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[ad_1] Building a membership website is a fantastic business idea. You can earn recurring income, enjoy the freedom to create content as you wish, and commit to your user base with value products and services. As this Paid Memberships Pro review will show, there are plugins that can do the job, and then some. That functionality can also help with other business models too, such as creating customer email lists, and building a community. I have to do both of these as part of my relationship with WordPress, so I’m excited to take this plugin for a spin. Throughout this Paid Memberships Pro review, I’ll look at why the features, functionality, interface, and pricing are all stellar. By the end, you’ll know just why I’m a fan, along with thousands of other users! Introducing Paid Memberships Pro Paid Memberships Pro does what it says on the tin. It’s a WordPress membership plugin that lets you sign up users to access your website’s content. The plugin focuses on facilitating user memberships, but its feature set has a lot of scope. As you’ll understand, that functionality can work for many different types of site that center around curating users and building a community ‘hub’. Speaking of which, here’s what Paid Memberships Pro offers in a nutshell: Content restriction and drip feeding for the whole site, and on a page-by-page basis. The ability to set up groups and member directories, to help you build a community with your site. Plenty of user management options, tier creation settings, and administration tools. Multiple payment options, including account pauses and proration. This isn’t everything the plugin can offer, but I’ll show you throughout the rest of this Paid Memberships Pro review what the plugin can do. DOWNLOAD Paid Memberships Pro Paid Memberships Pro Review: The Plugin’s Feature, Functionality, and Pricing Rather than simply tour the dashboard and run through the feature set, I want to explore what Paid Memberships Pro is like on a day-to-day basis. As such, I’ll work within the dashboard, set the plugin up, add memberships tiers, and look into extending the functionality of the plugin. Of course, to follow along, you’ll need your own copy of Paid Memberships Pro. Let’s start with how much the plugin costs. Pricing While there’s a free version of Paid Memberships Pro on the WordPress Plugin Directory, that’s not my focus here. Instead, I’m looking at the three premium tiers on offer. These will bundle in extras to the core plugin based on the plan you choose: Standard ($347 per year). This gives you a single-site license, more than 20 add-ons (more of which later), and functionality such as customization recipes, tracking for affiliates, e-commerce, and analytics, along with plenty more. Plus ($597 per year). While two site licenses seems ‘ungenerous’, I can’t deny the functionality you get in return. This tier comes with the full feature set of Paid Memberships Pro, which includes over 30 add-ons, pro-rata pricing options, variable pricing, and much more. Enterprise (over $5,000 per year). The plugin’s functionality is here in full too, but includes 50 site licenses, hosting, and a more personalized experience for your needs. For instance, there is telephone support, consultancy, onsite visits, and more. For most, the Plus plan will give you everything Paid Membership Pro has in the box, but you’ll pay a hefty price in return. However, each purchase comes with a 100-Day, 100 percent money-back guarantee. What’s more, there are regular sales on offer, which sometimes gives you 50 percent off of the typical price. New User Onboarding Once you complete the installation process, you’ll begin with an onboarding wizard. This asks you to fill in a number of fields across five different pages. There are a few key fields to discuss here: General Info. You’ll want to make sure the plugin generates the required pages to help build your site. Fortunately, this is an active checkbox by default – but make sure to take a second look before you continue. Also, check the box to indicate whether you will take payments on your site, and enter your license key to claim your extra functionality, support, and updates. Memberships. It’s up to you whether you let the plugin create membership levels for you at this screen. If you are new to the plugin, I’d recommend this so you can see the ‘optimal’ method of doing this. The final screen – All Set! – lets you know your site is ready, and offers up a helpful guide on building the type of membership site you chose from the General Info screen. You’ll also find some recommended add-ons, which we’ll get into later. Before that, I want to cover the rest of the typical process you’ll take to create your membership site. The User Interface (UI) and Experience The Memberships > Dashboard screen within WordPress is the hub for everything you do with Paid Memberships Pro: There’s a lot to get through here, and I won’t cover it all. However, there are seven top-level sections of settings: Dashboard. This gives you quick links to common pages, some analytics and reporting, along with links to social media and documentation. Members. Here, you can create, add, manage, and delete members of your site. Orders. In this context, “orders” means those who purchase a membership. If you only offer premium memberships, this will essentially show your current paying set of members. Reports. This screen shows the same reporting as on the Dashboard. You can see your active members, sales, revenue, visits, logins, and much more here. Settings. This is a collection of many screens that cover options for membership levels, payment gateways, security, design, and a lot more. Add Ons. You can install any Paid Memberships Pro add-on you have access to here. It looks a lot like the WordPress Plugin Directory dashboard, which makes it straightforward to use. License. This is where you’ll input and view your plugin licensing information. You should take a look at the setup

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