eCommerce
WooCommerce Memberships
WooCommerce Memberships connects customer accounts, WooCommerce products, and restricted site content through configurable membership plans. It suits stores, publications, courses, and purchasing clubs that need timed access or member benefits, but site owners should test caching, permalinks, checkout blocks, and connected extensions on staging.
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Overview
WooCommerce Memberships is a plan-based access-control extension for WooCommerce rather than a separate member login system. Plans can grant access through a product purchase, account registration, or manual assignment, then control access to posts, pages, custom post types, products, and product categories. This makes it a practical fit when membership status needs to affect both editorial content and shopping privileges. The strongest use cases are sites that need scheduled access or store-wide member perks. Content and products can be released immediately or after a configured delay, while plans can provide percentage or fixed-amount discounts and member-only shipping benefits. Members can review available content, products, discounts, and notes from the WooCommerce account area. Recurring billing, trials, and subscription-based upgrades or downgrades require WooCommerce Subscriptions, which is purchased separately. Setup requires account-based access: guests cannot complete purchases for products tied to a membership plan because membership status is attached to a user account. Administrators should also verify the intended behavior for expired, paused, or cancelled memberships, and test restrictions with caching or optimization plugins disabled before adding exclusions.
Create membership plans with access granted by product purchase, user registration, or manual assignment.
Restrict posts, pages, custom post types, products, product categories, and selected taxonomies.
Schedule content or product access using content dripping with delays measured in days, weeks, months, or years.
Apply percentage or fixed-amount discounts to individual products, categories, or all products in a plan.
Offer free shipping benefits to some or all members through WooCommerce shipping settings.
Give members an account-area view of accessible content, products, discounts, and membership notes.
Import and export member data with CSV files for bulk administration and connection to other tools.
Use WooCommerce Subscriptions for recurring membership billing, trials, subscription switching, and related access changes.
Compatibility and setup context
- Requires WordPress 5.6 or newer and WooCommerce 3.9.4 or newer; the product page lists PHP 7.4 as required.
- The product page states that it has been tested with WordPress 7.0.4 and WooCommerce 11.0.1.
- Compatible with WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks, according to the product documentation and product page.
- WooCommerce Subscriptions is needed for recurring billing, subscription trials, and subscription-based upgrades or downgrades; it is a separate extension.
- Use a location-based WordPress timezone for more predictable content-dripping and membership-event timing.
- Plain permalinks are unsupported, and caching or optimization plugins may require exclusions for restricted content; test the configuration on staging.
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- Membership plans can grant access through product purchases, user registration, or manual assignment.
- The extension can restrict posts, pages, custom post types, products, categories, and taxonomies.
- Content and product access can be delayed with configurable dripping periods.
- Plans can provide percentage or fixed-amount discounts for products or categories.
- Members can receive free shipping benefits.
- The member area can show accessible content, products, discounts, and notes.
- CSV import and export tools are available for member management.
- WooCommerce Subscriptions supports recurring billing, trials, and membership upgrades or downgrades when used with Memberships.
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Version 1.29.2
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Version
1.29.2
Last Updated
Aug 13, 2026
File Size
2.9 MB
License
GPL
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