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Chapter 5. Tutorial: Sell a Membership, From Paddle to Protected Content

Step 3: Create the Product and Its Prices

Procedure 5.3. Create the Gold Membership product
  1. Go to Components → PaddleSubs → Products and click New.

  2. Enter Gold Membership as the Name and leave Slug/Alias empty: saving makes it gold-membership from the name. The slug is the product's address on your site and the name you use for it in articles, so type a shorter one if the name is long.

  3. Write a Short Description. Paddle shows it in the checkout, and your product pages show it under the name.

  4. Leave Access as Public, so everyone can see the product, and choose Uncategorised in Category.

  5. Leave Purchase Type as Access: another purchase adds time (stacking), so that a member who renews early keeps the rest of their current year.

  6. Choose Gold in Level. The product now grants the level's groups; you don't need to add Gold Members on the Actions tab as well.

  7. On the Paddle tab, check the Tax Category. Standard digital goods suits most digital memberships. Any other category must be approved in your Paddle account before Paddle accepts it.

  8. Click Save. PaddleSubs creates the product in Paddle and fills in its Paddle ID.

Figure 5.1. The product editor, with its prices on the right
The product editor with the Details, Paddle and Actions tabs on the left and the list of the product's prices on the right.

Procedure 5.4. Add a yearly and a monthly price
  1. Click Add Price in the toolbar. A panel opens on the right.

  2. For the yearly price: enter Yearly as the Name (customers see it on the product page, in the checkout and on their invoice), an amount in Base Price * and its currency, and leave Billing Type as Non-Recurring with an Expiry Period of 1 Year. Click Save Price.

  3. Click Add Price again. For the monthly price: enter Monthly, an amount, and set Billing Type to Recurring with a Billing Cycle of 1 Month. Click Save Price.

  4. Click Save & Close.

Both prices now exist in Paddle too. You can check in your Paddle dashboard, under Catalog.