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Must know
  • Plan and permission. Memberships must be on your club’s plan, and you need Edit Training to publish. To publish straight from Create Membership you also need Create Training.
  • Publishing runs full checks. Uplifter checks the price (0 is fine for a free membership), a start date, an end date after the start and in the future, and every restriction you switched on. Only the first problem shows at a time.
  • Scheduling. A future Available From date schedules the membership. It goes live automatically on that date, or sooner with Activate now.
  • Active is not always on sale. A membership is sold online only while Available for purchase online is on.
Before you start. A draft is never on sale. Once a membership is Active it cannot go back to Draft; to stop new sales you Deactivate it.
1

Start the publish

Go to Athletes > Memberships. Click ⋯ on a Draft’s row and choose Publish, or choose Edit and click Publish next to Save Draft. Create Membership has Save as Draft and Publish, so a new membership can go live without a draft first. Publishing from a form saves your edits first. The detail page has no Publish button.
2

Fix anything it flags

If a check fails, an error names the first problem: fix it and click Publish again. A capacity limit must be at least 1, the minimum age cannot be above the maximum, and each gender, level, achievement or waiver requirement you switched on needs at least one choice. A draft whose end date has passed cannot be published. On a form, a problem shows before anything is saved, so you stay to fix it. If the publish itself fails after a new membership was saved, it is kept as a draft and you land on its edit page.
3

Confirm where it lands

With no Available From date (or one that has arrived), it goes Active (“Membership published”). With a future date it goes Scheduled (“Membership scheduled”) and its card shows “Opens” and the date.
Changing a scheduled membership. You can Edit it in place. Unschedule sends it back to Draft (“Membership moved back to draft”), so it no longer opens on its own. Activate now puts it on sale today and sets Available From to today. It runs the same checks, so it fails if the end date has passed. First billing cycle. A membership that goes Active gets its first cycle right away: for a monthly or yearly one, the cycle containing today, or the one starting on the Start Date if that is still ahead. A Scheduled one gets it when it activates. Related: What is the membership lifecycle (Draft to Completed)? · How do I set a membership’s purchase window? · How do I create a membership? · How do I hide a membership from my club website?