Membership tier is a label that records whether an account holds Founder's Club, Early Adopter or regular status, with a member number shown beside the tier name. The tier changes Pro and Business prices on the plans page and appears as a badge on the Billing page. Plan limits come from Free, Pro or Business status, not from the tier.
An AliasFleet account is required. The tier and the badge appear only after sign-in, on the Billing page and the plans page in the app dashboard. The plans page fetches the tier from the billing service when it loads, and the Billing page reads the tier from the subscription data.
What are the membership tiers?#
Three tiers exist in the app: founder, early adopter and regular. The tier is stored with the account and fetched from the billing service with a GET request to /api/membership-info when the plans page loads. The Billing page reads the tier from the subscription data instead. The table below lists each tier, where it appears, and the price it receives on the plans page.
| Tier | Where it appears | Pro price | Business price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Founder's Club | Badge on the Billing page, and a pricing label on the plans page | $7 per month, instead of $12 | $17 per month, instead of $29 |
| Early Adopter | Pricing label on the plans page | $8.40 per month, instead of $12 | $20.30 per month, instead of $29 |
| Regular | No badge and no pricing label | $12 per month | $29 per month |
The founder badge on the Billing page reads "Founder's Club #N", where N is the member number. The founder discount is 41 percent off the standard price, and the early adopter discount is 30 percent off. The Free plan has no price, so no tier discount applies to it.
How do I check my membership tier?#
- Sign in to the app dashboard.
- Open Billing. The overview card at the top shows the current plan. A founder account also shows a "Founder's Club #N" badge in the sub-bar below the plan details, beside the billing email.
- Open the plans page if no badge appears. From Billing, select Change Plan to open the plans page. The price label under Pro or Business reads "Founder's Club pricing" for the founder tier or "Early Adopter pricing" for the early adopter tier. A standard label means the account is on the regular tier.
- Compare the price with the table above. The plans page price is the figure that applies at checkout. Where a figure differs from the table, the plans page figure for the account takes precedence, because pricing data can change after this guide was last updated.
What does the tier control?#
The tier sets price only. The founder tier pays $7 per month for Pro and $17 per month for Business. The early adopter tier pays $8.40 per month for Pro and $20.30 per month for Business. Standard prices are $12 and $29. The app pricing code applies the discount by tier when the plans page loads.
Limits and features come from the plan, not the tier. Active alias counts, custom domain counts, verified destination counts and bandwidth limits are set by the plan itself. A founder account on the Free plan has the same Free limits as any other Free account, and a regular account on Pro has the same Pro limits as a founder account on Pro. For the limits each plan includes, see Your Plan and Usage Limits.
What does the member number mean?#
The member number is stored with the account and shown after the tier name on the badge only, for example "Founder's Club #42". The pricing label on the plans page shows the tier name without a number. The app code this guide was checked against records the number without stating how it is assigned or what order it follows, so this guide states no further meaning for the number. The number does not change the price, the plan limits or the features on the account.
Troubleshooting#
Why is there no badge on my Billing page?#
The Billing overview card renders a badge only for the founder tier. Regular accounts receive no badge. The early adopter tier appears through the pricing label on the plans page rather than a badge on the Billing card. Open the plans page and read the price label under Pro or Business to confirm the tier.
Why is the price at checkout the standard price?#
Discounted prices apply only to the founder and early adopter tiers. A regular tier account pays the standard price: $12 per month for Pro and $29 per month for Business. Check the price label on the plans page. If the label reads "Founder's Club pricing" or "Early Adopter pricing" but checkout still shows the standard price, reload the plans page before retrying. The tier is read from the billing service when the page loads.
Why does the tier look wrong after a plan change?#
A plan change does not change the tier. Plan and tier are separate: the plan sets limits and features, and the tier sets the price. Reload the Billing page and the plans page. The plans page fetches the tier from the billing service when it loads, and the Billing page reads the tier from the subscription data. If the tier still looks wrong after reloading, contact support from the app dashboard.
Related reading#
Your Plan and Usage Limits sets out the alias, domain, destination and bandwidth limits for Free, Pro and Business, and explains how to check current usage on the Billing page. Upgrading to Pro covers the plan change flow, including what changes immediately and what stays the same.
How email aliases actually work explains the forwarding mechanism behind the alias counts that the plan limits govern, and why one alias per site limits the effect of a leak.