What Membeship Site Software/Scrip should I use?

There's a free script by Mike Filsaime called Butterfly Marketing Script. It's currently free
for download and even comes with some tutorial videos.

I've watched the tutorial videos myself but haven't really installed and setup a site
running it. However, from what I've seen it's good because it will even allow you
to setup your own affiliate network.

At it's present price of "FREE" I think it should be in everyone else's toolbox.

Well that's just me anyway.

Best,

I am a big fan of Wordpress and you can set up great memebership sites in Wordpress.

You can collect payments using your favorite payment processor, and of course, you can password protect your site.

Regards,

Alex Kei.

Hello,
I am using this software for one of my sites, it is easy to use and very sturdy as well.
Easy Member Pro - PHP Membership Software

There are a few plugins for WP to turn it into a membership site. Off the top of my head there's s2Member and DLGuard.

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I have seen recommended several times before. I've joined
sites that ran on it and I thought it worked nicely from
a user point of view.

I use Delavo , which is not restricted
to Wordpress, nor specifically only designed for Wordpress -
it does have other useful feature that come in handy if you
have many sites and many products though.

I did many hours of research myself and the best for all inclusive, go big or go home, is membership site software and content manager solution - MemberGate in my opinion. It has everything you will need. Email tim@membergate.com and tell him James sent you and he will give you a discount.

Its worth the extra dollars to do it right.

Before just blindly following suggestions as to what the "best" software others think you should use please do some research on your own.

First, decide exactly what you want your site to do. Look at what features you will require now, and what options you think you might want in the future. No one can give advice on what will work best for you until you have a clear idea of what you want the software to do.

Once you know exactly what features your looking for then do some research and see what options are available that meet your own needs. Then you can look at the track records of the different options, how popular each one is, what the customers say about their experience using each one, how good is each products customer support, and so on.

Open ended questions like the one posed here do not really help you in the long run. Everyone has their favorite script that they like. For each script/solution that could possibly be mentioned you will find some that love it and some that hate it.

It all boils down to exactly what do you need and what solution is available that will meet your needs now and for the long term.

There are a few things to consider first...

How technically inclined are you? Or do you want to pay to have it installed?

Do you want something simple? Or complex to be an All In One solution?

Here is the rundown on membership scripts...

Delavo 2 (formerly fantasos) is pretty robust and can do just about everything you would need a membership script to be able to handle. It has OTO's, Brandable PDF's, Kunaki integration, etc. They have good support and plenty of tutorials for setting up the script and using the plugins. It will also integrate seamlessly with standalone HTML sites, Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, vBulletin, and WordPress. It also has built in affiliate management.

It is also presently free for the basic version and free for the Bronze version if you get a friend to respond to an invite to use the script. The 2 remaining levels are a little pricey... but for the most part you may not need the functionality those levels offer.

DLGuard + WordPress works great for memberships. But it doesn't deliver the advanced features of the script mentioned above. But it works, and it works well. No affiliate management. It is $147 for 2 site licenses. So if you want simple... this is the option I would use.

Nanacast is by far the best I have seen when looking at price and features. For $100 or $150 per month you get an amazing set of features that I can't begin to list here... there are too many. If you can afford it I would definitely go for this option. This is better than Delavo on price and features combined... but I don't believe it has the brandable PDF option. Another difference is Delavo can be installed on your own hosting account, whereas Nanacast is a hosted solution. The higher price on this script is just so you can use DNS to hide the nanacast URL.

Amember + WordPress is another simple option. It is slightly better than DLGuard in terms of features... but it comes at a price. I believe it is approx $180 per site to use this script.

I would opt for either Delavo or Nanacast... or DLGuard for a simple site. I would still lean heavily towards Delavo or Nanacast so you leave room for expandability. As with Delavo (not sure about nanacast) you can setup both local (same hosting account) and remote (hosted elsewhere) membership sites all from one script. You also have the ability to email all the members of the site.

Hope that helps...

Dennis

I recommend you Magic Members Plugin, it's very easy to use and has a great user interface.

Rapid Action Profits
+/- Member Plus
+/- Rapid Action Press

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Wickedly effective, dead-simple Wordpress membership sites.

Including self-propagating instant commission affiliate program
that pays affiliates automatically at the time of purchase.

I second Digital Access Pass (DAP)

Excellent features and superb support.

I use Mike Filsaime's butterlfy marketing script.

I looked at SocialSam ages ago and really liked the look of it. The only thing that held me back from using it was the fact my visitors would always have to go to their website which creates a slight disconnect. Other than that it's pretty awesome with all it's functionality as Terri said above and I might use it on another project I have lined up.

You can make a free membership site in wordpress. Just watch Ryan Deiss' vid "12 minute membership site"; pretty cool if you are on a budget. Then all you would need is an autoresponder to keep in touch with your members and drip content through follow up emails.

My vote goes to Digital Access pass though. As far as I could see when I was searching, it's the only membership site software that gives a free trial for 30 days so you have a whole month to implement it and get some customers through the doors. Even if you are not technical it's really easy to set up and integrate with autoreponders and PayPal, Clickbank, 1ShoppingCart.

It's perfect for Wordpress and has loads of features built in that other membership software just doesn't have. It has an in-built affiliate program, email autoresponder and all sorts of accessiblity option to monetize your visitors like pay per view, page view limits, protect individual posts, "sneak peek" etc. Oh and the customer support is awesome.

Pascal,

As already mentioned by others, I would suggest Amember Pro

Good luck
Ian

Based on my experience, setting up membership software is not easy, no matter what the maker said of how easy it is.

I use wordpress to manage my membership website once, and I use DAP-digitalaccesspass-

Perhaps you've been visited their site too and use the trial, and as far as I can say, DAP is good if you manage membership site with wordpress.

Their support is excellent and I even could chat through ym with the support guy.

But note, nothing will be easy, and their script don't work if your hosting with hostgator. But to manage content, delivering content in sequence, payment, etc, DAP is good.

I was considering Membergate - great but the price!

Then I found WishList which works with Wordpress. Very easy to use and you have all the benefit of Wordpress plugins, tutorials and support.

Also the multi-site license is a fraction of Membergate and you can have unlimited members.

Finally it supports sequential content - so you can automatically drip feed content to members over time.

Robert is right. LFM currently has one of the best setups available anywhere. The only thing I know of that is even close to it, which is currently publicly available, would be Simple Member Pro I believe.

Here another vote for Nanacast...

Why? Software as a service, integrated affiliate program, integrates with different payment providers and another hundred reasons you can see on their page. And no, I´m not affiliated with them.

Was also evaluating most of the solutions mentioned above for my own business, but my vote goes to Nanacast. Josh Anderson, the mastermind behind the ecommerce and membership solution (this is IMHO the coolest of all features) is also available here, but you better drop them a line via their sites support form (@Josh: when you read this, it is a PITA to use, haha).

Best
Sven

This wordpress plug in is free. Loads right up. Seems pretty simple. I've monkeyed with it but do not have in depth personal experience.

s2Member ( Membership Plugin ) PriMoThemes.com

There's plenty of them available everywhere. You need to think of what would you like your site to be based on first. Then once you've decided you just get the script. It can be wordpress, some membership script that you pick up or even your custom one.