Step 4: Pricing

Updated 9/16/2026

Payment pages for Memberships and Communities allow you to manage how clients access and pay for your service. All pricing options: free access, monthly subscriptions, and annual subscriptions are configured within the Pricing step when creating or editing a membership or community.

How Payment Pages Work

Payment pages act as the checkout experience for your membership or community. When a client opens a payment page link, they see the plans on that page, choose one, and are guided through a secure payment flow. Access is granted automatically once payment succeeds.
Each payment page defines:
Which plans are available on that link
How clients pay (monthly or annual)
What each plan is called and how it is described
Clients may sign up through different payment pages, but they will all:
Access the same service
Join the same sessions and content
Appear in the same backend service management view
Clients do not see every plan you have created. They see only the plans on the page whose link they opened.

Payment Pages Are Not the Same as Plans

This distinction matters before you start building.
A payment page is a client landing page with its own link.
A plan is one priced option inside that page, for example $199/mo.
One payment page can hold many plans. When a page has more than one plan, clients pick between them with radio buttons on a single landing page.
Groups and workshops have used payment pages for some time. This update brings the same structure to memberships and communities, with monthly and annual subscription plans in place of full and split payments.

Why Use Payment Pages

Multiple payment pages give you greater flexibility and control over pricing.
They are useful when you want to:
Offer different pricing tiers on the same membership
Create separate pages for founding member, early bird, or promotional rates
Send different audiences to different pricing
Keep a free opt-in link available alongside your paid pricing
For example, one payment page can offer:
Foundations Plan, $199/mo
Inner Peace Plan, $299/mo
Sanctuary Plan, $1,990/yr
This lets you price a membership properly without creating a second membership.

Before You Start

Set your currency, payment processor, tax handling, and processing fee preference in Payment Settings on Step 4: Pricing. These settings apply to every payment page on the service, so confirm them before you start building pages.

How to Create Payment Pages For Memberships and Communities?

From your Business Dashboard, click Create and start a new membership or community service, or edit an existing one, then go to 4. Pricing.
Two things are already on the page before you do anything:
Share this service in the Cohere.Live Marketplace?, which is set to Not shared in marketplace until you change it
Free Opt-in Page, which is created for you automatically
Below them, Page 1 is ready for your first paid plan.

1- Free Opt-in Page

The Free Opt-in Page gives clients free access to the entire membership or community without payment. It is created automatically and requires no setup. It has no fields to fill in and no delete control.
The free page is never shown publicly. It is reached only through the private free link you share.
This option is ideal for:
Free memberships and communities
Promotions and beta launches
Inviting founding members before paid pricing goes live
A service with only the Free Opt-in Page and no payment pages is valid and can be published as a free service.

2- Paid Payment Pages

Paid pricing is configured on Page 1, and on any additional page you create. Each payment page offers two checkboxes:
Price Per Month
Price Per Year
Select either one or both. Selecting a checkbox opens the fields for that billing cadence. Each payment page needs at least one plan with a price before you can save.

Monthly and Annual Plans

Under Price Per Month you will see three fields in order:
Plan Name (Optional), up to 50 characters
Description (Optional), up to 200 characters
Price Per Month
Price Per Year follows the same structure.
Both text fields are labeled optional because they arrive prefilled. A monthly plan starts as Monthly Subscription with the description Monthly Payments. An annual plan starts as Annual Subscription with the description Annual Payments. Type over them to use your own wording.
You cannot leave these fields blank. If you clear a field, it falls back to the prefilled text so something always renders for clients. A character counter sits under each field, and input stops at the limit.

Multiple Plans on One Payment Page

To add a second monthly plan, click Add Another Monthly Price Option under the monthly section. To add a second annual plan, click Add Another Annual Price Option under the annual section.
You can add as many plans as you want, in any mix. One monthly plan, three monthly plans, two monthly plus one annual, or annual only are all valid. There is no required balance between monthly and annual.
Each plan has its own name, description, price, and delete icon.
Deleting a plan removes it immediately with no confirmation step. The collapsed page summary, the payment summary on the right, and the client landing page all update to match.

3- Multiple Payment Pages

Click Add Additional Payment Page to create the next page. Pages are numbered in order as Page 1, Page 2, and so on, and renumber themselves if you delete one from the middle.
Use a second page when you want a separate link with different pricing, for example a founding member rate or a limited-time offer. Everyone who joins still lands in the same membership or community, sees the same sessions and content, and appears together in your service management view.
Each page has a chevron to collapse it and a trash icon to delete it.

4- Default Page

Once you have two or more payment pages, a Default radio button appears on each one. Only one page can be the default at a time, and the first page you create is set as the default automatically.
The default page controls three things:
The page that opens at your main service link
The page preselected when you list the service in the Cohere.Live Marketplace
The first entry in the Copy Paid Link dropdown in the Share Service popup
Before the service goes live, deleting the default page moves the default to the first remaining payment page on its own, and deleting every payment page returns the service to a free-only state with just the Free Opt-in Page.

What Happens After You Save

A collapsed payment page shows a one-line summary of everything on it, grouped by billing cadence:
Monthly: $199.00, $299.00 | Annual: $1,990.00
A pipe separates monthly from annual, and commas separate the prices within each group. Only configured options appear, so a page with annual pricing only shows the annual group.
The Payment Summary panel on the right lists every page that will be created, each plan by name and price, and a Default tag next to the default page.

Payment Settings

Payment settings control how payments are processed for your membership or community.
From Payment Settings, you can:
Select your preferred currency
Choose a payment processor (Cohere Payments or Direct Stripe)
Set your tax handling
Decide whether you cover the payment processing fee
These settings apply across all payment pages on the service.

What Clients Experience

Clients see one landing page per link, showing only the plans on that page.
When the page has one plan, the price appears on its own with no selection control. The client reads the service name and description, the price, then the registration section and the join button.
When the page has more than one plan, the plans appear under a Payment Options heading as a radio list. Each row shows the plan name, the description underneath, and the price on the right. Options are sorted by price with the highest at the top, and the top option is selected when the page loads.
Your custom plan names and descriptions display exactly as you typed them, including on the Stripe checkout page after the client clicks through. If you left the prefilled text in place, that text displays instead.

Every payment page has its own link. Open Share Service from your service to copy them.
Copy Paid Link opens a dropdown listing one entry per payment page, with the default page first. Choose a page to copy that page's link.
Copy Free Link copies the Free Opt-in Page link. The free page never appears in the paid dropdown.
Each entry in the dropdown is labeled by page number and the prices on that page.

Editing a Membership or Community You Have Already Published

If the service is not published yet

Everything stays editable. You can change plan names, descriptions, and prices, add and delete plans, add and delete payment pages, and change which page is the default.

If the service is published or live

Payment pages that already exist on a live service are locked. They open in a read-only state, and they cannot be edited or deleted. On a live service you can still:
Add a new payment page, with any plans you want on it
Set that page's own plan names, descriptions, and prices
Change which page is the default
Share the new page's link straight away So the way to change pricing on a live membership is to add a new payment page rather than edit an old one. Point new clients at the new link and leave the existing page in place for the clients already on it.

Quick FAQ

How many payment pages can I create?

As many as you want, each with its own link and its own set of plans.

Can I put both monthly and annual pricing on the same page?

Yes. Select both Price Per Month and Price Per Year on that page and fill in each plan.

Do I have to name my plans?

No. The name and description fields arrive prefilled, and you can leave them as they are. They cannot be saved empty, so if you clear one it returns to the prefilled text.

Can I delete the Free Opt-in Page?

No. It is created automatically and has no delete control. It stays private and is only reachable through the free link you share.

Can I run a membership with no paid pages at all?

Yes. A service with only the Free Opt-in Page is valid and can be published.
Can I delete a payment page after my service is live?
No. Once the service is live, existing payment pages are locked and cannot be edited or deleted. You can add new payment pages at any time.

Why can't I edit the pricing on my live membership?

Payment pages lock once the service is published, so clients already subscribed keep the terms they signed up for. Add a new payment page instead and share its link.

Summary

Use payment pages when you want more than one price, more than one plan, or more than one link for the same membership or community.
In short:
Go to 4. Pricing and confirm your Payment Settings
Leave the Free Opt-in Page as it is
On Page 1, select Price Per Month, Price Per Year, or both
Name each plan, describe it, and set the price
Use Add Another Monthly Price Option or Add Another Annual Price Option for more plans on the same page
Use Add Additional Payment Page for a separate page with its own link
Set your Default page, then click Save and Next
This gives you room to price a membership properly: an entry tier, a full tier, an annual option, and a separate link for a promotion, all inside one service.

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