MemberPress Reviews & Product Details

MemberPress is a membership, subscription, and online community platform that businesses, creators, educators, and associations use to sell and manage recurring access to digital content, online courses, coaching programs, and private communities — on infrastructure they own and control. It brings together capabilities that are usually split across a membership platform, a course platform, a community app, and a subscription billing tool, in a single system with AI built into both course creation and day-to-day operations, no per-member fees, and no revenue share. Common uses include membership sites, paid communities and private forums, online schools and certification programs, cohort-based courses, coaching and accountability programs, paid newsletters and publications, association and nonprofit memberships, premium video libraries, and digital downloads. Access is governed by a rules-based paywall that protects any page, post, file, category, or content type, and supports one-time purchases, recurring subscriptions, tiered plans, free and paid trials, coupons, order bumps, plan upgrades and downgrades, and corporate or group accounts with seat management. MemberPress Courses provides a built-in LMS with a drag-and-drop curriculum builder, quizzes, assignments, certificates, and content dripping. CoachKit™ adds coaching and cohort programs with milestones, habit tracking, scheduling, and client messaging. ClubSuite™ brings community in-house with member forums, searchable member directories and profiles, and direct messaging. ReadyLaunch™ generates branded pricing, checkout, login, and member dashboard pages without code or design work. The AI Course Generator builds complete courses through conversation: describe the topic, audience, and goals, and it generates sections, lessons, learning objectives, time estimates, and draft content in a live preview that can be rearranged, renamed, or regenerated. The AI Lesson Assistant writes and expands lesson content, and the AI Quiz Builder generates questions from the actual lesson material. AI Foundation connects MemberPress to AI clients including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and Windsurf through a built-in MCP server, exposing more than 40 tools across members, subscriptions, transactions, coupons, access rules, and reporting — so operators can ask about revenue, churn, cohort analysis, lifetime value, renewal forecasts, or seat utilization in plain language instead of building reports. Payments process through Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, and Square, including Apple Pay, Google Pay, and direct debit. Built-in reporting tracks revenue, active subscriptions, churn, and member activity. MemberPress integrates with leading email marketing platforms, CRMs, page builders, automation tools, and affiliate software, and provides a REST API and webhooks for custom workflows. Because MemberPress runs on WordPress, member data, published content, and payment relationships remain owned by the operator and fully portable, with no platform lock-in and no percentage of revenue taken. Setup requires no coding, and businesses running on MemberPress have generated over $2.5 billion in online revenue.

Seller

MemberPress

Discussions

MemberPress Community

Languages Supported

German, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Blair Williams

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Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

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Verified User in E-Learning

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/22/2022

"A very good experience"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

The support from Memberpress is really impressive. I've contacted them several times over the last couple of months and they've always been really helpful. They get back to me quickly and have resolved every issue I've had. I'm also impressed by the fact that the same support person dealt with each problem from start to finish. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

So far, this review. I assumed I would get to write a few sentences in a Trustpilot kind of deal. To be confronted with what seems like an epic quiz is pretty annoying. I was very close to closing the window and forgetting about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Internet

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/15/2022

"Great tool, courses add-on is awesome!"

4/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

I like how easy it is to add membership levels and set up courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

I highly dislike that the Stripe integration requires a connection to my Memberpress account. I am a web developer and purchase extensions and licenses on behalf of my clients all the time. However, when doing this with Memberpress, they lose the option to use the Stripe integration because it would require them to provide me with their user name and password to their payment gateway, which is a security issue. I would like to see the Stripe payment integration be independent of the Memberpress account in a future update. I have had to find alternate solutions for some clients for this exact reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Russ W.

Founder / Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/11/2023

"Perfect for a membership site"

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

How forward thinking the developers are. The usability of the software and the flexible capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

The need to understand WordPress. However their tutorial videos are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lance S.

Founder and CEO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/31/2023

"Excellent Product"

4.5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

It is seamless - set it up and forget about it after that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

Nothing to complain about - no issues discovered. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aly S.

C.T.O

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/26/2022

"For securing Membership pages and setting up subscriptions it does the job!"

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

The Developer edition gives you a lot of tools to help you secure your WordPress site, allowing you to easily set up regular & subscription-based memberships for your site with accepting money. This by far makes it worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

The only thing is the setup and customization takes time as the theme/branding depends on your own skills and your own site setup and it would be nice to have different templates to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MemberPress:

If you get the developer edition you get a lot of helpful tools, extra resources and add-ons that are extremely beneficial. It allows for BuddyPress integration, Stripe integration and GetResponse (marketing integration) working well together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MemberPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our main usage of MemberPress was setting up a multisite for different clinics with tailor-made content for different user roles and integrating that with the rest of our applications. We had set up a point-based system as well using MemberPress to give users tokens and have their own membership profiles. The main tool that helped the most was the corporate memberships allowing you to set up multiple users under one company and sub-users of each company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/29/2023

"Memberpress is a fantastic membership plug-in. I have no complaints."

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

The best thing about MP is the customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

I don't see any downsides to Memberpress Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Russ H.

Certified Personal Trainer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/25/2022

"Does exactly what it said it would do!"

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

I needed a membership site I could integrate into my Wordpress blog. A simple yearly subscription and plugin download from these guys has turned my blog into a fully-fledged business which allows me to work from home. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

I have always struggled with coding, and although there are video demos and they are top notch, I do occasionally have a mind-blank moment where I have to ask support because there isn't a demo (well, it's happened twice in 2 years, so very infrequently - but I don't have any other dislikes so this gets it). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MemberPress:

Great plugin for adding a members area to a Wordpress blog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MemberPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

I already had a popular fitness blog, and as my audience grew I initially tried selling my workout programs as e-books (mainly because I'm tech-clueless!), but eventually wanted to progress to a monthly subscription which would give me a Members Area where people have access to ALL of my training programs for one price instead of purchasing them separately as one-time payments. Memberpress has given me exactly what I required! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Kat L.

Marketing Consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/20/2022

"Easiest WordPress Membership Plugin"

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

It is both easy to use and one of the most fully-featured. Easy to set up, content access control, all the integrations you would want, easy payment gateway setup, and out-of-this-world customer support. I rarely have questions or needs with this plugin, but when I do, they are there for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

The only limitation with this software is if you need a shop for selling digital or physical products. So for some specific use cases, MemberPress wouldn't be a good fit. But if you want to run a membership or sell courses - MemberPress is the best option on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MemberPress:

Give it a try! It's amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MemberPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

MemberPress helps me make dependable recurring income and build authority within my niche. It also helps me deliver my services in a way that was easy for me to setup but also easy for my customers too! My original MemberPress website - I was able to set it up in an afternoon! I saved time and made more money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

William E.

Owner

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/19/2022

"The obvious choice for subscription service websites built with WordPress"

5/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

I have been a MemberPress user for about eight years. It was purchased originally for a client that uses it to restrict access to user manuals of their proprietary products to verified owners. This year I began using it for one of my own websites -- NutritionFactsMaker.com -- to set up paid subscription access to the site. This was the first time I had fully exploited the features that make MemberPress so useful. Users of my service can subscribe for varying durations and get notified when their subscription is about to expire. It interacts seamlessly with PayPal and I get notified whenever users purchase the service, as well as when they change passwords. The software is updated regularly and the support is very good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

There really isn't much to dislike about MemberPress. The software does what it says. There is a learning curve to taking advantage of all of its features, but persistence certainly pays off. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MemberPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

I had to replace an older version of the Nutrition Facts Maker site because changes to the interface with PayPal created extra steps in the registration process. Users no longer received their access codes automatically and I had to manually send them their credentials. When redesigning the site, it was obvious that I needed software to track users and their subscriptions without manual intervention. MemberPress takes care of everything. This allows all of my focus to be directed toward customer satisfaction instead of administration and troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Drew A.

COO | Creative Director

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/19/2022

"Great Tool, Lots of Options, Responsive Support"

4/5

What do you like best about MemberPress?

Gated content is easy to create and put behind a paywall. It works great with the WP theme, DIVI and we're able to manage users easily. Haven't used other systems, so I'm not sure how it compares to competitors, but I'm happy with MemberPress and not looking to change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about MemberPress?

Some features aren't as easy to figure out. ie. logging in as a paid member is taking our users back to the homepage, away from the content they were just trying to access. Still needing to figure out how to resolve that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering MemberPress:

Be sure you have someone that's web-savvy to help set up and maintain your MemberPress community. There are a lot of tools, a lot of ways to customize this product and they aren't all as easy as you'd think. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is MemberPress solving and how is that benefiting you?

My main problem right now is trying to grow our membership. This isn't a MemberPress issue, of course, it's our own marketing that needs to improve. I think if the MemberPress team wanted to start doing some webinars or offer more tips on how to best use their product, that would be appreciated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.