The Membership Checkout page is the page members will use to complete purchase. This page’s appearance varies depending on your level pricing, gateway, custom fields, and any Add Ons you are using.
Pausing is a method to temporarily skip subscription payments for a member. Instead of cancelling a member’s account, you may think how great it would be to set temporary or open ended ‘hold’ on all recurring payments.
This article will help anyone running a subscription business get a clear understanding of the work involved in allowing one or more members to pause subscription payments to you.
We’ve compiled this troubleshooting guide to help you fix a “Page Not Found” or 404 error in your membership site. The guide covers 404 errors for members-only content, your posts archive pages, and any plugin-generated pages in PMPro.
Paid Memberships Pro Review To help you make the best choice, we’ve gathered insights and reviews from top WordPress experts. These seasoned professionals have hands-on experience with PMPro and are sharing their in-depth knowledge and honest opinions. Some Stats That Make Us Proud 90,000 + Active Installs 14 Years in Development Lightning-Fast Support Fully Open (more…)
Running a Black Friday sale can raise a lot of questions. Is my sale price appealing to customers and profitable for me? Will members come to expect sales? Am I going to be able to meet the demand post-sale? And most importantly, will the sale be worth my time and effort?
This article gives you 5 tried and tested tips to help you run a successful Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale that converts visitors into customers.
Membership plugins are designed to help your site restrict content, accept subscription payments, manage member profile information and more. But is a plugin always the right solution?
A very simple membership site may not actually require a membership plugin. This article will show you how to restrict your entire WordPress site for logged in users only.
For membership sites that operate in Australia or cater to Australian members, understanding and implementing the Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) is essential.
This guide explains how to apply the 10% GST rate to your membership site, ensuring business tax compliance and a seamless experience for your Australian members.
Run Your Association or Non-Profit Organization with PMPro You’ve found it: Paid Memberships Pro is the most flexible membership platform to run an association, club, or organization. Build and grow an association that is customized to your mission, core values, and the needs of your members. Bring together your niche community while earning a reliable (more…)
With platforms like YouTube or ArtStation, publishing online content has never been easier for artists, musicians, and writers. But what are you receiving for the hours of hard work you devote to your creations?
Building a patron-supported membership site is about more than just sharing content with your followers. Publishing content to an exclusive website positions you as a leader in your creative field. Plus, you get paid while you do it.
Learn how to leverage WordPress and Paid Memberships Pro to create your very own patron-supported membership site—and turn your creative passion into a sustainable career.
New online businesses are launching every moment of every day: membership sites, online stores, and everything else you can imagine. Loads of software tools, Sass apps, platforms, and site builders are available to help these businesses go to market faster, at a lower cost, and with less technical demands.
I believe that it is in your best interest to own the platform that the core of your business is built on. This article explores why owning your platform is so important and how you can leverage existing tools to help grow your digital empire.
Are you a recognized or emerging thought leader in your industry? Exploring membership sites for thought leaders could be the missing piece on your path to financial freedom. With your extensive knowledge and experience, it’s time to explore a business strategy that leverages the growing online subscription market.
You might currently be a consultant engaging in one-on-one coaching, looking to expand your reach. Incorporating online courses or developing membership sites specifically tailored for thought leaders could be the key to broadening your impact.
This guide outlines a path to profit from your thought leadership without relying on sponsorships, speaking engagements, or guest appearances.
Drawing from our 14+ years of experience working with emerging leaders, we’ve crafted a three-part strategy to get you from no list to launch.
WordPress, your theme, and your site’s plugins offer a wide range of recipes to extend and enhance core functionality. These methods often rely on a working knowledge of PHP.
This post will help non-developers using WordPress that want to do a bit more to customize their site. After reading this article, you will have a better understanding of what HTML is, what PHP is, how to safely copy and paste recipes into your site, and how to fix things if anything goes wrong.
What do you get when you have three friends, a bucket list, and a leukemia diagnosis? This inspiring member case study started as a selfless journey of true friendship and developed into a mission: to truly live for another.
Did you know that Paid Memberships Pro is a fully open source membership platform and that you can make it even better by contributing? No matter your skill level, you can contribute to PMPro today. Here’s the why and how.
This recipe was so useful that we merged it into the Group Discount Codes Add On. When the Add On is activated, a “Group Code” column is added to the CSV export showing the Group Code that was used at checkout (if applicable). The regular Discount Code column will show the main/parent discount code.
You can grab the Group Discount Codes Add On that includes this feature here. If you are interested in how this works to possibly do something similar via custom code, we’ve kept the original code recipe here for reference.
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Use webhooks to automate and connect your membership site with thousands of apps via Zapier or other automation platforms.
A couple years ago we started allowing our customers to optionally setup automatic renewal at membership checkout.
This post covers how many customers choose the auto-renew option, and how many of those customers actually renew. I’ll also provide some stats on users who manually renew. These kinds of stats should make their way into the Memberships > Reports dashboard sometime soon.
Advertisements are a classic method of monetizing your website, and ad-serving networks such as Google Adsense make it fast and easy to start displaying ads.
It’s important for a membership site to consider which ads to display for non-members, per-level or completely hidden to members for an “ad-free” experience. Read on to explore how to control ads for your PMPro-powered membership site.
Want to see what your site could look like with the Memberlite Theme? We’ve got you covered. This guide shows you step-by-step how to import Memberlite demo content.
Follow these steps to quickly set up a showcase version of your site. The demo includes pre-configured layouts, theme elements, and sample shortcodes so you can explore the full potential of Memberlite—without starting from scratch.
After you have successfully set up the plugin, we highly recommend that you test the experience from your user’s perspective.
Your membership business is powered by many components: the WordPress web software, your web host/server, theme and plugin providers, a payment gateway and countless third-party services for analytics, email marketing, team communication, security and more.
This post covers the best practices for sharing account access among your internal and external team.
Enhance the design of your membership emails with a custom header and footer containing your site’s name, logo and link.
Our Mailchimp Add On for Paid Memberships Pro synchronizes the member’s level name and level ID for improved list targeting, building list groups and segments based on level.
If you were using this Add On prior to version 2.0, this information would not be in place for existing subscribers.
Here are instructions to update your Mailchimp list with Membership Level Name and Level ID fields for existing members.
If you’re considering live chat for your membership site, you may be looking into options for one-to-one chat between yourself (or your chat agents) and the member, or to allow your members to communicate with one another in a chatroom-style interface.
Below are a few tested and approved live chat products along with code recipes to make them “members-only”.
