Manually Add Members to Member Area

Site URL: https://mindovermatterfit.com/

Hello,

I am implementing the new Squarespace Member Areas, but have existing subscribers to my content through Memberspace. I am wondering if/how I can import those existing subscribers to my new Squarespace Member Areas. 

Thank you.

Can you clarify - does this mean that if I already have an existing memebrship, I lose all of the data about them if I host on Squarespace? 

Hi @AndyWilson23

If you already have an existing membership, you will have to do a 'manual migration' to your new Squarespace Member Areas.  It doesn't mean you will lose their information,  but you will have to ask all your members to subscribe back again to your site. You can't do this for them; they will have to do this themselves!

Which is your current provider? How are you processing your payments? 

We just started looking at the membership module in square space. I literally took 3 minutes of a chat to figure out it simply won't function for any pre existing membership base that has none synchronized renewal dates. I have 358 members that pay a yearly fee. All have different renewal dates. The would no be able to access the membership area until their renewal date. Oh wait I could refund them a pro rated amount at my cost and then insist they sign up new. Unacceptable.   

Is there a solution for this yet? I am having the same issue. 

same issue here, we have pre-existing membership base and thought we could transfer them to squarespace. are we not able to manually add members and input correct renewal dates?

@ward320ny Yeah, not being able to import members, or at least convert email contacts to members, is a non-starter for me. Asking them to manually join again means that I might possibly loose some members. My plan is to have a free membership and so no one would even be charged. I understand if you are concerned about charging people without their consent but you should allow us to import the members and then send them an request to update payment info if that's part of it. Otherwise, I'm going to have to look someplace else for my website solution.

Same, hope in the future Squarespace will add this

You know what's really frustrating? The fact that we can't even manually add customer accounts on SquareSpace. I mean, come on! Considering the price they're charging, this feels like a major functional oversight. And seriously, for any website that's trying to grow its membership, not being able to manage members in basic ways is just a huge letdown. I really hope the folks in charge at SquareSpace step up their game and start giving us the basic features that actual websites need. It's about time they prioritize those over the bells and whistles they've been focusing on for the past three years. And hey, if you're a paid membership subscriber like me, I think it's high time we speak up and make them realize how important this is.

I'm having a similar issue. The business is a tuition business and we're wanting to use the member space as a sort of 'portal' for children to access content without a charge; the payment is currently all handled separately. Ideally we would just manually create accounts for these members and share their logins with them, but this doesn't seem to be something you can do with SquareSpace. 

I'm wondering if there's a chance we could work around this by creating a 'free to sign up' members area but then 'hide' the sign-up link and only share it with members who have paid. Does anyone know if this would work? I'm aware that this could have problems e.g. the sign-up link being shared and us having to be vigilant about deleting any new member profiles belonging to non-students. 

The issue here is that we don't want non-students accessing the area at all and I'm not sure there's a way that SquareSpace can facilitate that. I'm trying to determine if this is the right match for the business but I'm sadly starting to think it's not. 

I have a similar issue as well. I have an org looking to have gated content available to their members, but payment is only accepted in person via cash or check (they are a group of 70-year-olds).

Is there a way to use some sort of approval system that the admin can use to grant access to anyone joining through the site, only after the in-person payment is confirmed?

Yep. There is even a help page saying to click the particular mailing list you're attempting to add to, then click on add subscriber and select "manually add email". But THERE IS NO SUCH BUTTON! The only option is to "add subscriberS" it's that plural s that messes it all up. From there in only allows "importing a cvs file with 3 columns"

Gah. 

I just want to type an email into this list that I pay a

lot of money to create and have access to all in one place. Better just go back to mailchimp.