Memberships

Set up your membership

Open More, then Creator studio (on a phone, open your profile and select ⋯). The section Earn from your audience has a card called Paid membership. It says Off until you set a price.

1. 1Select Name it. Under What it is called, type a name (up to 40 characters; if you leave it empty, it is called "Membership"). Under What members get, describe what members get (up to 200 characters). Select Save.
2. 2In the Price card below it, select Set prices.
3. 3Type a price next to each period you want to sell: 1 month, 3 months, 6 months or 1 year. Leave the others empty.
4. 4Under each price you see what you receive per sale on sikhami.com and in the Android app. Select How to see the full sum.
5. 5Select Save.

Your membership is now on sale. The Paid membership card shows your prices and how many members you have right now.

• Prices come in fixed steps. An amount between two steps is saved as the next step up. The lowest price is ₹25 and the highest is ₹1,00,000. See Sell on Sikhami.
• Each period has its own price, so you can make a year cheaper than twelve single months.
• To change your prices, select Change in the Price card.

Sikhami keeps a fee of 20% of the money that reaches it and pays you the rest. See What you earn on Sikhami.

Post members-only clips

Once your membership is on sale, the clip upload page shows two choices: Everyone and Members only.

1. 1Open Create and choose Clip.
2. 2Pick your video and fill in the details as usual. See Upload a clip.
3. 3Choose Members only.
4. 4Post the clip.

Only your paying members can watch it. Everyone else sees a locked card with no video, no thumbnail and no caption, even if someone shares the link.

• You choose Everyone or Members only when you upload. The website has no option to change it later.
• Members-only clips appear only in the Members only tab of your profile. They are not shown in the Clips feed or in your profile's Clips tab.
• A members-only clip cannot be shared to a story.

The Members only tab on your profile

When you sell a membership, your profile gets a Members only tab.

• People who are not members see a box with your membership's name, what members get, and a Join button with your lowest price. Below it they see your members-only clips as locked tiles.
• Your members, and you, see the clips and can watch them.
• On your own profile the tab has an Upload clip button.
• Your profile also shows a Join button to everyone who is not a member.

Join a membership

If you are a fan and want to join someone's membership:

1. 1Open the creator's profile and select Join (it shows the lowest price, for example "Join from ₹99"). You can also open their Members only tab and select Join there.
2. 2On the checkout page, if the creator sells more than one period, pick one under How long.
3. 3Select Pay and complete the payment through Razorpay.

The button on the creator's profile then says Member. Point at it to see the date your membership runs until. Your payment and its invoice are in Settings & privacy, under My orders and payments, in the Payments tab.

Expiry and renewal

• A membership runs for the period you paid for, counted in calendar months from the day you pay. For example, 1 month bought on 31 January runs until 28 February.
• It does not renew by itself. Nothing is charged automatically.
• When it ends, the clips lock again and the button on the creator's profile says Renew. Select it, pick a period and pay.
• While your membership is still running, you cannot pay for the next period in advance.

If the creator stops selling

A creator can turn the membership off by clearing every price. Nobody who already paid loses anything: their membership runs to its end date. New people cannot join while it is off.

Your members and your money

The Paid membership card in the Creator studio shows how many members you have right now. You get a "New Member" notification each time someone joins, and every sale appears on your Earnings page in Settings & privacy. See Earnings and payouts.

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