Amember, Wishlist .... or what?

Hey,

I've gone for Wishlist but Amember looks really good too.

Also in the same boat, i'll be following this thread closely.

Thanks

I saw InstantMember but it's single license, but the features are insane.

i heard amember is the best for membership site, but u have to know what u r doing

I have set up a membership site with Yourmembers and it is great.

Your Members Wordpress Membership plugin

I tried wish list first and I did not like the sign up/ checkout Process.

Both are pretty good (it's funny I just remembered that i requested a refund from wishlist and they came back with a friendly "why do you want to cancel?" and I never responded. . . and they did not refund me.)

I guess this post made me a $100 bucks. Now I can go buy something else!LOL

One thing I really like about YM is that it has a member dashboard that give them details about their membership.


Let me know if you need any help setting it up.

I think you can rule out amember due to the cost factor.

Good Luck

I use Amember and have found it to be very good. It is reasonably priced too. I heard that this was one of the best.

I plan to set up my membeship with Memberwing in the next few days. I like that it integrates with Rapid Action Profits. If anybody has used memberwing, some feedback would be great!

Hi guys,

First of all, I want to thank you for your responses.
I forgot to ask you another question in my first post.

I would like to include a FREE trial that will last about
7 days. Members will be allowed to view what's inside
my membership site BUT they will NOT be able to
download anything. That way, the visitors will see
the e-books with their own eyes...

Do you know of any scripts that have this feature?

If you don't need any fancy stuff as most scripts provide, check this from fellow warrior Big Mike:

EZ Lesson Manager | Online Training at it's best! Create unlimited courses with text and multimedia. Offer paid or free courses...

i have been using wishlist and it is really good except it is quite expensive. memberwing seems as good and a cheaper option.

Just getting a site and tossing up a bunch of downloads is not going to be very productive. I hope you have a plan setup ?

James

I've used them all over the years (just about) and have sites setup using membership scripts such as BFM,LFM,Amember, Wishlist and currently setting up Memberwing with RAP.

In my opinion Wishlist was my first choice but it is very limited when it comes to intigrating an affiliate program unless you want to use the affiliate module in 1Shopping cart or Clickbank.

The other thing about Wishlist is that if you want to intigrate your own tracking or 3rd party script for an aff program the source code is encrypted so you can't do that. Bummer

Also WL intigrated with RAP that would be freakin cool. Maybe someday they will do that

It all depends on whats important to you....

If you just want to post content and downloads etc, then WL is cool for niches where the average person doesn't know jack about affiliate programs and how they work.

But if you want something more robust I would use Amember but its quite a bit more comprehensive to setup and run, but it rocks and its virtually bullet proof if you have all the lastest upgrades.

Alex has been developing and refining Amember for years and years now. In fact it was my very first membership script back in the day.

Amember All around great script but overkill for simple sites.

Frank Bruno

I already have amember ,had for a few years, but if I was starting out I'd lookk into this:
http://setupamembershipsite.com/mst/index.php

Hey Darrin,

I appreciate your insights for everyone but I just wanted to quickly clarify a couple things...

We actually don't "outsource" our development at WishList Products. It's all done in house and we have a full-time development team which is why we actually have updates happening all the time so I'm not quite sure why you think updates "is not going to happen".

As far as support goes, we are EXTREMELY proud of the way we handle support (and I think you'll find our customers say the same). We have a full-time Support Team available M-F, 9am-5pm to answer any "hands on" questions along with 30+ video tutorials and over 100 pages of step-by-step Support Guides complete with screen shots.

Anyway if you have any questions feel free to ask through our support desk or in this forum as you'll find many of our customers who've bought the product can provide lots of insight.

All the best.

Stu

Amember is okay as it isn't too price prohibitive.

Personally I'd be interested in finding a few free ones like the wordpress one metioned above

Hey There,

I own a multi-site license for Wishlist Member and I've been happy with it every step of the way. So happy in fact that I've based much of my WordPress development work on it. On the few times that I have had questions I can't resolve the team have always got back to me within 12 hours or less.

In answer to the question about visible posts but protected download links. This is most definitely possible. You would use a [private_membership level name] tag around the links that you need to protect.

My only issue to date has been the lack of options for running an affiliate programs with clickbank and one other being their main methods of setting one up. However I have some inside information that they are working on some great new opportunities in that area at the moment.

Wishlist gets my vote.

I wrote a short list of WP plugins for membership site. Have you guys read it??

5 WordPress Membership Plugins You Can Consider -- MiniSiteGallery.com

And I also implemented a content-drip for LearnPianoOnline.com which uses DLGuard.

And on my simple online course, I use a simple plugin, wp-private. I don't have a huge number of students in my courses, so I manually added the users. But I am sure I can write a simple script that takes in registrations, pay at Paypal, verifies with IPN and activate the students.

http://smartlogix.co.in/wp-private/

I wrote a short list of WP plugins for membership site. Have you guys read it??

5 WordPress Membership Plugins You Can Consider -- MiniSiteGallery.com

And I also implemented a content-drip for LearnPianoOnline.com which uses DLGuard.

And on my simple online course, I use a simple plugin, wp-private. I don't have a huge number of students in my courses, so I manually added the users. But I am sure I can write a simple script that takes in registrations, pay at Paypal, verifies with IPN and activate the students.

wp-private | Smart Logix

Hmm... sometimes you need think simple, get things going and make money ...

Amember is expensive but go for it. They have the best plugins and customizations if you ask me. Compared to wishlist, amember FTW. They are expensive though.

I've dug in extensively with both of these, IMH.

Lots of things to compare, but I'll share one of the advantages of Wishlist that has made my life much easier- namely, everything is managed from your WordPress dashboard. With aMember, it's a completely different account, your membership levels, customer lists, etc. are stored there.

I log in to my WP site and handle it all there. This makes a huge difference when setting it up.

Also... Stu and the support at Wishlist has been really excellent in my experience. Very responsive, prompt, and patient working through all kinds of issues.

Wishlist wins hands down.

Dave

Hi,

I use Wishlist and there is no need to repeat what has been said above.

As a Delavo owner, I naturally use that to both control access to my WL memberships through a plugin and use it to track affiliates too.

Integration is not a problem - simply insert one piece if Javascript code into the theme header to track the affiliate and another piece of javascript in any post to take the customer to the order link in Delavo with the affiliate code attached.

Setup around 2 minutes.

Once at Delavo (The basic free version handles clickbank and paypal), it takes over from there to collect payment and using the extra WL plugin for Delavo the membership is allocated.

Brian Collins
Delavo Ambassador (UK)

P.S. if you need Delavo - I have Free Promotions running currently

Does any of these plugins offer
1. Custom fields. during members registration. I mean collect details usch as DOB, country, interest etc..

2. Do you support protection of a specific folder? lets say swf inside a specific folder from non member even if they have the link

I have RAP and RAP Press, but I'm currently using Digital Access Pass (DAP) I've just started with my membership site and I'm currently making some changes but I do love DAP. I've not had any problems with anything I want to do. Support when I've needed it, has been fast and outstanding.

I can't speak more highly of a membership script than DAP. I've not used some of the others mentioned but I would suggest as you check others out to be sure to check out DAP also.

The other thing I will say about DAP is if you're not a techie, as I'm not, DAP is very friendly to non-techies.

Best of luck to you.

Brian

I faced this exact dilemma less than a month ago.

In the end, I went with Wishlist Member, and I'm glad I did.

Why?

1. It integrates very tightly with Wordpress (obviously, since it's a WP plugin).

2. It fully integrates with Aweber - if someone registers as a free member, they are automatically added to my mailing list. If they cancel a membership, they are automatically removed.

3. Easily integrates with Paypal and/or Clickbank.

4. I can create multiple membership levels, and put up free walls, and pay walls anywhere I want on the blog.

5. It's about half the price of aMember.

aMember does all that Wishlist does and much more, but Wishlist does so at a lower price and much greater simplicity. If your needs extend beyond the capabilities of Wishlist Member, then aMember is a great choice.

Otherwise, Wishlist Member does what it does extremely well, and I definitely recommend it!

~Mike

I've had success with both wishlist and DAP. I've also used amember but its a real pain getting it to integrate with wordpress and not worth the hassle in my opinion.

Instant member is a bit of a pain if you want to customize the site. Everything is encrypted. If your going for a rebrandable ebook then go with launch formula marketing otherwise amember seems to bring the best to the table for a membership script

Has anyone thought about using more elaborate options like:

-InfusionSoft Email Marketing 2.0 | Infusionsoft
-Cheddr Cheddr
-Nanacast www.nanacast.com


I'd rather have an all-in-one solution for memberships, payments, reporting, securing downloads, email marketing, offline marketing and product delivery...

But they will be more pricey than just a one-time fee for a membership script. Personally I use Amember. Might be confusing at first and the interface of both the administration panel and user control panel lacks in usability.

We have had nothing but great results with Wishlist Member and we have used it with more than a few membership sites including one with lots of members. No issues at all, love it.

I have Digital Access Pass, and can vouch for it. It has worked very well for me so far.

This thread has thrown me off course--was headed to wishlist but one scathing review bummed me out. Funny, no one has mentioned Traindom.com

Mike

I have Wishlist and need a good, reliable affiliate program, I am thinking of going with 1 Shopping Cart, though I think they are expensive. Can anyone recommend anything better that works with Wishlist for tracking payments and affiliate referrals?

Those looking for a free one use s2member. Easy to use and good.

For those of you who are Wishlist users, have any of you set up a forum (vBulletin, phpBB, etc.) and have it locked down by wishlist?

I'd like to have forum capabilities but only for paying members.