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Wordpress Membership Script (or plugin) with these features... ?

by nikolaaa
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Hi Warriors,

I'm looking for some solution (separate script or WP plugin) that will make membership site with Wordpress.

I want to:

- have some posts on WP blog open for public

- few membership level (different levels can access different pages or posts)

- one time payment and recurring payment

- affiliate system (with recurring commission)

- one time offer

- paypal and 2checkout payment systems

- automatically subscribe users to aweber


What is your favorite Wordpress membership solution ?

Thanks,
Nikola
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    I am not 100% on all the features it does or doesn't have but one I have heard mentioned a few times is DAP:
    WordPress Membership Plugin - Membership Script For WordPress Blogs And Regular Web Sites

    Hope this helps
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  • Profile picture of the author bjradioguy
    You may want to check out Membership Software | Wordpress Membership Site Plugin | WishList Member . I have used it with some success and sounds like it will do most if not all of what you need.

    You can always use aMember. I know if it difficult (technical) for some to set up, but I would say that it is the leader in the industry.
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  • Profile picture of the author newton
    Wishlist will do most of what you need but NOT all of it.

    You cannot have a payment provider AND aweber set up together.

    You can only have one payment provider per install.

    It doesn't have an affiliate system.

    But you could integrate something like 2checkout for the affiliate system.

    All the other items would be OK.

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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Nikolaa,

      @submp3's already mentioned DAP (thanks!). I'm the founder/developer of DigitalAccessPass.com, and I wanted to add some comments here.

      >>- have some posts on WP blog open for public
      Yes, DAP can do.

      >>few membership level (different levels can access different pages or posts)
      Yes, DAP can do.

      >>one time payment and recurring payment
      Yes, DAP can do.

      >>affiliate system (with recurring commission)
      Yes, DAP can do.

      >>one time offer
      Yes, DAP can do.

      >>paypal and 2checkout payment systems
      Paypal - Yes, DAP can do.

      2Checkout - 99% complete. And then we ditched 2checkout because they make all payments go through a fraud check, which means it can take up to 48 hours for the actual charge to be finalized, which means you don't get your money for 48 hours, and thus the buyer doesn't get your digital product for 48 hours.

      Is there any specific reason why you're looking at 2CO?

      >>automatically subscribe users to aweber
      Yes, DAP can do.

      Hope this helps.

      - Ravi Jayagopal
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      • Profile picture of the author nikolaaa
        Originally Posted by ravijayagopal View Post


        Is there any specific reason why you're looking at 2CO?
        Hi Ravi,

        Your plugin look perfect !

        Reason why I want to have more then one payment option is
        most of customers are from US and they like to use paypal, so it must be there.
        But there are also many other countries that don't have paypal and for them I need to accept credit cards and 2CO or Plimus can do it.
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        • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
          See this blog post about 2Checkout issues:

          http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/blo...oduct-sellers/

          Do you still think 2Checkout would be useful for you?

          - Ravi Jayagopal

          Originally Posted by nikolaaa View Post

          Hi Ravi,

          Your plugin look perfect !

          Reason why I want to have more then one payment option is
          most of customers are from US and they like to use paypal, so it must be there.

          But there are also many other countries that don't have paypal and for them I need to accept credit cards and 2CO or Plimus can do it.
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        • Profile picture of the author davewebsmith
          Originally Posted by nikolaaa View Post

          Hi Ravi,

          Your plugin look perfect !

          Reason why I want to have more then one payment option is
          most of customers are from US and they like to use paypal, so it must be there.
          But there are also many other countries that don't have paypal and for them I need to accept credit cards and 2CO or Plimus can do it.
          Confused . .. doesn't paypal accept credit cards??
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          • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
            Originally Posted by davewebsmith View Post

            Confused . .. doesn't paypal accept credit cards??
            Yes, it does. But if paypal places a hold on your account, no more Paypal OR credit cards. He wants another backup solution for credit card processing just in case. Also, Paypal has, in the past, blocked entire countries.

            Very smart move.
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    • Profile picture of the author hjalte81
      Originally Posted by newton View Post

      Wishlist will do most of what you need but NOT all of it.

      You cannot have a payment provider AND aweber set up together.


      Tony
      There are plugins that'll integrate aweber into the registration form in wordpress...

      For example: WordPress › AWeber Registration Integration WordPress Plugins

      And there are many others out there...
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  • Profile picture of the author nikolaaa
    Plimus is getting more and more popular.

    Ravi, what is price for updates for your plugin.
    I mean after 6 months.
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  • Profile picture of the author thunderbird
    My wife is a computer programmer (better than most). If enough people are willing to say they'll pay $50 for an unlimited license WP plugin that does all that, I could probably convince her to create it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mukul Verma
    Digitap Access Pass has all of that. I did some research and choose it.

    I am still in the early phases of trying WordPress Membership Plugin - Membership Script For WordPress Blogs And Regular Web Sites however I gotta say I am SUPER impress so far. Fast install, great service, detailed walk through on how to set up all the functions and features. I will send a review after using it for a bit and if it continues as smooth as it has, it is rare to find this much attention to detail online these days, but DAP has delivered that so far.

    Cheers,
    Mukul
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  • Profile picture of the author tribros
    Originally Posted by nikolaaa View Post

    Hi Warriors,

    I'm looking for some solution (separate script or WP plugin) that will make membership site with Wordpress.

    I want to:

    - have some posts on WP blog open for public

    - few membership level (different levels can access different pages or posts)

    - one time payment and recurring payment

    - affiliate system (with recurring commission)

    - one time offer

    - paypal and 2checkout payment systems

    - automatically subscribe users to aweber


    What is your favorite Wordpress membership solution ?

    Thanks,
    Nikola
    Take a look at "MemberWing":
    Membership Site Plugin - Wordpress Membership Plugin - MemberWing

    It has all the features you need. (2checkout,affiliate, aweber etc...)
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  • Profile picture of the author E. Brian Rose
    Ravi's plugin is the absolute BEST solution out there. His support is second to none, as well.

    I have absolutely no relationship to Ravi other than being a satisfied customer. I am not an affiliate and he is not my brother-in-law.
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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Eric,

      That's a very kind (and the funniest) plug indeed :-)

      Thanks much!

      - Ravi Jayagopal

      Originally Posted by E. Brian Rose View Post

      Ravi's plugin is the absolute BEST solution out there. His support is second to none, as well.

      I have absolutely no relationship to Ravi other than being a satisfied customer. I am not an affiliate and he is not my brother-in-law.
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      • Profile picture of the author pilotjoe
        I've purchased DAP, I even attended a great workshop hosting by Bob-the-Teacher on DAP. DAP is an amazing product and I can say there are a lot of features. Almost too many features.

        However, I'm a firm believer in form following function and with DAP some of the basic functions seem to be lacking to me. Foremost is handling of email.

        Any function within DAP that relies on email or emailing your costumers is unreliable. (And this is outside of spam filters, black hole lists, etc). I believe DAP relies on the built in php mailer daemon (Ravi, correct me if I'm wrong) which in itself is unreliable.

        Initial logon details - unreliable
        Lost password function - unreliable
        Resend login details - unreliable

        These are the core functions to any membership application. All other functions are just fluff (IMHO)

        There is nothing more frustrating than to have customers contact you directly, themselves frustrated because they can not get to the content they have signed up for and paid for.

        DAP would be 1000 times better if it would rely on Aweber or mailChimp, GetResponse (or whoever) to handle mail delivery.

        I get at least 5 people every day telling me they did not get their login information. This is just from the people who take the time and let me know. I have no idea how many more of my customers this is effecting.

        This is not meant to slam DAP but just to make everyone aware of this very important issue.
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        • Profile picture of the author copious
          Originally Posted by pilotjoe View Post

          These are the core functions to any membership application. All other functions are just fluff (IMHO)

          There is nothing more frustrating than to have customers contact you directly, themselves frustrated because they can not get to the content they have signed up for and paid for.

          DAP would be 1000 times better if it would rely on Aweber or mailChimp, GetResponse (or whoever) to handle mail delivery.

          I get at least 5 people every day telling me they did not get their login information. This is just from the people who take the time and let me know. I have no idea how many more of my customers this is effecting.

          This is not meant to slam DAP but just to make everyone aware of this very important issue.
          I believe you can skip the built-in email solution and use Aweber or GetResponse (which admittedly has much higher email delivery rates). That's what I just read on the sales letter for DAP. Maybe it's a newer feature that wasn't previously available?

          And Ravi, WOW, I must say, DAP sounds like the perfect solution! And I'm surprised about all the limitations Wishlist Member has. I was just about ready to buy it, glad I held off. I think I just found something better! I'm setting up a very basic membership site right now and will launch it with only Aweber to deliver the content by email (since I already subscribe to Aweber). In future, as I add more content, I may set it up differently. But I am also putting together another membership site in a different niche (longer term project) and DAP sounds perfect for it.

          Not to hijack this thread, but this may help others as well. A few months back I did a lot of research and comparison between Wishlist Member (which sounded like the answer to my prayers), Butterfly Marketing (which I own but have never used) and Amember. But I must say, if DAP is as good as everyone says it is, and does everything your sales pages outlines, then it blows all the others out of the water.

          I always thought of Amember as the standard, or at least one of the more commonly known membership software solutions. A lot of membership sites work on this technology. Is there anything DAP doesn't do that Amember does? At this point, the only thing I can see is that Amember is a longer-established company and I haven't heard of any complaints about bugs and glitches. Although I have heard some people say it lacks a few features they need. But, everyone has different needs. It would be hard to make something that will please all of the people all of the time.

          As for Butterfly Marketing, I love the ability to create affiliates (as DAP does) but I hear Butterfly Marketing can be a bit buggy and there hasn't been a lot of investment in upgrading it. Plus it doesn't do everything I need it to. Since I already own it, I may consider using it on a future membership website.
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        • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
          Joe,

          You are both right and wrong about DAP's email capabilities.

          1) DAP is just a tool - just like Thunderbird or Outlook - to send out emails from your web host's email server. DAP by itself cannot control deliverability. It is all dependent on your web host.

          2) DAP does use its own version of PHPMailer, which is a rock-solid solution for sending out emails. It is not the technology that is unreliable, but it is actually your web site's "neighbors" that make it unreliable. Say, if you are on a shared host, where your site shares your server with some other site whose emails may have rightly (or wrongly) been marked as spam, then your deliverability also suffers because of someone else's actions.

          We have always had full integration with Aweber, so you don't have to use your web host's local email solution. We have written a full blog about DAP vs Aweber (and other 3rd party email solutions). Check it out at:

          http://digitalaccesspass.com/doc/dap-vs-aweber/

          4) >>DAP would be 1000 times better if it would rely on Aweber<<
          It already does. See http://www.digitalaccesspass.com/doc...r-integration/

          So would you say we're already 1000 times better? Or because we've always had this feature since day 1, the "1000" doesn't count any longer? :-)

          - Ravi Jayagopal



          Originally Posted by pilotjoe View Post

          I've purchased DAP, I even attended a great workshop hosting by Bob-the-Teacher on DAP. DAP is an amazing product and I can say there are a lot of features. Almost too many features.

          However, I'm a firm believer in form following function and with DAP some of the basic functions seem to be lacking to me. Foremost is handling of email.

          Any function within DAP that relies on email or emailing your costumers is unreliable. (And this is outside of spam filters, black hole lists, etc). I believe DAP relies on the built in php mailer daemon (Ravi, correct me if I'm wrong) which in itself is unreliable.

          Initial logon details - unreliable
          Lost password function - unreliable
          Resend login details - unreliable

          These are the core functions to any membership application. All other functions are just fluff (IMHO)

          There is nothing more frustrating than to have customers contact you directly, themselves frustrated because they can not get to the content they have signed up for and paid for.

          DAP would be 1000 times better if it would rely on Aweber or mailChimp, GetResponse (or whoever) to handle mail delivery.

          I get at least 5 people every day telling me they did not get their login information. This is just from the people who take the time and let me know. I have no idea how many more of my customers this is effecting.

          This is not meant to slam DAP but just to make everyone aware of this very important issue.
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  • Profile picture of the author Peter Olson
    Uhh... drupal + ubercart can do most of that... for free.

    Only thing it doesn't do is 2checkout (but I think its being worked on) and "automatically subscribe users to aweber" but that would be easy to do.

    Just thought I'd through that out there...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jesus Perez
    Originally Posted by nikolaaa View Post

    - have some posts on WP blog open for public

    - few membership level (different levels can access different pages or posts)

    - one time payment and recurring payment

    - affiliate system (with recurring commission)

    - one time offer

    - paypal and 2checkout payment systems

    - automatically subscribe users to aweber
    Wishlist does everything above except for a builtin Affiliate system (doesn't have one but you can use Clickbank for that) and One Time Offer (it's not a true one time offer...you can present an upsell after they've purchased).
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    • Profile picture of the author copious
      Originally Posted by BlueSquares View Post

      Wishlist does everything above except for a builtin Affiliate system (doesn't have one but you can use Clickbank for that) and One Time Offer (it's not a true one time offer...you can present an upsell after they've purchased).
      I check DAP's website. There's a comparison chart and there's a multitude of things DAP can do that Wishlist Member can't. Just when I thought Wishlist was the one, I think I've been swayed to DAP!

      Originally Posted by icevapor View Post

      Uhh... drupal + ubercart can do most of that... for free.

      Only thing it doesn't do is 2checkout (but I think its being worked on) and "automatically subscribe users to aweber" but that would be easy to do.

      Just thought I'd through that out there...
      I've found Drupal to have a very high learning curve. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather pay a bit for something quicker and easier. DAP isn't free, but for what it does, I think the price is reasonable. And I understand that you can use Aweber or GetResponse with DAP instead of their built-in email system, which I would do since Aweber seems to have the highest deliverability rate.
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      • Profile picture of the author Peter Olson
        Originally Posted by copious View Post

        I've found Drupal to have a very high learning curve. Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather pay a bit for something quicker and easier. DAP isn't free, but for what it does, I think the price is reasonable.
        But what if their wasn't a high learning curve? http://www.warriorforum.com/programm...rce-tools.html

        I think much of the learning curve is learning which settings you need to set... but if they all come pre-set, your good to go!
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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    Digital Access Pass is the plug-in you are looking for. It is by far the most comprehensive WordPress membership site plug-in.

    It does pretty much everything every other plug-in does but better. Plus, they take the WordPress membership concept to a whole new level.

    This is a plug-in that is updated constantly and the developers are always taking your input and implementing ideas you have to make the plug-in better.

    Plus, I have yet to find a company with the better support. It is actually unbelievable how much support they give.

    I do not know how they find time to program :-)

    If you'd like to see my review of digital access pass can see it here...

    Digital Access Pass Review

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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Shannon,

      Thank you for your plug - you're a very kind man :-)

      BTW, we also allocate time to individually respond to all queries here at the Warrior Forum :-)

      - Ravi Jayagopal

      Originally Posted by Shannon Herod View Post

      Digital Access Pass is the plug-in you are looking for. It is by far the most comprehensive WordPress membership site plug-in.

      It does pretty much everything every other plug-in does but better. Plus, they take the WordPress membership concept to a whole new level.

      This is a plug-in that is updated constantly and the developers are always taking your input and implementing ideas you have to make the plug-in better.

      Plus, I have yet to find a company with the better support. It is actually unbelievable how much support they give.

      I do not know how they find time to program :-)

      If you'd like to see my review of digital access pass can see it here...

      Digital Access Pass Review

      Talk Soon,

      Shannon Herod
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    Seems all these companies lose the plot when they get big - so sad
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    • Profile picture of the author Glenn Pegden
      Originally Posted by davewebsmith View Post

      Seems all these companies lose the plot when they get big - so sad
      I ranted about that on my personal blog this week. I found it shocking that one of the big boys in Membership Plugins wasn't prepared for that launch of Wordpress 3 (betas were around since April) and seemed to be none responsive to customers with broken sites.

      Long live people like Ravi, Gleb (and of course our own Tim & Sean) who care passionately about both their product and their customers.
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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Onibalusi,

      We haven't really considered integrating with Plimus yet.

      There are so many mainstream software/services that we need to integrate with - like vBulletin (coming shortly), Simple Machines forum, phpBB, MailChimp, Kunaki etc. Just a matter of time till we get to 'em all.

      Plimus would probably go towards the bottom of our list at this time, unless you or someone else can convince us as to why Plimus integration should be bumped up.

      - Ravi Jayagopal
      PS: Thanks for the plug :-)

      Originally Posted by youngprepro View Post

      You might also want to go with DAP, it is a really great plugin.

      BTW: Ravi, have you considered integrating plimus?

      Thanks a lot,
      -Onibalusi
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