Here is how it works from the beginning of the customers point of view. This assumes that the Print Upgrade plugin has been enabled by OHT and the Print Upgrade membership has been properly configured with the custom Print Upgrade Payment Gateway and a price of $0.01 of higher. — 1. Adjust the Print Upgrade Settings  Navigate to Memberpress -> Print Upgrade Settings Default Area Code is used to help in […]

Below we will demonstrate how to configure a Metered Paywall for Free Memberships. This is useful for sites who do not use a traditional pay-to-read model with an active paywall. It allows readers to view “X” amount of stories each month, then prompts them to register for a free account for unlimited access. Creating a free account adds them to a e-mail mailing list and collects their contact information to […]

Setting up Auto Renewing Memberships in MemberPress Setting up Auto Renewals, also known as Automatically Recurring Memberships, in Memberpress is quite easy and can be achieved in just a few minutes. There are a few important rules you need to follow: Never edit an existing “One-Time” membership to update it to an Auto Renewal membership, or vice versa. You will want to start fresh and create a brand new auto […]

There is a tool in our plugin directory called Memberpress Export that should be used for our customers to export a list of their subscribers, including profile fields such as address and phone number. Once enabled, you can access the plugin from the Dashboard under Memberpress -> Member Export On this page, you select the memberships you’d like to export a list of users for. You can select multiple memberships by holding […]

If you want to set a specific edition to Free Access, you can do so by tagging these articles with the “Free” paywall. ARTICLES: Once the edition is published, go to Articles -> All Articles. From the “Edition” drop down, select the date of the edition you are trying to make Free. This will return all articles that belong to that edition. It is best to adjust the “Screen Options” […]

Sometimes you’ll want to have a user to fill in some additional information when they renew or subscribe to your site. Go to Memberpress > Options > Fields to add additional fields for users to fill in.   Under “Custom User Information Fields”, click the + button. Fill in the name & type of field to user – select from text, email, URL, date, textarea, checkbox, drop-down, multiselect, radio buttons […]

MemberPress takes full advantage of the latest reporting tools available for easy to read and understand charts. You can view transactions in dollar amounts or units and can narrow down what you’re looking for by year, month, or Membership. At the bottom of the page when viewing Monthly or Yearly tabs is a table which will break down your statistics even further. You’ll notice in this table that most of […]

Overview There are a couple of reasons why you may want to change the pricing terms of an existing membership: Offer a temporary discount Natural inflation of your product Wanting to charge more Changing the billing type (one-time payment to recurring) Etc. These are all very good reasons to update the price of your membership. Additionally, you should make note of the following: Whatever you do, do NOT delete your membership to […]

What this video covers: Creating a membership and understanding the Membership options. Creating a Membership Creating a Membership in MemberPress is very similar to creating a Page or Post in WordPress — in fact the Memberships are shown on your site as pages. To setup a Membership do the following. Set a Title for the Membership (Example: Basic Membership). Set a price and subscription term for the Membership. You can […]

Because the term options that you see will change depending on what you enter for ‘Billing type’, we will address what you will see based on selecting either ‘Recurring’ or ‘One-Time’. Recurring Price (your-currency) – here you will be able to enter any amount that you would like the user to be billed with each billing. Billing Type – this of course, will be set to ‘Recurring’. Interval – the rate at which […]

Here you will be able to learn more about the MemberPress account page. From creating it and editing it, to learning how your users will interact with it. Creating the Account Page To create the account page in MemberPress all you need to do is navigate to MemberPress > Options > Pages (first tab) and near the top of the page to the right of the MemberPress Account Page option, […]

Creating the Login Page To create the MemberPress Login Page all you need to do is navigate to MemberPress > Options > Pages (first tab) and near the top of the page to the right of the ‘MemberPress Login Page’ option, use the drop down to select ‘- Auto Create New Page -‘ and then click the ‘Update Options’ button at the very bottom of the page. Important: if this has anything […]

Creating a Membership Registration Page MemberPress allows you to create membership registration pages in two ways: Automatically when creating a membership Manually by adding a shortcode to any WordPress Page, Post, or Custom Post Type These two methods have been explained below. Automatically By simply creating your membership in MemberPress, you have created your registration page also for that membership! You can find the link to your membership’s registration page […]

In MemberPress, there are a couple of ways to link to your Membership’s Registration pages. Below are a couple of the most common ways. In Your Menu Providing a registration link to your menu can be a very effective way to make registering easy for your users. You can link directly to a specific registration page, a page that has your registration links, or even our Group Pricing page. Important […]

Overview Groups are a unique feature of MemberPress. Groups allow you to quickly and painlessly setup a nice features comparison page for users to get a quick snapshot of the various Memberships you offer. Setting up a Group in MemberPress also allows your users to upgrade or downgrade with our convenient Change Plan popup explained below. Groups show up on your site just like a WordPress page would. You should […]

Coupon Options Below, the various coupon settings are explained. Coupon Code – This field will be auto-populated with a randomly generated coupon code. Change the coupon code here if needed. Coupon codes should NOT contain spaces, quotes, or any other non alpha-numeric symbol. Only alphanumeric characters, hyphens, or underscores should be used. Discount – The discount that will be applied to every billing for the subscription this coupon is applied to. Can be any percent […]

On this page, we have listed all of the supported parameters for every MemberPress Email and Reminder. Please note that each parameter can only be used in the email type they are listed under. For quick links to each section click on the option below: MemberPress Emails These are only for the emails found in the MemberPress > Options > Emails tab.  {$user_id} The user’s WordPress database ID (9253) {$user_login} The user’s username […]

Send Mail From MemberPress will send out emails on your behalf using the information found in the “From Name:” and “From Email:” fields as seen below.   As a default, MemberPress will populate these fields with the Site Title and Email address located in your WordPress Settings > General page. Member Notices These emails are triggered and sent to a user when a certain event occurs. Send Welcome Email – This email is sent to Welcome […]

There may be a couple of reasons as to why you would want to manually add a member to your site, but the main reason will likely be to create a new user on your site for someone and grant them access to a membership. On the MemberPress > Members page, all of this can be done in one place. You can do this by navigating to your WordPress Dashboard > MemberPress […]

Transactions CSV Format Download Sample Transactions CSV When to Import This File Type: To import a One-Time Subscription – One-Time Subscriptions do NOT need to have an associated subscription imported because “one-time subscriptions” are really just a single transaction. To activate a previously imported Recurring Subscription – Recurring Subscriptions are only marked as active (meaning the user will have access to your protected content) when a completed non-expired transaction is present. Required […]

Memberships CSV Format Required Columns: name — Name of the Membership. Can be any small string of text. price — Price of the Membership. Can be any number in decimal format without a currency symbol — for example: 5.99 … period — Number of weeks, months or years. Can be any valid whole number if the period_type=’months’ or period_type=’weeks’ but anything else, this can only be 1. period_type — This is […]

Creating your CSV file CSV stands for “comma separated values,” which is a very common format used by Spreadsheets. You can create a standard spreadsheet in Excel, Numbers, Open Office, or Google Spreadsheet and then export a CSV file from your spreadsheet. The CSV file must be in Windows Format.  We are working on a fix so this won’t matter, but for now, only Windows CSV format will work. All of […]