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How Bookstores Are Making $1000s/Month In Revenue Through Member Support
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Allow customers to become monthly supporting members of your bookstore

Free to install.  Pay $100/month plus 10% of membership revenue

Are you an ABA member? Message us for a discount.

Withfriends helps you earn reliable recurring revenue for your bookstore by making it easy to sell and manage memberships

Delight members with exclusive perks like monthly book deliveries, special discounts, and member events - all without adding work for your staff

Design your memberships automatically.

Not sure about the best memberships for your bookstore? We'll get you through the writer's block. Connect your store, and we'll generate membership tiers for maximum conversion, based on your data. We import your customers and orders, analyze your data, and create tiers custom-made to ensure you build sustaining revenue. You can customize them from there.

Read more about how we design your memberships.

Bookstore Design

Treat members to a book club every month or on a flexible schedule.

Send books and merch to your members, delivered right to their door or available for easy in-store pickup. Customize options like genre preferences and t-shirt sizes. We'll automatically generate orders on your schedule, with easy export to Shopify, Shippo, ShipStation, Bookshop,or any platform you use for fulfillment.

Subscription Boxes

Insights from Withfriends

Case Study: How a band's merch store hit $100,000 recurring revenue in three months.

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Insights: How Withfriends memberships reduce subscription box churn.

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Philosophy: How to convey a purpose that inspires growth.

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Effortless member discounts

Reward your loyal members with exclusive discounts, both online and in-store. With seamless integration with popular platforms like Shopify, Square, and many others, members can enjoy automatic discounts during online checkout – no codes needed. For in-store purchases, our intuitive integration with your POS system makes it a breeze. Members simply show their digital member badge on their phone, and your staff can apply the discount with a single tap.

Read our insights on how member discounts reduce churn.

Give members special treatment at your events

Automatically offer your members exclusive benefits at your events, such as discounts, free attendance, guest passes, or early access—just turn on the features and you're set. If you’re not already organizing events, we make it easy to create, promote, and manage member gatherings. These events are a fantastic way to strengthen your community and grow your membership. Our member events pages are designed to be shareable publicly and can sell memberships automatically during the RSVP process.

Grow your memberships automatically

Focus on what you do best – running your bookstore – while we handle membership growth. Our platform seamlessly integrates with your online store to offer one-click membership upsells, automatically applying member discounts during checkout or following up with enticing email and text message offers. For in-store shoppers, we integrate with your POS system and provide eye-catching posters with QR codes that offer exclusive deals for joining your membership program. Based on our data, an average of one in fifteen customers convert to members, potentially boosting your monthly revenue by as much as 60%.

Elevate the member experience with add-ons

Give your members the power to personalize their shipments with add-ons. Want to offer international delivery? Easy. Want to add extra books or premium merchandise like long-sleeve shirts? Done. Members receive a friendly reminder email before each shipment, showcasing available add-ons and allowing them to customize their box with just a click.

Advanced membership management for your bookstore

Complex membership program? No problem. With our advanced features, you can effortlessly manage multiple membership tiers and products. Our platform supports membership drives (similar to Kickstarter but for recurring payments), proration settings, annual discounts, and the ability to set commitment periods that do or don't renew, restricting members cancellations during those periods. Members can gift entire memberships or individual shipments, skip shipments, or pause their membership. You can also delay shipments for a certain number of months. Use Withfriends to design the membership program you've been dreaming of for your business! We'll take the pain out of running it.

Read about how you can craft a sustainable membership program.

Use our comprehensive member management software.

Use our member management dashboard to ship subscription boxes, send thank you notes, and engage with your community. Sync seamlessly with your CRM to keep everything in one place.

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Our Pricing & Features

Member Management Software

Management dashboard
Member import/export
Member messaging by tier
Create and manage subscription boxes
Member events and ticketing
Receive and auto-post member testimonials
Integrations with Mailchimp, Shopify, Square, Squarespace, Eventbrite, and more.
Manage your existing members on Withfriends for free.

Receive One-Time Contributions

Hosted business profile
Kickstarter-like drives for one-time donations
Simple button for one-time payments
Upsell during checkout
We charge 5% of one-time contributions.
The payment processor charges $0.30 + 2.9% per transaction.

Memberships and recurring membership payments

Instant website checkout
Upsell and integration with your online store or point-of-sale
Automated member perks like curated book-of-the-month clubs, exclusive member events, in-store discounts, online discounts, adn welcome swag kits
Subscription box fulfillment dashboard
Gift memberships
Automatic member lapse recovery
Membership drives
We charge $100/month plus 10% of recurring payments for memberships.
The payment processor charges $0.30 + 2.9% per transaction.
Are you an ABA member? Message us for a discount.

If your bookstore gets 450 customers per month...

You'll make $38,880 in memberships this year on Withfriends!

Automations and integrated services let you focus on your business, while our memberships software grows your memberships.

15 minutes to setup
Point of sale upsell
Online order upsell
Ticketing upsell
Automated shipments
Automated member discounts

Our memberships software integrates with multiple platforms, however else you reach your customers.

Eventbrite integration
Shopify integration
Square integration
Squarespace integration
Toast integration
ChowNow integration

...and more, just ask!

Stories from Withfriends businesses

“Thanks to having such a stable membership program we're able to think and dream big about what the future of the space looks like, and we appreciate all that you've done to help us build a new, accessible, and abundant future.”
Maddy Durante, Fundraising Coordinator
Bluestockings, bookstore, New York
“Our record shop and all-ages event space Sweat Records has been serving Miami's music communities for over 15 years and we only wish we'd launched our Withfriends page sooner. We're still growing and greatly appreciate that [this] platform is adaptable and customizable. The record biz is very particular, but we were able to come up with tiers that made sense for us and our audience.”
Lolo Reskin, Owner & Co-founder
Sweat Records, record store, Miami
“Love Withfriends! I co founded a local DIY art space in Chinatown called Tea Base and we wouldn't be possible without the infrastructure that Withfriends provides. We have over 160 member and are able to sustainable run and operate a space for our community to gather <3”
Hannia Cheng, Co-founder
Tea Base, tea shop + community center, Toronto
“Spectacle Theater has had nothing but good things come out of our participation with Withfriends - more people know about the space and we have more new members than ever.”
Erin Lemkey, Programmer
Spectacle Theater, independent movie theater, New York
“Withfriends has played an indispensable role for us in fostering a healthy community of supporters as well as sustaining an independent multi-room venue.”
Sean Clements, Ticketing Manager
Elsewhere, music venue, New York
“Thank you again, for the work you are doing. Not only with the platform, but through direct messages and consultations, it’s really been revolutionary and game-changing.”
Najwa Al-Aswad, Co-founder
3rdWavvE, monthly QTIPOC dance party, Boston
“Withfriends makes it easy both to discover local businesses, and to develop and support your community all in one place. It's a wonderful platform for cities like NYC. As a member of multiple organizations -- I like the idea that I can see all my membership benefits in one place.”
Kengo Ikeda-Iyeki, Member
Withfriends, New York

Let your community help support your bookstore.

Have questions?

Get in touch with us via the chat bubble in the bottom-right, or at (646) 846-6126.