<h1 style="text-align: center">Create Members-Only Store Features and Discounts</h1>
<p>The Ultimate Memberships for WooCommerce extension transforms shop elements from public to private for members-only. You can create multiple membership plans and grant access to specific products, categories, pages, and posts. Admins can also offer discounts based on current plans for different products and categories.</p>
<p>Manually add new members or grant memberships to users based on registration, manual validation, and products purchased. Admins can add additional custom fields to collect extra information from customers during registration and from their My Account pages.</p>
<p>Create a dedicated members’ area page under customers’ My Account sections to inform customers about products, categories, content, and discounts available with their current membership plans.</p>
<p>Tie membership plans with subscription products, thanks to compatibility with WooCommerce Subscription extension.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005635358 size-full" src="https://addify.store/adv-banners/addify-store.gif" alt="" width="900" height="141" /></p>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Create multiple membership plans</li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscription</a> extension</li>
<li>Grant access based on
<ul>
<li>Account registration</li>
<li>Account registration (admin approval required)</li>
<li>Manual assignment by admin</li>
<li>Products purchased</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Configure membership-plan duration in days, date range, or unlimited period</li>
<li>Restrict content access including:
<ul>
<li>Blogs and pages</li>
<li>Post types and taxonomies</li>
<li>Products and categories</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ability to hide the entire product, the Add-to-Cart button, or the price</li>
<li>Offer discounts on selected products in percentages or fixed amounts</li>
<li>Enable custom tabs in the dedicated members’ area found under the My Account page</li>
<li>Show accessible products, categories, blogs, pages, and discounts</li>
<li>Customizable email notifications for membership activation, pending, ending soon, expired, or renewal</li>
<li>Separate members listing page
<ul>
<li>Filter members by plan</li>
<li>Manually add new members or edit existing members</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>View members details including:
<ul>
<li>Active membership plan</li>
<li>Membership statuses and start and end dates</li>
<li>Custom fields data</li>
<li>Send notes to members about new offers and more.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Add multiple custom fields and display them
<ul>
<li>At registration</li>
<li>At checkout</li>
<li>On the My Account page</li>
<li>In Admin-only area</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Supports nine field types
<ul>
<li>Text, email, and number</li>
<li>File upload, text area, and dropdown</li>
<li>Multi-select, radio buttons, and checkboxes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Make fields editable by admin only or both admin and customer</li>
<li>Completely hide content, show except, or redirect to custom pages</li>
<li>Add custom redirects after login and registration</li>
<li>Exclude on-sale products from membership discounts</li>
<li>Remove hidden products from listing pages</li>
<li>Display custom messages when users try to access the hidden content</li>
<li>Setup separate messages for blog posts, pages, products, and purchasing discounts</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Membership dashboard</strong></h2>
<p>The Ultimate Memberships for WooCommerce extension offers an attractive dashboard that provides basic information about different plans which includes the total, active, pending, and expired members along with a bar-chart display.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471529" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Membership-Dashboard.png" alt="" width="980" height="769" /></p>
<h2><strong>Create multiple membership plans</strong></h2>
<p>With the Ultimate Memberships for WooCommerce extension, you can create multiple membership plans and provide access to specific products, categories, pages, and offer discounts.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471531" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Create-Multiple-Membership-plans-1.jpg" alt="" width="980" height="331" /></p>
<p>When creating a new membership plan you can configure the following options.</p>
<h3><strong>Step 1: Add membership requirements</strong></h3>
<p>In the first step, under the “access” tab, you can configure plan name, slug, and following details</p>
<p><strong>Grant access upon:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Manual assignment (Admin will manually add new members)</li>
<li>User account registration (Grant membership on account creation)</li>
<li>User account registration with manual validation (Grant membership on account creation but after admin approval)</li>
<li>Product purchase (Purchases selected product(s))</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Membership length:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Unlimited (User will remain member forever)</li>
<li>Date range (Membership will start and expire after specific date range)</li>
<li>Number of days (Membership will expire after X days)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Members My Account Area:</strong></p>
<p>Show members only content, products, discounts, notes and membership manage options.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8525418" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Access-Membership-Plan.png" alt="" width="980" height="851" /></p>
<h3><strong>Step 2: Content restrictions (pages, posts)</strong></h3>
<p>From the content tab, you can add restrictions for specific posts, post categories, pages, post tags, and post types for non-members. Here are the three restriction controls you can configure here,</p>
<ul>
<li>Only members can view (The selected content will be made available to members of this plan)</li>
<li>Grant access
<ul>
<li>Immediately (Immediately grant access to content</li>
<li>After number of days (Grant access to content after X days)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note:</strong> From “visibility” tab in extension settings, you can choose an action for non-members who try to access these members-only pages. You can hide the page completely, show page excerpts, or redirect users to another page if they try to access a members-only page or post. See more details below in “Default Visibility” heading below,</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001163259 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Content-restrictions.jpg" alt="Members Content restrictions" width="1896" height="1440" /></p>
<h3><strong>Step 3: Product and category restrictions</strong></h3>
<p>From the products tab, you can manage the visibility of products and product categories. The extension allows you to manage visibility in four different ways.</p>
<p><strong>Accessibility types: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Only members can view and purchase –  Hide product from non-members and visitors. Only members will be able to view and purchase the product.</li>
<li>Only members can purchase – Hide Add-to-Cart button button from non-members. The prices will remain visible. Only members will be able to view and purchase the product.</li>
<li>Only members can purchase and see prices – Hide both Add-to-Cart button and prices from non-members. Only members can view prices and purchase products.</li>
<li>Only members can view – Hide entire product from non-members. Members can view the product, but the prices and Add-to-Cart button will not be visible for members</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Grant access:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Immediately (Immediately grant access to content)</li>
<li>After number of days (Grant access to content after X days)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: From extension settings, you can choose to hide restricted products from shop, category, and other listing pages. You can access this setting from UL Membership > Settings > Visibility.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001163471 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Members-Products-restrictions.jpg" alt="" width="3802" height="3254" /></p>
<h3><strong>Step 4: Member’s d</strong><strong>iscount</strong></h3>
<p>From the fourth discounts tab, you can offer discounts on specific products and categories for the members of this plan.</p>
<p><strong>Discount types:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed</li>
<li>Percentage</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Grant discount:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Immediately (Immediately offer discount)</li>
<li>After number of days (Offer discount after X days)</li>
</ul>
<p>Note: You can exclude on-sale products from discount rules. You can access this setting from UL Membership > Settings > General.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001173412 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Discount-rule.jpg" alt="" width="1892" height="1420" /></p>
<h3><strong>Step 5: Membership status emails</strong></h3>
<p>From the email tab, you can configure plan-specific emails, content, and send emails when membership plans are:</p>
<ul>
<li>Activated</li>
<li>Pending</li>
<li>Ending soon</li>
<li>Ended</li>
<li>Renewal</li>
</ul>
<p>The extension offers eight variables to include important information about membership statuses.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8525520" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Emails-content-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="966" /></p>
<h3><strong>Members’ area customer’s front</strong></h3>
<p>Selected membership tabs display under the Members’ Area on the My Account page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471535" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Members-Area-My-account-page.png" alt="" width="980" height="517" /></p>
<h2><strong>Managing Members</strong></h2>
<p>The extension provides a separate grid listing of all members enrolled in different plans. You can filter members by status, plan, and more.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-18734001163555 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Members-management.jpg" alt="" width="2400" height="952" /></p>
<p>You can add new members or edit the details of existing members including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Membership plan, start date, end date, and current status</li>
<li>Custom fields data (profile fields)</li>
<li>Member Notes (The admin can add a note for members and display them under the My Account > Members’ Area > Notes section.)</li>
</ul>
<p>You can choose to notify members via email when submitting new notes for them.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471544" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Members-detail.png" alt="" width="980" height="873" /></p>
<h3>Import/Export members</h3>
<p>You can import and export members along with membership plan, status, membership start & expiry date.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001163551 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Import-export-members.jpg" alt="" width="2250" height="1060" /></p>
<h2><strong>Custom member fields</strong></h2>
<p>The Ultimate Memberships for WooCommerce extension offers a unique feature. It allows you to create additional custom fields to collect extra information from your members. Collecting more data helps maintain a high-quality membership database.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471543" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Profile-Custom-Fields.png" alt="" width="980" height="379" /></p>
<p>You can create and customize the following field options:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose from nine field types
<ul>
<li>Text, text area</li>
<li>Email, number</li>
<li>File upload</li>
<li>Dropdown, multi-select</li>
<li>Radio and checkbox</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Customize field labels</li>
<li>Make fields dependent on membership plans.</li>
<li>Make fields display only for admins or for admins and customers</li>
<li>Choose to display fields
<ul>
<li>At registration</li>
<li>At checkout (displays in a separate section from membership fields)</li>
<li>On the My Account page</li>
<li>On the member profile (Admin)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471542" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Editing-or-adding-new-field.png" alt="" width="980" height="668" /></p>
<h3><strong>Make fields dependent on membership plans</strong></h3>
<p>Fields dependent on specific membership plans will display to current members enrolled in that plan. For user-account registration plans, these fields appear on the registration form and change depending on the plan selected by users.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8471539" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Custom-Gif-for-dropdown-membership.gif" alt="" width="980" height="572" /></p>
<h2>WooCommerce subscription compatibility:</h2>
<p>Ultimate membership is now compatibility with official WooCommerce Subscriptions extension. The membership will be tied with subscription product in a way that the membership status will follow the subscription status of the product. Once you select the subscription product, the membership access tab will display following additional options to further customize membership expiry terms,</p>
<ul>
<li>Never expires (The membership will never expire even if the subscription product expires and full payments are made)</li>
<li>Expires with Subscription The membership will follow the subscription status. If subscription is active, the membership will remain active.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001163677 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Subscription-product.jpg" alt="" width="3856" height="3054" /></p>
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<h2><strong>Global configuration options:</strong></h2>
<p>From the UL Members > settings tab you can access the global configuration options of the extension.</p>
<h3><strong>1) Redirect after login and registration</strong></h3>
<p>You can choose to redirect users after login and refer them to internal pages or custom URLs. It’s a handy feature to improve user experiences as members are redirected to a specific area of the website based on their current plan.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001163533 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/General.jpg?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="446" /></p>
<h3>2) Default visibility</h3>
<p>Using the visibility tab, you can configure the default visibility action for non-members. You can set different actions for different products</p>
<p><strong>Page visibility</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Show restricted content message</li>
<li>Hide entire page and return 404 error</li>
<li>Redirect to another page/URL</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Show short description:</strong></p>
<p>Display product and page excerpt along with restriction message.</p>
<p><strong>Hide restricted products:</strong></p>
<p>This option allows you to hide the accessible products from listing pages.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8525425" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Visibility-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="572" /></p>
<h3><strong>3) Custom messages</strong></h3>
<p>You display custom messages to non-members for hidden blogs posts, pages, products, and discounts. For example, if membership is required to access the product, page or to receive a discount.</p>
<p>The extension offers different variables to make messages personalized and more meaningful for customers. For more details see the documentation.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-8525462" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Custom-Messages.png" alt="" width="980" height="913" /></p>
<h3>4) Members settings:</h3>
<p>Using the members setting tab you can force customers to select a plan while creating new account if the membership plans are displayed on registration form. You can choose to delete membership data when the user account is deleted by admin.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft wp-image-18734001163709 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Members-settings.jpg" alt="" width="1706" height="482" /></p>
<h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>

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<h4>A flexible, well-supported, and easy-to-use WordPress membership plugin for offering free and premium content from your WordPress site</h4>
<p>The simple membership plugin lets you protect your posts and pages so only your members can view the protected content.</p>
<h4>Unlimited Membership Access Levels</h4>
<p>Set up unlimited membership levels (example: free, silver, gold etc) and protect your posts and pages using the membership levels you create.</p>
<h4>Flexible Membership Duration Options</h4>
<p>Simple Membership supports multiple membership duration models, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed duration (days, weeks, months, or years)</li>
<li>No expiry / until canceled</li>
<li>Fixed future expiry date</li>
<li>Annual memberships (calendar or fiscal year based)</li>
<li>Subscription-driven access</li>
</ul>
<p>Each membership level can be configured independently to match your access rules.</p>
<h4>User Friendly Interface for Content Protection</h4>
<p>When you are editing a post or page in the WordPress editor, you can select to protect that post or page for your members.</p>
<p>Non-members viewing a protected page will be prompted to log in or become a member.</p>
<h4>Have Free and Paid Memberships</h4>
<p>You can configure it to have free and/or paid memberships on your site. Paid membership payment is handled securely via PayPal. Membership payment can also be accepted using Stripe or Braintree payment gateways.</p>
<p>Both one time and recurring/subscription payments are supported for PayPal and Stripe.</p>
<p>You can accept one time membership payment via Braintree payment gateway.</p>
<p>Option to make membership payment buttons using the new PayPal Checkout API.</p>
<p>There is also option to use PayPal smart buttons for membership payment.</p>
<p>You can enable email activation or email confirmation for the free memberships.</p>
<h4>Membership Payments Log</h4>
<p>All the payments from your members are recorded in the plugin. You can view them anytime by visiting the payments menu from the admin dashboard.</p>
<h4>Developer API</h4>
<p>There are lots of action and filter hooks that a developer can use to customize the plugin.</p>
<p>There is also an API that can be used to query, create, update member accounts.</p>
<h4>Member Login Widget on The Sidebar</h4>
<p>You can easily add a member login widget on the sidebar of your site. Simply use the login form shortcode in the sidebar widget.</p>
<p>You can also customize the member login widget by creating a custom template file in your theme (or child theme) folder.</p>
<p>Option to show a password visibility toggle option in the login form.</p>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>Read the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">setup documentation</a> after you install the plugin to get started.</p>
<h4>Plugin Support</h4>
<p>If you encounter any issues with this plugin, please visit our website to post on the support forum or contact us directly.<br />
https://simple-membership-plugin.com/</p>
<p>You can create a free forum account to ask your questions.</p>
<h4>Additional Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with any WordPress theme.</li>
<li>Ability to protect photo galleries.</li>
<li>Ability to protect attachment pages.</li>
<li>Show teaser content to convert visitors into members.</li>
<li>Comments on your protected posts will also be protected automatically.</li>
<li>There is an option to enable debug logging so you can troubleshoot membership payment related issues easily (if any).</li>
<li>Ability to customize the content protection message that gets shown to non-members.</li>
<li>Ability to partially protect post or page content.</li>
<li>You can apply protection to posts and pages in bulk.</li>
<li>Ability to use merge vars in the membership email notification.</li>
<li>Membership management side is handled by the plugin.</li>
<li>Ability to manually approve your members.</li>
<li>Ability to import WordPress users as members.</li>
<li>Search for a member’s profile in your WP admin dashboard.</li>
<li>Filter members list by account status.</li>
<li>Filter members list by membership level.</li>
<li>Site admins can save private notes about members, providing a convenient way to keep track of important information.</li>
<li>Can be translated to any language.</li>
<li>Hide the admin toolbar from the frontend of your site.</li>
<li>Allow your members to delete their membership accounts.</li>
<li>Send quick notification email to your members.</li>
<li>Email all members by membership level, with an option to filter by account status.</li>
<li>Customize the password reset email for members.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member registration form.</li>
<li>Use Google reCAPTCHA on your member login and password reset form.</li>
<li>The login and registration widgets will be responsive if you are using a responsive theme.</li>
<li>Ability to restrict the commenting feature on your site to your members only.</li>
<li>Front-end member registration page.</li>
<li>Front-end member profiles.</li>
<li>Front-end member login page.</li>
<li>Option to configure after login redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after registration redirect for members.</li>
<li>Option to configure after logout redirection for members.</li>
<li>Option force the members to use strong password.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your terms and conditions before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to make the users agree to your privacy policy before they can register for a member account.</li>
<li>Option to hide the registration/join option. Useful if you prefer visitors not to see the registration option on your site.</li>
<li>Option to automatically logout the members when they close the browser.</li>
<li>Ability to forward the payment notification to an external URL for further processing.</li>
<li>Option to configure whitelisting for user email addresses to allow registration only from specific email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Option to configure blacklisting for user email addresses to block registration from certain email addresses or email domains.</li>
<li>Allows you to set an active login limit for members, helping to prevent account sharing.</li>
<li>Option to enable and set failed login attempt limit, which helps to protect against brute force attacks.</li>
<li>Option to enable login event tracking, allowing you to view the history of member logins.</li>
<li>Option to reset the settings and data of the plugin to start fresh.</li>
<li>Option to configure PayPal payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Stripe payment buttons for memberships (one-time and recurring payments).</li>
<li>Option to configure Braintree payment buttons for memberships (one-time payments).</li>
<li>Free Social Login addon that lets users log in with their Google or Facebook accounts.</li>
<li>The plugin is actively maintained and we are working on new features for the plugin.</li>
<li>Browse the <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/simple-membership-documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin documentation</a> to learn more about the features of this plugin.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Language Translations</h4>
<p>The following language translations are already available:</p>
<ul>
<li>English</li>
<li>German</li>
<li>French</li>
<li>Spanish</li>
<li>Spanish (Venezuela)</li>
<li>Chinese</li>
<li>Portuguese (Brazil)</li>
<li>Portuguese (Portugal)</li>
<li>Swedish</li>
<li>Macedonian</li>
<li>Polish</li>
<li>Turkish</li>
<li>Russian</li>
<li>Dutch (Netherlands)</li>
<li>Dutch (Belgium)</li>
<li>Romanian</li>
<li>Danish</li>
<li>Lithuanian</li>
<li>Serbian</li>
<li>Japanese</li>
<li>Greek</li>
<li>Latvian</li>
<li>Indonesian</li>
<li>Hebrew</li>
<li>Catalan</li>
<li>Hungarian</li>
<li>Bosnian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)</li>
<li>Slovak</li>
<li>Italian</li>
<li>Norwegian</li>
<li>Mexican</li>
<li>Arabic</li>
<li>Czech</li>
<li>Finnish</li>
</ul>
<p>You can translate the plugin using the language <a href="https://simple-membership-plugin.com/translate-simple-membership-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">translation documentation</a>.</p>


Simple Membership


upon reflection, the devs are doing an amazing job. They're providing an intricate piece of software to the community for free. Thanks guys.



there's a little room for improvement in terms of the docs and the core functionality. But overall, I'd recommend this software to others.


Not there yet; but impressive nonetheless 👏

Simple Membership is an excellent plugin that delivers exactly what it promises. The setup is straightforward, and it offers all the features needed for content protection and membership management. Its flexibility and compatibility with other plugins are particularly impressive. Highly recommended!

Excellent plugin - highly recommended


The plugin is simple to set up and use. It is necessary to read the documentation, but it clearly explains how to set it up and use. Well done!


Simple, yet powerful

Simple membership plugin adds membership functionality to your site. Protect members only content using content protection easily.

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