What is the best membership plugin?

Hi Robert, I assume that you are doing market research or something since you are a wishlist member certified developer and you have a membership websites course where you talk extensively about wishlist. I use wishlist and dap.

i like wishlist member

I am using s2member mostly, because at first I created my sites for fun and didn't expected to get revenue so I can buy an expensive membership plugin. Now that things get started to move I won't move because it has all the required functionality.

Hi Robert,

It depends entirely on what you want to do with your membership site, how much you're willing to spend, and how much of a learning curve you're willing to endure.

I'd say for most applications, particularly in the IM world, DAP is the best choice. It's highly flexible, lightweight, integrates with just about everything, and - considering it's versatility - is learnable without too much stress (it's *very* well documented and the docs are written for the layperson not tech dorks).

Ravi and Veena (the developers) also keep up with development and provide excellent customer support. Contrast that with Wishlist, whose documentation is a mess, if it can be found at all.

A very cool new membership solution you might want to look at is MemberMouse. (well, it isn't new, but is just getting the exposure it deserves recently). It's very intuitive and user friendly. And has a very small learning curve considering its functionality. The developers of this solution are also on top of their game.

However, it's a monthly charge, whereas DAP and most other plugins are one-off fees. However, depending on your needs, it may be a wise investment.

Again, "best" really depends on what you want to do but these are the first two solutions I'd look at.

Best,
Vic

I like Member Mouse. There's a monthly fee, but it's much more affordable if you're starting out on a budget.

I am Now Using rapid Residual pro for my membership sites and it is awesome.

I am really enjoying the features and Now that I have a handle on all it can do I am finding it a great way to run membership based product as well as run all of my software products that I sell individually.

I am now Using Rapid residual pro to handle my Affiliate sales, JV's and everything.

Its also NOTHING to do with wordpress which gives me a far greater feeling of security for my products.

Highly Recommended, Its Not cheap but its worth it.

s2member and wishlist member.

My preferred one is definitely Digital Access Pass.

For Wordpress: S2 Member
For Joomla: AEC

Not to hijack the thread, but I'm curious "why" you use the membership software you've chosen?

What are your favorite features?

I use free wordpress plugin buddypress. Can be upgraded to pro for a small monthly fee

Seems like a more useful question. Most people are going to list what they know - and most only know 1 or 2. Everyone is a proponent of his own religion.


I use s2member for the same reason many do: It's free. Though I'm about to pay for the pro version. I don't *need* it... I just want to support it. I've not had a single issue with it and have certainly made money off it.

If anything, s2member is sometimes overwhelming simply because it offers so much. Maybe another plugin as a simpler/cleaner back end.

I have the feeling that one of the reasons why s2member is not as popular is because for a long time they didn't have an affiliate program. When you do a google search for other WP membership plugins you see a lot of sites all discussing how good X or Y plugin is...but it's because they are affiliated with these companies. It gives the impression that the "crowd approves."

I also suspect that a lot of WF members here love/understand/like DAP mostly because it was first launched/heavily promoted here as a WSO (but correct me if I'm wrong).

MagicMembers has a lot of features but the new OptimizePress has really good design and pretty cool membership features

I used S2 member in the past for membership. Now I use wishlist member it is easy to install and even more easy to use.

I use aMember on all of my membership forums and Affiliate royal for wordpress.

For my intended purposes... MemberSonic WordPress Membership Site Plugin

amember is decent i ue it myself on my blog now

You know, I know that it is a sales page theme but I like profitstheme the best I guess. Emember I use some.

I've used a few others over the last couple of years but I am steadily becoming a huge fan of MemberSonic for how easy it is to set up & use and also because (I guess there's still a relatively small user base in comparison with others) we enjoy very responsive help for technical support and new development ideas.. We also have a nice tight knit user community who help one another and are able to have a direct input into the development roadmap.

I use DAP, actually creating my first product with it. Was surprised to see how easy it was.

Still haven't added the payment buttons I haven't gotten that far yet. Hopefully it will be as easy as setting up the product itself.

I've used DAP and a few others, but the one I find myself using on almost everything these days is FusionHQ Internet Business Platform

It can do many things such as run your own affiliate program. Integrate with Clickbank, DigiResults, WPlus and others. Can do stand alone products, includes cloud hosting and has an in-built autoresponder which you can mail using their cloud server or an SMTP provider.

And their support is top-notch. I've made a few suggestions and they were very helpful and did add some of the suggestions to the software right away.

Cheers,
Coby