Introduction

Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress plugin that has been designed to add a robust recurring membership payment feature to your website. This unique plugin allows you to set up a variety of different membership levels, as well as the ability for one or more levels of access be offered to users. Paid Memberships Pro is an incredibly powerful and flexible tool for creating and managing multiple membership options on your site. It offers unparalleled functionalities in terms of members management, letting you easily decide which features should be available for paid members only and even let you set up custom front-end forms according to member's roles, which makes it a uniquely useful tool for professional webmasters who want their membership site fully under their control.

Paid Memberships Pro is the best solution if you want to have full control over your membership system. It is easy to set up and use, and also comes with a comprehensive back-end management system that lets you add or remove features according to the user's role. It doesn't require extensive knowledge or programming language in setting up a membership site, but it is also flexible enough to let you have full control over any custom feature you may want on your site.

Paid Memberships Pro is used by:

Coaches: It is used by coaches who charge a monthly fee for access to their courses and teachings.
Online Courses: Individuals offering online courses or eLearning through which they want to be able to restrict material according to the member's level of expertise, now can do so using this plugin.
Seminars And Workshops: If you want to offer content in your webinar or workshop that is of higher quality or limited access, this plugin is for you. For example if you're launching an event like the ABC Summit, then you'll use Paid Memberships Pro by adding a special (paid) section of the event website where only those who have paid will view. This way everyone else will register at no cost and still get access to free materials on the site.

There are more than 100,000+ sites running Paid Memberships platform.

It was founded by Jason Coleman and Kim Coleman at Stranger Studios in the year 2010.

Features & Functionality

Restrict Default Content: The Paid Memberships Pro plugin also allows you to restrict various WordPress content so that only the users who have paid for a membership can access it. You can easily decide which of your different types of content should be restricted and if you want a specific user to be able to access this without paying, you simply change their membership level to one that can access all content OR offer a Trial membership level.
Content Dripping: Content Drip is the best way to deliver content sequentially over a certain period of time. With this tool you can drip out your membership site's content or course material over a set amount of days or weeks. If you want to drip out your product or e-book's chapters, then Paid Memberships Pro offers an option for that as well.
Create Directories and Profiles: Paid Memberships Pro allows you to create existing members directories and profile pages so that your users can easily manage their subscriptions.
Use with WordPress Multisite: Paid Memberships Pro is compatible with WordPress multi-site. With this tool you can add multiple network sites or blogs to one centralized member area.
Payment Gateways: Paid Memberships Pro has many payment gateways that include PayPal Express, Stripe Connect, Stripe Checkout, and Authorize.net, available for your monthly billing needs. They also offer integration with PayPal Standard, PayPal Payflow Pro, Braintree, Payfast, Paystack, and WooCommerce integration gateways. Depending on the gateway you integrate with, it can also support major credit cards like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
Recurring Payments and Subscriptions: Paid Memberships Pro allows you to charge users on a recurring basis for membership. For example, this plugin will save all your different payment settings and the frequency of payments like monthly, quarterly or yearly; and it will automatically take care of the renewal process so that you don't have to worry about anything.
Discount, Gift, or Invite Codes: This plugin also allows you to reward your users with discount coupons or gift codes for inviting more customers. You can set the amount of discount or give free access for a certain amount of time.
Sales & Revenue Reports: Paid Memberships Pro lets you see how many members are currently registered, what the current membership is, your earnings/revenue and cash flow of total sales for all registrations.
Add Members Manually: A very useful function of Paid Memberships Pro is that you can also manually add your members in the database. You don't need to create an account before purchasing access, after buying a membership from your site users can then enter their information and start using the resources you made available. It's that easy!
Import and Export Members: You can easily import and export members in bulk. This tool allows you to transfer all your member information from one site to another, including product catalogs, payment settings, membership levels and restrictions.
Front-end User Profiles: Users can create their own profiles, upload pictures and personal information like location and email. This feature allows users to interact more and builds a sense of community among them.
Affiliates: Paid Memberships Pro has an affiliate feature which allows your users to share links to all the fees based membership sites with their friends. You can set a commission for each sale so you will earn a percentage income from each site they refer.

Pricing

It is Free, Standard at $247 a year for 1 license, Plus at $397 a year for 2 licenses and Enterprise.

The PMPro plugin is open-source and FREE. We hope to reach more customers knowing that a basic membership feature for their WordPress website is FREE with PMPro.

Enterprise is negotiated with the customer one-on-one to evaluate their needs and how many licenses they may need - especially aimed at agencies.

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