Guide to memberships

A membership is a recurring subscription to a product, which allows creators to offer recurring content like courses, paid communities, newsletters, and more. The billing frequency can be monthly, quarterly, semi-annual, or annual.

To buy a membership, navigate to the membership tab on the creator’s profile page and choose a tier and your billing frequency (some memberships will have only one tier). Click on the "Subscribe" button and complete the checkout form.

You can access your membership through your Gumroad Library if you have an account, or through the "View content" button in your emailed receipt.

Either of these two methods will take you to the download page where you can view all content files in the membership and any Posts the creator has made. You can also view or resend your original purchase receipt from there.

To manage your membership, click on the membership product in your library. Click the "Manage membership" button at the top of the page to be able to change your payment method, tiers, or cancel your membership. More on these below.

You can also access the "Manage membership" page from the receipt’s footer that we send you for every charge:

When you click "Manage membership" you’ll be able to see what your current billing plan is and update your payment method. Don’t forget to click “Update membership” once you are finished making changes.

The Manage membership page is also where you can cancel your membership. If canceled, your membership will remain active until the end of the current billing cycle.

Read this article to know more about canceling memberships.

Want to be billed to a different credit card to PayPal? Click "Use a different card" on the Manage membership page to update your payment details.

For memberships with multiple tiers, you can change tiers or payment frequencies at any time, again, from the "Manage membership" area.

If you upgrade your membership to a higher tier, you will be charged immediately with a “prorated” amount. You will get a discount for the remaining part of your subscription, which will be subtracted from your new membership rate.

Here’s an example: If you are a week into a $10/month membership and upgrade to a $100/year membership, you’ll get a discount equal to the remaining 3/4th of your $10 subscription, or $7.50. So you’d be charged $100 - $7.5 = $92.50 for the yearly membership. This discount is calculated as of the end of the current day, rather than the exact current time. So the amount won’t change if you, say, refresh the page after 5 minutes, but it will change if you try the next day.

If you move to a less expensive tier or plan, the tier won’t be updated immediately. Instead, we will wait until the end of your billing cycle to change it.

You will get a receipt of your change in your email inbox.

Some memberships will be of a fixed length. An example of this is a course that the creator is offering with a duration of 1 year. After all the content has been delivered, your membership will automatically be canceled.

Sometimes you regret your past choices and want to come back to a membership that was previously canceled. Or maybe your credit card charge failed and the membership got canceled? No worries! You can restart your membership from the "Manage membership" page. Make sure your payment details are correct, click "Restart membership", and you're all set!

Alternatively, you can always get a new iteration of the membership from the creator's profile page, but there can be price increases. Restarting an old membership, on the other hand, ensures that you only pay the amount that you were originally paying.

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