building a membership site with woocommerce memberships
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Anthony Hortin @maddisondesigns
Building a Membership Site
with WooCommerce Memberships
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What’s available
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What’s available
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Things to Consider
Ease of setup/use
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Prorated charges
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Content dripping
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eCommerce Support
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Upsells/Downsells
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Support
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Receiving Payments
9/10 support PayPal* 3/10 support eWay*All support Stripe*
*Out of the 10 previously mentioned membership plugins
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Receiving Payments
Only 1 out 10 supports all 4 major Australian Banks*
(and PayPal, Stripe, eWay and many others)
*Out of the 10 previously mentioned membership plugins
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Benefits of WooCommerce
Most popular eCommerce plugin (powers 30% of all eComm sites*)
*http://trends.builtwith.com/shop
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Fully security audited by leading WP security firm Sucuri
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Extensive range of add-ons
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15+ different Australian Payment Gateway add-ons
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Extensive range of reports
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Ability to sell products easily (digital, physical, affiliated etc.)
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No need for separate membership & shop logins
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Easy to setup and use
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What you’ll need
WooCommerce (free)
WooCommerce Memberships (paid)
WooCommerce Subscriptions (paid)
PayPal, Stripe or some other Payment Gateway plugin (free/paid)
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Getting StartedInstall and activate all your plugins
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After Activating WooCommerce, install the WooCommerce Pages
Getting Started
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Install & activate the free WooThemes Helper plugin for updates
Getting Started
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Configure Base Location & Currency
WooCommerce > Settings > General
WooCommerce Setup
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Turn off Manage Stock as we’re dealing with digital products
WooCommerce > Products > Inventory
WooCommerce Setup
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Turn off Shipping Calculations as we’re dealing with digital products
WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping
WooCommerce Setup
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Turn off Enable guest checkout
Enable Force secure checkout (ie. SSL) if required
WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Checkout Options
WooCommerce Setup
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Enable our Payment Gateway (eg. Stripe)
Add API Keys if required
WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Stripe
WooCommerce Setup
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If your payment gateway doesn’t support subscriptions, you may want to enable the option to Accept Manual Renewals
WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions
WooCommerce Setup
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Choose to hide your membership content completely,show excerpts only or redirect to a landing page.
WooCommerce > Settings > Memberships > General
WooCommerce Setup
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You can also hide restricted products from your shop catalogue
WooCommerce > Settings > Memberships > Products
WooCommerce Setup
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Add some content for our Membersand assign them Categories
Posts > Add New
Content Setup
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WooCommerce Subscriptions
WooCommerce Subscriptions makes it easy to create and manage products with recurring payments“
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WooCommerce Memberships can be used with or without WooCommerce Subscriptions.
WooCommerce Subscriptions enables youto sell recurring subscriptions
(e.g. Monthly, Yearly memberships)
Creating Subscriptions
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Creating a subscription is just like creating a regular product
Products > Add Product
Creating Subscriptions
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Make the product a Simple Subscription and Virtual
Set your Subscription Price per Day/Week/Month/Year
Set how long the subscription should last
Creating Subscriptions
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Memberships
Memberships is a WooCommerce extension that allows you to restrict your content so that it’s only accessible to members on your site“
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Create a new Membership Plan and select the product thatmembers need to purchase to get access to this plan
WooCommerce > Memberships > Membership Plans
Creating Memberships
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Restrict the content that members get access to
WooCommerce > Memberships > Membership Plans
Creating Memberships
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You can also restrict specific products so they’re only available for plan members
WooCommerce > Memberships > Membership Plans
Creating Memberships
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Provide discounts to plan members without having to set up coupons
WooCommerce > Memberships > Membership Plans
Creating Memberships
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You can also restrict access on each Page or Post using the Memberships panel
Creating Memberships
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Our Subscription Products
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Our SubscriptionsView all your subscriptions in the Dashboard
WooCommerce > Subscriptions
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Our MembersView all your members in the Dashboard
WooCommerce > Memberships
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Our MembersIf you need to, you can also edit a member’s membership
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Our Product OrdersView all your orders in the Dashboard
WooCommerce > Orders
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WooCommerce http://woocommerce.com
WooCommerce extensionshttp://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions
Subscription Payment Methods & Gateways http://docs.woothemes.com/document/subscriptions/payment-gateways
WooCommerce Membershipshttp://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-memberships
WooCommerce Subscriptionshttp://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions
Links to remember
I’m Anthony Hortin You can find me here
@maddisondesigns maddisondesigns.com
@easywpguide easywpguide.com
Thanks! Questions?