Own Your Membership Site. We’ll Help You Run It.
Start free and run Paid Memberships Pro yourself. Or choose PMPro Max, and the team that builds PMPro will host, secure, and help customize your site for $99 a month. Either way, the platform is yours.
Used by over 90,000 online businesses.
A membership site that looks like your brand, with members, content, and payments built in.
Running a Membership Site Shouldn’t Mean Running a Pile of Bills.
It starts with one plugin. Then you add one for email, one for backups, one for security, a host, and a CDN, each with its own login, bill, and renewal date. Then an update breaks something, your members can’t log in, and every company you call blames a different one.
That’s the part nobody puts in their marketing, and it’s the part our customers are most relieved to leave behind.
- Web host
- Backup plugin
- Security plugin
- Caching plugin
- Image optimizer
- Email delivery service
- Membership plugin license
- A developer, when it breaks
More Than a Plugin. Your Whole Membership Platform.
With PMPro Max, one team handles the software, hosting, security, backups, and email behind your membership site, plus the development help to make changes. You get one bill and a team that owns the outcome. Need a tool we don’t include? Add it, and we’ll help you connect it.
Managed hosting on your own server, tuned for logged-in members, checkout, and gated content.
Security, SSL & daily backups with Cloudflare protection and malware cleanup included.
Transactional email for receipts, renewal reminders, and password resets. Up to 250 a day included.
Do It For Me development with 25 Max Credits every month, about $250 of work, for fixes, setup, and custom code.
Human support from the people who build PMPro, including help sorting out conflicts with your other plugins.
Yours to own with 100% open source code, full SSH access, and no lock-in. Take it with you anytime.
Two Ways to Run Paid Memberships Pro.
It’s the same software either way. Pick the one that fits how you want to spend your time. You can switch later without rebuilding your site.
Run it yourself
Free or Standard
$0 or $49/month
- Install PMPro on the WordPress host you already use
- Free: the complete core plugin, free Add Ons, and every included payment gateway
- Standard: all premium Add Ons plus technical support for one site
- You handle hosting, backups, security, and updates
Best if you like being hands-on and already have a host you trust.
Compare Free and StandardLet us run it
PMPro Max
$149 $99/month or $999/year
- Your own server, set up, monitored, and maintained for you
- Everything in Standard, for unlimited sites on your server
- 25 Max Credits every month for Do It For Me development, plus 100 to get you started
- Free migration to your Max server, plus help moving from other membership platforms
- Security, daily backups, CDN, and transactional email handled
Best if you’d rather spend your time on your members than on your server.
Get PMPro MaxEvery paid plan comes with a 100-day money-back guarantee (see refund terms). Not sure which fits? Talk to our team.
Built for Your Unique Membership Site.
PMPro supports any kind of member-focused business. Since launching in 2011, we’ve spent 15 years helping creators, associations, and publishers build sites that fit exactly what they do. Pick the one that sounds like you to see how other sites like yours are built.
Charge for Exactly What You Make.
Free or paid, one-time or recurring, with trials or payment plans. You decide what’s members-only and what each level costs.
What members pay for
- Read articlesTeasers for visitors, full posts for members
- Take coursesWith PMPro Courses, LearnDash, LifterLMS, and more
- Attend eventsWith The Events Calendar or Events Manager
- Download filesBuilt in, or with Download Monitor
- Watch videosMembers-only lessons, replays, and classes
- Get coachingCoaching packages or ongoing access to you
Some formats use a free integration Add On or another plugin, like an LMS or events calendar.
How they pay
Works With the Tools You Already Use.
“Does it work with ___?” is usually the first question people ask. For PMPro, the answer is almost always yes. Connect the plugins, page builders, and services you already use, or start with the default options we include. They’re the tools we’d pick ourselves, not placeholders, and you can switch anytime.
You Don’t Have to Be a Developer, and You Won’t Be on Your Own.
With Max, our team builds things for you using your monthly credits. On any paid plan, we’ll walk you through doing it yourself. What we won’t do is run your business for you or leave you guessing about how your own site works.
You own it, so you should understand it.
We build it
Send a Do It For Me request. We quote it in credits before we start, and you never pay more than the quote.
We show you how
Real answers from the people who build PMPro, usually within one business day.
You learn as you go
Docs, courses, a community, and live office hours where you bring a question and we work through it together.
Moving Your Site Is Faster Than You Think.
Most people expect a site move to take weeks and eat their evenings. It rarely does. Some migrations take 15 minutes. A large archive with years of media can take a few days. We set the pace to fit your site, and your current site stays live the whole time.
Websites come in all sizes and levels of complexity, and moving them is what we do. With PMPro Max, migration is part of your plan, and it almost always goes faster and smoother than people expect.
Most technical moves: 1–2 business days
Your members keep using it while we work.
Tell us about your site
YouFill out a short onboarding form. We’ll call if we need to.
We move it, you preview it
We copy everything to your Max server and send you a preview link.
You approve, we switch it over
YouWe schedule the switch with you and point your domain when you’re ready.
Same site, on your own server, with one team to call.
We’ll explain any limits on moving subscriptions or content before work begins.
“The team handled everything, from moving 27,000 media files to rebuilding DNS by hand so my email never skipped a beat. Zero data loss, zero downtime, and pages that now load in under 200 milliseconds.”
Chuck EngelsCarpentersville Memories“My organization’s professional website designer and Administrator retired, leaving me … as the person in charge. The decision to move to PMPro Max proved to be an excellent choice.”
Recommended by People Who Run Sites Like Yours.
I highly recommend it!
“After trying a bunch of different solutions for my online course membership, it became pretty obvious that Paid Memberships Pro was the best choice.”
Joe CasabonaPodcast Coach and EducatorDependable, flexible, and backed by people who understand the stakes.
“PMPro gives us a solid foundation, and the Max team gives us the technical partnership and confidence to keep improving critical systems without disrupting the organization we serve.”
The tool just works.
“But honestly, the biggest game changer for us has been their Do It For Me service. … Their team helped us take what I had in my head and actually make it work.”
Michael MateraCEO, Emc2 LearningPaid Memberships Pro is recommended by our customers and users
A Complete Membership Platform
Create unlimited free or paid membership levels with endlessly flexible subscription pricing.
The most popular Payment Gateways all included (for free), including Stripe and PayPal.
Protect 28 different types of website content with flexible restriction options.
Customizable member dashboards, user profiles, registration forms, and extensive admin reporting.
Nearly 80 free and premium Add On plugins to help you extend and customize your membership site.
100% GPL, open source, and integrated with hundreds of third party platforms.
Ready to Build a Membership Site You Actually Own?
Start free and run it yourself, or let our team set up and run it with PMPro Max. Every paid plan is backed by a 100-day money-back guarantee.