ARMember offers a flexible membership management system for WordPress to manage plans. This allows you to create and manage unlimited subscription plans tailored to your site’s needs. Whether you’re offering free access, one-time paid memberships, or recurring subscriptions.
Through the Manage Plans section, you can easily view, sort, and edit plans using a feature-rich grid, and assign specific WordPress roles and paid content like posts or courses to each plan. With support for HTML descriptions, role inheritance, and seamless integration with add-ons, ARMember makes it easy to build and maintain a structured membership experience for your users.
In this doc, we’ll understand how to create and configure the plans.
Manage Plans
In order to create plans navigate to the Admin Panel ⇾ ARMember ⇾ Manage Plans. At this page you can check all the previously created plans and further create new plans as well
You have a grid to manage all plans with following columns. Each column is sortable here.
- Plan ID – Shows the ID of the plan which can be added to many shortcodes.
- Plan Name – Shows Title of Plan you have set.
- Plan Type – Shows subscription is Free or Paid, if it is paid then it will show
AmountwithPlan Duration. - Members – Shows number of users who has purchased a particular membership plan.
- WP Role – Shows Role to be assigned to the users of a particular plan.
Adding/Editing a New Plan
Plan Name
Add title of subscription to be displayed at front. You can set with unique plan names as per your site’s needs.
Plan Description
Add content to describe your plan to the site users. ARMember allows you to use the HTML Tags in the plan description, so with the help of the tags you can display the descriptions as per the site requirements.
Member Role
Here you will have list of all WordPress default user roles as well as ARMember add another role which is ARMember. Select user role which is to be assigned to users of this plan.
Inherit Access Rules Of Subscription Plan
If you wish to have same access rules as you have set in other plans then you can select that plan, when this plan will be created access rules of your selected plan will be inherited.
This option will be available only while adding a new plan.
Plan Type & Price
Here you will get all different options to create different types of plans like free plan, paid plan (infinite), paid plan (finite), Subscription/Recurring Payment. All options are described here.
Plan Types
Here you have different options available to select as per your requirements.
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Free Plans
If you wish to create a free subscription plan with no payment then select this option. Free subscription plan is valid for lifetime, there will be no expiration of user’s membership with this plan.
ARMember also offers a flexibility to assign a free plan with registration by default.
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Paid Plans
Other 3 Options are for paid plans with different Payment Type case. Get more information regarding configure the paid plans.
Here you are able to create paid subscription plan with many options like Plan Duration, Amount, etc. When you select any of Paid plan Subscription option, you will be able to access other related options of payment and payment cycle etc. for a plan.
Assign Paid Post/Courses.
Assign Pay Per Post/Courses will only available if you have activates Pay Per Post or Online Course Addon from ARMember ⇾ Add-ons page.
The paid post/course will be assigned to the member when there is no similar post is found at the member’s account.
ARMember does provide a facility to assign the Paid Post or Course with the plan purchased. So if you want to assign the members any course or paid post when they purchase a membership plan then you can set that from the ARMember ⇾ Manage Plans ⇾ Add/Edit Plans page at Assign Paid Post Settings section.
Enable the switch here at Enable Assign Paid Post and set one or more paid post/courses to assign if members purchase a membership plan as per your requirements.
If the paid post and membership plan both are of recurring type then the paid post will not be renewed when you renew the membership plan, both the cycles will work differently.