{"id":4840,"date":"2012-04-17T16:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-o.ning.com\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2019-09-05T12:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T12:36:53","slug":"integrate-member-categories-with-paid-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/integrate-member-categories-with-paid-access\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrate Member Categories With Paid Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can use the\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/introduction-to-member-categories\/\">Member Categories<\/a>\u00a0feature to automatically place subscribers for your\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-group-membership-with-paid-access\/\">Group<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-pages-with-paid-access\/\">Page<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-network-membership-with-paid-access\/\">Network paywall<\/a>\u00a0into custom-made categories. Using this feature can help you to encourage your members to sign up for special membership designations and badges.<\/p>\n<p>To enable Member Categories for any Paid Access paywall on your network, click &#8220;Paid Access&#8221; under Settings on your network&#8217;s Dashboard then click on &#8216;Edit&#8217; next to the paywall for which you&#8217;d like to enable integration. You&#8217;ll see the detailed page for this paywall&#8217;s current settings where the &#8220;Member Category Integration&#8221; field will show as &#8220;Not active&#8217;. Click the &#8216;Edit&#8217; link and then select the radio button on the next page to enable the feature.<\/p>\n<p>You can now choose how to automatically assign members of this paywall to a member category you&#8217;ve created as well as how to designate the lapsed subscribers. When you&#8217;re done making changes on this page, click &#8220;Continue&#8221; then &#8220;Publish&#8221;. Lastly, you&#8217;ll see a light-box appear for you to confirm the changes to your paywall settings. Once you click &#8216;Confirm&#8217; you&#8217;ll be all set.<\/p>\n<p>You can use this feature for both Fixed Price paywall integration as well as for your Donation paywalls.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fixed-price Paywall Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can use Member Categories in conjunction with a fixed-price paywall to assign paying members who pay to a custom-made category. For example: You want members who pay to subscribe for access to a special VIP Group to be identified with a special VIP badge. You can simply assign those paying members to a custom-made category.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4842\" title=\"20120329-rx7fk9mqw8yq85e54t8xdt9ppt\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/20120329-rx7fk9mqw8yq85e54t8xdt9ppt-e1334680565894.jpeg\" alt=\"Integrate Member Categories With Paid Access 1\" width=\"585\" height=\"300\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Donation Paywall Integration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can also use Member Categories in conjunction with a donation paywall to encourage members to give more in order to achieve a higher level of prestige. You do this by setting a threshold for payment that puts one (higher-paying) class of membership on a pedestal. For example: Gold members = $20\/year donation; everyone who contributes below that amount = Silver member; all non-paying members = a non-paying category (you can simply use the &#8220;default member&#8221; designation for non-paying members if you choose).<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4843\" title=\"20120402-t377e1dn631hi6dxaysh8r44i9\" src=\"\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/20120402-t377e1dn631hi6dxaysh8r44i9-e1334680592216.jpeg\" alt=\"Integrate Member Categories With Paid Access 2\" width=\"585\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please note that as with other Member Categories you create, your members can only be in one category at a time and will reflect the most recent category they were assigned to, whether that was manually or automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can use the\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/introduction-to-member-categories\/\">Member Categories<\/a>\u00a0feature to automatically place subscribers for your\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-group-membership-with-paid-access\/\">Group<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-pages-with-paid-access\/\">Page<\/a>, or\u00a0<a href=\"\/help\/charge-for-network-membership-with-paid-access\/\">Network paywall<\/a>\u00a0into custom-made categories. Using this feature can help you to encourage your members to sign up for special membership designations and badges.<br \/>\nTo enable Member Categories for any Paid Access paywall on your network, click &#8220;Paid Access&#8221; under Settings on your network&#8217;s Dashboard then click on &#8216;Edit&#8217; next to the paywall for which you&#8217;d like to enable integration. You&#8217;ll see the detailed page for this paywall&#8217;s current settings where the &#8220;Member Category Integration&#8221; field will show as &#8220;Not active&#8217;. Click the &#8216;Edit&#8217; link and then select the radio button on the next page to enable the feature.<br \/>\nYou can now choose how to automatically assign members of this paywall to a member category you&#8217;ve created as well as how to designate the lapsed subscribers. When you&#8217;re done making changes on this page, click &#8220;Continue&#8221; then &#8220;Publish&#8221;. Lastly, you&#8217;ll see a light-box appear for you to confirm the changes to your paywall settings. Once you click &#8216;Confirm&#8217; you&#8217;ll be all set.<br \/>\nYou can use this feature for both Fixed Price paywall integration as well as for your Donation paywalls.<br \/>\nFixed-price Paywall Integration<br \/>\nYou can use Member Categories in conjunction with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[74,602,605],"tags":[217,606,145,608,607],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Integrate Member Categories With Paid Access | Ning Help Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Integrate Member Categories With Paid Access | Ning Help Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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