Guest access allows members of a Steady project to share their membership with others. If a plan includes guest access, this is shown on the plan and included in the plan price. Guest access is free for the guest you are inviting.
As a creator, whether you want to offer guest access as part of your membership plans is up to you. You can easily activate guest access for an individual plan. You can also choose how many guests a paying member can invite.
If a member buys a plan with guest access, they can decide for themselves whether they would like to make use of this and who they would like to invite. Guest access can be set up and managed in the "Memberships" area. Guest members will then receive an invitation email from Steady.
For members: How to invite guests
Guest access tips for creators
Guest members are listed in your member list. You can recognise them by their "guest" status. You can also see the number of guests on a given plan from the Plans page.
Guest members enjoy the same plan benefits as regular members, with one exception: Only the main member can grant guest access.
Offering guest access can be worthwhile, for example, if you want to attract larger organisations, like companies or universities, as members. They can then manage a number of individual guest accesses by purchasing a membership plan. Guest access is also an attractive benefit for members who want to share content with their friends or colleagues.
As a creator, you can activate guest access on existing plans anytime after they have been set up.
You can also increase the number of guest members allowed at a later date, but you cannot reduce it arbitrarily. For example, if a member has bought a plan with four guest accesses and has assigned all four of them to friends and family, you cannot reduce the number of guest members for this plan to less than four. In this case, if you want to permanently reduce the number of guest accesses, you must create a new plan and archive the old one.
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