If your site does not charge for membership, use the code recipe and directions below to remove all mention of “cost” from the user experience.
If you’re new to website building, you may not be totally familiar with the login best practices. But, you are a person that uses the internet for all kinds of things. And as such, you may not even realize how well you’ve been trained on these best practice patterns.
Membership sites rely on optimized member login and logout functionality.
- Your members need to be able to log in to access their member benefits and account information.
- Likewise, your members need to be able to log out when using shared devices or to just close their site session.
In this post, we will cover the best practices for member login and logout links on your membership site. Learn how to enhance your login page’s appearance and a few other pro tips to improve member navigation.
You have a lot of platform options if you want to offer a membership program and build a community online.
With so many choices, starting out can be overwhelming. You want to build your membership on the best platform for your needs from the beginning.
Paid Memberships Pro is a popular membership platform that allows you to restrict content and manage member subscriptions with recurring payments. Patreon is a hosted platform for creators to offer digital shops and paid memberships for their fans.
We’re here to help you learn more about both. We’ll compare Paid Memberships Pro and Patreon so you can make the best decision for your needs.
WordPress is a flexible tool that can be used to create and display content of all kinds. This post explains how to restrict access to WordPress. Keep reading to learn how to lock down ANY piece of content, feature, or download you might have on your WordPress site.
All of the instructions below assume that you are running the latest versions of WordPress, Paid Memberships Pro, and any other plugins mentioned.
If we missed something or you still have questions about protecting any specific kind of content on your site, let us know.
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From your WordPress Admin Dashboard navigate to Memberships > Dashboard to get an overview of your membership site.
If you’re using Addon Packages to sell “à la carte” access to a single page, this sister plugin will extend the page protection to all child pages. If the feature proves popular, it may become a default part of the add on with filter to disable.
If a page’s parent has a price (defined as an “Addon Package”), the page will inherit its parent’s settings and show a default message about the restriction, the price, and a link to checkout.
Navigate to Memberships > Orders to see all orders that have been generated for a new membership checkout or recurring payment received.
PayPal is one of the most popular payment gateways that membership businesses use to process recurring subscription payments. But what happens when you want to make changes to user subscriptions?
If you use Paid Memberships Pro to run your membership site, everything can be edited directly from the merchant’s PayPal account. This means that administrators can change a subscription’s billing amount or next payment date without having to make any changes in Paid Memberships Pro.
You might want to modify payment subscriptions in PayPal in order to do things like:
- Let members pause their subscriptions
- Give discounts to your members
- Upgrade or downgrade subscriptions
- Change the price for individual members
- Fix payment subscriptions for anyone who may have paid the wrong price at the checkout
If you run a Paid Memberships Pro membership site using PayPal to accept recurring payments, read on to learn how to modify payment subscription directly in PayPal.
Some membership sites want to restrict signups to specific members that are “approved” to join. This method of restricting signups will allow you to send prospective members a specific discount code that is required for membership checkout. For more flexibility in restricting registrations, check out our Approval Process for Membership Add On.
Our WooCommerce Integration for Paid Memberships Pro allows you to set up unique product discounts based on the user’s membership level.
If your WooCommerce store is open to non-members too, here’s a code to incentivize visitors to purchase a membership and reap the benefits. This recipe displays a message to non-members with the price they could be paying (and the savings they’d get) if they had a membership.
When we think of inflation, we usually think of the cost of groceries and gas. Some of us might think about the cost of rent, college, or housing. Economists will focus on wage increases.
The US and global economy is currently going through a period of abrupt inflation. As seen in the chart below, the annual CPI rate as calculated by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics hit 6.2%. The typical range for the CPI is around 2%.
Less official sources will cite inflation rates even higher than that. I won’t try to figure out what the real rate of inflation is or how transitory our current round of inflation will be. If you want to nerd out on economics, hit me up on Twitter or my blog at InvestorGeeks.
In this post, I want to focus on how inflation is affecting our customers. While the focus may be on gas and groceries, there is inflation in software and membership dues as well.
Update: Our 2Checkout integration has been deprecated. If you were already using 2Checkout, you may continue to do so. However, we are no longer maintaining the integration and expect things to break eventually. It is highly recommended that you switch to a supported gateway.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday (BFCM) are coming up. This post summarizes some of my thoughts on massive sales, as well as a few tips for running a successful BFCM campaign.
Does your membership site also sell physical or digital products? If your site also features a WooCommerce store, there are some pretty cool things you can do to offer shopping incentives for your premium members.
With our WooCommerce Integration, membership sites can set a shop-wide or per-product discount for users with an active membership level. But what if you want to make a certain category of products completely free for your members? In this code recipe, we show you how to do just that.
Instead of manually editing all products to set the member price, this recipe handles the update in bulk. Use this code to set all products in certain categories to free for anyone logged in with an active membership level.
If you run a membership site with Paid Memberships Pro, there may come a time when you want to make changes to a user’s subscription—billing amount or next payment date, for example.
These changes are necessary to do things like:
- Allow members to pause their subscriptions
- Give active members a discount or temporary discount
- Upgrade or downgrade a subscription
- Raise the price for individual active members
- Fix subscriptions for members who paid the wrong price or experienced some other price calculation issue at the checkout
If you use Stripe to accept recurring payments with Paid Memberships Pro, you can modify subscriptions directly from the Stripe Dashboard. In this post, we will walk you through the process.
There are loads of ways to protect video content on a membership site, from super-premium services like Vimeo, to free video hosting on YouTube. In this guide, we show you how to leverage the world’s second most popular search engine, YouTube, to do just that!
Keep reading to learn how to leverage YouTube as an easy (and free) way to add members-only video in your WordPress membership site.
Lately it’s been hard to ignore the negative headlines in the news:
- Millions feel Financial Squeeze of Runaway Inflation
- U.S. is only days away from an ‘absolute explosion’ on inflation: Pollster Frank Luntz
- Yellen Says High Inflation Locked In for the Rest of 2022
All of these troubling headlines lead many people to wonder: are we headed towards a recession? And if so, what can I do about it?
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If you’re just getting started with Paid Memberships Pro and would like to learn the different ways you can potentially charge your members, this guide is for you.
Keep reading to learn about some of the most common pricing models for membership sites, as well as how to configure membership level pricing for your site.
Sometimes having a discount code field on your checkout page can cause you to lose sales. A user that would have otherwise paid full price may see that field and go off on a search for “company x discount codes.”
This code recipe will hide the field from the checkout page and only display it if the code is passed through the URL in the format &discount_code=CODEID.
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Encourage existing members to upgrade to a higher priced level by offering a discount that is unique to them – no discount code required.
You just secured a major marketing opportunity that will undoubtedly send a traffic spike to your website. This event could drive huge revenue and list growth, whether it’s from a flash sale like Cyber Monday, a public speaking engagement, a guest spot on a huge YouTube channel, or a mention in a widely read online publication.
Do you know if your website is ready? Is your hosting environment prepared for a burst of website traffic—all at once? Did you prepare your team for an influx of support requests? Have you optimized your site with a clear CTA…so you can actually convert sales and subscribers?
There are some key elements to make sure you have in place before your marketing event go-live or your flash sale event arrives—especially when it comes to dealing with large spikes in traffic.
In this post, we talk about 5 key steps to make sure your membership site is prepared for a high traffic event. These concepts apply to any situation where you might see a spike, such as:
- Black Friday and Cyber Monday
- A big product launch
- A regular sale, summer sale, or other holiday sale
- A television appearance or other source of publicity
- Anything else that might send waves of traffic to your site
Some bug fixing going on, especially for PayPal Express users. So upgrade away.
We also updated the pmpro_tax hook so you can filter by level, etc, like here.
