Set your membership price
Free, subscription, freemium, tiers or a one-time price.
1 min readLast updated 24 October 2026
Pricing is set per school, in the school’s settings. You choose the shape first and then fill in the numbers, and changing either never touches a member who has already joined — they keep the price and access they joined at.
The five shapes
- Free — anyone can join, nobody is charged.
- Subscription — one price, monthly or yearly, with an optional free trial.
- Freemium — a free tier and a paid tier, so people can try before they pay.
- Tiers — two to four named levels, each with its own price and its own access.
- One-time — a single payment for lifetime access.
What a tier can unlock
- Which tabs of your school it may open.
- Which courses in your classroom it unlocks.
- Which class types it may book — group, private or both.
- Whether it may RSVP to your events.
Leave a tier’s access lists empty and it unlocks everything. A single-price school therefore needs no configuration at all.
Grandfathering is automatic and deliberate: if you raise your price tomorrow, everyone who joined before keeps the price they agreed to.
Currencies
A school prices in one of iSpeak’s supported currencies, chosen when the school is created. Card payments are collected in the currency your members can actually pay in.