Smart Creator Press (SCP) allows you to create powerful membership sites with flexible billing, structured content delivery, and automation tools to streamline onboarding and bonus access.
Each membership tier is built using SCP’s Product system, and you can layer access to courses, digital downloads, challenges, community forums, and more. This guide walks through everything you need to know to set up membership tiers using SCP.
🔁 Membership Flow Overview
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 1. Create Membership Product | Use SCP Product Builder to define your membership tiers |
| 2. Add Pricing Plans | Offer monthly, annual, trial, or lifetime plans |
| 3. Assign Core Content | Connect pages, posts, files, and custom post types directly to memberships |
| 4. Set Drip Rules | Deliver content gradually to improve engagement |
| 5. Automate Bonus Access | Use outbound automation to give access to courses or other products |
🎁 Membership Benefits
When someone purchases a membership product in SCP, you can offer a wide range of benefits depending on the level or tier. Benefits can include:
✅ On-Site Content Access
- Pages and blog posts
- Documents and PDFs
- Downloadable templates or files
- Videos, checklists, etc.
✅ Exclusive Community Features
- Private forums and discussion areas (via SmartForumBuilder)
- Member-only topics
- Community-based challenges or accountability threads
✅ Educational Resources
- Tutorials
- Access to full or partial online courses (via SCP’s automation)
- Masterclasses, replays
✅ Live Access and Event Perks
- Registration for group coaching sessions or live Q&A (via Smart Events Calendar)
- Discounts on upcoming events or programs
- FREE event invitations for high-tier members
✅ Downloadable Resources
- Worksheets, planners, and templates
- Swipe files
✅ Email Perks and CRM Tags
- Welcome sequences and onboarding tips
- Tagged segmentation based on membership tier
- Triggered automations inside your email platform for upsells or retention
✅ Access to Bonus Products or Courses
- Automatically granted through outbound automation
- Tier-specific access to hidden content
You can mix and match these benefits and use SCP’s native access rules or automation features to ensure the right people get the right content at the right time.
🔼 Step 1: Create Your Membership Product
All memberships start with a product created using SCP’s Product Builder.
To create a new membership:
- Go to SCP > Products > Add New Product
- Set the Product Pricing to ‘Paid’ and Payment Type to Subscription.
- Enter a name and description for your membership
- Customize the welcome email
- Customize messages, and redirect behavior after purchase. You can do this in the settings tab.
💸 Step 2: Set Up Pricing Plans
Membership products support multiple pricing options. Use this to allow monthly, annual, lifetime plans.
Some examples of pricing structures:
- $29/month (monthly recurring)
- $290/year (annual recurring)
- $597 one-time (lifetime access)
- $0 for 7 days, then $49/month (free trial)
- 3 payments of $199 (installment plan)
To add a pricing plan:
- Go to the Pricing tab
- Click Add Pricing Plan
- Set name, price, billing frequency, trial period, and plan description
Create separate products if each membership tier has different benefits, automations or content.
Otherwise create one product with multiple pricing plans.
🔐 Step 3: Assign Core Membership Content
Core content (pages, posts, custom post types, files, categories) should be assigned directly to the membership using Access Rules.
To assign access:
- Go to the Access Rules tab in the product builder.
- Select the content
- Setup drip schedule for the content. Drip content gradually to keep members engaged over time. Use this to create structured learning paths, weekly content releases, or limited-time unlocks.
Supported content types:
- WordPress pages and posts
- Categories and tags
- Uploaded files and documents
- Videos, downloads
🔄 Step 5: Automate Bonus Access Using Outbound Automation
To give access to SCP-created Courses or other Products when someone joins a membership, use Outbound Automation.
To create automation:
- Go to SCP > Outbound Automation > Add New
- Set a Trigger: e.g., “User gets access to Gold Membership”
- Add Actions, such as:
- Give Product Access (e.g., Bonus Masterclass)
- Give Course Access (e.g., Gold Members Hub)
- Add to Email List (e.g., MailerLite, ConvertKit)
- Add Tag (e.g., FluentCRM, ActiveCampaign)
You can also automate:
- Revoking access when a user loses access to the membership
- Unlocking bonus content for limited-time offers
- Triggering welcome sequences in external platforms
📆 Example Setup: Gold Membership
Product: Gold Membership
- Includes access to:
- Dripped content via posts and pages
- SmartForumBuilder access to private community
Pricing Plans:
- $49/month
- $490/year
- $997 lifetime
Access Rules:
- Drip pages weekly using relative day delay
- Unlock private forums via category-level rule
Automation Rules:
- Trigger: User gets access to Gold Membership
- Actions:
- Give Course Access → Premium Masterclass Series
- Give Product Access → Bonus Resource Pack
- Add to MailerLite List
- Tag in FluentCRM
📅 Common Use Cases
| Use Case | Setup |
| Offer monthly and annual pricing | One product, multiple pricing plans |
| Deliver dripped training content | Assign pages, enable drip by days |
| Give access to courses after signup | Use outbound automation |
| Remove access after cancellation | Use outbound automation trigger “User loses access” |
| Limit access to forums/events | Use access rules with SmartForumBuilder or Smart Events Calendar |
