WooCommerce Memberships is a user-friendly and site-wide membership solution that brings together your store, content, and memberships. It is much more than a plugin to restrict your website content that enables you to build a full membership program perfectly merged to your store.
Besides restricting content to members, you can also “drip” it over time to schedule the time for member access. Sell access to memberships, add memberships with product purchases, assign memberships manually, and fully integrate member bonuses within your store.
Sell/Assign Memberships
Memberships are not a certain kind of WooCommerce product but are separately created from products. They allow you to determine how you get access for maximum flexibility.
You can assign no or more products of almost every type to a membership plan for supporting numerous types of memberships. Sell memberships as individual products.
Create a membership product and merge the plan to products which you are about to sell. Permit access to a membership as a step of product purchase.
For instance, buy a meal box subscription, get free access to the same membership from various products(i.e., a monthly subscription or annual purchase). Assign memberships manually for an invite-exclusive members area.
WooCommerce Memberships – General Plan Data
Membership Plan Data Gives You Content Access. As put a lot of effort into your members-only content, Memberships allows you to schedule when your members should access it. When you drip content, you can schedule the time when members can access your content.
For instance, you may need your customers to be members for a week in advance to access specific posts/pages.
WooCommerce Memberships – How to Add Plan Restrictions
Plan Restriction on Content
Having a content restriction plan will give you control over the ways each member uses the website. It allows you to introduce new members to the content as and when you want
Using WooCommerce Memberships with Subscriptions allows you to get access to the specific content which is a part of the free trial period and also get access to its dripping rules.
WooCommerce Memberships – Content Dripping with Trial
Convert Your Store into a Purchasing Club
Membership allows building members-only products so your website can be a purchasing club or allow you to offer specific products exclusively for members.
As you can limit product viewing to members, some products will be hidden from non-members in your store. You can also limit purchasing which means your products are public but only members can buy them.
WooCommerce Memberships – Product Restriction Rules
Plan Product Restriction.
Drip product access so members can’t access your products immediately.
Offer More Convenient Shipping Options to Members
Your members should be your most genuine customers. So, give them perks to motivate them to purchase products from you always and choose you repeatedly over your competitors.
As membership extends your free shipping settings, you can offer free shipping directly to your members, while your non-members need to meet other eligibility criteria such as minimum order amount and coupon application.
WooCommerce Memberships – Member Free Shipping
Allow members-only free shipping and reward members with special discounts.
WooCommerce Memberships – How to Add Member Discounts
Membership management needs are easy for both you and your members. They should be able to find all the required information regarding their membership in the Member Area. Once they click on “View”, they should be able to access any membership from the “My Account” Page.
Enable any/all sections of the Member Area to show members a list of accessible content (post and pages), products, discounts, and/or public membership notes. If members will have access to content in the future, they can see the access dates as well.
How to Import/Export Members
You can use a variety of tools to handle members within WooCommerce.But you may wish to connect to other services too, like importing a member list into an email tool.
Memberships allow you to export members to a CSV file so that you can get member data out of WooCommerce and into other tools.
WooCommerce Memberships Export Settings
Import members through CSV and allow new memberships. You will be able to build new users, or update the list of existing members by merging your files with the existing data.
You can communicate conveniently with your members by running a membership website. And, you will also be able to spend more time on customer service and manage members efficiently. With “Membership Notes”, you can track information about memberships for customers, add notes for reference, and smoothly communicate with specific members by sharing notes via email.
WooCommerce Memberships – Membership Notes
Use expiry and renewal reminder emails so members know of ending memberships and remind them to renew/upgrade.
Memberships are functional as an individual membership solution and can make the most of certain Subscription features to add more flexibility over membership billing when both plugins are active. Memberships can use recurring billing, i.e., monthly payments for the membership rather than a set term (like a year).
Memberships can even use Subscriptions as a payment plan, but adjust access length itself to support installment payments. You can use free trials for membership via subscriptions. Content dripping and restriction may include/exclude free trial periods so you control the availability of content in trials.
Members can cease their memberships by suspending a subscription. They can upgrade/downgrade memberships by switching a subscription. Upgrades/downgrades can leverage the subscription’s proration to ensure that membership costs are correct.
Even if you don’t want to use recurring billing, you can make the most of other Subscription features by setting the subscription length to one billing cycle so you can leverage upgrades/downgrades and trial periods.
How to Sell Memberships to Companies or Groups
Use Teams for WooCommerce Memberships Extension (purchased individually) to sell memberships to companies, groups, or teams. This plugin adds on to WooCommerce Memberships allowing you to sell access to a group of users rather than individually.
Get Started with WooCommerce Memberships Today
If you are set to use WooCommerce memberships for customers, buy the extension. Then, download and install Memberships in your WooCommerce store. Create Membership plans and members.
Check out extensive documentation for any help on advanced setup. Then enjoy your integrated membership website.
Once you avail of WooCommerce memberships, it boosts your online store performance and helps you grow your online business.