Grant members early access to content with WooCommerce Memberships
How to grant early access to content to members with WooCommerce Memberships, then make the content publicly available after a certain time.
How can I require customers apply for a membership and approve their access?
While WooCommerce Memberships is flexible in how your customers can become members, it’s useful for some sites to let customers apply for a membership and then accept or reject their membership. This is desirable for merchants who want a great deal of control over who gets access to membership perks on their site. If you’re interested in setting up Memberships to require application and approval, please let us know! In the meantime, here are a…
Using Dynamic Pricing with WooCommerce Memberships
WooCommerce Memberships has the ability to provide discounts for members. This is a popular way to provide perks or wholesale pricing for certain groups of customers. However, Memberships does not have complex sets of rules for for pricing, such as the ability to set discounts at tiers for membership products. You can use Dynamic Pricing for this sort of set up, as it lets you add pricing rules based on role, quantity tiers, and more….
Adjust WooCommerce Memberships Exports
A popular feature with WooCommerce Memberships is the ability to import and export members. While the default export includes membership data, you may want to include other data here as well. Modifying the export is possible, as there are hooks available to change the CSV output; we’ll go over a couple straight-forward examples in this guide. Please note this guide requires beginner PHP development and WordPress skills. Filter WooCommerce Memberships Export Column Headers The first…
WooCommerce Memberships: Add “View Subscription” Action to My Memberships
Here’s a quick question we’d gotten in a support thread: How can I add a link to “Cancel” a membership with it’s subscription to the “My Memberships” table? Unfortunately, adding a link to cancel both a membership + it’s associated subscription isn’t really straight-forward — this is why the “cancel” action is removed in the first place when a memberships is tied to a subscription. This way, cancelling the billing record is the only way…
Adding WooCommerce Memberships Restriction Notice Merge Tags
We got an interesting question this week from a developer: Is there a way to show Membership Plan Names in a “content restricted” notice instead of products to buy? In this case, the site wasn’t selling Memberships, but rather taking applications for them, so the plan names made more sense. This question can show us a couple interesting concepts today to look at: (1) creating a helper method to get plans that restrict a product,…
Repeating a Fixed Date Membership with WooCommerce Memberships
Howdy and happy new year, folks! The new year partly inspired this Memberships post, as an year cycle ends, and it’s likely that many of you Memberships users might have set up membership plans that are a year long. But how about plans that are set to start exactly on the 1st of January of any given year? Since fixed dates memberships were introduced in version 1.7.0 there is the possibility in WooCommerce Memberships to…
WooCommerce Memberships 1.7: Member emails, New Plan Options, and more
WooCommerce Memberships is over one year old now! We launched the plugin in June 2015 and has been a big hit ever since, rapidly becoming one of the most popular WooCommerce extensions. We are happy to announce that Memberships 1.7.0 has been deployed, just a couple months later than Memberships’s birthday. This release represents the largest update since the first version! Keep an eye out in your dashboards for the update, which should be out today.
Limiting Members to One Membership with WooCommerce Memberships
When we built WooCommerce Memberships, one of the biggest requests we had from our surveys and beta testers was to build a plugin that would allow customers to have as many memberships as they wanted to purchase. This became one of the major decisions we made in the initial version, and any customer can have 0 or more memberships. However, some shops want to limit the number of memberships a customer can have, most commonly…
Create a “My Memberships” section shortcode with WooCommerce Memberships
Today’s question comes from Scott: Can I use or create a shortcode to have the “My Memberships” area outside of the “My Account” page? In other words, if I wanted to place My Memberships on a page other than the default /my-account page, would I be able to do that? This is an interesting question, as you could add the “My Memberships” table to a custom page on your site, protect that page for members,…