How To Manage Memberships And User Accounts

You can manage user accounts in Site Settings → Membership → Manage members.

There are two ways of adding members to your website: manually creating user profiles or enabling open registration.

To add a member manually, go to Tilda Members and click on Add New Member.

You need to provide information about the user to grant them access. You may create a name and a login, add the user to a group of members, generate or create a password.

After you have manually added them, the user can log in to their account from the members area's home page or group page. The link should look like this: yoursite.com/members/login.

A signup page is created automatically. You can enable it in the Members Area Settings.

You can find the link to the signup page on the main page of Tilda Members. The link should look like this: yoursite.com/members/signup.

To adjust the design for login and signup pages, go to the Members Area Settings by clicking the link in the left sidebar.

In Settings, click "Edit" under "Login & Signup Page Settings."

Let's have a look at the page design settings you can configure.

Form Style and Form Settings. You can select a centered form position or opt for a two-column layout, specify additional colors, and set up alignment and offsets.

If you select the two-column form display, additional parameters appear — a slider to adjust the width of the columns and options to specify the side of the screen where the form is located: On the right or on the left.

Upload Image. In this tab, you can upload a page background and form background images and apply a gradient to it. Also, a checkbox to display the background image as a pattern is available.

Typography. Flexible font settings for titles and text under the form.

Form Input Style. Set up colors for input titles, text, and placeholders, as well as the color for input background, icons, and border.

Buttons. Adjust the login button look by setting colors for text, background, and border. You can also modify its display on hover.

If you want to create a custom signup page or add users to the website only after they have sent you a message or payment, use a data capture tool specially designed for Tilda Members.

You can activate it in the Site Settings → Forms.

When setting up the "Members Area" data capture tool, you can select the group of members the new user should be added to after they complete the signup form. Select a form block from the "Form and Button" category, customize it, and select the data capture tool's checkbox in the Content panel of the block.

To enable paid registration, add a block with a shopping cart and assign a payment system in the Site Settings → Payment Systems. After assigning one, open its settings and select the "Send info to data collection services only after payment" checkbox. Members will be added to groups only after the payment has gone through.

Here's an example:

You are selling an online course and setting up a checkout page. Add a block with a shopping cart where the "Email" field is required. Connect the "Members Area" data capture tool to the shopping cart and specify the group the new member should be added to after they complete payment.

Go to the Site Settings → Payment Systems and select the "Send info to data collection services only after payment" checkbox in the settings of your preferred payment system.

Go to Tilda Members and specify the price of membership in the Group Settings—that would be yet another method of verifying the user's payment.

This is how it works:

• The user clicks "Buy" on the course page
• The shopping cart opens, and the user fills out the form with their data
• The user proceeds to the checkout page
• They make their payment
• Tilda receives a payment confirmation
• Tilda creates a user account and emails the login data to the user
• User logs in to their account and can start using study materials right away

The whole process is automated and does not involve human resources, although you can configure sending a personal payment confirmation if you want.

To sell access to different groups, you need to connect access to each group with a separate product in the Product Catalog.

To do this, go to the settings of a group and copy the group's public ID at the very bottom.

You need this ID to provide access to this group automatically when the product is purchased using the shopping cart.

Let's create a product that can be used to provide access. Once created, go to the product card and paste the group ID in the "Product external ID" field.

By doing this, you can connect several groups to different products so that buyers can purchase access just by adding relevant products to the shopping cart.

For everything to work, you need to go to the Site Settings → Forms → Other and add the Members Area data collection service.

In its settings, you need to select the "Receive group id from Product Catalog" option.

You need to select the checkbox for this receiver in the Content tab of the block with the shopping cart (ST100).

Once you have added products and configured how to sell them, separate access to the group you specified will be provided when buying each product. If you are not familiar with setting up the Product Catalog, please read the How To Add Products To an Online Store article.

You can divide members into separate groups. You can also create a list of specific pages they can access as well as an index page—a title page featuring all the materials.

People can sign up for a membership group from the group page.

Click on Create new group to create a new membership group.

Enter a group name and click on Create new group.

After creating one, you will be taken to the group's main page with the "Members" and "Pages" tabs. The "Members" page features the names of all the users who have been manually added by you and completed the signup form. You can remove them from the group or add them to a new one by changing their status in the spreadsheet.

The "Pages" tab features all pages of your website. You can grant access to either of them to the members of the group by changing the toggle switch's position.

To hide pages from everyone, create a new group with no members and provide access to those pages only to that group. Only those members will have access to those pages whom you have manually added to that group.

If you collect your group members' data, you can create online forms in the Members Area. In this case, two additional variables will be added to identify members: ma_name and ma_email. The is the name and email of a group member in the Members Area.

You can disable sending email data by adding a hidden field with not_use_ma_email variable name and the value of 1. Learn more about using hidden fields in online forms.

For each group, you can set a period of time during which members can access its content. After reaching the specified date, users will automatically be excluded from the group and will no longer be able to view its content.

If you set a time limit for access to a group, you can also adjust the access time of each user. To do this, open the group to which the user belongs, or search for the user in the All Members list.

If a user has been added to one group in the Members Area, they will see the group's index page that can be set up in the Group Settings → Start Page.

If a user has been added to several groups, you can create another Start Page that displays the list of available groups. You can modify this page additionally — adjust the background, and colors, as well as add some text, images, and videos.

To configure the Start Page, go to the Members Area Settings → Advanced tab → Start Page Settings.

You can configure texts above the container with the list of available groups, background images or colors, as well as configure the container's design and text typography.

Once you have configured the design settings, the user will see this Start Page with the list of groups and courses they can access in their Members Area.

The users of your Members Area receive automated email notifications on completing certain actions: Signing up (or being registered by the admin), group enrollment, restoring or changing the password to log in, and editing their email address. By default, automated email notifications are displayed in the website's language configured in your Site Settings.

If you want to modify automated email templates, go to the Members Area Settings.

Then go to the "Mail Settings" section and click the "Edit" button.

You will see the automated email templates and be able to modify them. By default, the language selected in Site Settings → More → Website language is used in the emails. If the language is not yet specified, you will first need to select it.

You can change the email subject and body text by using the variables displayed in the tip for each email type. They should be added without modifications, exactly as they appear in the template. For instance, if you paste the {{login}} variable, the Members Area login (user's email) will be automatically inserted in the email.

The variables allow you to automatically personalize emails for each user by adding their login and password. You can also insert a personal login page URL and the domain of the Members Area website in the email.

In the Members Area, you have the opportunity to protect content from possible copying. Separate settings are available for different content types: For text articles in courses, pages, and videos.

To protect the text from copying for pages, you need to add the T875 block to these pages. This block prohibits selecting text and right-clicking.

If you have videos or webinars on pages, we recommend using services that provide copy protection, such as Kinescope and Boomstream. You can insert these services to the page by adding the block with HTML code from the Other category or by adding HTML in Zero Block.

If you are building a course and adding lectures within the Members Area, you can use additional content protection settings within the course. Read more about content protection in courses in the article about how to create courses.