We’re excited to announce that Duda now supports paid membership! This will help your clients monetize their site and sell content-based online subscriptions. This is truly a revolutionary enhancement all your clients can (and should) leverage.
Duda’s membership opens up a new world of increased engagement and revenue opportunities for your clients. Use it to grow a site-based member community or to offer exclusive paid content.
Want to see it in action? Check out
this example membership plans page.
Let’s say one of your customers is a fitness instructor, and she’s asked you to build her a freemium based website. To do this, you can set up 2 membership plans for her: A free one and a paid one.
The free membership plan can serve as a lead generation source, with limited content of, say, 1 or 2 video classes plus a contact form. The paid membership plan can be a monthly subscription that includes unlimited access to all video classes the trainer has and will upload in the future.
Paid membership is essentially the option of creating exclusive content behind a paywall (if paid) or a desired user action (if free). Membership is made possible by these main components:
Membership plans can be either free or paid, and you can have multiple plans on a single site. With the flexibility that membership plans offer, you can even create multi-tiered membership sites.
Feel free to take the paid membership capability for a test drive - you can try it out using the included Demo plan - a sample plan in place to show you what paid membership is about, so you can decide for yourself if it’s right for you before upgrading to Business.
For a complete walkthrough of creating membership plans, consult this support article.
To apply the new membership capability to your site, add it through the left panel in the editor, and then follow these 3 easy steps:
Here’s how:
*If you haven’t already set site pages as members-only, you can do that here on the new plan page, under Assign pages.
It’s easy to encourage site visitors to purchase a membership plan. Here’s how:
So give paid membership a try - add it to any site, and show your clients how they can enjoy a recurring revenue stream, and how they can make their customers stick around for much longer.

A quick note on setting the entire site as members-only
If you want to, you can make all pages of a certain site members-only -
here’s more info about it. Just keep in mind that if you do this, the first thing people will see when they land on the homepage will be a login screen. You can customize its design and add text to explain why this is the page they’re seeing.