Hello Club allows you to create bundled memberships, which essentially means that a group of members, like a family, gets to share a single membership subscription.

In this article we look at the particulars of bundled memberships and provides a few common examples to help you set up your own bundled membership types.

Note: This article assumes that you already have a basic understanding of how to set up and manage your membership types. If not, please have a read through the Setting up membership types help article first.

A bundled membership is just like a regular membership. The only difference is that it allows a groups of members to share a single membership subscription.

Examples are Family or Couple memberships, where multiple family members join your club or organisation as a group, yet share a single membership subscription.

In a bundled membership, one of the members will be designated as the Primary member. The primary member is responsible for payment of the membership fees and renewal of the subscription when it’s about to expire.

All the other members in a bundled membership are referred to as Linked members, as they are linked to the primary member.

To set up a bundled membership, you essentially follow the same steps as outlined in the help article on setting up membership types, but you’ll do it two or three times depending on the structure of your bundled membership.

First, we need to set up the primary membership type:

Next, enter all membership details, conditions and the membership fee as applicable and then save your membership when done.

Now that the primary membership type is set up, we can create linked memberships at attach them to the primary membership:

On the next screen, enter a suitable suffix to differentiate this linked membership type:

In the next step, you can optionally specify an additional fee for the linked membership. You can also specify a limit to restrict how many times a linked membership may occur in the bundle:

This is useful for family memberships, for example restricting them to one partner and up to three juniors. Save the linked membership when done.

You can repeat this process as many times as needed to create several membership types linked to the same primary membership, for example Partner and Junior.

More information on managing fees for bundled memberships can be found in the dedicated help article.

Once your bundled memberships are set up, you can either let new members set up their bundled membership during registration, or you can assign one to them manually.

If the primary membership type is allowed to be selected during registration, members will be able to select it during the self registration process and assign the applicable membership type for each person in the group:

How many members they can assign for each linked membership type will depend on the limit that you set up earlier.

Follow these steps to manually assign a bundled membership to your members:

Next, repeat the following steps for each linked member:

The following are some common examples and use cases for bundled memberships.

One of the most basic bundled membership types is a couple membership for two related members. One of the members will be the primary member, responsible for paying the membership fee and renewing the subscription when it expires, and the other will be the linked member.

To set up a membership for couples:

Another common bundled membership is a family membership, . One of the parents will be the primary member and the rest of the family will all be linked members.

To set up a family membership for two parents and their children:

If you charge less for a one-parent family, you can set this up as a separate membership type. The parent will be the primary member and the juniors will be linked members.

To set up a family membership for one parent and a number of children:

Corporate memberships are another common use case of bundled memberships. In this case, the manager or one of the employees will be the primary member, and the other participating employees will be linked members.

To set up a corporate membership:

You can also use bundled memberships to set up tiered pricing for membership types that are discounted as more people are added to the membership. This can be applied to family memberships, corporate memberships, or any other kind of group membership.

To set up a membership with tiered pricing (we’ll use Family as an example):