diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.hbs
index 38e7aca033..15f89c3473 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.hbs
@@ -109,9 +109,11 @@
                 <div class="gh-cp-memberproduct-noproduct">
                     <div class="mb2">This member doesn't have subscriptions.</div>
                     {{#unless this.member.isNew}}
-                    <button type="button" class="gh-btn gh-btn-text green gh-btn-icon gh-btn-addproduct" {{action (toggle "showMemberProductModal" this)}}>
-                        <span>{{svg-jar "add"}} Add complimentary subscription</span>
-                    </button>
+                        {{#if this.isAddComplimentaryAllowed}}
+                            <button type="button" class="gh-btn gh-btn-text green gh-btn-icon gh-btn-addproduct" {{action "addCompedSubscription"}}>
+                                <span>{{svg-jar "add"}} Add complimentary subscription</span>
+                            </button>
+                        {{/if}}
                     {{/unless}}
                 </div>
             </div>
@@ -121,7 +123,7 @@
                 <div class="gh-main-section-content bordered">
                     <div class="gh-cp-memberproduct {{if (not (eq product.subscriptions.length 1)) "multiple-subs" ""}}">
                         <h3 class="gh-memberproduct-name">
-                            {{product.name}} 
+                            {{product.name}}
                             {{#unless (eq product.subscriptions.length 1)}}
                             <span class="gh-memberproduct-subcount">{{product.subscriptions.length}} subscriptions</span>
                             {{/unless}}
@@ -177,12 +179,13 @@
                             </span>
                         </div>
                         {{/each}}
-
-                        <div class="gh-memberproduct-list-footer">
-                        <button type="button" class="gh-btn gh-btn-text green gh-btn-icon gh-btn-addproduct" {{action (toggle "showMemberProductModal" this)}}>
-                            <span>{{svg-jar "add"}} Add complimentary subscription</span>
-                        </button>
-                        </div>
+                        {{#if this.isAddComplimentaryAllowed}}
+                            <div class="gh-memberproduct-list-footer">
+                                <button type="button" class="gh-btn gh-btn-text green gh-btn-icon gh-btn-addproduct" {{action "addCompedSubscription"}}>
+                                    <span>{{svg-jar "add"}} Add complimentary subscription</span>
+                                </button>
+                            </div>
+                        {{/if}}
                     </div>
                 </div>
             {{/each}}
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.js b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.js
index c518e3fd37..50280dae14 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/components/gh-member-settings-form-cp.js
@@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ export default class extends Component {
         return !this.member.get('isNew') && this.membersUtils.isStripeEnabled;
     }
 
+    get isAddComplimentaryAllowed() {
+        let subscriptions = this.member.get('subscriptions') || [];
+        const hasZeroPriceSub = subscriptions.find((sub) => {
+            return !sub?.price?.amount;
+        });
+        return !hasZeroPriceSub;
+    }
+
     get products() {
         let products = this.member.get('products') || [];
         let subscriptions = this.member.get('subscriptions') || [];
@@ -95,6 +103,11 @@ export default class extends Component {
     continueSubscription(subscriptionId) {
         this.continueSubscriptionTask.perform(subscriptionId);
     }
+    @action
+    addCompedSubscription() {
+        this.args.setProperty('comped', true);
+        this.args.saveMember();
+    }
 
     @task({drop: true})
     *cancelSubscriptionTask(subscriptionId) {
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/member.js b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/member.js
index 4f9b40dcef..e7813f53b0 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/controllers/member.js
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/controllers/member.js
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ export default class MemberController extends Controller {
     _saveMemberProperty(propKey, newValue) {
         let currentValue = this.member.get(propKey);
 
-        if (newValue) {
+        if (newValue && typeof newValue === 'string') {
             newValue = newValue.trim();
         }
 
diff --git a/ghost/admin/app/templates/member.hbs b/ghost/admin/app/templates/member.hbs
index 1d4ed3d0b7..fdfe6793ae 100644
--- a/ghost/admin/app/templates/member.hbs
+++ b/ghost/admin/app/templates/member.hbs
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
                 @member={{this.member}}
                 @scratchMember={{this.scratchMember}}
                 @setProperty={{this.setProperty}}
+                @saveMember={{this.save}}
                 @isLoading={{this.isLoading}} />
         </form>