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WordPress Membership Plugins: MemberPress
The document outlines the use of MemberPress for protecting video course content on a coaching website, detailing customer subscription flow and membership setup. It highlights the writer's positive prior experience with MemberPress for its flexibility and support, yet critiques its documentation and confusing payment setup. Additionally, it discusses workarounds for handling specific payment return scenarios involving PayPal.
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- 1. Protecting Video CourseContent A Simple Use of MemberPress Bob Spies Flying Seal Systems bob@flyingsealsystems.com
- 2. The Application • Site:theartoflivinginc.com (career and life coaching). • Two YouTube-hosted video courses, each with its own page. • A free intro video for each course.
- 3. Customer Flow: • Customerviews intro video. • Customer begins subscription process: • Customer fills out basic information and is taken to PayPal.
- 4. Customer Flow (2): •Customeris returned from PayPal to the “thank you” page for the course in question. • In future, s/he simply goes to the course page. •If a customer goes directly to the Course page and isn’t logged in, s/he is presented with options.
- 5. Setup •Membership Definition • Description •Price • Registration thank you message
- 6. Setup (continued) •Protection Rule •Specifies content and which memberships can access it. • Message shown if someone without permission attempts to access the content.
- 7. Setup (continued) •Payment method(s) •MemberPress supports • PayPal • Stripe • Authorize.net
- 8. Why I ChoseMemberPress • Experience working with it on a prior project. • Knew MemberPress was the most flexible of all the solutions I had evaluated then. • I had received excellent support. • Needed ability for customer to purchase multiple independent memberships. • Chris Lema reviews.
- 9. Ease of Use •Simple and straightforward, except for Payment setup. • Payment documentation for PayPal was confusing, out-of- date, incomplete, and in one case wrong. • Gotcha: Setting things up so only MemberPress PayPal customers are returned to the Video purchase thankyou page.
- 10. Handling the After-PayPalGotcha • Set up PayPal to return customer to standard (non-video) thank you page: • Ignore the return URL specified by MemberPress:
- 11. Handling the After-PayPalGotcha (2) • Now non-video (non-MemberPress) customers will get returned to the standard thank you page. • Video customers will still get returned to the video thank you page with text specific to the video course they have purchased. • (MemberPress will override the return page specified on PayPal.)
- 12. What I LikedAbout MemberPress • Clean, flexible architecture. • “Rules”-based architecture doesn’t make limiting assumptions as to how a Membership will be implemented. • (From prior project) Actions and filters to handle any kind of customization required. • Easy to use, except for the Payment setup. • Great technical support.
- 13. What I Didn’tLike About MemberPress • Relatively poor documentation. • Not well organized. • PayPal-related documentation out-of-date, uses different terminology than PayPal does. • Relies mostly on videos. • Didn’t include handling the “other PayPal customers” Gotcha. • Confusing PayPal setup Admin panel.