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# How to add a joining fee to your 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. From the left sidebar, click **Membership Tiers**.
2. On the right side, click **Add New Membership Tier**
3. On the right side, enter the details of your membership tier.
4. Now this is where you can 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.
5. Click the Save and Publish button.