Different Types of Member Addresses and How to Capture Them

When it comes to managing memberships on your website, capturing accurate user information is crucial. While virtual and online membership sites typically rely on minimal user details, there are instances where maintaining a member’s physical, shipping, or billing addresses becomes necessary.

So what types of sites need to capture addresses, and how do you capture them?

  • Maybe you’re running a hyperlocal membership like an HOA or a local professional organization
  • Or even offering directory and listing memberships.
  • Lastly, you may need to capture a member’s full billing address for local regulatory requirements related to invoicing.

No matter the reason, capturing the right types of addresses for your business enables smooth operations. Plus, it gives your members more clarity on what address you need, both during signup and while managing their accounts.

In this article, we share the different types of addresses users may have and how Paid Memberships Pro handles each type.

Database Structure

Paid Memberships Pro (PMPro) uses a set of database tables to manage various aspects of its functionality.

MMPU (Legacy)

Legacy features from the previous Multiple Memberships Per User Add On, now built into core PMPro, to support sites that need multiple level purchases in a single checkout (Stripe onsite checkout and Braintree only).

Paid Memberships Pro  vs. Easy Digital Downloads

For creators and companies selling anything online, there’s nothing more important than making it easy for your audience to actually buy what you’re offering. 

Whether you’re selling courses, memberships, or even one-time downloadables, the right set of e-commerce tools can make all the difference. 

A quick and clean experience will generate goodwill and repeat customers, while a painful or error-riddled checkout experience will send customers packing.

Looking for the right solution that fits your needs? In this post, we’ll compare Paid Memberships Pro vs. Easy Digital Downloads and how you can even use the two together.

Paid Memberships Pro vs. BuddyBoss

Wherever you look in online community management, one word repeatedly comes up: engagement. It’s what every social media or community manager is looking for, and it’s often the key to leveling up your business as an online company or content creator.

More engagement leads to greater time spent on a website, which is exactly what you’re looking for when building a brand or launching a membership program.

Membership programs are a great way to increase engagement. They help you turn strangers into community members, a key path to building sustainable audience growth on your site. 

There are tons of online tools available to help you build a community that increases time spent on site and deepens member engagement. In this post, we’ll compare two, Paid Memberships Pro and BuddyBoss, and examine how to use the plugins together.

Abridge Academy Connects Teachers to Independent Educational  Entrepreneurship

Some people are born to teach, and some teachers go on to be “teacherpreneurs”—educators who transition to teaching outside of the traditional classroom. Teacherpreneurs may develop their own digital courses, or use other teaching resources to enrich their curricula…. Others may be education consultants, or even teaching influencers, sharing ideas, advice, and resources for independent teachers to use.

For those teachers who want to expand beyond the brick and mortar classroom to online teaching, the award-winning Abridge Academy is a goldmine of a resource bank for teacherpreneurs. Educator Katie Prescott created the academy in 2018 with a focus on in-person teaching in Asia. The platform went digital in 2020, with new ESL (English as a Second Language) training and tutoring programs.

However, after struggling to find high quality teaching materials for the academy’s ESL tutors, Katie decided to create her own professional curricula. Her platform is designed for online education, with an emphasis on younger students. It’s available to independent teachers and small businesses. She especially wanted to make the lessons fun.

The result is a wealth of interactive, engaging, step-by-step teaching materials that are optimized for online teaching. Abridge Academy currently offers some 400 lessons that empower ESL teacherpreneurs. The platform saves them time and, more importantly, facilitates and enriches the online experience with their students.

What is a membership site, and is it the right business for you?

What is a membership site, and why might it be the ideal choice for your business venture?

At its heart, a membership site offers a gated area where exclusive content and community interaction shine. Whether you’re an expert, artist, educator, or entrepreneur, this guide is designed to teach you the core principles of a membership site.

You’ll learn about 8 common membership site use cases to help you understand all the ways you can monetize and grow your audience online. And finally, we’ll cover factors to consider when choosing a technology partner for your new online business.

Paid Memberships Pro vs. AccessAlly

Are you looking to launch an online course or coaching program? If so, you’ll want to compare Paid Memberships Pro vs. AccessAlly.

These plugins let you launch membership programs on your existing WordPress website. However, they offer different features and price points.

PMPro empowers anyone with a WordPress site to set up a one-stop platform for launching a successful membership program for free.

AccessAlly’s premium tools are geared specifically toward coaches, trainers, and creators. The platform is designed to sell and manage signups for courses, certifications, and coaching programs.

In this post, we’ll cover both Paid Memberships Pro and AccessAlly’s offerings and pricing to help you decide which best fits your needs.

How to Block WordPress Users and Members

From time to time, a membership site may need to block WordPress users and members or restrict membership changes. In this guide, we cover the most common ways to restrict members from interacting with your membership site.

If you come across any problem members in your business, these methods allow you to limit or completely disable their access on your site. We’ll also cover how to lock a member’s level indefinitely or for a specific required term.

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Add PayPal Express Option at Checkout

Appeal to the highest number of potential customers by offering PayPal Express as a secondary payment option in addition to your onsite credit card payment gateway.

WooCommerce Integration

Integrate your membership site with WooCommerce to offer members-only product discounts as a global percentage off or per-product.

How Developers Can Help You Build a Membership Site: 6 Great Examples

As your membership site grows and your needs become more complex, you might find yourself pondering a critical question: when does it become essential to enlist a developer’s help? This article is designed to guide you through this decision-making process, highlighting how developers can help build your membership site.

Explore six compelling examples of how a developer can elevate your site, like maintenance, custom coded plugins, working on design consistency, and integrating with third parties. We also cover how to safely bring a new developer into your project, ensuring the collaboration is both secure and productive.

Last, the article includes a set of FAQs, covering everything from costs to the scope of work, ensuring you’re well-equipped to make informed decisions for your membership site’s journey.

Group Accounts

Sell group memberships to corporate organizations, families, teams, or any group of people where one member pays for a collection of people to access your content individually.

9 Ways to Customize Discount Codes With Paid Memberships Pro

With Paid Memberships Pro, you can create discount codes in order to give your customers special deals and offers, and convert more sales. And with a little extra code, you can customize discount codes even further than the basics.

The core Paid Memberships Pro plugin includes robust discount code features out of the box. But there may come a time when you want to do additional things like:

  • Hide or show discount code fields
  • Restrict a discount code to a single use
  • Require a discount code
  • Automatically apply discount codes at checkout
  • Create separate discount codes for each member of a group

This post covers the most commonly-used adjustments and customizations for our discount code features—some advanced and some not so advanced. If you’re looking for general support on discount codes, see our Discount Codes documentation page.

Paid Memberships Pro vs. MemberMouse

If you are ready to build a membership on your WordPress site, you have a lot of plugins to choose from. While they may look like they offer the same functionality, slight differences can really matter when it comes to customizing your membership and serving your members’ needs.

In this post, we compare two popular membership plugins, Paid Memberships Pro vs. MemberMouse, to see how they compare. While the two share a lot of similarities, who the plugins are built to serve matters.

Migrating Payments from WooCommerce Subscriptions to Paid Memberships Pro

If you’re reading this, you’ve already experienced the power of Paid Memberships Pro and witnessed how it can transform your membership-based e-commerce venture. Now, it’s time to level up further by making a strategic move – migrating your membership sales engine from WooCommerce Subscriptions to Paid Memberships Pro.

In this blog post, we’ll explain step-by-step how to transition your existing membership subscriptions from WooCommerce to PMPro. You already know the wonders of PMPro’s features, so we’ll focus on how you streamline your operations by centralizing your memberships within the PMPro ecosystem.

Note: This guide is specifically written to support someone transitioning from selling their PMPro membership levels through WooCommerce to solely utilizing Paid Memberships Pro. If you were using WooCommerce Memberships, not PMPro, there are additional steps we’ll try to cover at the end of this guide related to migrating member data and content protections.

WordPress Post Visibility: Password Protection vs. Membership Plugins

WordPress offers several features to control the visibility of blog content. Two commonly used methods are password protection and membership plugins.

In this how-to post, we explore core WordPress post visibility features and compare them to using a membership plugin with free or paid user registration to restrict access to exclusive member content.

Paid Memberships Pro vs. Memberful

Imagine yourself at a crossroads. One sign reads “Paid Memberships Pro.” The other “Memberful.” Both seem like good options for building your membership site, but you want to pick only the best path forward. Which one do you choose—PMPro vs. Memberful? 

Choosing a membership platform is a common concern among business owners starting out in the memberships space. After all, 75% of online businesses want to offer memberships to their customers, and you want to get the backend right the first time. 

Don’t sweat it. We’re here to clear the fog and help you make an informed choice. In this post, we’ll compare two popular membership plugins — Paid Memberships Pro, a Memberful alternative — so you can make an informed decision. 

Reducing Churn: Why Members Churn + 14 Member Retention Ideas

A membership website empowers you to create a recurring and predictable source of revenue while helping others at the same time. However, you might find yourself discouraged if your member base stops growing, or worse—you start losing members. This is where member retention efforts can make all the difference.

In this guide, we explore a few key reasons why your members are churning. From your business model to your customer support methods, there are a few deeply rooted reasons that your membership site needs to figure out before you can even begin to work on retention.

Lastly, we offer up 14 strategies you can put in place today to start tackling churn and improve member retention.

Freelance Services to Offer in the Growing Membership and Subscriptions Sector

We’re facing an ever growing world of new online membership and subscription-based businesses—and with that growth comes loads of freelance services you can offer these budding businesses.

You might be thinking: no thank you. There was a time I also assumed that ecommerce clients were notoriously unpredictable and demanding.

In this case, though, the membership and subscriptions market may be too big an opportunity to ignore if you want to expand or productize your freelancer services.

This guide aims to facilitate the growth of your freelance or small business agency with a specialized focus on membership websites. We’ve included ideas to support freelance developers and non-developers, who can use these strategies to grow their current client base and expand on the services they offer to existing clientele.

Stripe International Payments and ‘Buy Now Pay Later’: Global Membership Site Success

When you’re creating content for an international marketplace, or simply serving a unique regional audience, you need a payment gateway that supports your customers’ specific payment requirements. With Stripe International payments and Paid Memberships Pro, you can now offer unique ways for customers to pay, regardless of their location or local currency.

Offering diverse payment options isn’t just a nice to have: it’s the ticket to building a thriving membership, free from boundaries.

With PMPro and Stripe International payments, you can now explore 47 innovative ways for your customers to pay. This means you can:

  • Connect with regional customers using their preferred currency and payment method.
  • Offer memberships and subscriptions to a global audience.
  • Support price-sensitive buyers or ultra high-ticket membership products with “buy now, pay later” payments.

This isn’t about adding a few more payment options. It’s about providing an all-access pass to potential markets worldwide, ensuring your business is ready to conquer the international stage.

With these 47 Stripe international payment methods fully integrated into the free, complete Paid Memberships Pro plugin, your business stands ready to seize global opportunities and leave a significant footprint in the marketplace.

Let’s explore your new horizon with Stripe International Payments and Paid Memberships Pro.

Bluehost

This hosting documentation guide will walk you through the process of setting up and configuring your Bluehost website to work with Paid Memberships Pro.

Why You Should Use a Staging Environment

As the owner of a live, money-making website, the prospect of making changes or customizations can be daunting, especially when your site handles transactions and has active members. The good news is that there is a way to safeguard your site from potential disasters and confidently make improvements: use a staging environment.

In this comprehensive guide, we explore the benefits of having a staging environment for your membership site, regardless of what kind of site you’re building. We’ll cover the major wins a staging site offers for any type of membership site, and then make the case for staging sites across 8 unique types of membership sites.

This guide is not designed to help you safely set up a staging environment for your ecommerce site. You’ll want to explore our companion guide on how to set up a staging site when you are ready to create one.

How to Connect Members to ActiveCampaign Using WP Fusion

If you run a membership site using Paid Memberships Pro, and you also use ActiveCampaign for email marketing, there are a few automations that can save you a lot of time and effort. In this post, we’re going to show you how to connect members to ActiveCampaign using a powerful automation tool called WP Fusion.

We’ll talk about how to automate:

  1. Adding new members as Contacts in ActiveCampaign.
  2. Managing tags for members based on membership status (active, cancelled, expired, approved, payment failed, and more).
  3. Updating your ActiveCampaign Contacts with membership data and user fields.
  4. Synchronizing existing PMPro member data to ActiveCampaign using a batch operation that runs in the background.

Keep reading to learn more about optimizing your membership site management with these robust tools.

Communities

Run Your Online Community with PMPro You’ve found it: Paid Memberships Pro is the most robust membership platform to sell access to your online community. Build and grow an online community that you control. Bring together like minds and niche groups of people while earning a reliable income through a fully customizable online business.   (more…)