An important aspect of setting up Member Management for your Higher Logic Thrive Community (Thrive Community) is configuring the payment provider. Having a payment provider simplifies the membership-payment process for you and your users.

IMPORTANT: Currently, the only available payment provider is Stripe. To configure Stripe as your payment provider, you must have a Stripe account.

This article steps through how to set up a payment provider that will process your users' Individual Membership and Group Membership purchases.

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Access the Membership Payment page

1. In the Admin Toolbar, click Admin.

2. Navigate to Membership > Membership Payment.

The Payment Services Setup page has several sections in which you set up and test the payment system for your community site.

Configure the payment provider

NOTE: Currently, the only available payment provider is Stripe; others might be added in the future.

1. Accept the default currency option, USD (U.S. dollars), or...
   click Edit to set a different currency as the default for payments.

• Note that all currency selections have a minimum-charge amount and any charges less than that minimum amount automatically update to being free/no charge.
• You can change the default currency (e.g., GBD to EUR) in future; the change affects only transactions that occur after the change is made - existing payments are not affected.

NOTE: Stripe will automatically detect a user's currency based on their location and/or card information.

2. Click Edit to open a dialog in which you select and configure the payment provider that will process your community site's membership payments. Currently, Stripe is the only option.

After you select a provider, the dialog expands and displays information about the payment process and an input field for the provider's API Secret.

• Review the information, input the API Secret, and click Save.

4. Submit a test payment from a credit card of your choosing to the Stripe account to verify that the setup is properly configured.

• Click Randomize Amount to generate a random amount to charge. The test payment will be between $1.00 and $2.00 for the default, USD, and for similar amounts for other currencies.
• Click Test to open the provider's checkout page in a new tab with the indicated payment amount. Specify the credit card details and follow the on-screen prompts to complete the test transaction.

NOTE: The test will charge the test amount to the credit card.

Related articles

• See Member Management - Membership Types to learn how to create and manage Membership Types in your community.
• Member Management - Discount Codes describes how your organization can offer membership discounts.
• To learn about the various aspects of membership renewal (reminder banners, email messages, and the Auto-Renewal feature), see Member Management - Membership Renewals.