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Membership tiers, benefits, and what to charge for dues.
Pricing advice written for dollars travels badly. Here is how to think about dues in rupiah - anchors people already have, the psychology of round numbers, and why the annual figure matters more than the monthly one here.
Plenty of organisations are joined by households rather than individuals, and pricing for one person makes those families do awkward arithmetic. Here is how a household tier works, and where it goes wrong.
Somebody in your organisation cannot comfortably afford the standard fee, and they will not raise their hand. Here is how to build a quieter, kinder rate into your pricing so nobody has to ask.
Before you agonise over how much to charge, decide how to charge. A plain look at flat, tiered and pay-as-you-go pricing - who each suits - carried through a community volleyball club torn between a flat season fee and pay-per-court-night.
Free grows your numbers and funds nothing. Paid funds the thing and puts a wall at the door. The honest tradeoffs, the hybrids that get you both, and how to decide - with an urban sketching club weighing it up.
Most organisations that agonise over tiers would do better with one flat membership, at least to start. Here's how to decide whether you need tiers at all, how many, how to structure them, and how to price each without a revolt.
Bronze, Silver, Gold is everywhere - and rarely the best you can do. Here are five worked tier ladders for clubs, associations, hobby groups and alumni bodies, plus honest notes on how many tiers you actually need.
The name on a tier matters less than what's behind it, but a good one signals in a word what a tier is for. Here are 50+ ideas, grouped and ready to borrow.
Anggota keeps your members, renewals, payments and events together, so the admin looks after itself and you can get back to the community. Have a go - it is free to start, no credit card.