How to take membership fees for membership site?
I am working on a membership site, which I intend to run for Free for about a year, and then charge membership fees to one of two types of users, when the site has a lot more traffic.
I have designed the front-end and have hired someone who knows PHP to work on the functionality (back-end).
It has been built in Wordpress, but the back-end is very custom built, not just WP with some plugins.
I need the site to be able to:
1. "Most important" - Take membership fees from users automatically, either yearly or monthly.
2. Make the profile pages of users who miss payments, change to stubs with limited content (my Dev has already created these, & I can manually select this in the WP Dashboard).
3. Send auto-emails confirming successful payment.
4. Send auto-emails warning that profile has become stub, if they miss payment deadline.
Please can you tell me, what type of software or plugins do I need to be able to do this?
... I already have a Mailchimp account to help manage my users, but I don't know if this will be enough.
Thanks for reading
Toby
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