# Create a membership tier **Setup time is approximately 1 minute** The first step is to create your membership tier. You can create as many membership tiers as you would like. 1. Click on Membership Tiers from the left hand menu

2. On the right hand side, click on the Add New Membership Tier button

3. On the right hand side, enter a name for your membership tier. e.g. VIP Club

4. Enter a description for your membership tier.

5. Select how you would like to charge members for this membership tier. You can offer it for free, a one-time payment, monthly, yearly or let the customer choose between either monthly or yearly. NOTE: Once the Save and Publish button has been clicked, how you will be charging members is locked to protect existing members. You can update everything else, but if you need to change this locked setting, you will have to create a new membership tier and remove or disable the old one.

6. If you're going to make it a paid membership tier, now you can enter a membership cost. NOTE: Once the Save and Publish button has been clicked, this membership cost is locked to protect existing members. You can update everything else, but if you need to change this locked setting, you will have to create a new membership tier and remove or disable the old one.

7. OPTIONAL: You can also charge an additional joining fee on top of the membership cost. This is purely optional and is only charged once when the member first joins, on top of the membership cost.

8. Now select what happens when a customer cancels their membership. Their benefits will either be cancelled at the end of their billing cycle or immediately.

9. Click the Save and Publish button.

10. Once you have saved your membership tier, a button will now appear where you can view the membership tier product on your store. Click on this View Published Product button to see your product in action.