Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction vs Simple Membership

Paid Member Subscriptions is the #1 WordPress membership plugin focused on growing recurring revenue. Increase conversions and generate subscription revenue with a feature-packed membership solution. It lets you accept recurring payments, register and manage new members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content. Paid Member Subscriptions is designed to help you kickstart your subscription business in just a few minutes and begin generating income as quickly as possible. Integrates with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict product viewing and purchasing to members-only as well, offer special discounted product price based on subscription plans as well as allow your customers to purchase subscription plans through the WooCommerce Checkout. You can also use it to setup an Elementor membership site fast and easy. Free Demo | Compare Free vs Pro | Documentation Optimize Membership Monetization And Boost Your Revenue Offer premium access and exclusive benefits for members, establishing a thriving paid community that generates income through membership fees or subscription plans. This is ideal for: * Paid Membership Services * Online Courses * Online Coaching * Online Consultancy Services Automate Revenue Streams With Our Proven Membership Tools Keep your focus on content creation while Paid Member Subscriptions takes care of consistently generating revenue for you through its automated recurring revenue model. This is ideal for: * Content restriction on blogs, news sites, and content hubs * Members-only content subscriptions * Private WooCommerce Stores * Members-Only WooCommerce Stores Build And Grow Your Community While Also Monetizing It Communities are all about collaboration. By giving members the opportunity to gain exposure, promote their services or create networking opportunities, you’re building a valuable community that people are willing to pay to be a part of. This is ideal for: * Business Directories * Member Directories * Online Associations and Clubs * Online Communities Shortcodes & Blocks for Member Registration, Login, Content Restriction and managing Membership Plans You can use one of the following shortcodes or available blocks to get started: [pms-register] – adds a front-end user registration form where users can purchase a membership level [pms-login] – create a front-end member login form [pms-restrict subscription_plans=”9,10″] Special content for members subscribed to the subscription plans that have the ID 9 and 10! [/pms-restrict] – to restrict content based on subscription plans or logged in status [pms-account] – setup a WordPress members area where members can easily edit their account information and manage their subscription plan(s) [pms-payment-history] – adds a front-end table with the member’s payment history [pms-recover-password] – adds a recover password password form, that enables users to reset their password if needed Membership Modules: Content Restriction You’ll find it really simple to restrict entire posts, pages or custom post types or just portions of them. Restrict Content offers you options to: display content based on logged in status show content to members only, setup private pages for subscribers partial content display by using the [pms-restrict][/pms-restrict] shortcode display another template for restricted posts restrict Gutenberg blocks Integrates with Elementor page builder allowing you to restrict content for Elementor sections and widgets based on logged in status or subscription plans, by using the visual interface. Membership Payments Accept PayPal or direct credit card payments from your subscribers. You can keep track of all member payments, payment statuses and purchased subscription plans. Access to detailed payment logs. Recurring Payments Ability to accept recurring payments through the PayPal or Stripe payment gateways. The recurring setting can be forced or you can let the user choose whether he wants to subscribe for a recurring subscription or not. Hierarchical Subscription Plans You can create an unlimited number of hierarchical subscription plans (eg: Free, Silver, Gold). Each new user can choose a membership plan (subscription) during the registration process. Existing users can purchase a subscription plan from a page with the [pms-register] shortcode, similar to new users. Members can upgrade their subscription plan from the [pms-account] page, the same page also allows the member to Renew, Cancel or Abandon his subscription. Subscription plans can offer free and/or paid memberships on your website. Discount Codes Create an unlimited number of discount codes and offer percentage or flat rate based discounts for your memberships. Members Management Have an overview of all your members and their subscription plans. Easily add/remove members or edit their subscription details. Membership Emails and Messages Customize default member emails and setup member messages sent/displayed on certain user actions. Admin emails can also be customized. Free Trial and Sign-up Fees You can configure your subscription to have a free trial period and a sign-up fee, allowing you to have more control on your subscription setup. Pay in Installments Configure a subscription that ends after a certain amount of billing cycles. Stripe Effortlessly process credit card payments, both one-time and recurring, directly on your website with Stripe. Stripe provides a secure and intuitive payment solution that seamlessly integrates with your WordPress site, ensuring smooth transaction management and an enhanced user experience. Accept a wide range of additional payment methods including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Bancontact, iDeal, Giropay, and more. Allow your users to save their cards and make one click purchases. Reports and Exports Whether you prefer to maintain your own records of your members’ database, do custom reports , or you simply need to import records into another service or application, such as MailChimp or Excel, you can do that with Paid Member Subscriptions. Export all member records to a CSV at anytime. Payment history can be exported to a CSV file, letting you then import the payment data into Excel, QuickBooks, or other accounting software that can process a CSV file. WooCommerce Integration Paid Member Subscriptions integrates beautifully with WooCommerce, allowing you to do the following out of the box: Create a Members-only Store – restrict access to the Shop page to members-only Restrict Product Viewing and Purchasing – control who can see or purchase a WooCommerce product based on logged in status and subscription plan. Easily create members-only products. Offer discounted product prices to members – offer special product prices to members based on their active subscription. Set membership discounts per product or subscription plan. Sell subscription plans as products – associate products with Subscription Plans to offer customers a membership with a product purchase or allow customers to purchase Paid Member Subscriptions plans using the WooCommerce Checkout Others automatic refunds directly from your WordPress dashboard GDPR automatically log users in hide admin bar prevent account sharing redirect default WordPress pages setup a WordPress members area enable reCaptcha v2 or v3 on your forms Powerful Add-ons Paid Member Subscriptions has a range of premium Add-ons that allow you to extend the power of the membership plugin: Basic Add-ons (available in the Agency, PRO or Basic versions) Global Content Restriction – add global content restriction rules to subscription plans, based on post type, taxonomy and terms Email Reminders – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.) Advanced Subscription Toolkit – extend your Subscription Plans and Discount Codes with extra options like automatic downgrade after expiration, limit member count, schedule availability for subscription plans and more LearnDash – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.) Navigation Menu Filtering – dynamically display menu items based on logged-in status as well as selected subscription plans Fixed Period Membership – create subscriptions plans that end at a specific date, no matter when a member subscribes to it. Pay What You Want – accept donations and let subscribers pay what they want when purchasing a subscription plan bbPress – integrate Paid Member Subscriptions with the popular forums plugin, bbPress, to restrict your forums and topics. Pro Add-ons (available in the Agency & PRO versions only) Gift Subscriptions – Let members purchase subscription plans as gifts for others. Perfect for holidays, special occasions, or rewarding team members with instant or claimable subscriptions Pause Subscriptions – Allow members to temporarily pause recurring subscriptions without canceling. Maintain membership relationships while billing is suspended with flexible pause durations and limits Multiple Currencies – Enable visitors to pay in their local currency, either through automatic location detection or by manually selecting their preferred currency Pro Rate – Pro-rate subscription plan Upgrades and Downgrades, offering users a discount based on the remaining time for the current subscription Tax & EU VAT – collect tax or vat from your users depending on their location, with full control over tax rates and who to charge Group Memberships – sell group subscriptions to your users Content Dripping – create schedules for your content, making posts or categories available for your members only after a certain time has passed since they signed up for a subscription plan Multiple Subscriptions per User – setup multiple subscription level groups (e.g. Physics, Math) and allow members to sign up for more than one subscription plan, one per group (e.g. Physics Beginner and Math Advanced) Invoices – both you and your members will be able to download PDF invoices for each payment that has been completed Files Restriction – secure your valuable content and ensure it reaches only those who have subscribed and paid for access Mailchimp – integrate Mailchimp to keep your membership audience up to date. Automatically add or update subscribers, enable Double Opt-In, and sync custom fields between Mailchimp and member profiles Brevo – sync your members with Brevo to manage contacts smoothly. Automate newsletter subscriptions, use Double Opt-In for compliance, and link custom fields between Brevo and your member data The Ultimate Membership Bundle Combine user registration, memberships, and recurring revenue in one powerful plugin bundle called the Ultimate Membership Bundle. Get access to both Paid Member Subscriptions Pro and our all in one user management plugin, Profile Builder Pro. These two plugins are designed to work perfectly together, offering you a powerful toolkit for managing and expanding your user base while generating revenue through paid memberships and recurring revenue. Paid Member Subscriptions in your Language We’re focusing on translating Paid Member Subscriptions in as many languages as we can. So far, the translations for 10 languages are almost complete, but we still need help on a lot of other languages, so please join us at translate.wordpress.org You will be able to download all the available language packs as well as help us translate Paid Member Subscriptions in your language. For more information please visit our documentation page Website https://www.cozmoslabs.com/wordpress-paid-member-subscriptions/ Documentation https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/paid-member-subscriptions/ Addons https://www.cozmoslabs.com/paid-member-subscriptions-add-ons/

A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content. Unlimited Membership Access Levels Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create. Flexible Membership Duration Options Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including: Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years) No expiry / until canceled Fixed future expiry date Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based) Subscription-driven access Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules. User Friendly Interface for Content Protection When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members. Non-members viewing a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member. Have Free and Paid Memberships You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Membership payment can also be accepted using Stripe or Braintree payment gateways. Both one time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe. You can accept one time membership payment via Braintree payment gateway. Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API. There is also option to use PayPal smart buttons for membership payment. You can enable email activation or email confirmation for the free memberships. Membership Payments Log All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard. Developer API There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin. There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts. Member Login Widget on The Sidebar You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget. You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder. Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form. Documentation Read the setup documentation after you install the plugin to get started. Plugin Support If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly. https://simple-membership-plugin.com/ You can create a free forum account to ask your questions. Additional Features Works with any WordPress theme. Ability to protect photo galleries. Ability to protect attachment pages. Show teaser content to convert visitors into members. Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically. There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any). Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members. Ability to partially protect post or page content. You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk. Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification. Membership management side is handled by the plugin. Ability to manually approve your members. Ability to import WordPress users as members. Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard. Filter members list by account status. Filter members list by membership level. Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information. Can be translated to any language. Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site. Allow your members to delete their membership accounts. Send quick notification email to your members. Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status. Customize the password reset email for members. Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form. Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form. The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme. Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only. Front-end member registration page. Front-end member profiles. Front-end member login page. Option to configure after login redirection for members. Option to configure after registration redirect for members. Option to configure after logout redirection for members. Option force the members to use strong password. Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account. Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account. Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site. Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser. Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing. Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains. Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains. Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing. Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks. Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins. Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh. Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments). Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments). Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments). Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts. The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin. Browse the plugin documentation to learn more about the features of this plugin. Language Translations The following language translations are already available: English German French Spanish Spanish (Venezuela) Chinese Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Swedish Macedonian Polish Turkish Russian Dutch (Netherlands) Dutch (Belgium) Romanian Danish Lithuanian Serbian Japanese Greek Latvian Indonesian Hebrew Catalan Hungarian Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Slovak Italian Norwegian Mexican Arabic Czech Finnish You can translate the plugin using the language translation documentation.