passes are currently in testing and are not available to all communities currently unlike shared memberships, the purpose of guest passes is to let your membership holders invite their friends and partners to visit one of your experiences for free as a trial in other words shared memberships lets their invited friends make use of their benefits for as long as the membership is active, while guest passes only grant access to specific memberships that you choose below is a breakdown of the settings you can modify when setting up passes guest passes allowed per membership cycle this determines how many passes your membership holders can send to their friends this limit is reset when the membership is renewed, if it's a recurring membership eligible experiences with this option, you can select which of your experiences are eligible for sharing via the guest pass system if you use the include all experiences toggle, all of your available experiences will be eligible for sharing guest eligibility here you can choose between two different settings, first time visitors only and anyone first time visitors only only users that never received a guest pass for your community will be able to receive a pass from the membership holder anyone the holder can send a pass to anyone, even if they already received a pass for the experience previously managing cancelation policies for memberships when creating or editing a membership, you can choose between two different cancelation policies cancel automatically this allows members to cancel their membership at any time on their end the plan will not renew in the next billing cycle this is ideal for larger communities with many members review each request when members choose to cancel their membership, a request will be sent to your community's associated email address, letting you know that they'd like to cancel it it's then up to you to review the request and process the cancelation for them this is ideal for smaller communities and/or hosts that would like to get in touch with members to offer them special deals and avoid churn in addition, you can also enable the minimum commitment period toggle to set a minimum period through which members must keep their membership this is displayed to members at checkout before they complete the process all of these settings, except for the minimum commitment period , can be altered after the membership has been published visual guide