Business
Business
Get paid, price your membership, run promotions, look after customers and read your numbers.
The Business pillar is where the money side of your practice lives: how you get paid, what your membership costs, who has bought from you, refunds, and how it's all going.
When to use what
| If you want to… | Go to |
|---|---|
| Get paid into your bank | Set Up Payout on Home, then Business → Payouts & Transactions |
| Set what members pay to join your portal | Business → Pricing |
| Create a discount code or free trial | Business → Pricing → Promotions |
| Ask new subscribers questions, or edit your membership FAQ | Business → Onboarding |
| See everyone who's bought or subscribed, invite people, export your list | Business → Customers & Subscribers |
| Refund a payment | Business → Payouts & Transactions, open the payment |
| Export payments for your accountant | Business → Payouts & Transactions → Transactions → Export CSV |
| Refer another practitioner for free days on Soul | Business → Grow Revenue |
| Handle a refund a member asked for | Business → Refund Requests |
| See revenue, MRR and churn | Business → Analytics |
| Manage staff, rooms and equipment for sessions | Business → Resources |
| Set the price of a single event, session or course | That offering's own page, under Offerings |
Anatomy
Your membership
Your Membership is a recurring subscription to your whole portal. Members who join see everything you've set to Subscribers Only or Private, and anything you've included for subscribers.
| Building block | What it is |
|---|---|
| Pricing Range | A sliding scale. Members choose any amount between your Minimum Price (USD) and Maximum Price (USD), with an optional Annual Discount (%). |
| Pricing Tiers | Up to 5 named, fixed prices, each with its own billing options. |
| Billing options | Monthly billing, Yearly billing (with an optional discount), or One-time purchase (lifetime or limited access). |
| Subscription Duration | Indefinitely (until canceled), or Fixed duration: 1 to 12 months or years, then it cancels automatically. |
| Promotions | Codes for a percentage off, a fixed amount off, or a free trial. |
| Onboarding | A Pre-Subscription Form members fill in before checkout, and your membership FAQ. |
| Refund policy | Your portal-wide default, with an override for the membership on the Pricing page. |
Members join at https://bringsoul.life/portal/<your-handle>/pricing.
Money in and out
- Stripe takes payments and pays you. You connect it once with Set Up Payout.
- Transactions: every payment across your offerings, with fees and net amounts.
- Payouts: money on its way to your bank. See How payouts work.
- Refunds: full or partial, from a transaction or in answer to a member's request. See Answer a refund request.
People
Customers & Subscribers lists everyone who has purchased or subscribed, plus leads. Each person is a Subscriber, Customer or Lead:
| Relationship | Means |
|---|---|
| Subscriber | Has a portal membership |
| Customer | Has bought something |
| Lead | Showed interest (a form, a free sign-up, an import) but hasn't bought |
Where it lives
| Item | What's there |
|---|---|
| Analytics | Revenue, earnings, subscribers, MRR, churn and conversion |
| Pricing | Tabs Pricing and Promotions |
| Onboarding | Tabs Forms and FAQ |
| Grow Revenue | Share Soul referrals, plus features coming soon |
| Payouts & Transactions | Tabs Transactions and Payouts |
| Refund Requests | Refund requests and their status |
| Customers & Subscribers | Your people, invites, export and subscription automations |
| Resources (BETA) | Staff, rooms and add-ons for sessions |
Your own Soul plan isn't here: it's under your account menu → Subscription & Billing. See Your Soul subscription.
Grow Revenue
Business → Grow Revenue ("Ways to earn more on Soul, growing over time.") has Share Soul, a referral link that earns you and the practitioner you invite free days on Soul, plus Accept insurance and Marketplace referral credits, marked Coming soon. See Grow Revenue.
Good to know
- Set up payouts before you sell anything paid. Parts of your dashboard stay locked until you do.
- You keep your earnings, minus card processing fees.
- A new membership price applies to new subscribers only. Existing members keep the price they joined at.
- Your list is yours. Soul never sells your or your members' data.
Guides
Connect Stripe and understand when money arrives.
Export transactions for bookkeepingA spreadsheet of payments, fees and net amounts.
Set up a membership with tiersFixed prices, sliding scale, monthly or yearly.
Offer a free or pay-what-you-can membershipLet anyone join, at any price, including zero.
Offer a free trialLet people try your membership before they pay.
Sell a fixed-length programA membership that ends on its own, or a one-time purchase.
Change your membership priceWhat happens to members who already pay.
Launch a promo codeDiscounts for a launch, a founding group or a partner.
Manage, deactivate and redirect codesTurn codes off and point old codes at new offers.
Ask questions before someone subscribesA pre-subscription form and your membership FAQ.
Migrate members from another platformBring your existing members over without double-billing.
Manage customers and subscribersFind people, filter, export and invite.
Refund a memberFull or partial refunds, and answering requests.
Answer a refund requestWhat members see and how to approve or reject.
Read your analyticsWhat each number means and what to do about it.
Refer a practitionerShare Soul and earn free days on your plan.
Set up staff, rooms and add-onsResources for sessions with a team or a space.