Restrict Checkout for Users with a History of Refunds

Let’s face it, dealing with refunds is an unavoidable part of your membership business. Some number of your refunds will be from legitimate users that realize they do not need or want your membership any more.

Some refunds, though, may be from abusive users who know that they can sign up, consume your membership product (whether that’s support, premium content or guides, downloads and more), then cancel and request a refund right away. If you are seeing this become a widespread problem, check out the code recipes below.

How to stop members from renewing their membership level.

by Travis Lima | Recipes

In this week’s tooltip, we show you how you can prevent members from renewing their membership (and why you might need this).

Limit the Number of Members by Membership Level

by Kimberly Coleman | Plus and Unlimited Member Content

Restrict the number of members that can sign up for a membership level. The recipe adds a setting to your Memberships > Membership Levels > Edit Level admin page where you can set a value for “Maximum Members”. Once that limit is reached, no additional registrations will be allowed….

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Restrict Membership Signup by Country

by Kimberly Coleman | Newsletter, Plus and Unlimited Member Content, Recipes

This code recipe allows you to restrict members in specific countries from signing up. The restricted countries are defined in a $restricted_countries array of level IDs and country codes (see the $pmpro_currencies array in the plugin file /includes/countries.php for included country codes)….