If and when you decide to set up payments within your Mighty Network, there are a few common use cases for how you can structure your Mighty Network and the Plans you create.
This article rounds up the top four options for setting up your Mighty Network that we recommend following if you do plan to utilize our payments features. While there are some limitations and edge cases that you may need to consider (and you can review those here in our payments FAQ), we hope this guide will give you more clarity around what’s possible when you decide to start earning revenue directly from your Mighty Network.
Option 1: “I want a free network with premium upsells available inside”
If you want to structure your Mighty Network so there is no payment required when someone joins the overall community, but there are paid experiences people can purchase as groups or courses (or bundles of groups and/or courses) once they are a member, just follow this formula:
- Set your Mighty Network’s main privacy setting to be public, private, or secret.
- Once you’ve created at least one group or course inside your Mighty Network that you want to sell as a premium offering to members, create an Internal Plan that’s associated with that group or course and make that Plan visible as soon as it’s approved.
- Now, members of your Mighty Network will be able to purchase premium experiences inside your community as individual groups or courses (or as a bundle of groups and/or courses you want to sell as a package).
Note: With this configuration, if your Mighty Network is set to be private or secret, then non-members will be required to join your network first before they can see or purchase any Internal Plan. If your Mighty Network is public, non-members can still browse your network and see that there are paid experiences available to purchase.
Option 2: “I want to charge a fee (subscription or one-time) at the front door for access to my entire network”
If you want to structure your Mighty Network so that all members are required to pay a fee to get access to the overall community, follow this formula:
- Create an External Plan that grants access to a Network Membership.
- Make that External Plan visible as soon as it’s approved.
- When you make any External Plan visible (even an External Free Plan), it will automatically switch your Mighty Network’s privacy setting to be paid, which means your overall community can no longer be public, private, or secret.
- Now, anyone who visits your Mighty Network’s landing page directly or via an invitation will see an option to purchase membership via the External Plan you made visible.
Note: With this configuration, you can still offer upsell experiences inside your Mighty Network by creating Internal Plans that sell access to individual groups or courses (or bundles of groups and/or courses you want to sell as a package to existing members). Or, you can always make your groups or courses public within your paid Mighty Network, which means that anyone who is a member of your paid community can join those groups or courses without requiring additional payment or approval.
Want to offer some people the option to join your network for free even though it’s paid for the public at the front door? Create a hidden External Free Plan and send those people the share link for that hidden Plan so they can easily join for free through the special link.
Option 3: “I want a free network, but I also want to give members the option to purchase access to premium groups or courses upfront in one transaction”
If you want to structure your Mighty Network so that overall access to the community is free, but there are also options to purchase premium experiences in the form of groups or courses upfront right when they join, you’ll want to follow this formula
- Create an External Free Plan that grants access to a Network Membership and make it visible.
- When you make any External Plan visible (even an External Free Plan), it will automatically switch your Mighty Network’s privacy setting to be paid, which means your overall community can no longer be public, private, or secret.
- Create an additional External Bundle Plan (or several Plans) that grant access to a Network Membership plus individual groups or courses you want to sell as a package upfront to people who are ready to join your Mighty Network. Make those Plans visible when they are approved.
- Now, anyone who visits your Mighty Network’s landing page directly or via an invitation will see an option to become a member via the External Free Plan *or* via purchasing one of your External Bundle Plans.
Note: With this configuration, you can still offer upsell experiences inside your Mighty Network by creating Internal Plans that sell access to individual groups or courses (or bundles of groups and/or courses you want to sell as a package) to members who didn’t purchase your External Bundle Plan upfront. Just keep in mind that members can only be on one External Plan at any given time.
Option 4: “I want a paid network, plus additional premium upsells available inside”
If you want to structure your Mighty Network so that all members are required to pay a fee to get access to the overall community, but there are also premium a la carte offerings inside your network that you can upsell, just follow this formula:
- Create an External Plan that grants access to a Network Membership.
- Make that External Plan visible as soon as it’s approved.
- When you make any External Plan visible (even an External Free Plan), it will automatically switch your Mighty Network’s privacy setting to be paid, which means your overall community can no longer be public, private, or secret.
- Now, anyone who visits your Mighty Network’s landing page directly or via an invitation will see an option to purchase membership via the External Plan you made visible.
- Then, create at least one group or course inside your Mighty Network that you want to sell as a premium offering to members. Create an Internal Plan that’s associated with that group or course and make that Plan visible as soon as it’s approved.
- Now, once someone purchases access to your overall community via your External Plan, they will see options to purchase access to other premium offerings inside your network in the form of groups or courses (or bundles of groups and/or courses you want to sell as a package).
Note: With this configuration, you can still offer groups and/or courses that are free for paying members of your overall network to access. Just make those groups or courses public within your paid Mighty Network, which means that anyone who is a member of your paid community can join those groups or courses without requiring payment or approval. Or, you can make certain groups or courses private or secret, which means that only invited members can access those areas.
Want to offer some people the option to join your network for free even though it’s paid for the public at the front door? Just create a hidden External Free Plan and send those people the share link for that hidden Plan so they can easily join for free through the special link.
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