Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction Plugin

Paid Member Subscriptions is the #1 WordPress membership plugin focused on growing recurring revenue.

Increase conversions and generate subscription revenue with a feature-packed membership solution. It lets you accept recurring payments, register and manage new members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content.

Paid Member Subscriptions is designed to help you kickstart your subscription business in just a few minutes and begin generating income as quickly as possible.

Integrates with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict product viewing and purchasing to members-only as well, offer special discounted product price based on subscription plans as well as allow your customers to purchase subscription plans through the WooCommerce Checkout.

You can also use it to setup an Elementor membership site fast and easy.

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Optimize Membership Monetization And Boost Your Revenue

Offer premium access and exclusive benefits for members, establishing a thriving paid community that generates income through membership fees or subscription plans. This is ideal for:
* Paid Membership Services
* Online Courses
* Online Coaching
* Online Consultancy Services

Automate Revenue Streams With Our Proven Membership Tools

Keep your focus on content creation while Paid Member Subscriptions takes care of consistently generating revenue for you through its automated recurring revenue model. This is ideal for:
* Content restriction on blogs, news sites, and content hubs
* Members-only content subscriptions
* Private WooCommerce Stores
* Members-Only WooCommerce Stores

Build And Grow Your Community While Also Monetizing It

Communities are all about collaboration. By giving members the opportunity to gain exposure, promote their services or create networking opportunities, you’re building a valuable community that people are willing to pay to be a part of. This is ideal for:
* Business Directories
* Member Directories
* Online Associations and Clubs
* Online Communities

Shortcodes & Blocks for Member Registration, Login, Content Restriction and managing Membership Plans

You can use one of the following shortcodes or available blocks to get started:

• [pms-register] – adds a front-end user registration form where users can purchase a membership level
• [pms-login] – create a front-end member login form
• [pms-restrict subscription_plans=”9,10″]Special content for members subscribed to the subscription plans that have the ID 9 and 10![/pms-restrict] – to restrict content based on subscription plans or logged in status
• [pms-account] – setup a WordPress members area where members can easily edit their account information and manage their subscription plan(s)
• [pms-payment-history] – adds a front-end table with the member’s payment history
• [pms-recover-password] – adds a recover password password form, that enables users to reset their password if needed

Membership Modules:

Content Restriction

You’ll find it really simple to restrict entire posts, pages or custom post types or just portions of them.

Restrict Content offers you options to:

• display content based on logged in status
• show content to members only, setup private pages for subscribers
• partial content display by using the [pms-restrict][/pms-restrict] shortcode
• display another template for restricted posts

• restrict Gutenberg blocks

  Integrates with Elementor page builder allowing you to restrict content for Elementor sections and widgets based on logged in status or subscription plans, by using the visual interface.

Membership Payments

Accept PayPal or direct credit card payments from your subscribers. You can keep track of all member payments, payment statuses and purchased subscription plans. Access to detailed payment logs.

Recurring Payments

Ability to accept recurring payments through the PayPal Standard or Stripe payment gateways. The recurring setting can be forced or you can let the user choose whether he wants to subscribe for a recurring subscription or not.

Hierarchical Subscription Plans

You can create an unlimited number of hierarchical subscription plans (eg: Free, Silver, Gold). Each new user can choose a membership plan (subscription) during the registration process.
Existing users can purchase a subscription plan from a page with the [pms-subscriptions] shortcode.

Members can upgrade their subscription plan from the [pms-account] page, the same page also allows the member to Renew, Cancel or Abandon his subscription.

Subscription plans can offer free and/or paid memberships on your website.

Discount Codes

Create an unlimited number of discount codes and offer percentage or flat rate based discounts for your memberships.

Members Management

Have an overview of all your members and their subscription plans. Easily add/remove members or edit their subscription details.

Membership Emails and Messages

Customize default member emails and setup member messages sent/displayed on certain user actions.
Admin emails can also be customized.

Free Trial and Sign-up Fees

You can configure your subscription to have a free trial period and a sign-up fee, allowing you to have more control on your subscription setup.

Stripe

Effortlessly process credit card payments, both one-time and recurring, directly on your website with Stripe. Stripe provides a secure and intuitive payment solution that seamlessly integrates with your WordPress site, ensuring smooth transaction management and an enhanced user experience.
Accept a wide range of additional payment methods including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Bancontact, iDeal, Giropay, and more.

Reports and Exports

Whether you prefer to maintain your own records of your members’ database, do custom reports , or you simply need to import records into another service or application, such as MailChimp or Excel, you can do that with Paid Member Subscriptions. Export all member records to a CSV at anytime.

Payment history can be exported to a CSV file, letting you then import the payment data into Excel, QuickBooks, or other accounting software that can process a CSV file.

WooCommerce Integration

Paid Member Subscriptions integrates beautifully with WooCommerce, allowing you to do the following out of the box:

• Create a Members-only Store – restrict access to the Shop page to members-only
• Restrict Product Viewing and Purchasing – control who can see or purchase a WooCommerce product based on logged in status and subscription plan. Easily create members-only products.
• Offer discounted product prices to members – offer special product prices to members based on their active subscription. Set membership discounts per product or subscription plan.
• Sell subscription plans as products – associate products with Subscription Plans to offer customers a membership with a product purchase or allow customers to purchase Paid Member Subscriptions plans using the WooCommerce Checkout

Others

• GDPR
• automatically log users in
• hide admin bar
• prevent account sharing
• redirect default WordPress pages
• setup a WordPress members area
• reCAPTCHA

Powerful Add-ons

Paid Member Subscriptions has a range of premium Add-ons that allow you to extend the power of the membership plugin:

Basic Add-ons (available in the Agency, PRO or Basic versions)

• Global Content Restriction – add global content restriction rules to subscription plans, based on post type, taxonomy and terms
• Email Reminders – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.)
• LearnDash – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.)
• Navigation Menu Filtering – dynamically display menu items based on logged-in status as well as selected subscription plans
• Fixed Period Membership – create subscriptions plans that end at a specific date, no matter when a member subscribes to it.
• Pay What You Want – accept donations and let subscribers pay what they want when purchasing a subscription plan
• bbPress – integrate Paid Member Subscriptions with the popular forums plugin, bbPress, to restrict your forums and topics.

Pro Add-ons (available in the Agency & PRO versions only)

• Pro Rate – Pro-rate subscription plan Upgrades and Downgrades, offering users a discount based on the remaining time for the current subscription
• Tax & EU VAT – collect tax or vat from your users depending on their location, with full control over tax rates and who to charge
• Group Memberships – sell group subscriptions to your users
• PayPal Express – accept one-time or recurring payments through PayPal Express Checkout
• Content Dripping – create schedules for your content, making posts or categories available for your members only after a certain time has passed since they signed up for a subscription plan
• Multiple Subscriptions per User – setup multiple subscription level groups (e.g. Physics, Math) and allow members to sign up for more than one subscription plan, one per group (e.g. Physics Beginner and Math Advanced)
• Invoices – both you and your members will be able to download PDF invoices for each payment that has been completed
• Files Restriction – secure your valuable content and ensure it reaches only those who have subscribed and paid for access

The Ultimate Membership Bundle

Combine user registration, memberships, and recurring revenue in one powerful plugin bundle called the Ultimate Membership Bundle.

Get access to both Paid Member Subscriptions Pro and our all in one user management plugin, Profile Builder Pro. These two plugins are designed to work perfectly together, offering you a powerful toolkit for managing and expanding your user base while generating revenue through paid memberships and recurring revenue.

Paid Member Subscriptions in your Language

We’re focusing on translating Paid Member Subscriptions in as many languages as we can. So far, the translations for 10 languages are almost complete, but we still need help on a lot of other languages, so please join us at translate.wordpress.org
You will be able to download all the available language packs as well as help us translate Paid Member Subscriptions in your language.
For more information please visit our documentation page

Website

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/wordpress-paid-member-subscriptions/

Documentation

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/paid-member-subscriptions/

Addons

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/paid-member-subscriptions-add-ons/

1. Upload the paid-member-subscriptions folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Create a new page and use one of the shortcodes available. Publish the page and you’re done!

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   Member Registration Form (Account Details + Select Payment Method)

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   Membership options: Group Memberships, Fixed Period Subscription & Pay What You Want & more

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   Select your subscription plan and billing details form in Paid Member Subscriptions

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   Member Account - Subscription Plan Details

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   Member Profile - Edit Account and Billing Details

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   Member discounted products for WooCommerce store

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   WooCommerce shop page restricted on the front-end for non-members

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   WooCommerce product discounts for members and restriction settings for individual product

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   Paid Membership Subscriptions onboarding wizard

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    Settings interface - Membership, Recurring Payments, Content Restriction & more

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    Subscription Plans listing from Paid Member Subscriptions - membership plugin

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    Members Management

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    Membership Recurring Payments Details

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    Discount Codes for Membership Plans

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    Available Add-ons for extending your membership site

2.12.4

• Fix: Change GDPR Delete button type from submit to button
• Fix: When a payment fails during a Stripe Setup Intent, show a link for the login form
• Fix: Resolve compatibility for Stripe payment methods that redirect offsite and the redirect set on a Profile Builder form
• Fix: A case with Stripe where webhooks were not being processed
• Fix: Scenario with Stripe where the Customer and Payment Method ids couldn’t be changed by the admin
• Misc: Fix a warning that could appear in some cases
• Misc: Show users email address alongside their username when listing users to add a new payment or member

2.12.3

• Fix: German translation issue that was present in the files we supply with the plugin
• Fix: Javascript error being triggered when an error happened while trying to process a Setup Intent
• Fix: Issue with manual payments added over a pending subscription extending it’s duration twice
• Fix: Made some changes to how Stripe processes webhooks
• Misc: Allow resizing of the back-end WYSIWYG fields
• Misc: Fix an attribute typo for the discount codes field

2.12.2

• Fix: Allow reset password form to submit correctly when being placed on the same page as the register form
• Fix: Issue with recurring discount code not being applied to future payments done with Stripe
• Fix: Renewal issue for free trial subscriptions where the plugin tried to erroneously apply the trial again
• Misc: Run a custom javascript trigger when a validation error happens in the registration form: pms_checkout_validation_error
• Misc: Filter the landing page URL of the password reset form so it can be adjusted through code: pms_recover_password_landing_page_url

2.12.1

• Feature: Added an option to change the text that is displayed over a WooCommerce Product when it has a member discount. Go to the PMS -> Settings -> WooCommerce page to customize this
• Fix: Improve Registration page loading speed when Stripe payment gateway is used
• Fix: Issue with the Subscription Plans field not displaying correctly on the back-end Profile Builder -> Form Fields page in some cases
• Fix: An issue with the Profile Builder Userlisting expiration date merge tags which were not taking into account Unlimited subscriptions
• Fix: Issue with the start time of subscription being broken when an admin manually edits a subscription
• Misc: Disable Payment Retry functionality when an admin manually edits a subscription
• Misc: Added a filter over the Profile Builder Edit Profile form that can be displayed on the Account -> Edit Profile tab. This can be used to have different forms based on the members subscription: pms_member_account_wppb_edit_profile_form
• Misc: A couple cosmetic changes for the Reports page

2.12.0

• Feature: Added integration with TutorLMS to allow admins to setup paid courses that can be accessed after buying a subscription
• Feature: Improvements to the Reports page: added more stats like new revenue, recurring revenue, subscription plan earnings, payment gateway revenue etc. Also added a comparison area showing the same stats but from last year.
• Fix: Sending of the Renewal Email when the Stripe gateway is used
• Fix: Issue with Apple Pay verification not working properly on subdomains
• Fix: Position for Save button on plugin pages
• Fix: Change initial payment type for PayPal Standard Recurring payments
• Fix: Issue with Upgrades, Downgrades when a 100% discount code was used with Stripe
• Fix: A scenario with Apple Pay, Google Pay in which the form was getting stuck
• Fix: Issue with the Pricing Tables preview modal not opening
• Misc: Allow admins to edit the payment gateway of a subscription through a filter that needs to be enabled: pms_edit_subscription_enable_payment_gateway_editing
• Misc: Allow payments to be searched by a discount code
• Misc: Add a link to see who used a discount code over the Uses column of the Discount Codes listing
• Misc: Add a class over the duration of a subscription plan in front-end
• Misc: Added a link over the transaction ID for payments linking to the payment gateway dashboard

2.11.9

• Fix: Made some changes to the Stripe account onboarding process to make it more reliable
• Fix: Hide license notification in cases where it was being shown incorrectly
• Misc: Hide payment gateways when they are added in a Profile Builder form and the form is being viewed by an admin

2.11.8

• Fix: Add support to Stripe for recurring payments done through SEPA Direct Debit. Also applies to payment methods which use SEPA Direct Debit for recurring (iDeal for example)
• Fix: A notice happening in the Setup Wizard
• Fix: Properly initialize chosen on the Reports page when it’s missing
• Misc: Remove before unload event for Stripe so payments which redirect off-site don’t require an extra click
• Misc: Updated Stripe PHP bindings to the latest version (13.17.0)
• Misc: Bumped the minimum supported version of Stripe PHP bindings to 7.33.0 when other plugins are loading this library

2.11.7

• Feature: Added the ability to select predefined or custom date intervals for the Reports page
• Feature: Added subscription plans filter to the Reports page
• Fix: Issue with the automatically login option from Profile Builder forms not working with Stripe
• Fix: Notice that could appear in some scenarios
• Misc: Make sure back-end members page script only loads on the page that needs it
• Misc: Added a filter that can be set to false to disable the automatic paragraph formatting when sending emails: pms_emails_auto_format

2.11.6

• Feature: Enabled support for Apple Pay and Google Pay through Stripe. Enable these payment gateways by going to your Stripe Dashboard -> Payment Methods page
• Fix: Notice appearing in some cases relating to Gutenberg blocks
• Misc: Added a new merge tag for emails: subscription_plan_id
• Misc: Update the Uninstall page to the new plugin styles
• Misc: Fix a small CSS error regarding the Pricing Tables templates
• Misc: Random adjustments for back-end pages

2.11.5

• Fix an issue where the plugin couldn’t be activated in some scenarios

2.11.4

• Feature: Pricing Tables templates. Easily create a pricing page for your subscription plans. Go to Subscription Plans -> Create Pricing Page to get started
• Fix: Issue with Group Memberships extra fields not being updated when changing a membership through Stripe
• Fix: Double activation messages from payments and subscriptions when Stripe Webhooks were configured
• Fix: An issue with login errors not being displayed when LearnDash was active
• Misc: GDPR field will now show the agreement time on the back-end Users -> Edit User page
• Misc: Change plugin icon from admin menu
• Misc: Random changes for back-end pages design

2.11.3

• Feature: Added Content Restriction options for Divi Builder modules
• Fix: Issue with Stripe connection when it was initialized from the Setup Wizard
• Fix: Improvements to how Stripe Customer objects are created and handled by the plugin
• Fix: Issue with child memberships when a group membership owner renewed or upgraded his subscription through Stripe
• Fix: Issue with Discount Codes field displaying when no disocunts were defined
• Fix: Dismiss action for the PSP notice
• Fix: Make sure certain Manual gateway functionality is only hooked once
• Misc: Show a button to go to the Add Member Subscriptions page directly from the Edit User page
• Misc: Show connected Stripe Account ID and Country on the admin page
• Misc: Added plugin marketing optin process
• Misc: Compatibility with new LearnDash add-on

2.11.2

• Fix: Security issue. Thanks to Lucio Sá
• Fix: Add nonce check when creating pricing pages. Thanks to Lucio Sá
• Misc: Declare translations domain path so the .pot file with translations can be identified properly

2.11.1

• Fix: Issue with subscription not activating correctly when Stripe was used after a Profile Builder Email Confirmation
• Fix: Add nonce check when dismissing SSL notice. Thanks to Dhabaleshwar Das for the report
• Fix: A notice regarding the Discounts functionality
• Fix: Back-end pages styling when plugin name is localized
• Fix: An issue with Password Strength functionality not loading correctly
• Fix: Issue with PSP notice not appearing for Stripe gateway
• Misc: Added actions after the plugin adds or removes a user role from a member: pms_add_user_role and pms_remove_user_role
• Misc: Small styling change for Setup Wizard active tabs

2.11.0

• Fix: Issue with plugin logo from Basic Information page not being displayed correctly on multisite
• Fix: Notice coming from the Gutenberg Content Restriction functionality
• Fix: Issue with serial number detection on certain multisite WordPress setups
• Misc: Disable auto hide discount codes box functionality when the website has too many discount codes defined
• Misc: Display future subscription billing amount when viewing a subscription in the back-end

2.10.10

• Fix: Don’t show Cancel subscription button for Unlimited subscriptions
• Fix: An issue where there expiration date wasn’t correctly set when a 100% discount code was used
• Fix: Issue with Profile Builder form not being validated properly when Stripe was used
• Fix: Issue with Sign-up fees being added to every Stripe recurring payment
• Fix: Issue with free trial subscriptions that also had a sign-up fee not being properly activated through Stripe
• Fix: Register form sidebar issue when it was placed alongside a login form on the same page
• Misc: Added a shortcode that can be used to get a member count: [pms-count-members plan_id=”” status=””]
• Misc: Enable support for the Stripe Elements Appearance API. Rules can be added through the: pms_stripe_connect_elements_styling filter
• Misc: Correct display for Payment Logs View Details modal
• Misc: Added a new initial recommended step: Create Pricing Page

2.10.9

• Feature: Added Divi Modules that can be used to create the pages with the plugin shortcodes
• Fix: Issue with form location when validating Discount Codes request
• Fix: Issue with doing it wrong notice relating to Gutenberg Content Restriction blocks
• Fix: When using Stripe make sure usual URL parameters are retained when redirecting to the Register Success Page
• Fix: Use site_url() when determining the location to return the admin when a Stripe connect account request is made
• Fix: Issue with the Automatically Generate Password for users feature from Profile Builder when using Stripe
• Misc: Hide Lost Connection notice from the plugin custom post type pages
• Misc: Updated Stripe PHP bindings to the latest version
• Misc: Added click to copy functionality for shortcodes displayed on the back-end pages
• Misc: Fix javascript custom post types error showing in back-end

2.10.8

• Feature: Added default form styling for block themes
• Fix: Issue between Content Restriction and Gutenberg Blocks which was causing them to not load in back-end
• Fix: Issue with Sign-up fee not being taken into consideration by tax breakdown on the Profile Builder form
• Fix: A notice coming from the Gutenberg integration
• Fix: Issue with Pricing Tables generation
• Fix: Javascript error coming from the Subscription Purchase Link generator option from Gutenberg
• Fix: Use the price of a subscription plan from the website when creating the initial payment intent
• Fix: Stripe issue with future payment amount when a zero decimal currency was used
• Misc: Stripe Copy Webhook URL button now works again
• Misc: Added a filter over the Stripe redirect URL when an error happens: pms_stripe_error_redirect_url
• Misc: Settings pages width improvements

2.10.7

• Fix: Incompatibility issue with older versions of the paid plugin

2.10.6

• Feature: Added the ability to customize the Password Reset Email
• Fix: Added compatibility for the Profile Builder form and Stripe payment methods that redirect the user off site for completion
• Fix: Issue with Link Popup not showing inside the Email or Content Restriction fields
• Fix: Some issues with the subscription expiration date tag for Profile Builder
• Misc: Small styling changes for Setup Wizard page
• Misc: Added options to see This or Last Year data for the Dashboard stats widget
• Misc: Fix a Stripe issue when trying to update metadata
• Misc: More improvements to the settings pages

2.10.5

• Feature: Added Password Strength and Length functionalities. Activate them from the Settings -> Misc page
• Fix: Issue with Stripe Extra fields not showing in some cases
• Fix: Stripe issue when a 100% discount code is used
• Fix: Security issue when an admin was manually adding logs
• Misc: Hide data saved in the PayPal API credential fields
• Misc: Added a filter that can be used to set the language of the Stripe Payment Element: pms_stripe_elements_locale

2.10.4

• Feature: Added the option to Bulk Import Discount Codes through a .csv file
• Fix: Declare WooCommerce HPOS compatibility
• Fix: Show correct price in the 3D Secure Authentication window when a plan has sign-up fees and the Profile Builder form is used
• Misc: Fix some notices coming from the Export page and functionality
• Misc: Small improvements to the Dashboard page for free users

2.10.3

• Feature: Content Restriction for Gutenberg Blocks. You can now restrict any block based on subscription plans
• Fix: Retry payment button wasn’t showing when a subscription plan price was 0 but it had a sign-up fee
• Fix: A notice triggering from the WooCommerce Discounts functionality in some cases
• Fix: For PayPal Standard memberships with Free Trial where IPNs were not processed correctly in some cases
• Fix: License activation messages when site limit is reached
• Fix: Small corrections and more polishing for the new back-end styles
• Misc: Filter account page base URL so you can make the shortcode work on multiple pages: pms_member_account_page_link

2.10.2

• Feature: Updated Setup Wizard to a more modern interface
• Feature: New main plugin page Dashboard which serves as a quick plugin overview
• Fix: A notice appearing in some cases when localizing data for Gutenberg assets
• Fix: A notice appearing on PHP 8.2
• Fix: Issue with the Expiration Date tag for Profile Builder Userlisting where it wasn’t returning the correct date in a case
• Fix: Small fixes for the settings interfaces

2.10.1

• Feature: Added a simple Pricing Page creation interface on the Subscription Plans page
• Feature: Allow non-recurring Stripe payment methods to appear when recurring payments are disabled in settings
• Fix: issue with Bulk Add Members filter by role not working when user role key was different than 0
• Fix: warning appearing in some cases from the Redirect functionality from Content Restriction
• Fix: some warnings relating to PHP 8.2
• Fix: issue with Activate Subscription email not being sent when changing subscription
• Fix: issue with expiration date being broken for unlimited subscription when adding a new manual payment

2.10.0

• Fix: Issue with Stripe Connect and change/upgrade subscription
• Fix: Small issue with the Dashboard Payments Widget not showing the full payments amount
• Fix: Correct display issue for the expiration date of canceled PayPal subscriptions
• Fix: Improve behaviour for WooCommerce Product Membership Discounts when the website has a lot of products defined
• Misc: Added some information about a users subscriptions on the Edit User page

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