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Profile Builder, our all in one user registration and profile plugin, just got better. In an effort to give more control to our users while also increasing ease of use, we decided to include the free Profile Builder addons in the main plugin. By using the new version of Profile Builder you won't need to […]

Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) takes effect on September 14, 2019. Let’s look at what it is and how it affects your membership site powered by Paid Member Subscriptions, especially if you're using the Stripe add-on to collect member payments. What is Secure Customer Authentication or SCA? Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) is part of PSD2 (Payment […]

As an online business owner, there are many reasons why you might consider restricting access to content. For example, if you’re running a membership site, selling online courses or paid subscriptions, or you’d like to make it easy for the sales department to access marketing collateral on the go. For this, you’ll need a content […]

Looking to add membership functionality to your Elementor membership site in WordPress? Using Paid Member Subscriptions you'll get access to content restriction based on the membership plan, plus the ability to customize restriction messages & templates directly from Elementor's front-end visual interface. In this tutorial, we'll go through the steps required to build an Elementor […]

If you're running a paid membership website, failed payments will reduce your revenue. On most WordPress membership sites, involuntary churn (resulted from issues such as failed payments rather than direct cancellations) has a significant impact on growth. Learning how to deal with failed payments on your membership site and how to quickly identify the reason […]

Setting up a pricing table for your membership site is an efficient way to highlight each subscription plan's features and make it easy for potential customers to compare the available options. A well thought membership pricing table can positively affect your site conversion rate. You can easily highlight things like access to members-only store, a […]

If you are a membership site owner, having an easy way to prevent account sharing will protect your revenue and increase your subscriber base in the long term. There are of course multiple ways to tackle the login credentials sharing problem. Adopting social media login as a method of authentication can help considerably. This gives […]

Using the Discount Codes add-on for Paid Member Subscriptions you can now limit discount code uses per user when signing up for a paid subscription plan. Discount codes are a great incentive when trying to attract new subscribers to your membership site. There are however a few scenarios in which users may abuse the use […]

Improving your product's user experience is an ongoing task. Or at least, it should be. Adding feature after feature in the hope of attracting more customers can easily become the norm and usability starts suffering. Without focusing on the big picture and constantly asking why, it's easy to get off track. We're guilty of it […]

There are certain situations where an admin needs to add payments manually for some subscribers of his membership site. As it has constantly been requested by our membership plugin users, the ability to manually add a payment and link that to a member is now part of Paid Member Subscriptions core. This offers extra flexibility […]