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Membership sites & Most important features

by Vikuna2009+
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Hi guys,

trying to get my head around what would be the best features to have in a membership site and no, not an easy task! What is an important feature to me, actually the most important one, is drip feed. I'm trying to figure out what would be the most HANDS-OFF membership. Load it, drip it and then what?

Yes, of course you have to market it as well but that is another subject. The one thing that I am confused about is; Should it already have a shopping cart in it, or, is the ability to integrate a cart good enough? If you have to integrate one, what would then be the financial repurcussions? Nothing's free and would you be better off getting a membership software that already has the cart even though that will rack up the price of it?

Another issue is, if you want to sell your site down the line, what membership software would let you do that?

Any insight is appreciated,

thank you,

Eva
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  • Profile picture of the author NickSway
    If you're serious about creating a high quality membership site with the potential to sell it down the road, look into these three options:

    - Digital Access Pass
    - WishList
    - aMember
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    • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
      Originally Posted by NickSway View Post

      If you're serious about creating a high quality membership site with the potential to sell it down the road, look into these three options:

      - Digital Access Pass
      - WishList
      - aMember
      I've looked at all 3, which all supports drip feed. When it comes to shopping cart, DAP is the only one with a built in shopping cart in their higher end version, which is out of my budget right now,

      Eva
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      • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
        On second thought, maybe I should have posted this in the general forum for a chance of decent replies since this doesn't seem to be a model offliners use?

        I've vaguely looked into this before and figured now would be a good time to at lest decide on the appropriate software, any thoughts would be appreciated.

        Eva
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        • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
          Still looking and what I've learned so far is that if you use Paypal as your payment option, you are going to have a hard time selling your site in the future since Paypal is tied to you personally.

          Anyone able to chime in on this major issue?

          Thanks, Eva
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          • Profile picture of the author BenFitts
            Originally Posted by Vikuna2009+ View Post

            Still looking and what I've learned so far is that if you use Paypal as your payment option, you are going to have a hard time selling your site in the future since Paypal is tied to you personally.

            Anyone able to chime in on this major issue?

            Thanks, Eva
            It depends on if you're doing one time purchases or recurring.

            It is easy to go into aMember and change the PayPal address to the new site owner. That will only effect new purchases though. It won't effect past purchases so if you have recurring memberships you'll have to contact PayPal about transferring your PayPal account to another person. Otherwise you have to cancel all the recurring members and beg and plead them to sign up again Meaning you'll lose most of your recurring.

            I wouldn't recommend PayPal for a recurring membership site. It has issues as you have just stated.

            If I was going to use PayPal I would setup a new company and new PayPal address just for that subscription site. That way I can easily transfer all the information to the new site owner.

            Generally speaking if you're developing a site to sell it may be easier when you go to sell to set it up as a separate company in the first place. Use a different google account, email address, company name, bank account, paypal account, etc. That way you can just transfer everything to the new owner.

            You also keep mentioned shopping carts..

            With aMember you can select multiple products and quantities. It can work much like a shopping cart. I think you're just used to seeing people that don't typically use it like a shopping cart. They have only one or two products and don't need the real cart functionality.

            And yes you can also integrate with 3rd party shopping carts. I used to use 1shopping cart for one of my personal aMember sites.
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      • Profile picture of the author ravijayagopal
        Hi Eva,

        The DAP Shopping Cart is included for FREE with ALL versions of DAP, starting with the 1-site license. There is no separate charge for it.

        And there is no "higher end version", really - there's only one "version" of DAP.

        However, the different "options" you have for purchasing, are the 1-site license, Unlimited-site license, or paying extra for our "Concierge" service for us to help you set up your membership site.

        Hope this helps.

        - Ravi Jayagopal

        Originally Posted by Vikuna2009+ View Post

        I've looked at all 3, which all supports drip feed. When it comes to shopping cart, DAP is the only one with a built in shopping cart in their higher end version, which is out of my budget right now,

        Eva
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  • Profile picture of the author bob ross
    I've been screwing around with studiopress' premise plugin which I really thought would be awesome but turns out it has terrible drip ability and their tutorials for setting up payments aren't even put up yet.

    I wasted a whole day trying to figure it all out, waiting for support response for hours on end. I finally said screw it and went with DAP, where I had it set up quickly and got a support ticket reply within an hour.

    I really like how the drip content can be set so easily, I like the login widget, and I like the built in shopping cart that doesn't cost me anything more.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
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      Originally Posted by bob ross View Post

      I've been screwing around with studiopress' premise plugin which I really thought would be awesome but turns out it has terrible drip ability and their tutorials for setting up payments aren't even put up yet.

      I wasted a whole day trying to figure it all out, waiting for support response for hours on end. I finally said screw it and went with DAP, where I had it set up quickly and got a support ticket reply within an hour.

      I really like how the drip content can be set so easily, I like the login widget, and I like the built in shopping cart that doesn't cost me anything more.
      Seems like DAP is the way to go.

      Eva
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