New Feature: Membership Purchase

Students can now buy memberships alongside classes in CourseStorm

We're pleased to share a much-anticipated update to our Membership feature—the ability to purchase memberships through CourseStorm—is now available!

We first launched the Membership feature a few months ago, allowing our customers to manage membership status for their students and ensure that member students would get the appropriate discounts on classes during checkout. Our goal was to lay the foundation for what we knew were other updates to come.

With this new release, we're adding the next most important update for our customers: the ability for students to purchase memberships alongside classes right in CourseStorm. Membership continues to be a focus for our Product team, with additional updates like auto-renewal and early registration coming soon!

How does it work?

Visitors to your CourseStorm site will see a new link in the top right corner of the page inviting them to Become a Member.

When they click on this link, they'll see all of your membership packages listed along with a photo, price, and a description of the benefits they'll receive with their purchase.

They can add any of these memberships to their cart right alongside any classes they'd like to purchase. And they'll also receive the appropriate discount for these classes even if they're in the same cart as a new membership.

As with all other orders, you'll get an email as soon as the purchase goes through. You don't have to lift a finger.

Coming soon: Auto-Renewal and Reminders

Soon, every membership purchased through CourseStorm will be set up to auto-renew, so you won't have to keep track of who is active, inactive, or has upcoming renewals. We'll email the student two weeks before their membership expires to let them know of the upcoming charge and if the payment fails for any reason, you'll both be notified so that you can collect payment via other means.

Availability

Membership Purchase is now available to all customers who have enabled the membership feature on our Pro or All Access plans!

Just go to Membership Settings in your administration area and select the option to enable Membership Purchase. Then, make sure to update your membership packages with photos, prices, and benefits so that registrants have everything they need to make a purchase.

Thank You

A big thank you goes out to:

• ARTFactory
• Woodstock Arts
• Pittsburgh Glass Center
• and all other customers who requested this feature!

And a special thank you to team members Grant Howard, Ethan Schwelling, Kat Canavan, and Cory Langenbach who took the lead on this project!