WP Membership Software (wishlist, amember,s2Member)

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I was wondering if anyone has hands on experience with any Wordpress Membership software to manage paid subscriptions?

I have identified 3 that look great, but i keep getting mixed reviews. Everytime im about to make up my mind i hear a horror story.

The 3 i have looked into.
1) Wishlist
2) aMember
4) s2Member

ANy feedback is greatly appreciated.

thanks!
#amember #membership #s2member #software #wishlist
  • Profile picture of the author andynathan
    I use ProfitThemes and absolutely love it. I have it on all my membership sites, and even started using it on my blog, because of the customization features.
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  • Profile picture of the author PaulyC
    I've been using wish list for about 6 months on my new membership site. It's very easy to learn and use, nothing fancy but it gets the job done.

    You can set your membership up as many different ways as you want, it integrates seamlessly with PayPal. It's also only about $100 or so, not too bad.

    Hope that helps.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author skyla
      I have used DL Guard for a membership site and as a shopping cart. The support is great.

      I've also heard good things about WPChamp but have not used it.

      It is also possible to set up your site with free plugins. Matt Wolfe has a WSO offer on this and it works. So that might be a solution to try first until you evaluate other software.

      DAP is supposedly good but a little on the higher side when it comes to price.

      Good luck with whatever method you choose.
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      • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
        Hi Skyla,

        Actually, DAP is a bargain if you account for our various built-in & free features like Multi-tier Affiliate Module, Content Dripping, Shopping Cart, Upsells/Downsells/OTO's, Email Broadcasts, Autoresponders, etc.

        With some of our competitors, you may need to buy third-party software or services separately, just to match the same features that DAP already offers for free. And it's not just the cost of those products or services, but also make sure you include the cost of installing them yourself, integrating them yourself, and going to different vendors each time you need support (especially when things break!).

        So, if you compare apples to apples, you'll see that your final "cost" with DAP will actually be LESS than some of our competitors.

        See this page (at the very top) that explains this better with some realistic numbers.

        Cheers!

        - Ravi Jayagopal

        Originally Posted by skyla View Post

        ... DAP is supposedly good but a little on the higher side when it comes to price...
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    • Profile picture of the author blitz20
      Are you able to track and pay affiliates with wishlist? Also i read something about wishlist, that the IPN check doesnt always work on recurring payments. For example someone would subscribe for a few month, and eventually cancel; however, wishlist failed to update the subscriber and marked them as 'cancel/unsubscribed'..have you had any problems of the sort?

      Originally Posted by PaulyC View Post

      I've been using wish list for about 6 months on my new membership site. It's very easy to learn and use, nothing fancy but it gets the job done.

      You can set your membership up as many different ways as you want, it integrates seamlessly with PayPal. It's also only about $100 or so, not too bad.

      Hope that helps.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Olson Mino
    I've been using Wishlist for the past 2 years and I would say it's an awesome membership plugin, personally I never have experienced major problems with it.

    The guys behind Wishlist and their support is awesome too... I haven't used any other membership plugins because Wishlist does what is supposed to do very well.

    You can integrate the plugin with the major shopping carts and with Paypal you need a custom affiliate software like iDev, I have WL fully integrated with ClickBank so I can't speak for sure about other carts.

    A good idea it will be to contact their support and ask them...they are very helpful and will tell you what you need to know.
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  • Profile picture of the author MarketingChad
    I like Kajabi but the monthly fee can be a huge turnoff for some. ProfitTheme is a great alternative and it actually looks a lot like Kajabi in some respects.

    I've heard some really good things about Wishlist as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author thejosher33
      7/4/13

      The link does NOT work anymore, I keep getting a 404 ERROR PG.

      Is this still available?

      Thanks, Josh
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      • Profile picture of the author Aristocratic
        Originally Posted by thejosher33 View Post

        7/4/13

        The link does NOT work anymore, I keep getting a 404 ERROR PG.

        Is this still available?

        Thanks, Josh

        Spam much? :rolleyes:


        I picked up the new InstaMember, and find it easy to use/setup, and works for starters.
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        • Profile picture of the author Its Trish
          Originally Posted by Aristocratic View Post

          I picked up the new InstaMember, and find it easy to use/setup, and works for starters.
          I also purchased Instamember, and it looked promising....
          But, turns out that Insta-member has major problems and serious bugs, as reported by several dozen warriors. (here) Too bad.
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  • Profile picture of the author blitz20
    OK..i have purchased wishlist and i will let you all know how is goes! thanks everyone
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I can give a BIG thumbs up to DAP. I have just finished doing a complete overhaul of one of my membership sites and changed everything over to DAP. Works great right out of the box and Ravi and the gang provide top notch support.

    You won't be disappointed.

    By the way, if you really think their price is expensive for what it is then you probably aren't at the level that you need a good membership script such as theirs.
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    • Profile picture of the author skyla
      No I never thought that DAP was too expensive, just that it was priced a little higher than some other solutions. It is something that I have been looking at for myself recently. I know several people who are using it and very happy with it.

      It is on my list for sure!
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  • I have been using Amember for years and I love it. Super flexible and powerful.
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  • Profile picture of the author vishalduggal
    I am using WishList Member and eMember on my membership websites. IMO both are good, but you should definitely check out eMember first. eMember is far more cheaper and easy to setup. Just my 2 cents.
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  • Profile picture of the author GetaheadOnline
    Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

    I was wondering if anyone has hands on experience with any Wordpress Membership software to manage paid subscriptions?

    I have identified 3 that look great, but i keep getting mixed reviews. Everytime im about to make up my mind i hear a horror story.

    The 3 i have looked into.
    1) Wishlist
    2) aMember
    4) s2Member

    ANy feedback is greatly appreciated.

    thanks!
    Before you can make this decision, you need to define what functionalities are important to you, that is what exactly you want the Membership plugin to do and what other plugins it needs to integrate with.

    Make a list, so you can compare apples to apples.

    I have implemented with great success S2Member plugin on one of the sites. What made me pick this Membership plugin was its ability to integrate seamlessly with Event Manager.

    Also the fact that it was a Free plugin which could also be upgraded to S2Member Pro if there was ever such a need. The plugin works really well. It was reasonably easy to setup and use.

    However on another site I needed a Membership plugin which would integrate with SimplePress Forum. I therefore decided to buy Magic Members plugin rather than use S2Member which was free. This combination also works well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Cataclysm1987
    Wishlist gets my vote.

    As for errors with cancellations, can't say I've had any.
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  • Profile picture of the author wvdploeg
    After discovering DAP, DAP is my strategical product not only to create membership sites, but to realize ANY form of eCommerce site other then webshops...

    It's easy to work with, and the support is superb...
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  • Profile picture of the author bigballin6161
    I have DAP and it works great. Like someone else said the support is A+++.
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  • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
    Does DAP handle Warrior plus OTO's ? We were testing S2Member (the free version) integrating with OptimizePress but it seems you have to buy the S2Member pro to do OTO's.

    What about Wishlist does it support OTO's and warrior plus?

    How are they supported? When the customer logs in the OTO is presented there?

    Any help appreciated. Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
    Tim,

    >>Does DAP handle Warrior plus OTO's ?<<
    Yes, DAP supports W+ OTO's. Works the same way as the regular product sale.

    When customer logs in, they'll have access to all of the products/levels purchased (main product + OTO's) in the member's area.

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

      Tim,

      >>Does DAP handle Warrior plus OTO's ?<<
      Yes, DAP supports W+ OTO's. Works the same way as the regular product sale.

      When customer logs in, they'll have access to all of the products/levels purchased (main product + OTO's) in the member's area.

      - Ravi Jayagopal
      Thanks Ravi, what about warrior plus, full support? I know you have your own AR support, but we want to use AWeber, do you fully support them?

      Thanks


      Tim
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  • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
    Yes, we have full support for W+ (regular + OTO's), and also for Aweber.
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    • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
      Originally Posted by ravijayagopal View Post

      Yes, we have full support for W+ (regular + OTO's), and also for Aweber.
      Thanks Ravi, good to know.

      One other question, what about how you create memberships from paypal. Do you only use the email address from paypal or do you allow the user to create the membership with any email address.

      I ask because we have run memberships before and more than a few times people seem to either not have access to their paypal email addresses for whatever reason and it would be good to not have to manually fix these problems.

      Wishlist apparently has an option like this.

      Please let me know - I feel pretty confident we will sign up once we know this.

      Thanks


      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
        Tim,

        We use their Paypal email id to create the initial subscription, but your members can change it later if they so choose to.

        Originally Posted by tim_buchalka View Post

        Thanks Ravi, good to know.

        One other question, what about how you create memberships from paypal. Do you only use the email address from paypal or do you allow the user to create the membership with any email address.

        I ask because we have run memberships before and more than a few times people seem to either not have access to their paypal email addresses for whatever reason and it would be good to not have to manually fix these problems.

        Wishlist apparently has an option like this.

        Please let me know - I feel pretty confident we will sign up once we know this.

        Thanks


        Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
      Originally Posted by ravijayagopal View Post

      Yes, we have full support for W+ (regular + OTO's), and also for Aweber.
      Please see question I left above. Plus I wanted to ask a question about payment - Do you redirect the user to a specific URL after payment where we confirm their details and they can get access to their account?

      Or is it done like s2member where you have to click Return to merchant and then have to click a link in your email to activate?

      This is for paypal payments.

      Thanks
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      • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
        DAP has a feature that we call "Login Xpress", where your members are logged into the member's area automatically, and instantly, after purchase. But essentially, yes, you can redirect them to ANY link after purchase, including the member's area (where they wont' have to log in, and are auto-logged in).

        And even though they're logged in automatically, they can still be sent the "Welcome" email too, so they will have all of the login information in their email for their records.

        Originally Posted by tim_buchalka View Post

        Please see question I left above. Plus I wanted to ask a question about payment - Do you redirect the user to a specific URL after payment where we confirm their details and they can get access to their account?

        Or is it done like s2member where you have to click Return to merchant and then have to click a link in your email to activate?

        This is for paypal payments.

        Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author melleni
    Ive just bought Magic members not sure how good it is yet as I havent started to use it yet but the features look good
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I've been using WishList and love it. No horror story here.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim_Carter
    I use S2member on three membership sites. Works seamlessly and it is free.
    Check it out before you buy anything to see if the functionality fits your needs.
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    • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
      Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

      I use S2member on three membership sites. Works seamlessly and it is free.
      Check it out before you buy anything to see if the functionality fits your needs.
      Hi Tim,

      We have been trying s2member - the free version seemed ok, but OTO's need the full package and I have ran into a few limitations. It seems ok but in my opinion the others seem more flexible.

      Do you do OTO's ?

      Also it appears you cannot offer trials with this package, is that correct? My staff could not find where to configure a free trial.

      Thanks for your feedback.
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      • Profile picture of the author Tim_Carter
        Yes I do OTO's using a simple Javascript. I also created software to create OTO's for any page on Wordpress or any website. I have seperate OTO's for each member level.

        Yes you can do trials. All in the free version.

        Originally Posted by tim_buchalka View Post

        Hi Tim,

        We have been trying s2member - the free version seemed ok, but OTO's need the full package and I have ran into a few limitations. It seems ok but in my opinion the others seem more flexible.

        Do you do OTO's ?

        Also it appears you cannot offer trials with this package, is that correct? My staff could not find where to configure a free trial.

        Thanks for your feedback.
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        • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
          Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

          Yes I do OTO's using a simple Javascript. I also created software to create OTO's for any page on Wordpress or any website. I have seperate OTO's for each member level.

          Yes you can do trials. All in the free version.
          Thats good news - Could you please tell me briefly where you put the javascript then for the OTO? Is it a script you developed. Obviously we could put a OTO on a page but we want the process to be either

          They buy a product (Warrior plus) click the link in warrior plus after buying, get offered a OTO and then can login to memberships, etc. So that I guess is more an upsell (which I understand s2member does not support - but correct me if I am wrong).

          The second alternative (that s2member documentation I believe confirms) is a OTO can be configured after the user logs into the the membership for the first time.

          Is that what you are doing? And is only offered once or everytime they login.

          As for the trial so is that a paypal subscription trial? e.g. $0 for 7 days then (say ) $47 per month? Or are you just talking a trial account that they have to manually upgrade?

          Thanks again for the info.
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    • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
      Originally Posted by Tim_Carter View Post

      See this video to see howit is done on Wordpress. It is right at the beginning.

      YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
      Thanks for that, so you need that software then? Cool.
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    WishList has no drip option?
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    • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
      Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

      WishList has no drip option?
      Why would you think that? You can time release content to each member based on the duration of the membership.
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      • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
        Originally Posted by Ralf Skirr View Post

        Why would you think that? You can time release content to each member based on the duration of the membership.
        ?

        You sure? Cause in their site they state content goes into each level, and if I read it right, as soon as people get into THAT level they access ALL the content in it.

        Did I misread something?
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        • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
          Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

          ?

          You sure? Cause in their site they state content goes into each level, and if I read it right, as soon as people get into THAT level they access ALL the content in it.

          Did I misread something?
          You can use the membership levels to time release content.

          1. For example, you can create levels like month 1, month 2, month 3 etc.
          2. Then wishlist will automatically add the people to these levels depending on duration of their membership.

          That's only one way to use levels, you can do other things to. But this is how I would time release content. I found it easy to setup.
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          • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
            Originally Posted by Ralf Skirr View Post

            You can use the membership levels to time release content.

            1. For example, you can create levels like month 1, month 2, month 3 etc.
            2. Then wishlist will automatically add the people to these levels depending on duration of their membership.

            That's only one way to use levels, you can do other things to. But this is how I would time release content. I found it easy to setup.
            Thanks.

            I want users to get one Video per day - not a whole month of video at a time.
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            • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
              Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

              Thanks.

              I want users to get one Video per day - not a whole month of video at a time.
              Month was an example. You set the duration by setting the number of days between levels.

              By the way, it's on their feature's page, too.
              Sequential Content Delivery - Graduate your members from one level to the next. For example, after 30 days, you can automatically upgrade members from a Free Trial to the “Silver” level.
              http://member.wishlistproducts.com/#features
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              • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
                Originally Posted by Ralf Skirr View Post

                Month was an example. You set the duration by setting the number of days between levels.


                Imagine I have 365 videos, one per day. With Wishlist I would have to create 365 levels... just to accommodate these videos.

                Anyways, I own InstantMember and the drip feature is really solid, among other goodies, but looking for a WP solution right now - otherwise might code it myself.

                @Shaun, Thanks mate, taking a look right now.
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                • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
                  If you used DAP, you would just create one product (a.k.a "level"), and within that one product/level, you can drip content any amount of content, all 365 (or more) videos or posts or pages, (and even regular files like .zip and .pdf), and you could do that all within that same product in just a few minutes.

                  Think of the DAP dripping panel just like your FTP client (FileZilla). You have content on the left, and content on the right of the panel. Just move them from left to right, set a dripping day/date for each one, and you're done.

                  Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post



                  Imagine I have 365 videos, one per day. With Wishlist I would have to create 365 levels... just to accommodate these videos.

                  Anyways, I own InstantMember and the drip feature is really solid, among other goodies, but looking for a WP solution right now - otherwise might code it myself.

                  @Shaun, Thanks mate, taking a look right now.
                  - Ravi Jayagopal
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                  • Profile picture of the author bjarvie
                    Originally Posted by ravijayagopal View Post

                    If you used DAP, you would just create one product (a.k.a "level"), and within that one product/level, you can drip content any amount of content, all 365 (or more) videos or posts or pages, (and even regular files like .zip and .pdf), and you could do that all within that same product in just a few minutes.

                    Think of the DAP dripping panel just like your FTP client (FileZilla). You have content on the left, and content on the right of the panel. Just move them from left to right, set a dripping day/date for each one, and you're done.



                    - Ravi Jayagopal


                    Could dap handle interacting with clickbank IPN and issue license keys for software that could then auto cancel if there is a refund or non payment ?
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                • Profile picture of the author Kevin Thomas
                  Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post



                  Imagine I have 365 videos, one per day. With Wishlist I would have to create 365 levels... just to accommodate these videos.

                  Anyways, I own InstantMember and the drip feature is really solid, among other goodies, but looking for a WP solution right now - otherwise might code it myself.

                  @Shaun, Thanks mate, taking a look right now.
                  wp drip is a plugin that will drip out the content on X day after registration. Combine it with wishlist and your set
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            • Profile picture of the author Shaun OReilly
              Originally Posted by Fernando Veloso View Post

              Thanks.

              I want users to get one Video per day - not a whole month of video at a time.
              You can drip content via WishList Member by creating
              different membership levels BUT it becomes unnecessarily
              time-consuming to do that - especially if you're looking to
              release daily content.

              Instead, I use Rapid Action Press which is a great membership
              add-on for Rapid Action Profits and WordPress integration:

              Rapid Action Press (no affil.)

              It allows me to control the content that people can access
              based upon the product(s) they've purchased.

              And it allows me to drip content by post or page and also
              within each page using simple shortcodes.

              What's more, because it's fully integrated with Rapid Action
              Profits, I've got a built in affiliate program that lets affiliates
              get paid instantly via PayPal.

              Dedicated to mutual success,

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  • Profile picture of the author TheNightOwl
    blitz20,

    You really need to be clear about what type of membership site functionality you need. As much as I'm in love with DAP, it may be overkill for you... I don't know.

    Make a list and get really clear about the following:

    1. What you'll be offering and exactly how you'd like to deliver it
    2. Whether you want to have "teaser" content or not
    3. Whether you require or want any kind of interaction between members
    4. What you'd like members to be able to do
    5. What you'd NOT like members to be able to do
    6. If you want an affiliate program and how best to control that
    7. How the referral system works and whether affiliates can send to any page on your site
    8. The most seamless way to integrate new members with your autoresponder service
    9. If you need "levels" or "time-released" content
    10. What file formats your content will be in and how to protect it from download by non-members
    11. Whether you want to offer a $1 trial or free trial that automatically switches to recurring payments. Or whether you want a fixed-term membership (and, then, whether it's month-by-month payments or one-off -- or whether you want to offer both). Or whether it's just a single payment.
    12. Whether you need products to be "modular/floating" so you can offer them easily in different membership packages

    That's just a dozen things off the top of my head.

    Wishlist is a quite clunky in the way you have to set up levels and doesn't offer even remotely the amount of flexibility that DAP does in this area. But, hey, as I just said... you may not actually need that degree of flexibility once you're clear on the things I listed, above.

    Amember seems very clunky with a lot of things and I hear it's a mother to get set up properly -- but I've never used it. Seems to work well for really quite basic month by month memberships such as PLR packages. I subscribe to a couple of different memberships like that. It's all that's needed: "Hey, dude, here is your zip file for this week/month [LINK]"

    s2member is on my radar... it looks quite good. I need to do more research and can't offer anything on this one just yet, sorry.

    Hope that helps,
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  • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
    I think DAP is probably not overkill for what we need - A few years ago I setup Amember for a membership site and it was painful - They didn't even have a native plugin for clickbank so we coded one ourselves.

    One thing I am not sure that DAP does is automatic processing for refunds or cancellations. Anyone know if it does this processing? I would think it should via the clickbank IPN functionality. But would be good to know.

    what I mean is if someone is refunded or cancels a monthly subscription does the DAP automatically cancel their access (or move to a free version maybe) ?

    Nanacast (which we use mostly now) does this well.

    Main reason we are moving to DAP is for WSO's we will be releasing and nanacast does not appear to support Warrior Plus directly.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
    Originally Posted by blitz20 View Post

    I was wondering if anyone has hands on experience with any Wordpress Membership software to manage paid subscriptions?

    I have identified 3 that look great, but i keep getting mixed reviews. Everytime im about to make up my mind i hear a horror story.

    The 3 i have looked into.
    1) Wishlist
    2) aMember
    4) s2Member

    ANy feedback is greatly appreciated.

    thanks!
    I have tested Wishlist, and it's excellent.

    With every product you will find things that are not optimal, there just isn't anything perfect.

    But good enough will do - don't get obsessed about getting the perfect solution. Look to buy something that works for what you need now. Don't try to find the super solution that will fix your business for the next 100 years.

    1. Make a list which features you need.
    2. Check which of the tools meets the features. If several are matches, and you don't have a clear preference, throw a coin.
    3. Buy and use.
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  • Profile picture of the author Yuli Kurniawan
    aMember is easy to setup.. try it
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Franklin
    I have purchased and installed, personally used, 10 different membership scripts, even wrote three myself, mostly because many of those that are on the market, just were not really producing the features and the productivity that I wanted.

    I know people like wishlist, (I am not sure why) because they still use PDT, which is clearly obsolete, and with PayPals signal that they are making some internal changes that may effect digital products, in the near term, I would say that one of the most important considerations would be to find a solution that offers more than one payment integration.

    One thing seems clear, make sure you know what your getting into because it seems as if everyone has the best solution, but you know its like car insurance, everyone claims they can save you 500 bucks a year, but when you get right down to it, you most always find that they cannot do what they say.
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  • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
    Ravi,

    I asked this earlier, can you let me know the answer please?

    One thing I am not sure that DAP does is automatic processing for refunds or cancellations.

    What I mean is if someone is refunded from paypal and/or cancels a monthly subscription does the DAP automatically cancel their access (or move to a free version maybe) ?

    Nanacast automatically cancels their membership - Basically we want membership revoked if this happens. Can DAP do that?

    Thanks


    Tim
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    • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
      Tim,

      DAP does "Pay As You Go" payment processing - just like your phone or cable company. So if no payments come in ("cancellation"), then the member's account automatically expires. You don't have to do anything as the site admin.

      And you then have the option of either letting them keep their previously paid for content, or making them completely lose all access to all previously paid for content. Up to you. You can easily configure this with just the flip of one config switch.

      Cancellations are automatic:
      http://DigitalAccessPass.com/documen...s-and-refunds/

      Refunds are manual at this time, and you will have to go into your Paypal account (or other payment processor) and refund them the actual payment:
      http://DigitalAccessPass.com/documen...fund-requests/

      Hope this helps.

      - Ravi Jayagopal

      Originally Posted by tim_buchalka View Post

      Ravi,

      I asked this earlier, can you let me know the answer please?

      One thing I am not sure that DAP does is automatic processing for refunds or cancellations.

      What I mean is if someone is refunded from paypal and/or cancels a monthly subscription does the DAP automatically cancel their access (or move to a free version maybe) ?

      Nanacast automatically cancels their membership - Basically we want membership revoked if this happens. Can DAP do that?

      Thanks


      Tim
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      • Profile picture of the author tim_buchalka
        Originally Posted by ravijayagopal View Post

        Tim,

        DAP does "Pay As You Go" payment processing - just like your phone or cable company. So if no payments come in ("cancellation"), then the member's account automatically expires. You don't have to do anything as the site admin.

        And you then have the option of either letting them keep their previously paid for content, or making them completely lose all access to all previously paid for content. Up to you. You can easily configure this with just the flip of one config switch.

        Cancellations are automatic:
        DigitalAccessPass.com Documentation

        Refunds are manual at this time, and you will have to go into your Paypal account (or other payment processor) and refund them the actual payment:
        DigitalAccessPass.com Documentation

        Hope this helps.

        - Ravi Jayagopal
        Thanks Ravi, just put an order in for the unlimited version.

        Cheers


        Tim
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        • Profile picture of the author bsprings
          Hi Tim,

          Seems like you have had alot of great experience with alot of different membership site software.

          Are you still with DAP? and what are your thoughts on it?

          Thank you ahead of time!
          Billy

          Originally Posted by tim_buchalka View Post

          Thanks Ravi, just put an order in for the unlimited version.

          Cheers


          Tim
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          • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
            Originally Posted by bsprings View Post

            Hi Tim,

            Seems like you have had alot of great experience with alot of different membership site software.

            Are you still with DAP? and what are your thoughts on it?

            Thank you ahead of time!
            Billy
            While you're waiting on Tim's reply, thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.

            I set up membership sites full time for Warriors and I've been building these suckers for a couple of years now.

            And I have one word for you: DAP.

            - Does ev-uh-ree-thing, integrates with everything
            - Thorough and simple to follow documentation
            - Developers that a give a darn (notice that Ravi actually posted on this thread several times!)
            - Great support

            I actually insist my clients buy DAP if they can afford it because it's such a headache to work with other scripts, especially when a client starts requesting functionality those scripts don't offer. In which case, they wind up having to buy DAP anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author DPWeb
    You should take a look at Premise from Copyblogger.

    I have used it for paid subscriptions. It is really nice with Wordpress, and everything works like you would expect. Support is also there to help if you don't know how to do something.

    It is definitely worth comparing to the other systems since it can work with any Wordpress theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jonathan Joseph
    Hi there,

    I've used Wishlist member in WP. Its a pretty clean and smooth plug-in with minor drawbacks on up-offers. Overall its a good fix if you want a basic membership blog with paid or free access.
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  • Profile picture of the author dedy
    Whishlist is good for beginner, but for DAP is expensive but has many good features.

    For low to medium budget, I would rather to choose Wishlist, OptimzePress or ProfitTheme.
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  • Profile picture of the author warriortrades
    I've used wishlist and magic members. Both were tough to set up due to the lack of support. s2member is what I use now and I'm happy with it. The support is fantastic. It's feature rich for the cheap price. Very happy.
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  • Profile picture of the author career21st
    Thanks for all the sharing.

    Colin Koh
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  • Profile picture of the author BenFitts
    aMember users subscribe to amember first, creating an account with whatever username or email they want. If you use Paypal they're forwarded to paypal for the second step so the email address they use in PayPal is not the one they used for membership.

    If you've run big membership sites before you know lots of people have their paypal email tied to a different email address than they use for 90% of their communication. Allowing the user to use two separate emails is a good thing.

    There are other drawbacks to aMember.

    As for the comment that aMember is difficult to setup... Not with version 4. It's really straightforward and ties into Wordpress really well.

    aMember 4's flaws are with things like the OTO. That kind of thing is more complicated in aMember and may be easier with other software packages.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Franklin
    I think that every membership product is useful to someone, it is really not about how good or bad a product is or is perceived to be, it is about how far that product goes in providing what you need for your distribution of content.

    It sounds like the OP, may need to look at a few things in developing a membership site, I would say that you would want a minimum of six months of hosting just to get started.

    I have four servers in four strategic locations (data centers) I have websites that consume a lot of bandwidth, hostgator one time invited me to upgrade my server at three times the cost, I moved it to another location at half the cost of what hostgator offered.

    Hosting is something that you have to pay if you want to get in the real game these days.

    In the end the product you choose should fit your needs if a product tries to do too much you end up with a high price tag which may not fit in with your needs, last analogy, I dont need a DVD player in my car because no one rides in the back seat.
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  • Profile picture of the author vtotheyouknow
    I don't know about that analogy in THIS case...

    A lot of people buy cassette players for their cars then find they want CD Player functionality. And THEN decide what they *REALLY* want is an MP3 player.

    One of the most beautiful things about the membership site business model is its pliability. You can expand it, grow it, add an affiliate program, integrate with this thingy and that doohickey, and in my opinion, it's good to have everything you need right out of the gate with that growth in mind.

    Especially because migrating everything later on will be a BIG hassle, and I've seen this over and over with clients. Also had to do it with one of my sites. = a bunch of technical headaches.
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  • Profile picture of the author PeterKnight
    Has anybody tried YourMembers recently? I don't see them mentioned to often but they sound like they have a pretty complete product.

    I would love to see a new player in the Membership plugin market that. Having tried 5-6 solutions I haven't used a plugin that I truly liked. They all have some positive qualities, but let down in other areas, whether it's flexibility, features, support, documentation, ease of use, price and scalability.
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    • Profile picture of the author cgicentral
      Hi Peter, did you try aMember Pro? If yes, we would be happy to hear you opinion about.
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      • Profile picture of the author Hilary
        I'd just like to put in a vote for Amember.

        I don't have experience with alternatives - but have been using Amember for many years.

        It's very robust, and there has never been anything I wanted that it could not do. Incremental ('dripped') content, complete integration with my Vbulletin forum, working with UK payment processor Worldpay, integration with affiliate software, conditional code to display different links etc to owners of different products on any page of my site... and on and on.

        In the past, with version 3, a lot of this was made possible by submitting a support ticket.

        Let me explain. Support tickets with most firms, in my experience, lead to responses like 'That would require custom coding, please see this form for availability and pricing' or 'sorry, we do not support third-party scripts'. The typical response to a support ticket from Amember is 'We have fixed that for you now.' Or sometimes, 'Here is the code you need for your pages.'

        (Personal favourites:
        1) When I was asking about integrating a 3rd-party shopping cart script: 'We have a beta shopping cart module for Amember we can install on your site.' And they did. It worked, I used it for years, there was no extra charge. (Nowadays there's a very neat shopping cart included with the basic software.)
        2) I was asking about getting 3rd party tracking software working. This software came with a 'zero support after purchase, if you can't get it to work it's your fault' policy. I couldn't. Amember people looked at the code of the 3rd party script and fixed it.)

        However, now they've brought out version 4 there's a whole lot more functionality included out of the box, no coding - and no support tickets - required. That includes in-depth Wordpress integration (control access to pages, downloads, menus and individual paragraphs on a per-product basis), incremental content, a stack of other integrations (I'll be using Aweber, Vbulletin, Facebook, Google Analytics, AWS for big downloads and Autoresponseplus, for starters), quick and easy product creation and protection, affiliate and helpdesk functionality included... and so on...

        And still the same calibre of support.
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  • Profile picture of the author Reinhart Osmond
    I have not used all three.
    but from friends sharing my IM friends Amember can be concluded that the best, because it is more complete amember features.
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  • Profile picture of the author Linzey
    hi everyone, Can anyone recommend which would be the best for my needs?


    I have a little bit of experience with websites but i've never had anything to do with an E-commerce site. Lately i've had an idea and i need a website built but i don't know whether or not to try and make it myself or outsource and get someone else. never used an auto responder, opt in or anything like that.

    It'd be a membership site. Where people can choose to pay $x monthly, or pay $xx for a 6 month subscription or pay $xx for a 12 month subscription. Like if someone doesn't pay or cancels the "software" would know and discontinue their membership and what not. and if someone lost their password that would be automatically taken care of with out me getting too involved, because that'd suck if i had to do each one individually.

    I also need there to be a forum that only members can access, and a whole lot of other content too.

    An online shop that both members and non members can access.

    I want members to gain points when they join up and do various other activities, or also when i reward them with points.

    i want coupons to be available to be used in the shopping cart for the store. is it possible to track coupons used?

    But yeah mainly the non member pages will be the welcome/home page, the example content article, contact us page, shopping cart and just stuff like that. and when they sign up they get access to a forum, articles, guides and all the other good stuff.

    i need it to be able to manage and so easy that i can just add pages when ever since i'll be adding articles over time.

    it also needs to be able to be edited to look awesome, so something easily customisable.


    Im thinking that i'd use wordpress and either s2 Member, DAP or Wish List but im not too sure. any guidance would be greatly appreciated
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  • Profile picture of the author smodha
    +1 for Wishlist Member Pro. I use it for a couple of my sites.
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  • Profile picture of the author HorstStreit
    ProfitThemes is a great attention.
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