What is Memberpress?
MemberPress is a plugin for WordPress that allows users to create a membership site or membership portal on their WordPress website. With MemberPress, users can create a membership site with different subscription plans, payment options and access levels for different content.
The plugin also offers a variety of features such as integration with various payment gateways like Stripe, PayPal and Authorize.net, the ability to automatically approve or decline members, and a variety of options for managing member profiles, sign-ups and subscription plans.
MemberPress is a popular choice for businesses that need a membership site for their online business or community. It offers a user-friendly interface and a wide range of features that allow users to easily manage and scale their membership site.
Linking Memberpress with WooCommerce - why?
MemberPress and WooCommerce are two popular plugins for WordPress that can be used in different ways. While MemberPress specializes in creating and managing a membership site or member portal, WooCommerce is a comprehensive solution for e-commerce on WordPress websites.
There are cases where it can make sense to combine MemberPress and WooCommerce. For example, if you want to sell digital products or subscriptions, you can use WooCommerce to process payments and orders, while using MemberPress to create the membership site where the content is displayed. By integrating MemberPress with WooCommerce, you can also offer subscription plans with different prices and durations to meet the needs of your customers.
Another benefit of combining MemberPress and WooCommerce is the ability to control access to digital products or member content based on orders in WooCommerce. For example, you can automatically grant new customers access to special content or member areas after they have completed an order.
Overall, the combination of MemberPress and WooCommerce offers a flexible and powerful solution for businesses looking to sell digital products or membership services.
How to link Memberpress with WooCommerce
MemberPress WooCommerce Plus by HappyPlugins integrates MemberPress & WooCommerce and allows you to sell MemberPress memberships via the WooCommerce platform.
The registration process takes place via the WooCommerce checkout, and the customer is assigned to the corresponding MemberPress memberships after the purchase. If you have Woocommerce Germanized or German Market installed, you can be sure that the actual membership purchase process is GDPR compliant.
Creating the membership product is done with a simple click.
Attention: MemberPress and WooCommerce must both be installed.
MemberPress WooCommerce Plus can be used for 2 scenarios:
1 - For selling local memberships - If WooCommerce and MemberPress are installed on the EXACT same domain and WordPress installation. You only need the MemberPress WooCommerce Plus plugin.
2 - For selling external memberships - If WooCommerce and MemberPress are installed on different domains and WordPress installations. Then you also need to buy the add-ons package for external membership sites.
Please note: The MemberPress WooCommerce Plus plugin is NOT designed to protect WooCommerce products so that they are only visible to members, but to sell MemberPress memberships while taking advantage of the WooCommerce platform.
MemberPress WooCommerce Plus Features
MemberPress WooCommerce Plus has many advanced features that will help you maximize your sales and revenue!
Here are the most important functions of the MemberPress WooCommerce Plus plugin:
Select the format for the user name - Choose between first name + last name, email address or email prefix
- Custom Welcome Email - Send a unique welcome email to customers who purchase membership products through WooCommerce with MemberPress WooCommerce Plus.
- Custom redirect page - When customers make a purchase via WooCommerce, they will be redirected to the "Receive Order" page. With MemberPress WooCommerce Plus, you have the option to redirect your customers to a custom page, which can be any other page.
- Supports ongoing orders - You can assign the customer to the MemberPress membership(s) even if the customer's order is still in progress. For example, the customer has purchased a printed book from you, and anyone who purchases this book will also get access to a closed member area, an academy, with additional content and video tutorials. Even if the order is still being processed and it takes a while for the book to be sent to your customers, you can give them access to the academy so that they can benefit from you until the book arrives. Customer satisfaction is guaranteed!
- Ability to mark membership products as "Completed" - Even if the default status of WooCommerce is "In Progress", you can set all products that contain MemberPress memberships to be automatically marked as "Completed".
- Possibility to assign multiple memberships to a WooCommerce product - via the simple settings in each WooCommerce product itself
- Supports subscriptions - Requires the WooCommerce Subscriptions add-on
- Supports external websites - Enables the sale of external memberships via your online store with the External Membership Sites Ads-Ons Bundle
- One-time Membership Discounts - Allows you to give members one-time discounts on any of your WooCommerce products, even non-member products. This requires the Membership Discounts add-on
- Supports LearnDash courses - You can specify that the member is assigned to the corresponding LearnDash course after purchase. You can read how the integration with LearnDash works in this article
The advantages of integrating MemberPress and WooCommerce
The MemberPress and WooCommerce integration gives you the ability to assign MemberPress levels, pay-per-post and pay-per-view content to members after they have completed the purchase/order via WooCommerce.
Through the integration of MemberPress & WooCommerce you can:
- Allow customers to purchase more than one MemberPress membership product at a time and create their own combination of memberships (decide which memberships to add to cart and purchase).
- Large unique member discounts - You can create unique member discounts that are displayed on the Woo product page when the member is logged in to the member page. It also supports complex scenarios and combinations of memberships. The member discount add-on is sold separately.
- Enjoy all the benefits of an eCommerce store - Your MemberPress memberships are sold like any other WooCommerce product and you can enjoy all the benefits of an online store, including all the WooCommerce add-ons that help you maximize your sales and revenue
Full support for LearnDash courses!
MemberPress WooCommerce Plus supports LearnDash, so the member is automatically assigned to the appropriate MemberPress membership and LearnDash course when they purchase the corresponding WooCommerce product.
Conclusion
Memberpress WooCommerce Plus is the ideal plugin to link Memberpress with WooCommerce. This is interesting for all those who previously had a pure Memberpress solution and now want to expand the installation with a real online store and sell the subscriptions via WooCommerce. If you previously had a WooCommerce store and want to sell membership products (memberships), we recommend WooCommerce Subscription.