# Limit access by tag instead of tiers?

**URL:** <https://forum.ghost.org/t/limit-access-by-tag-instead-of-tiers/30482>\
**Category:** Using Ghost\
**Created:** [May 30, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/limit-access-by-tag-instead-of-tiers/30482 "2022-05-30T20:53:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![BruceInLouisville](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/bruceinlouisville/32/40997_2.png) [@BruceInLouisville](https://forum.ghost.org/u/BruceInLouisville)\
**Post date:** [May 30, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/limit-access-by-tag-instead-of-tiers/30482/1 "2022-05-30T20:53:09Z")

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Is there a way to limit access to pages by tag rather than by tier?

I’m working on a membership model where each tier chooses the benefits they want from a list. I think it would be really attractive to potential members – but I can’t figure out how to limit access to the various benefit pages/posts.

Thoughts?

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**Author:** ![satonotdead](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/satonotdead/32/33666_2.png) [@satonotdead](https://forum.ghost.org/u/satonotdead)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/limit-access-by-tag-instead-of-tiers/30482/2 "2023-07-23T20:24:35Z")

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There is no workaround or solution here?

We are looking for the same, could be a great feature to have and be used in conjunction with ‘X post to unlock’ that we can already implement from custom themes.

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**Author:** ![Cathy\_Sarisky](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/cathy_sarisky/32/25750_2.png) [@Cathy\_Sarisky](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Cathy_Sarisky)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/limit-access-by-tag-instead-of-tiers/30482/3 "2023-07-23T21:21:08Z")

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There are no tags for members. I don’t see in the @member object that the ‘label’ variable is available to handlebars, which might have been a workaround. I also don’t see a way to access the member’s newsletter subscriptions in handlebars, which might have been another options.

Here’s a first thought workaround, which I’m making up as I type this. Haven’t built it, but it should be doable for a small number of benefits (like 5-8 max).

- Generate (software, not human!) a bunch of tiers, corresponding to each possible combination of benefits. (Because there will be 2^n of these, you absolutely need to hold the total benefits to no more than 10, because that’s ~1000 tiers.) Members never see these - they’re marked as not taking sign-ups.
- Create a form that lets users choose their benefits. When that form submits, it calls a cloud function that moves the user into their ‘real’ tier.
- When you publish a post, you add internal tags indicating which benefit(s) that post corresponds to.
- Create a cloud function that catches the webhook from Ghost when that post is published and automatically marks the newly published post as being for the appropriate tiers.

Edit: …but really, there’d be better options if handlebars would expose the newsletters and labels on a member.