Memberful – Membership Plugin vs Simple Payment

Memberful is a best-in-class membership software and WordPress plugin used by some of the web’s biggest creators, publishers, and independent media companies. Generate reliable, recurring revenue by selling subscription plans while protecting access to your content. Memberful allows you to maintain full control and ownership of your audience, your brand, and your business. Protect Content Protect members-only content and select which subscribers get access to gated areas of your website using server-side content protection. Restrict access to content based on membership level and protect specific posts or pages right from your WordPress edit screen. Manage access to media including blog articles, in-house newsletters, private podcasts, protected downloads, and more. Integrations Built-in integrations with popular third-party services including Mailchimp, Discord, ConvertKit, Klaviyo, and Google Analytics. Add new custom applications or develop your own using the Memberful API. Utilize webhooks to trigger when important events happen on your site, such as when a member changes their payment/tax details. Integrate with popular ad providers to disable ads based on user subscription plans and user status. Membership Management Automatically sync your Memberful membership data to WordPress or import a list of your existing members. Add multiple staff users and manage their account permissions. Utilize built-in analytics dashboards to monitor and grow your business. Payment and Plans Easily accept payments through your Stripe account. Streamlined member checkout process with Single-Sign-On (SSO) and Apple & Google Pay integration. Create multiple membership plans and upgrades to allow tiered access to different areas of your website. Discounts, Referrals, and Retention bonuses to incentivize sign-ups and membership upgrades. Enable automatic tax calculations based on where you and your members are located.

Selling something shouldn’t require a full shopping cart. Simple Payment turns any WordPress post, page, block, form or button into a ready-to-pay product or service in minutes — and routes the money through the payment gateway you already trust. No bloated store to configure, no checkout to rebuild: just a shortcode (or a block, or an Elementor widget) and you are taking payments. From a single “Donate” button to installment plans, saved cards, subscriptions and multi-gateway checkouts, Simple Payment scales from a personal blog to a commercial site — while keeping sensitive card data out of your database. Why you’ll love it Sell in minutes, not days. Drop one shortcode on any page and you have a working, styled payment form. Post/page titles become the product name and a custom field becomes the price — automatically. Use the gateway you already have. One consistent form and workflow in front of many gateways — switch providers without rebuilding your pages. Built for real money flows. Installments, monthly subscriptions / recurring, saved-card tokenization, refunds, invoices/receipts, and automatic transaction verification. Beautiful, flexible forms. Multiple templates (Bootstrap, Legacy, Donation, free-amount), inline, IFRAME or modal display, and full support for your own theme templates. Privacy first. PCI-DSS friendly: card data is masked/redacted before anything touches the database, and old records can be auto-archived and purged. Developer friendly. A rich set of actions and filters, a documented Engine API to extend any gateway or build your own, plus a full transactions log with filtering and CSV export. Supported payment gateways (Engines) PayPal, Cardcom, iCount, PayMe, iCredit, CreditGuard, Meshulam, YaadPay, Credit2000, WooCommerce (third-party site), plus a Custom engine for anything else and a Test engine for development. NEW: Sell on one site, charge on another (WooCommerce engine) The WooCommerce engine lets your site take a purchase and hand the actual payment off to a separate, third-party WooCommerce store over its REST API — perfect for agencies, marketplaces, franchises and multi-brand operators who want a central “storefront” and one billing store that owns the gateways, invoices and bookkeeping. The customer clicks Buy on your site; Simple Payment creates the order on the remote WooCommerce store with the correct total and customer details. The shopper pays on the remote store (in a redirect, popup or modal) using whatever gateways that store has enabled. A bundled Companion mode on the receiving store validates and keeps the originating parameters, can auto-complete paid orders, silences the remote store’s duplicate customer/admin emails for outsourced requests, and sends the customer straight back to your site when payment succeeds. You keep a full record of every transaction on the originating site, with automatic status verification. Works with your favorite tools Gutenberg block editor, Elementor, WooCommerce, WPJobBoard, GravityForms and Form Maker — plus Zapier to trigger workflows (CRM, email, spreadsheets, fulfilment) on every payment. What you can build One-click “Buy” / “Donate” buttons anywhere on your site Pay-what-you-want donation forms with a free-entry amount Membership, course or service checkouts on a single landing page Installment plans and monthly subscriptions Central storefront that bills through a separate WooCommerce store Currently on Beta: PayMe – please contact if you require assistance. Soon to be released: Pelecard, Tranzila. PS: You’ll need a Simple Payment API key for advanced gateways to use it. Keys are available for personal blogs; single domain, multiple domains, businesses and commercial sites. Feedback and Support I would be happy to receive your feedback to improve this plugin. Please let me know through support forums if you like it and please be sure to leave a review.. Also you can contact me on my personal page Ido Kobelkowsky or even visit Github of Simple Payment where you can find all the development code of this plugin. I hope it is useful for you and look forward to reading your reviews! 😉 Thanks! Advanced Configuration: Theme Custom Payment Processing To write your own payment processing integration, to be plugin, read the information at this link: https://simple-payment.yalla-ya.com/ you will require to write a simple php class that Pre Process, Process and Post Process the transaction with your your payment gateway.