Subscriptions

The Subscriptions section is where you manage everything related to your membership — your plan, credits, add-ons, and wallet.

How payment works on FundedYouth

The portal uses a FYBIT-credit-only payment model:

• Credit packs are the only thing you buy with real money. Purchased via Stripe Checkout — FundedYouth never sees or stores your card details on our servers. (For monthly credit-pack subscriptions, Stripe keeps your card on file in their PCI-compliant vault so they can charge the recurring monthly amount; you can cancel anytime.)
• Memberships are paid in FYBITS deducted from your wallet each billing cycle — never in dollars.
• Add-ons work the same way: monthly FYBIT deduction (or free if bundled with your plan).
• Sessions are paid in FYBITS too.

You’ll need a small FYBIT balance before you can activate a membership. Buy a credit pack first, then subscribe to a plan.

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Getting Access

Before you can see the Subscriptions menu, you need to sign the Portal Member Agreement — when signed with Membership access, it unlocks Subscriptions, Sessions, and Billing.

Portal Member Agreement

Account rules, the Student section, subscriptions, credits, sessions, and privacy — unlocks the menus enabled for your account.

Preview

This agreement explains:

• How the credit system works
• What happens when you cancel or don’t show up to a session
• That credits are not money — they can’t be traded, sold, or refunded for cash
• The rules for using your membership

Read the full Portal Member Agreement

Grade-Based Requirements

Grade	What You Need
Grade 8–12, Adult, or Other	Sign the agreement yourself. You are responsible for buying credit packs and managing your membership.
Grade K–7	Your parent or guardian signs on your behalf and manages all credit-pack purchases. They must be with you at all times at FundedYouth locations.

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How It All Connects

Before diving into each page, here’s how the Subscriptions section connects to the rest of the portal:

Section	What It Does	How It’s Paid
Subscriptions > Credit Packs	Buy credits to add to your wallet	Real money — one-time Stripe purchase or monthly subscription
Subscriptions > Plans	Activate a membership plan	Credits — deducted from your wallet each month
Subscriptions > Add-ons	Add monthly perks to your membership	Credits — deducted from your wallet each month, or free if bundled with your plan
Subscriptions > Wallet	See your credit balance and history	This is where your credits live
Sessions > Browse Events	Find and register for classes	Credits — deducted when you register
Student > My Courses	Enroll in courses (tracking only)	Free — enrolling never costs credits

Tip

Think of it like this: Credit Packs is the only place real money changes hands. Everything else (plans, add-ons, sessions) spends credits from your wallet.

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Plans

This is where you activate a membership plan. Memberships are paid in credits, not dollars — every month, the plan’s monthly cost is automatically deducted from your wallet.

Choosing a Plan

When you don’t have a membership yet, you’ll see all available plans:

Basic Membership

Become a Basic member and unlock the full FundedYouth experience. Gain access to Credit Packs, Session registration, Add-ons, and more — all powered by our FYBIT credit system.

10 credits / month /monthly

Subscribe

Each plan shows:

• Plan name and description
• Monthly cost in credits (e.g., 10 credits / month)
• What’s included — some plans come with bundled add-ons at no extra cost
• Subscribe button to activate

Some admins may also display a reference dollar value alongside the credit cost — this is shown only when the admin chooses to enable it. You are never charged in dollars to activate a plan.

How Activation Works

When you click Subscribe, a confirmation modal appears summarizing:

• The plan you’re activating
• The credit cost for the first month (deducted immediately from your wallet)
• Your wallet balance before and after the deduction
• An acknowledgment checkbox confirming you understand credits will be deducted now and again each month

After confirming, the credits are deducted from your wallet, your membership is activated, and any bundled add-ons included with the plan are turned on automatically — at no extra cost.

You need credits before you can subscribe

A membership requires at least one month’s worth of credits in your wallet to activate. If your balance is too low, the Subscribe button will tell you how many more credits you need. Buy a credit pack first (see below), then come back to activate the plan.

Note

You can only have one active membership at a time. If you want to switch plans, cancel your current one first.

Your Active Membership

Once subscribed, your plan page updates to show your current membership:

Current Membership

Your active membership plan

Active

Basic Membership

10 credits / month

Member Since Mar 18, 2026

Current Period Mar 18, 2026 – Apr 18, 2026

Next Billing Apr 18, 2026

Cancel Membership

Your membership card shows:

• Plan name and monthly credit cost
• Status badge — your current membership state (top-right corner)
• Member Since — when your membership began
• Current Period — the dates your current month covers
• Next Renewal — when the next monthly credit deduction will run
• Cancel Membership — link to cancel (see below)

Membership Status

Your membership can be in one of these states:

Active — Everything is working. Each month the plan’s credit cost is deducted from your wallet, you can spend credits, and you can register for sessions.

Frozen — Your membership is temporarily paused by an admin. Your credits are safe and the monthly credit deduction is paused until an admin unfreezes you.

Lapsed — A monthly renewal couldn’t deduct credits because your wallet balance was too low. Your wallet is frozen and you have a grace period (usually 90 days) to top up and reactivate before any remaining credits are removed.

Cancelled — Your membership has been permanently ended. Your wallet is frozen and any bundled add-ons are cancelled.

Cancelling Your Membership

You can cancel your membership at any time by clicking the Cancel button. Before cancelling, the portal will warn you:

Cancel your membership?

Your membership will remain active until the end of your current billing period. After that, your wallet will be frozen and any bundled add-ons and credit packs will be cancelled.

Keep Membership Cancel Membership

What happens when you cancel:

• Your membership stays active until the end of the current billing period
• After that, your wallet is frozen — you can’t spend credits
• Any add-ons and credit packs that came bundled with your plan are also cancelled
• You have a grace period (usually 90 days) to reactivate before your credits are permanently removed

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Credit Packs

Credit packs are the only thing on the portal that you buy with real money. You purchase a pack via Stripe Checkout, and the credits are added to your wallet. From there, those credits are what pay for your membership, add-ons, and session registrations.

Credit packs come in two flavors:

• One-Time Packs — Pay once, credits drop into your wallet immediately, no recurring charge.
• Monthly Packs — Subscribe to a recurring pack. Stripe charges your card on the same day each month and the credits are automatically added to your wallet on each successful payment. Cancel anytime.

We don’t store your card information — Stripe handles all payment processing. Card numbers, expiration dates, and CVCs go directly to Stripe (a PCI-compliant payment processor) and are never seen or stored on FundedYouth’s servers. For monthly subscriptions, Stripe keeps your card on file in their PCI-compliant vault so they can charge your renewal each month; you can cancel anytime from your portal.

All credit-pack purchases are final sale

Credits are not money. Once a pack is purchased (or a monthly renewal runs), the credits cannot be refunded, exchanged for cash, or transferred to another account. Cancelling a monthly subscription stops future charges, but credits already earned stay in your wallet. Be sure of what you’re buying before confirming.

Browsing Credit Packs

The page groups packs into One-Time Packs and Monthly Packs. Each card shows the pack name, a description, the dollar price, and how many credits you get:

20 FYBIT Credits

This is a non-refundable, final-sale purchase. Credits cannot be exchanged for cash or real currency.

$10.00 20 credits

Buy

Detail	What It Means
Pack name	The name of the pack
Description	Details about the purchase, including the final-sale notice
Price	The dollar amount you’ll pay through Stripe (per month for monthly packs)
Credits	How many FYBIT credits will be added to your wallet (shown in teal)
Button	Buy for one-time packs, Subscribe for monthly packs

Purchasing

Click Buy (one-time) or Subscribe (monthly) to open the Stripe Checkout page. Stripe is a trusted PCI-compliant payment processor — your card details go directly to Stripe and are never stored or seen by FundedYouth. Before checkout, the portal shows a confirmation modal with:

• The pack name, dollar price, and credit amount
• For monthly packs, a note that it’s a recurring monthly subscription billed on the same day each month until you cancel
• A reminder that credits are non-refundable
• A required acknowledgment checkbox

After payment:

• One-time pack: credits are added to your wallet immediately and the purchase is recorded in your audit log.
• Monthly pack: credits are added immediately, the subscription is set up in Stripe, and credits will be added again automatically each month on your billing date when the renewal payment succeeds.

Your payment information is safe

• We don’t store your card information — Stripe handles all payment processing. Card number, expiration date, and CVC are sent directly to Stripe’s PCI-compliant servers. Our database only stores an opaque Stripe customer ID, never any card data.
• For monthly subscriptions, Stripe keeps your card on file in their PCI-compliant vault. This is required to charge your renewal each month without you re-entering details. The card lives in Stripe’s vault — never on FundedYouth’s servers.
• One-time pack purchases don’t save your card. Each one-time purchase asks you to enter (or paste) your card details fresh through Stripe Checkout.
• You can cancel monthly subscriptions anytime from this page to stop future charges (see “My Credit Packs” below).
• Real money only changes hands here. Memberships, add-ons, and session registrations are paid in FYBITS from your wallet — no card involved.
• All connections are encrypted with TLS (HTTPS).

My Credit Packs

Below the available packs, you’ll see a table of every credit pack you’ve purchased or subscribed to:

PACK	CREDITS	TYPE	DATE	STATUS
Learner Pack	200	ONE-TIME	Mar 18, 2026	PURCHASED

Each row shows the pack name, the credit amount, the type (One-Time or Monthly), the start date, and a status:

• One-time packs show as Purchased with no further action.
• Monthly packs show as Active with a Cancel link in the Actions column.

Cancelling a Monthly Credit Pack

To stop a monthly credit-pack subscription, go to Portal → Subscriptions → Credit Packs → My Credit Packs and click Cancel on the row for the pack you want to end. A confirmation modal appears:

Cancel Subscription

Your subscription will end immediately and you won't be billed again. Credits already in your wallet stay yours and can be used while your membership is active.

Keep Subscription Cancel Subscription

What happens when you cancel:

• The subscription ends immediately — Stripe will not charge your card again.
• Credits already in your wallet stay yours (credits are non-refundable per the policy above).
• You can re-subscribe to the same or a different monthly pack anytime.

Updating your card on a monthly subscription

The portal does not yet expose Stripe’s Customer Portal for editing a saved card directly. For now, if you need to change the card on a monthly pack, cancel the current subscription and re-subscribe — Stripe Checkout will collect the new card. Adding self-serve card management is on the roadmap.

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Add-ons

Add-ons are extra monthly perks you can layer on top of your membership. They are paid the same way as your membership — a set number of credits is deducted from your wallet each month — and they require an active membership to subscribe.

Caution

Add-ons are recurring monthly credit deductions. They are not one-time purchases. If your wallet runs out of credits at renewal, the add-on lapses along with your membership.

Bundled Add-ons (Free with Your Plan)

Some membership plans include certain add-ons at no extra cost. When you activate the plan, those add-ons are turned on automatically and shown with a 🎁 Included badge instead of a credit cost. Bundled add-ons:

• Are never charged in credits — even at monthly renewal
• Cannot be cancelled while the parent membership is active (cancel the membership instead)
• Are automatically removed if you cancel the parent membership

How Add-ons Work

Each add-on has a redemption type that determines how the perk works:

Always Active — The perk is always “on” as long as you’re subscribed. No action needed — you just have it.

Once Per Month — The perk can be used one time per billing period. An admin at FundedYouth marks it as used when you redeem it in person.

My Add-ons

If you have active add-ons, they appear in a table at the top of the page:

ADD-ON	PRICE	TYPE	PERK	SINCE	STATUS
Monthly One Time Test	🎁 Included	MONTHLY	◷ Available	Mar 18, 2026	ACTIVE	Cancel

Each row shows:

Column	What It Shows
Add-on	The name of the add-on you subscribed to
Price	The monthly credit cost, or 🎁 Included if bundled with your membership
Type	MONTHLY — all add-ons are monthly
Perk	Your perk status for the current billing period
Since	When the add-on was activated
Status	ACTIVE or CANCELLED
Cancel	A Cancel link (hidden for bundled add-ons)

Perk Statuses

The Perk column tells you whether your perk is available to use this month:

Available — You can redeem your perk this billing period

Used — You’ve already redeemed it — it resets on your next billing date

Always Active — The perk is always on, no redemption needed

Available Add-ons

Below your active add-ons, you’ll see add-ons you can subscribe to separately:

$2 OFF PLA and PETG

$2.00 OFF PLA + PETG 3D Printer Filament

5 credits / month /mo

Subscribe

Each card shows the add-on name, description, monthly credit cost, and a Subscribe button. Like memberships, admins may optionally show a reference dollar value, but the add-on is always paid in credits.

Click Subscribe to open a confirmation modal showing:

• The add-on you’re activating
• The first month’s credit cost (deducted now)
• Your wallet balance before and after the deduction
• An acknowledgment checkbox

After confirming, credits are deducted and the add-on is active.

Perk Redemption History

At the bottom of the page, a table shows every time one of your perks was redeemed: the date, which add-on, which admin marked it, and any notes the admin added.

Note

If your membership is cancelled, your add-ons are cancelled too. Some add-ons are included free with certain membership plans — check your plan details before subscribing separately.

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Wallet

Your wallet is where all your credits live. Think of it like a bank account — credits go in when you buy them, and credits come out when you register for sessions.

Balance

At the top, you’ll see your current credit balance — a large number showing how many credits you have available to spend:

Available Credits

160

If your wallet is frozen, a blue banner appears below the balance:

Available Credits

160

Your wallet is frozen. Credits cannot be spent until your membership is reactivated.

Transaction History

Below your balance, you’ll see a list of every credit transaction — every time credits were added or removed from your wallet:

Session Booking

Registration for "Bambu Studio Basics (3DP2)"

-40

Mar 18, 2026

Pack Purchase

Purchased "Learner Pack | One Time" (200 credits)

+200

Mar 18, 2026

Each transaction shows:

Detail	What It Shows
Icon	A green upward arrow for credits added, or a red downward arrow for credits removed
Type	What kind of transaction (see below)
Description	Details about what happened — which session, pack, or action
Amount	Credits added (+200) or removed (-40)
Date	When it happened

Transaction Types

Pack Purchase — Credits added from a credit pack you bought

Membership Renewal — Monthly credit deduction for your active membership plan

Add-on Renewal — Monthly credit deduction for an active add-on (bundled add-ons are free and skipped)

Session Booking — Credits deducted when you registered for a session

No-Show Penalty — Credits taken away because you didn’t show up to a session

Adjustment — An admin manually added or removed credits

Discard — Credits removed because your membership was cancelled past the grace period

Refund — Credits returned because you cancelled a session registration

Important Things About Your Wallet

• Your balance can go below zero. If you get a no-show penalty and don’t have enough credits, your balance will drop into the negatives. You’ll need to buy more credits to bring it back up.
• Frozen wallets can’t spend. If your membership is frozen, lapsed, or cancelled, you can’t register for sessions — even if you have credits.
• Credits are not money. You can’t trade them for cash, give them to someone else, or use them outside of FundedYouth.
• Credits can expire. If your membership is cancelled and the grace period passes (usually 90 days), any remaining credits may be permanently removed.

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Bundled Benefits

Some membership plans come with bundled add-ons included at no extra cost. When you activate one of these plans:

• Bundled add-ons are automatically turned on — you don’t need to subscribe to them separately
• Bundled add-ons are never charged in credits, even at monthly renewal — they show 🎁 Included instead of a credit cost
• The Cancel link is hidden on bundled add-ons; if you cancel the parent membership, the bundled add-ons are cancelled with it

You can see what’s included in each plan on the Plans page before you activate it.

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Next Steps

• Learn about FYBIT Credits and how the credit system works
• Read the Portal Member Agreement
• Check out Volunteering to earn volunteer credits (separate from membership credits)