How Memberships Work on Spenny Piggy 💎🐷

If one-off content sales are the sugar rush of creator income, memberships are the steady drip. 💧

Recurring monthly support from your biggest fans. Set tiers, offer perks, build a community that pays you to keep being you. This is the income model that builds careers. 🚀

✅ Supporters pay you monthly to access exclusive content, perks, or community
✅ You set the tiers — Bronze through Diamond, your call
✅ Recurring income = predictable, stable, scalable
✅ Your highest-value supporters typically come from memberships
✅ Up to £100/month per tier
✅ Account required · card only
✅ 3 approved posts every 28 days keeps it running
✅ Set it up once, earn while you sleep 💸

A membership is a monthly subscription to your content. Supporters pay a recurring amount — £5, £15, £50, whatever you choose — and unlock whatever you've put behind that tier.

Same model as Patreon, Netflix, Spotify. Just with you as the boss. 👑

🔁 Recurring revenue — predictable income you can plan around
📈 Compounding effect — each new member adds to your monthly baseline
👥 Community building — members are your most engaged supporters
💖 Deeper relationships — recurring means invested means loyal
🎯 Easier to forecast — you know roughly what next month looks like
🏦 Better fee efficiency — a £20 membership carries the fixed £1 admin fee far better than four £5 purchases do

If you're serious about creator income as a real career path, memberships are non-negotiable.

Dashboard → Features → Memberships → Create tier

Our recommendation: 3 tiers max to start.

✅ One tier — simple, but limits your ability to capture different supporter budgets
✅ Three tiers — the sweet spot. Captures casual, regular and big-spending supporters
❌ Five or more — decision fatigue. Supporters get overwhelmed and pick none

You can always add a tier later. Removing one is much messier, so start lean.

⚠️ £100/month is the ceiling per tier. For supporters who want to spend beyond that, point them at Paid Tasks or higher-value one-off content — those carry much higher limits and often suit a big spender better anyway. 🐳

Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond, Lifetime — the names are cosmetic.

They set expectations and they look good on a profile, but the platform doesn't treat them differently. What matters is what you actually deliver inside each one.

A Diamond tier with nothing in it is worth less than a well-stocked Bronze — and your members will work that out fast. 💎

This is where memberships live or die. Each tier needs real, distinct value.

Don't put "early access by 30 minutes." That's not a value proposition, that's an insult. 😬

🥉 Bronze ideas:

🥈 Silver — everything above, plus:

🥇 Gold — everything above, plus:

💎 Diamond — everything above, plus:

Be specific about what subscribers get and when.

✅ "3 exclusive posts per week, every Mon/Wed/Fri"
✅ "Monthly group call, first Sunday at 8pm UK"
✅ "Quarterly merch drop with a members-only discount"

❌ "Lots of content!"
❌ "Whenever I feel like it!"
❌ "Plus more surprises 💖"

Vague kills conversion. People buy specifics. 🎯

Pretty much anything, within our Content Rules:

✅ Exclusive posts, videos, photos
✅ Voice notes and personalised messages
✅ Behind-the-scenes content
✅ Tutorials, guides, how-tos
✅ Early access to public content
✅ Members-only Q&As and livestreams
✅ Discord or Telegram access — off-platform but member-gated
✅ Personalised shoutouts
✅ Merch discounts
✅ Voting on future content

❌ Off-platform money exchanges — payment stays on-platform, always
❌ Adult content — we're SFW only
❌ Anything illegal or against platform rules

Every membership must deliver real content on-platform. That's the enforced part.

Optional extras sit on top — Discord, Telegram, close friends lists, group calls. Genuinely valuable additions. But they're additions, not the substance.

A membership whose only value lives off-platform isn't a membership — and it's the fastest route to a dispute you can't defend, because there's no delivery record for a Telegram message. 🛡️

Quick note 🐷: every purchase on Spenny Piggy delivers content. We're a content platform, not Venmo with vibes.✨ It keeps us compliant with Stripe, banks and payment regulators, and it protects you legally as Merchant of Record. 📚

3 approved pieces of content in every 28-day window keeps your memberships running.

Miss it and memberships pause — existing members stop being billed, new sign-ups stop, and your one-off features carry on unaffected. ⚠️

Posting brings it straight back. No penalty, no appeal, no waiting on us. ✅

⏰ Approved, not uploaded. Reviews run 11am–6pm GMT, seven days a week, so posting at 11pm on day 28 won't save you — it'll be reviewed the next day, after your memberships have already paused. Post with days to spare.

Why it exists: recurring payments only stay stable when the content genuinely recurs. Platforms that let people collect monthly money without delivering are exactly the platforms that lose their payment processing. We'd rather nudge you than lose the whole thing. 🛡️

In practice: 3 posts in 28 days is less than one a week. If you're active at all, you'll never notice this rule exists. Your dashboard shows where you are in the current window.

⚠️ Card only. Recurring billing needs a payment method chargeable automatically each cycle, so Pay by Bank isn't available for memberships even if they used it elsewhere.

🗓️ Charged on the same date each month, automatically
💰 You receive your tier price in full — supporters cover the fees
🔄 It runs in the background. You don't do anything.

Membership earnings join your normal weekly cycle: Friday to Thursday, paid the following Friday, usually landing Monday.

🔒 New accounts: 10% held for the first 30 days, released automatically, then nothing.

🚪 They cancel from their own account, any time, no hoops
💎 Membership stays active to the end of their current billing period
🛑 No new charge the following month
✨ You see it in your dashboard so you can adapt

Why cancellation is deliberately easy: making it hard turns a cancellation into a chargeback — and a chargeback costs you the money, a dispute fee whether you win or lose, and a mark against your account. 🐷

⚠️ Auto-retried over the following few days
📧 The supporter is notified to update their card
⏸️ If retries fail, the membership pauses — not cancelled. They can update and resume.

💡 Watch your dashboard for these. It's almost always a replaced card someone's forgotten about, and a friendly message fixes it in a minute. Ignoring it loses you a member who never meant to leave.

"Should I price low to get more members?"

No. Pricing too low signals low value. Most supporters who'd pay £5 would happily pay £10. Test higher than you think.

"Should I run promotional discounts?"

Sparingly. Discounts attract supporters who churn fast, and a full-price long-term member is worth far more than a discount-grabber. If you do run one, set a clear deadline — open-ended discounts cheapen the offering.

"How often should I raise prices?"

✅ Existing members stay at their original price. Increases apply to new members only.
✅ Once you've validated demand, raise every 6–12 months for new members
✅ Make sure each increase comes with real new value

"What if members are churning?"

📉 You haven't been posting consistently in their tier
📉 Perks aren't being delivered
📉 They got what they needed and moved on — sometimes that's just normal
📉 A payment failed and they didn't update their card

Track your churn rate. Healthy creator memberships run 5–15% monthly churn. Above 20% means something needs fixing. 🔧

Over-deliver in month one. The first cycle decides whether there's a second.

Drip content regularly. Don't ghost members for three weeks then dump everything at once. Consistency is what they're paying for.

Treat them like the VIPs they are. Name-drops, personal replies, first look. Recurring members are backing you — being noticed is half the value.

Batch your creating. Make a month's worth in one session, schedule it, stop thinking about it.

Communicate when life happens. Tell them before the billing date, pause if you need to. Late is fine if it's communicated. Ghosting is what kills memberships. 💀

"Can supporters upgrade or downgrade?"
Yes, from their account. Upgrades take effect immediately with a prorated charge. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle. 🔄

"Can supporters preview tier perks before subscribing?"
Your tier description is what they see before deciding. Sell it properly there — bullet points, clear value. 🎯

"How do I deliver members-only content?"
Members automatically unlock the gated content tied to their tier. You just post — the platform handles who sees what.✨

"Can I offer free trials?"
Not as a built-in feature currently. Informal promos are fine, but the billing itself has no trial mechanism.

"What if I miss a delivery?"
​Communicate. Late with an explanation is survivable; silence isn't. 💀

"Can I have multiple membership systems?"
One per account, with multiple tiers inside it. Most creators don't need more than three. 🎯

"How do I promote my memberships?"
✅ Pin the offer in your bio
✅ Mention it casually in content, not aggressively
✅ Show snippets of exclusive content publicly to tease
✅ Talk to your biggest one-off buyers — invite them to upgrade
✅ Run quarterly "open house" weeks reminding people what they get

"Do I have to deliver perks every month?"
Yes. Members pay monthly and expect ongoing value. Taking a holiday? Communicate it and make up for it. ✨

"What if a supporter abuses access?"
​Block them. You're in control of your community. We don't force you to keep abusive supporters. 🛡️

"Do memberships count toward my bonuses?"
Yes — card earnings count toward the Founder Bonus, the Fast Start 5%, and qualification thresholds. Bonuses & Referrals 🎁🐷

"What happens to members if my memberships pause?"
They aren't cancelled automatically, but billing stops. People who stop hearing from you do cancel eventually — that's not the rule, that's just what happens.

☑️ 2–3 tiers, not one, not more than four
☑️ Each tier has clear, distinct, real value
☑️ Specific perk descriptions — not vague "extras"
☑️ Content ready for the first 4–8 weeks
☑️ Cadence planned — e.g. 3 posts a week plus a monthly group call
☑️ Your top tier priced properly to capture your biggest supporters
☑️ Supporter experience previewed in-app
☑️ Decided on any Discord/Telegram add-ons
☑️ 3 months of content drops planned, not just week one
☑️ You're confident you can hit 3 approved posts every 28 days 📅

Hit the chat bubble in the bottom right — we genuinely love helping creators design their first tier structure. Real humans, real strategy, no scripts. ✨

For specific issues (member payment failures, tier setup problems, technical issues), send us a screenshot over live chat and email support@spennypiggy.co.

Recurring revenue. Real fans. Real careers. 💎🐷

Oink oink — set it up once, earn while you sleep. 💖