Membership.io

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Membership.io (formerly Searchie) is the all-in-one platform for creators, coaches, consultants, and educators who want to build and scale a branded membership site. It combines content delivery, community, AI-powered search, courses, and integrated payments in one hub. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can manage members, grant and revoke hub access, tag and organize content, track audience activity, and automate the entire member lifecycle — all without opening the Membership.io dashboard.

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Average time saved

10 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of adding members, tagging content, granting hub access, and pulling weekly engagement reports that membership site operators handle by hand every day.

Schedule

What your Membership.io agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Tue–Thu

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Multi-app workflows

Membership.io × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

5Apps spanned

~15 hrsSaved / week

6Personas served

For sales

Featured4 apps

New member onboarded and welcomed at purchase

When Stripe confirms a new subscription, the agent creates or retrieves the audience record in Membership.io, grants hub access, applies the tier tag, logs the new member in HubSpot, and posts a welcome announcement to Slack — all within about a minute of purchase. The member logs in to find their hub ready and personalised from the first click.

~6 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When a new subscription payment is confirmed in Stripe

Trigger

Step 1

Stripe

Detect new subscription payment

read

Step 2

Membership.io

Find or Add Audience for the new subscriber

write

Step 3

Membership.io

Add Hub Access to the members-only hub

write

Step 4

Membership.io

Add Audience Tag for the purchased membership tier

write

Step 5

HubSpot

Create contact and log membership details in CRM

write

Step 6

Slack

Post new-member announcement to #members channel

Result

Add Hub Access to the members-only hubAdd Audience Tag for the purchased membership tierCreate contact and log membership details in CRMPost new-member announcement to #members channel

The win

Saved per run

12 min

Runs / week

~30×

Zero manual onboarding steps for every new member

Driven bySales Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
20 min / week
Manual member onboarding after purchase
After a payment is confirmed, a team member manually creates the audience record in Membership.io, grants the hub access, and sends the welcome email — a process that can take hours during busy periods.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent grants access within about a minute of purchase
When Stripe confirms a new subscription, the agent creates the audience record, grants hub access, and tags the member by tier — the new member is inside the hub before they open their welcome email.
Marketing
90 min / week
Manual weekly content newsletter assembly
The marketing team manually reviews new uploads, selects content for the digest, writes the email copy, and schedules the send in the email platform — a 90-minute task every Monday morning.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent compiles and queues the weekly content digest
Every Monday the agent adds new files to the curated playlist and drafts the member digest email in Brevo — the newsletter is ready for review before the marketing team starts the week.
Customer Support
25 min / week
Manual access revocation on cancellation
Support staff check the cancellation queue periodically, look up each cancelled member in Membership.io, and manually remove hub access — a process prone to delays and human error.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent revokes hub access within about a minute of cancellation
When a cancellation is detected, the agent removes hub access and applies the churned tag before the member's next login — no support ticket needed, no manual dashboard visit.
Human Resources
15 min / week
Manual training hub setup for new hires
HR manually creates the employee's Membership.io account, configures hub access, and emails login credentials — typically done on the first day, leaving new starters without a ready environment.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent provisions training hub before the employee's start date
When a new hire is added to the HRIS, the agent creates their Membership.io profile, grants training hub access, and applies the department tag so the right playlist appears on first login — all done days before they arrive.
Finance
20 min / week
Manual payment failure follow-up
Finance staff periodically check Stripe for failed payments, manually suspend access in Membership.io, and send dunning emails one by one — a process that can lag by days during busy periods.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent suspends access on payment failure and starts recovery
When a third payment attempt fails, the agent suspends hub access, tags the member for dunning, and creates a recovery task in HubSpot — the entire sequence starts within about a minute of the Stripe event.
Operations
60 min / week
Manual content library tagging
Operations staff review each new upload, decide on appropriate tags, and update the file record manually — a task that accumulates across the week into a significant Friday backlog.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent tags every new file automatically on upload
When a file is added to the Membership.io library, the agent applies topic, tier, and format tags based on the file's metadata — the AI search is accurate from the moment the file is live.
Legal
10 min / week
Manual GDPR erasure across platforms
Legal staff manually locate the member in Membership.io, remove hub access, delete the record, and update the compliance register — a multi-step process across three tools for each request.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent processes GDPR deletions with a full audit trail
When a GDPR erasure request is approved, the agent removes hub access, deletes the audience record, and logs the action with the regulation citation and approver — the full deletion is documented in minutes.

+ 100s of other Membership.io automations

Average time saved

24 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

5 people

Hourly rate

$75 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

625

Annual ROI

$46,875

Based on Membership.io's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Membership.io into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The recommended path. Actionist opens a Membership.io OAuth window — authorise the connection and the agent gains full access to your audiences, content library, playlists, hubs, and achievements.

Open the Apps tab

Find Membership.io in the Apps library and click Connect. OAuth is the recommended path.

Authorise in Membership.io

A Membership.io OAuth window opens — sign in with your account credentials and grant Actionist permission to manage your audiences, content, and hubs.

Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only test call to confirm the handshake. You are ready to automate.

Actions

18 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about Membership.io + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Membership.io?

Go to the Apps tab, find Membership.io, and click Connect. The recommended path is OAuth — Actionist opens a Membership.io authorisation window, you sign in and grant the requested permissions, and the agent gains access to your audiences, hubs, content library, and playlists. Actionist runs a read-only test call to confirm the handshake before any actions run. No API keys or developer setup are required.

What permissions does the agent need in my Membership.io account?

For read operations — Find Audience, Find or Add Audience — the agent needs read access to your audience data. For write operations — Add Hub Access, Remove Hub Access, Add Audience Tag, Add Achievement, Add File — it needs write access to audiences, hubs, content, and playlists. The OAuth flow requests the necessary scopes together in a single authorisation step. You can review and revoke the connection at any time from your Membership.io account settings.

Can Actionist connect Membership.io to other apps in the same workflow?

Yes — Membership.io is most powerful when paired with the apps where member data originates. Common combinations: grant hub access when a payment is confirmed in Stripe; create a CRM contact in HubSpot when a new audience member appears; tag members in Membership.io when they complete a form in Typeform; revoke access when a subscription cancels in Chargebee. Any of Actionist's 200+ connected apps can send data to or receive data from Membership.io in the same agent task.

How quickly does the agent react to Membership.io trigger events?

Triggers like New Audience, New Audience Activity, New Audience Tag, and Hub Onboarding Completed fire within about a minute of the event occurring in Membership.io. This means access grants, CRM syncs, achievement awards, and email sequences kick off almost immediately without polling or manual checks — though exact timing depends on the Membership.io webhook delivery and your plan-gated cloud runtime settings.

What are the most common things agents do with Membership.io?

The four patterns that come up most often: (1) member lifecycle automation — granting hub access on purchase and revoking it on cancellation or payment failure, all within about a minute; (2) content tagging — applying topic, tier, and format tags to every new file so the AI search stays accurate; (3) achievement recognition — awarding completion badges when members finish a course or hit a milestone, without instructor involvement; (4) audience segmentation — adding and removing tags as members upgrade, downgrade, complete courses, or go inactive so every email sequence targets the right people.

Does Actionist support Membership.io's hub access model for multiple membership tiers?

Yes. Add Hub Access and Remove Hub Access take a specific hub identifier, so you can grant a member access to exactly the hubs their tier entitles them to — and revoke only the hubs they no longer qualify for when they downgrade. Combined with Add Audience Tag and Remove Audience Tag, the agent can mirror your entire tier structure: a member upgrading from Starter to Pro gets Pro hub access and the 'pro-member' tag simultaneously, in a single agent task.

Can the agent process GDPR data-deletion requests for Membership.io?

Yes. The Delete Audience action permanently removes an audience member's record from Membership.io. In a GDPR erasure workflow, you would first call Remove Hub Access to revoke entry, then Delete Audience to erase the record. The agent can also document each deletion step — with a timestamp, the regulation citation, and the approving team member — in a compliance log in Notion or Google Sheets as part of the same task.

How do I avoid accidentally granting hub access to members who have not paid?

Use Find Audience before calling Add Hub Access to verify the member's record exists and their payment status is current. In Actionist, you can build a condition check into the agent task: if the audience record has a 'payment-failed' or 'trial-expired' tag, the task halts before granting access. For the most reliable gating, pair the Membership.io actions with a Stripe subscription-status check earlier in the same task so access is only granted when both systems confirm the member is paid.