<p><strong>TIV Paywall for WooCommerce</strong> lets you sell access to premium content. Create products that hide videos, documents, images, audio, or text behind a paywall — customers purchase to unlock.</p>
<p>The extension adds two product types: <strong>Paywall</strong> (single content item) and <strong>Paywall Pass</strong> (access to all Paywall products). Both come with configurable access expiration, so you can sell time-limited or lifetime access.</p>
<h3>Supported content types</h3>
<p>Paste a URL into the <em>Hidden media</em> field — Paywall handles the rest:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Video:</strong> YouTube (including Shorts and Playlists), Vimeo, TikTok, TED, Cloudflare Stream, and direct files (mp4, webm, mov).</li>
<li><strong>Audio:</strong> mp3, wav, ogg, and other formats supported by the browser.</li>
<li><strong>Documents:</strong> PDF files, Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, and files stored on Google Drive.</li>
<li><strong>Publications:</strong> Issuu embeds.</li>
<li><strong>Images:</strong> Any image URL, including Google Drive hosted images.</li>
<li><strong>Text:</strong> Use the product description with the “Hide description” option — content stays hidden until purchased.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also set a <strong>Visible media URL</strong> to show a preview before purchase — for example, a video trailer, a watermarked image, or the first page of a PDF.</p>
<h2>How it works</h2>
<ul>
<li>VIDEO: an unlisted YouTube clip becomes visible after purchase. Before purchase, the customer sees only a picture or a trailer.</li>
<li>PDF: a document is hidden until the product is paid for. After purchase, the full PDF is displayed on the product page.</li>
<li>TEXT: content stored in the full description is hidden until purchased. Only the short description is shown before payment.</li>
</ul>
<p>Try it on our <strong>demo site</strong>: <a href="https://demo-woocommerce-paywall.tiv.net/">https://demo-woocommerce-paywall.tiv.net/</a></p>
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<h3>Key features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Paywall Pass:</strong> a single product that grants access to all Paywall products in the store.</li>
<li><strong>Access expiration:</strong> global and per-product settings. Set expiration from 1 hour to 365 days, or grant lifetime access.</li>
<li><strong>Expiration notifications:</strong> registered customers receive an email reminder before their access expires.</li>
<li><strong>My Account tab:</strong> customers see their purchased Paywall products with remaining access time on the “Purchased Products” page.</li>
<li><strong>Admin expiration override:</strong> administrators can set or remove a custom expiration date/time on any order.</li>
<li><strong>Downloadable products:</strong> attach downloadable files that become available after purchase.</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes:</strong> <code>[woopaywall_show_after_purchase]</code> and <code>[woopaywall_hide_after_purchase]</code> to control content visibility within any product description.</li>
<li><strong>Customizable buttons:</strong> change Add-to-Cart button texts and URLs depending on product state: available, in cart, purchased, or out of stock.</li>
<li><strong>Price display:</strong> replace prices with custom text for purchased or in-cart products.</li>
<li><strong>Video player options:</strong> choose between the default WordPress player and Presto Player for YouTube and Vimeo.</li>
<li><strong>Admin preview:</strong> view any Paywall product as Paid or Unpaid from the admin bar, without placing an order.</li>
<li><strong>Bulk and Quick Edit:</strong> update prices and expiration settings for multiple products at once.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>HPOS:</strong> fully compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage.</li>
<li><strong>Caching:</strong> full integration with WP Super Cache and WP Rocket; built-in cache buster for other page caching plugins.</li>
<li><strong>Name Your Price:</strong> compatible with the Name Your Price extension.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Blocks:</strong> Paywall products display correctly in block-based shop and cart pages.</li>
<li><strong>Translations:</strong> German (de_DE), Spanish (es_ES), French (fr_FR), Italian (it_IT), Dutch (nl_NL), Polish (pl_PL), Swedish (sv_SE).</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Questions?</h3>
<p>Please <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/paywall/">read the documentation</a> and do not hesitate to submit a pre-sale or support <a href="https://woocommerce.com/my-account/create-a-ticket/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">ticket</a>.</p>
<p><em>Thank you!</em><br />
<em>The TIV.NET Team</em></p>
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<h4>TIV.NET INC., based in Toronto, Canada, develops and supports the following WooCommerce extensions:</h4>
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<tr>
<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/admin-tools-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Admin Tools</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">A set of utilities for WooCommerce shop owners, administrators, and developers to secure, tune, and debug their store.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/multi-currency/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Multi-currency</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Lets customers pay in the currency of their choice.</td>
</tr>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/paywall-for-woocommerce/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Paywall</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Enables the monetization of various types of content, including videos, documents, etc., by allowing the sale of access to it.</td>
</tr>
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<td style="white-space: nowrap;padding: .25em"><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/tiv-sales-assistant/" target="_" rel="external noopener">Sales Assistant</a></td>
<td style="padding: .25em">Manage store-wide sales from one place — schedule discounts by category, tag, and country instead of editing products one by one.</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Paywall

<p>TIV Paywall is a WooCommerce extension that allows creating products with restricted access to content.</p>

<h3>What is Groups?</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin for WordPress is an essential tool that helps you organize users on your website. Think of it like sorting people into different clubs or teams, where each club has its own set of rules about who can access and do what.</p>
<h3>Why use it?</h3>
<p>This plugin is very useful if you want to control who can see certain content or perform specific actions on your website. It helps you to keep some parts of your website exclusive to specific groups or to give special rights to some users.</p>
<p>Groups works great with WooCommerce, so you can make some products only available to members of certain groups.</p>
<h3>What it Does</h3>
<p>It allows you to create groups, assign users to these groups, and set permissions for what each group can do or see on your site.</p>
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<h3>Ease of Use</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin works within the familiar WordPress Dashboard, so you do not need to learn something completely new. Clean views and clear functions make it quick and easy to work with.</p>
<h3>Control Content</h3>
<p>You can make parts of your website visible to members of specific groups only, which is great for managing exclusive areas and products. You can protect whole pages, products and other types of content. You can also protect sections within pages.</p>
<h3>Control Permissions</h3>
<p>Define what actions users in particular groups can perform, based on standard WordPress capabilities and custom capabilities provided by plugins.</p>
<h3>In a Nutshell</h3>
<p>The Groups plugin makes managing your WordPress site easier, especially if you need to control who can do what or see what. It is designed to be easy to use, reducing the complexity of user management and content access.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p> </p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<h4>Membership Management</h4>
<p>You can put users into different groups, similar to assigning them to different classes or teams.</p>
<h4>Content Access Control</h4>
<p>You can decide that only specific groups can see certain content, posts, pages or products. If you are not in the right group, you will not see that protected content.</p>
<h4>Capabilities</h4>
<p>You can assign special rights to users based on which group they are a member of.</p>
<p> </p>
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<p> </p>
<h3>Comprehensive Features</h3>
<p>Groups is powerful and effective, yet simple and easy to use. While its flexibility covers a wide range of functions, some of the most commonly used aspects include:</p>
<h4>User groups</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports an unlimited number of groups</li>
<li>Provides a Registered group which is automatically maintained</li>
<li>Users can be assigned to any group</li>
<li>Users are added automatically to the Registered group</li>
</ul>
<h4>Groups hierarchy</h4>
<ul>
<li>Supports group hierarchies with capability inheritance</li>
</ul>
<h4>Group capabilities</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates standard WordPress capabilities which can be assigned to groups and users</li>
<li>Supports custom capabilities: allows to define new capabilities for usage in plugins and web applications</li>
<li>Users inherit capabilities of the groups they belong to</li>
<li>Groups inherit capabilities of their parent groups</li>
</ul>
<h4>Access control</h4>
<p>Access to pages (posts, pages, products and other post types) can be restricted by group.</p>
<p>If access to a page is restricted to one or more groups, only users who belong to one of those groups may view it.</p>
<p>Fully supports custom post types, so that access to post types such as products or events can easily be restricted.</p>
<ul>
<li>Built-in access control that allows to restrict access to whole pages to specific groups only.</li>
<li>Blocks: The <em>Groups Member</em> block allows to restrict the visibility of its content to members of selected groups. The <em>Groups Non-Member</em> block hides its content from members of chosen groups. The blocks can be nested to provide multiple layers of access control to content.</li>
<li>Shortcodes allow to control who can access sections of content on pages, show parts to members of certain groups or to those who are not members. Shortcodes can also be used to show content for users based on their capabilities.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Easy user interface</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrates nicely with the standard WordPress Users menu</li>
<li>Provides an intuitive Groups menu</li>
<li>Conceptually clean views showing the essentials</li>
<li>Quick filters to locate groups, capabilities, users and pages</li>
<li>Bulk-actions where needed, apply capabilities to groups, add users to groups, remove users from groups, protect pages in bulk</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sensible options</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable access restrictions by custom post type</li>
<li>An optional tree view for groups can be shown when desired</li>
<li>Provides its own set of permissions</li>
<li>Administrator overrides for tests</li>
<li>Cleans up after testing with a “delete all plugin data” option</li>
</ul>
<h4>Framework</h4>
<ul>
<li>Groups is designed based on a solid and sound data-model with a complete API that allows developers to create group-oriented web applications and plugins</li>
</ul>
<h4>Multisite</h4>
<ul>
<li>All features are supported independently for each blog in multisite installations</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Extensions</h3>
<p>You can add more features with official extensions that further integrate Groups and WooCommerce. Among the extensions in the WooCommerce Marketplace we recommend:</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/groups-woocommerce/">Groups Integration</a></h4>
<p>Sell Memberships with Groups and WooCommerce. Grants memberships based on products. It automatically assigns a customer to one or more groups based on the products ordered.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/group-coupons/">Group Coupons</a></h4>
<p>Automatically apply and restrict coupon validity for user groups. Offer exclusive, automatic and targeted discounts for your customers.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-product-search/">WooCommerce Product Search</a></h4>
<p>The perfect Search Engine helps customers to find and buy products quickly – essential for every WooCommerce store. Supports performance features based on group memberships.</p>
<h4><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/restrict-payment-methods/">Restrict Payment Methods</a></h4>
<p>Limit the use of Payment Methods by Group Memberships, Roles, Countries, and Order Amounts.</p>
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Paywall vs Groups