MemberPress Review (2022): Is It The Best WordPress Membership Plugin?
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LAST UPDATED ON: NOVEMBER 2, 2022 COLIN NEWCOMER LEAVE A COMMENT
If you’re looking to create your own membership website, our hands-on MemberPress review will help you decide whether this plugin is the best tool for your needs.
MemberPress is one of the most popular and feature-rich plugins for creating a membership site with WordPress. It doesn’t have a free version like some other plugins, but it does offer everything that you need to create a fully functioning membership site, even down to its own built-in course builder.
But is it right for you? Well, that’s the topic of this post. I’m going to dig into MemberPress in depth to help you decide.
MemberPress Review: A Look at the Features
To kick off our MemberPress review, let’s take a very brief look at the features. I’m going to keep this brief because I’ll cover all of the key features in much more depth below when I go hands-on with the plugin.
My goal here is just to give you a high-level understanding of the plugin, in case you haven’t dug too deeply into the MemberPress website yet.
How MemberPress Works for Your Frontend Members
Before we get into the backend setup and management, let’s take a look at what the member experience will be like for your members.
To get started, MemberPress makes it easy to create front-end pricing tables. You can customize all of the headings and feature points according to your needs:
Once people choose a membership level, they’ll be prompted to register for an account (and pay for the membership, if applicable).
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You can also customize the fields on your registration form if needed:
Once people sign up, they’ll be able to access all of the restricted content for their level.
They’ll also get their own frontend dashboard where they can manage their profile details, subscriptions, payment methods, courses, and so on.
If enabled, members will also be able to change and cancel their subscriptions by themselves, which is nice because you don’t need to manually intervene for basic subscription management (though you can when needed):
That’s a quick look. But in general, MemberPress does a pretty good job of creating a stellar frontend experience for your members.
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Personally, I think one of the strong points is how easy MemberPress makes it to create good-looking pricing tables, as this is a feature that not all membership plugins offer.
How to Set Up MemberPress on the Backend
Now, let’s go hands-on with the backend and I’ll show you what it’s like to set up a membership site with MemberPress. Of course, I can’t show you every single setting, but I will try to cover the high points so you can get a good idea of what it’s like to work with MemberPress.
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Setting Up Payment Methods
Unless you’re only offering free memberships, your first step is to set up your payment methods, which you can do from the settings area.
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One nice thing is that you can set up multiple gateways and let members choose.
In addition to the built-in integrations, you can also find third-party plugins to add more payment options. For example, the MemberPress WooCommerce Plus plugin lets you use WooCommerce to process MemberPress payments, which opens up all of the payment gateways available to WooCommerce.
Member Management
To manage your members, you can go to MemberPress → Members.
Here, you’ll see a summary of each member, along with details such as their subscriptions, transactions, lifetime value, etc.
You can use filters at the top to find specific members and you can also export all of the data as a CSV if needed:
If you click on a specific member, you’ll be able to edit all of the normal WordPress profile information. You’ll also get new MemberPress-specific fields to manage their subscriptions, re-send their welcome email, and so on:
