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Paid Memberships Pro
Paid Memberships Pro · PO Box 4515, Reading, PA 19606, United States · founded 2010
What it is
Paid Memberships Pro is a WordPress membership plugin and open-source platform for site owners who want to restrict content, take payments, and manage subscriptions. It supports protection for 28 types of website content and lets administrators create unlimited free or paid membership levels. Levels can use one-time charges or recurring billing at intervals from hourly to annual. Owners can set up trials, coupons, proration, pauses, donations, gift codes, and invite codes. Stripe and PayPal are included, with no platform transaction fee, although payment gateway charges still apply. The free plan provides the self-hosted open-source platform and 25 free add-ons; Standard, Max, and Max 2x include 54 premium add-ons. Standard is listed at $49 a month, Max at $99 a month, and Max 2x at $299 a month. The plugin also offers member administration, reporting, developer tools, and integrations with services including WooCommerce, Mailchimp, and LearnDash. It supports WordPress 5.2 or higher, while technical support covers only the three most recent minor releases. Premium purchases have a 100-day money-back guarantee covering one payment.
For and against
For
- Supports unlimited free or paid membership levels
- Includes Stripe and PayPal without platform transaction fees
- Free plan includes 25 free add-ons
- Integrates with services such as WooCommerce and LearnDash
Against
- Payment gateway charges still apply
- Technical support covers only the three latest minor releases
- Paid plans start at $49 a month
The verdict
Paid Memberships Pro offers a broad set of membership, billing, and administration tools for WordPress sites. The self-hosted free plan is an option, while paid plans add premium add-ons, support, or hosting.
Who it suits
Paid Memberships Pro may fit WordPress site owners running associations, nonprofits, communities, courses, paid newsletters, or other membership-based sites. It offers both a self-hosted free option and paid plans with support or managed hosting.
Plans and prices
Free
DIY, developers, testing · Self-host the open-source PMPro Platform · Download .zip
Read 28 Sep 2026 · paidmembershipspro.com
Standard
Self-host with Premium Add Ons and support · 1-site license
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Standard
Self-host with Premium Add Ons and support · 1-site license
Read 28 Sep 2026 · paidmembershipspro.com
Max
Managed hosting · 0 to 1,000 estimated orders/month · 0 to 2,000 estimated monthly active users · 2 CPUs
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Max
Managed hosting · 0 to 1,000 estimated orders/month · 0 to 2,000 estimated monthly active users · 2 CPUs
Read 28 Sep 2026 · paidmembershipspro.com
Max 2x
Managed hosting · 1,000 to 5,000 estimated orders/month · 2,000 to 10,000 estimated monthly active users · 4 CPUs
Read 28 Sep 2026 · paidmembershipspro.com
Max 2x
Managed hosting · 1,000 to 5,000 estimated orders/month · 2,000 to 10,000 estimated monthly active users · 4 CPUs
Read 28 Sep 2026 · paidmembershipspro.com
On the record
- Active sites
- The pricing page reports more than 90,000 active sites.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Admin features
- The platform provides customizable dashboards, profiles, registration forms, and admin reporting.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Administration
- Administrators can manually add, import, export, and approve members, customize frontend design settings, and assign a Membership Manager role.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Audience
- PMPro is positioned for associations, nonprofits, blogs, communities, courses, coaching, directories, paid newsletters, podcasts, and video sites.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Company history
- PMPro launched in 2011 and reports more than 14 years of experience.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Content gating
- postpaidmembershipspro.com · read 21 Sep 2026
- Content restriction
- It can restrict posts, pages, categories, custom post types, downloads, courses, videos, events, forums, and communities.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Custom domain
- Yespaidmembershipspro.com · read 21 Sep 2026
- Developer tools
- PMPro provides more than 300 action and filter hooks, REST API support with eight endpoints, bulk update tools, and debugging tools.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Drip content
- Yespaidmembershipspro.com · read 21 Sep 2026
- Free Add Ons
- The Free plan includes 25 Free Add Ons.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Free tier
- The free plan provides the self-hosted open-source PMPro Platform.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Hosting capacity
- Max includes a dedicated server with 2 CPUs, 4GB RAM, and 80GB SSD.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Official integrations include WooCommerce, BuddyPress, BuddyBoss, bbPress, Mailchimp, MailerLite, MailPoet, Slack, Google Analytics, Zapier, LearnDash, and LifterLMS.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Membership levels
- Users can create unlimited free or paid membership levels with flexible subscription pricing.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Membership pricing
- Membership levels can be free, one-time payment, or recurring subscriptions billed annually, monthly, weekly, daily, or hourly.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Open source
- The core plugin and Add Ons are open source under GPLv2, and the software can run on as many sites as desired.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
- Payment gateways
- Core or free integrations support Stripe, PayPal, Paystack, CCBill, Payfast, and manual or offline payments, with recurring subscriptions supported.paidmembershipspro.com · read 28 Sep 2026
