Best Membership Plugins for WordPress

Paid Memberships

Paid membership is an excellent free plugin designed for various membership sites including premium content sites, clubs/associations, subscription products, newsletters, etc. The plugin is easy to install and configure. It allows you flexible membership pricing of unlimited levels.

It has 6 popular payment gateways integrated to it to make the payment process hassle-free for your users. You can restrict users’ access to your content by using various options provided by the plugin. The plugin offers customizable reports and member dashboards thereby allowing you to manage your members much effectively.

You can easily enable further customization of your membership site by choosing from over 60 premium add-ons. Even though it is a free plugin the features offered by this plugin are of premium level. One such feature is the flexibility it provides you when it comes to setting up a time period for membership or subscription to your site’s users.

Whether your membership system includes one-time payments or recurring subscriptions (that are of annual, monthly, weekly or daily type) its just so easy to carry out with this plugin. To make it even more flexible you are allowed to add custom trial periods on your site including free trials, custom-length trial, or ‘introductory’ pricing trials.

ARMember

The ARMember plugin allows you to manage more than one membership level on your site. If you use the ARMember WordPress membership plugin, you can create unlimited membership levels with a trial period and multiple payment cycles, so newcomers can see what you have to offer before committing.

Additionally, ARMember supports dripping content out to members based on a set schedule. You can also monetize posts or courses outside of your subscription plans by using the content restriction and pay-per-post features.

The plugin supports PayPal, Authorize.net, and Stripe payment gateways. You can also accept payments via local gateways provided by WooCommerce.

Usability-wise, ARMember provides an easy member management system that lets you manage users’ membership status hassle-free. The membership setup wizard also eases newcomers’ registration process, creating an excellent experience from the get-go.

Furthermore, the plugin’s built-in security features are no less extensive than its membership functionality. All installations come with brute force login protection, CAPTCHA anti-spam mechanism, and site access restrictions.
The FREE version of ARmember is available on WordPress and If you want to go the extra mile, buy the premium version at $59.

Ultimate Member – User Profile & Membership Plugin

Ultimate member makes it easy to build a membership website in a very short span of time. It enables you to add beautiful user profiles to your site and is a perfect choice for creating advanced online communities and membership sites. The plugin comes with front-end user profiles, front-end user registration, and user login.

The plugin has custom form fields, conditional logic, or form fields. The drag and drop builder that comes with the plugin helps you with the process easily.

MemberPress

This easily configurable plugin enables you to build membership sites in the easiest way possible. By activating this plugin you will be able to create, manage, and track membership subscriptions and sell digital download products. Plus you can easily manage your site’s members by granting and revoking their access to posts, pages, videos, categories, tags, feeds, communities, digital files, etc.

It provides great support for various third-party solutions such as payment gateways, affiliate programs, and email marketing.

Simple Membership

This membership plugin is a great choice for those who are looking for a free and user-friendly plugin to create a membership website. Using this plugin you can restrict who views the posts and pages of your website. Then you can allow certain posts to be only viewed by your members.

It comes with an easy user interface that allows you to select a post or page for your members while editing it in the WordPress editor itself. Also when any non-members are viewing a restricted page they will be prompted with a popup that asks them to login or sign up to become a member.

You can enable both free and paid membership plans using this plugin. Payments for paid membership plans will be securely handled via PayPal. Apart from PayPal, Stripe and Braintree payment gateways are also supported by this plugin. This plugin keeps a membership log where all the payments made by your members are recorded so you can view them whenever you want.

Additional features offered by the plugin include the option to show teaser content to your visitors to increase conversions, ability to customize the login/signup pop-up window, giving a partial view of the restricted content (as used by the medium platform to persuade visitors to become members.), multiple language compatibility and much more.

Membership For WooCommerce

The free Membership for WooCommerce plugin allows you to create membership plans for a segment of customers, thereby imposing limitations on your certain services or content. Memberships make it easy to create email lists where you can offer users special coupons and discount updates.

With the plugin you can control who gets access to what content and see a complete customer history. You can also make membership management easy by maintaining different statuses (pending, on hold, or completed) as per customer’s payment and plan expiry.

For ensuring a smooth payment flow for your customers you can integrate Advance bank transfer and PayPal smart button with the plugin as well.

Conclusion

Membership/subscription-based businesses are becoming a great way to earn revenue for your website. Turning your website to one would be a great move for your business. I hope by reading this article you are much better aware of the different types of membership plugins in the market, the available free plugins for the purpose, how they work, etc.