Recently I’ve polled my subscribers on the list of most desirable features that they would like to have for their membership sites. Many of them already made it into most recent release of MemberWing. So here your wish list questions and my comments:
- Desmond Ong (desmondblog.com):
- Discount coupon codes for my membership site. They can get a cheaper subscription if they use a certain code.
– One-time LIFETIME membership payment mode.- Answer:
Both of these features could be implemented via e-junkie. E-junkie is an inexpensive “digital” shopping cart that is supported by MemberWing. It cost starting from $5 flat monthly. You may create a product at e-junkie named “Lifetime Membership” and integrate it with MemberWing so upon payment user will get logon immediately. Then use your e-junkie admin interface to generate discount coupon or gift certificate that users name be able to enter at checkout. It could be %-based, $-based, single use, multiple use, have expirations date, etc.. – very flexible and you can change it at any time to reflect current promotions.
The only problem is that all will only work with single payment type of membership, not with recurring. E-junkie does not support recurring yet.
Paypal supports entering coupons at a checkout but does not support generating coupons yet for reasons beyond me.
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- Nikola Jankovic (peomedia.com):
- recurring payment option
– affiliate program for recurring payment
– 2checkout payments- Answer:
Recurring payments is supported via Paypal, and full membership automation is supported in MemberWing premium editions. Recurring payments + affiliate program is supported via PayDotCom. We are in process of integrating MemberWing with self-hosted scripts such as Post Affiliate Pro – coming soon.
2Checkout payments are supported via e-junkie. The only thing to remember that e-junkie does not support recurring payments, although if you are ok with one-time membership scheme – it is great solution.
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- Kevin at IT Europe:
1. Removal of the branding on the free version.
2. Integration with Community Builder.- Answer:
Branding removal is of course possible but not with free version. That’s minor inconvenience that allows us to release and update free version and for you to launch fully featured membership site in minutes. Professional Editions of MemberWing all has branding removed.
Community Builder I think is from Joomla world. While MemberWing is for WordPress only for now – but in a future we might look into partnerships with able Joomla guys to bring simplicity and power of MemberWing to Joomla as well. Not there yet though.
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- Eric Scouten:
1. I’m not interested in having multiple levels of membership and that seems to be pretty thoroughly built into MW.
2. The state that I live in (Washington) requires that I collect sales tax for WA residents when selling access to digital downloads …- Answer:
1. MW does support 4 levels of membership but it doesn’t mean you have to use all of them. You may use only 1 – no problems. It’s like owning BMW M5 – it can go to 238 km/h, but you don’t really have to drive that fast at all times. But potential is there in case you need it.
2. Eric concerned about matching tax collections with local state requirements. This could be done via sophisticated shopping carts that might be aware of USA and local state tax codes. MemberWing does not do any shopping-carting and it won’t help you to buy more taxes for sure.
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- Jobmass. com:
I’m using another plug-in to restrict access to certain posts and pages- the user has to log in first.
Would be great to incorporate this feature into memberwing- Answer:
That’s EXACTLY what MemberWing does. And it’s basic version is free even!
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- Likvid Design:
Many people have subscriptions to tech sites from corporate accounts. This means that they’d like:
– roaming accounts not locked to an email address
– a good way to track and print receipts and invoices, preferably with billing history.
It would be super if these features are added in.
This is a great product! All the best to you.- Answer:
MemberWing is not roaming account-aware app at this point. And definitely not going to be a competitor to Quickbooks or so for receipts/invoices/billing history tracking.
What I see in a future is a possiblity of integration with other community softwares, like forums so that user will have single point payment and same login at different screens. Thank you for the kind words as well!
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- Auntie Jo:
That one is easy – based on a question I asked just a little while ago.
I like the ease of use of the “content markers” – so simple to set up!
BUT I would like a feature where you could (if necessary) use ALL markers on a single page/post – to enable you to give your members an ever increasing view of the post/page depending on their level of membership.
i.e on the same page or post .- Answer:
Auntie is talking about having post like that:
…Free content {+}Bronze content {++}Now silver content {+++} And this one is for Gold members only, etc…
Auntie, sincerely I was going to start with excuses “why it’s not possible…blah”, but then decided to look into code
So the real answer is – it is possible to do and will take me about 3 hours to implement which I currently don’t have. If I will see more commercial interest in this feature – it might happen. Cannot give any promises regarding this feature yet.
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- Daniel Correa:
Hello
I appreciate so much this plugin and it’s very util to me.
The answer 1) The capacibility to work with 4 kinds of member, because it’s perfect to my model
2) Im brasilian and have working with a brasilian payment system called pagseguro (http://pagseguro.uol.com.br) . Works like paypal, and I wish a automatic system to control de payment of users. Actually is a manual process. Im not using paypal becaus it’s very hard to transfer money to my country.- Answer:
Sorry Daniel, no plans to implement this Brazilian payment system for now.
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- Merka Dabzil:
OK folks – here you go!
– keep it simple. No need for another aMember…
– maybe a module for safe (paid) downloads that can’t get ripped by any wannabe G00gle h4xx0r…
– Only for WordPress. Period. And WordPress fully supported.
– its cool you offer a version for free – but mentioning that it seems to be completely half-assed even without Paypal support only AFTER the download is somewhat… well, did encourage me not to install it. I would prefer a fully working time-limited trial so I can really decide what I am going to pay for.
– option for fixed-term membership sites. No automatic infinite subscription, but limited to 12 months or 53 weeks of newsletter etc.
…. ‘k, thats it for now…
Seems to me like you almost nailed it. Some polishing, and this should do very well – there is a lot of demand for a simple and WORKING WP membership plugin.
Cheers and keep up the great work!- Answer:
– Safe downloads “module” is perfectly handled by ejunkie with which MemberWing works well. So the answer here is “yes”.
– WordPress *is* indeed.
– Well free version does support paypal but of course you’d need to add/remove users manually.
– Option for what you name “fix term” membership sites is fully supported by Paypal “Buy”, “Pay now” buttons as well as via e-junkie’s facilities, as well as via PayDotCom affiliate network.
Full automation of payments+users for above features is supported by MemberWing Professional
– …and you’re right about polishing – doing it almost non-stop!
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- Phil Meyer:
One feature which I think would be pretty great would be to optionally allow one’s members to post on the blog, and in doing so:
* set how many times a member (according to level, but possible individual override) can post within a selected timeframe;
* select whether a member’s post should be published immediately or pend review (according to level, but possible individual override – possibly also a “trust” system whereby a member’s posts are automatically published after x number of successful posts);
* possibility to sell the ability to post at various levels to non-members.
Something like that…
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These are interesting community-like features. At this point MemberWing offers webmaster to be the only publisher of premium contents. No prerequisites for managing other members publishing credentials. Thanks for letting me know about your features of interest though.
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- Dan Ashton:
The ability to release new content every month would be great, so that someone joining six months after someone else only gets to see Month 1 content, for example).- Answer:
Brownie point for Dan – he was first
This is the next big feature that it currently in the works to get into the next major release of MemberWing. The only thing is once this feature will be announced – the cost of MemberWing Premium will go up big time – so to lock your cost base and get this feature – order Pro version *before* the announcement.
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- Ron Taggy:
This plugin totally rocks…I have a big requirement and this is the main one that’s preventing me from using it completely on all my sites…
* The ability to drip content, so members don’t get access to all the content at the same time. So, let’s say, I put out new content every single month. When someone joins today, I only want him to see Month 1 content and not everything at the same time. Each month, he will get access to the next set of content etc- Answer:
You’ll get it. See my answer to Dan Ashton above.
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Erlend Førsund:
The biggest challenge in creating a membership site I think is to set up the payment functions with paypal.
Some kind of tutorial or service would be very welcome.
Erlend (Norway)- Answer:
I do plan to put more detailed step by step tutorials on setting up paypal and other payment processors and affiliate networks. Step by step – more good stuff will come soon!
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More answers will be coming soon!
