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Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction

Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction

Description

Paid Member Subscriptions is the #1 WordPress membership plugin focused on growing recurring revenue.

Increase conversions and generate subscription revenue with a feature-packed membership solution. It lets you accept recurring payments, register and manage new members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content.

Paid Member Subscriptions is designed to help you kickstart your subscription business in just a few minutes and begin generating income as quickly as possible.

Integrates with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict product viewing and purchasing to members-only as well, offer special discounted product price based on subscription plans as well as allow your customers to purchase subscription plans through the WooCommerce Checkout.

You can also use it to setup an Elementor membership site fast and easy.

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Optimize Membership Monetization And Boost Your Revenue

Offer premium access and exclusive benefits for members, establishing a thriving paid community that generates income through membership fees or subscription plans. This is ideal for:
* Paid Membership Services
* Online Courses
* Online Coaching
* Online Consultancy Services

Automate Revenue Streams With Our Proven Membership Tools

Keep your focus on content creation while Paid Member Subscriptions takes care of consistently generating revenue for you through its automated recurring revenue model. This is ideal for:
* Content restriction on blogs, news sites, and content hubs
* Members-only content subscriptions
* Private WooCommerce Stores
* Members-Only WooCommerce Stores

Build And Grow Your Community While Also Monetizing It

Communities are all about collaboration. By giving members the opportunity to gain exposure, promote their services or create networking opportunities, you’re building a valuable community that people are willing to pay to be a part of. This is ideal for:
* Business Directories
* Member Directories
* Online Associations and Clubs
* Online Communities

Shortcodes & Blocks for Member Registration, Login, Content Restriction and managing Membership Plans

You can use one of the following shortcodes or available blocks to get started:

  • [pms-register] – adds a front end user registration form where users can purchase a membership level
  • [pms-login] – create a front end member login form
  • [pms-restrict subscription_plans=”9,10″] Special content for members subscribed to the subscription plans that have the ID 9 and 10! [/pms-restrict] – to restrict content based on subscription plans or logged in status
  • [pms-account] – setup a WordPress members area where members can easily edit their account information and manage their subscription plan(s)
  • [pms-payment-history] – adds a front end table with the member’s payment history
  • [pms-recover-password] – adds a recover password password form, that enables users to reset their password if needed

Membership Modules:

Content Restriction

You’ll find it really simple to restrict entire posts, pages or custom post types or just portions of them.

Restrict Content offers you options to:

  • display content based on logged in status
  • show content to members only, setup private pages for subscribers
  • partial content display by using the [pms-restrict][/pms-restrict] shortcode
  • display another template for restricted posts
  • restrict Gutenberg blocks

    Integrates with Elementor page builder allowing you to restrict content for Elementor sections and widgets based on logged in status or subscription plans, by using the visual interface.

Membership Payments

Accept PayPal or direct credit card payments from your subscribers. You can keep track of all member payments, payment statuses and purchased subscription plans. Access to detailed payment logs.

Recurring Payments

Ability to accept recurring payments through the PayPal or Stripe payment gateways. The recurring setting can be forced or you can let the user choose whether he wants to subscribe for a recurring subscription or not.

Hierarchical Subscription Plans

You can create an unlimited number of hierarchical subscription plans (eg: Free, Silver, Gold). Each new user can choose a membership plan (subscription) during the registration process.
Existing users can purchase a subscription plan from a page with the [pms-register] shortcode, similar to new users.

Members can upgrade their subscription plan from the [pms-account] page, the same page also allows the member to Renew, Cancel or Abandon his subscription.

Subscription plans can offer free and/or paid memberships on your website.

Discount Codes

Create an unlimited number of discount codes and offer percentage or flat rate based discounts for your memberships.

Members Management

Have an overview of all your members and their subscription plans. Easily add/remove members or edit their subscription details.

Membership Emails and Messages

Customise default member emails and setup member messages sent/displayed on certain user actions.
Admin emails can also be customised.

Free Trial and Sign-up Fees

You can configure your subscription to have a free trial period and a sign-up fee, allowing you to have more control on your subscription setup.

Pay in Installments

Configure a subscription that ends after a certain amount of billing cycles.

Stripe

Effortlessly process credit card payments, both one-time and recurring, directly on your website with Stripe. Stripe provides a secure and intuitive payment solution that seamlessly integrates with your WordPress site, ensuring smooth transaction management and an enhanced user experience.

Accept a wide range of additional payment methods including Apple Pay, Google Pay, Bancontact, iDeal, Giropay, and more. Allow your users to save their cards and make one click purchases.

Reports and Exports

Whether you prefer to maintain your own records of your members’ database, do custom reports , or you simply need to import records into another service or application, such as MailChimp or Excel, you can do that with Paid Member Subscriptions. Export all member records to a CSV at anytime.

Payment history can be exported to a CSV file, letting you then import the payment data into Excel, QuickBooks, or other accounting software that can process a CSV file.

WooCommerce Integration

Paid Member Subscriptions integrates beautifully with WooCommerce, allowing you to do the following out of the box:

  • Create a Members-only Storerestrict access to the Shop page to members-only
  • Restrict Product Viewing and Purchasing – control who can see or purchase a WooCommerce product based on logged in status and subscription plan. Easily create members-only products.
  • Offer discounted product prices to members – offer special product prices to members based on their active subscription. Set membership discounts per product or subscription plan.
  • Sell subscription plans as products – associate products with Subscription Plans to offer customers a membership with a product purchase or allow customers to purchase Paid Member Subscriptions plans using the WooCommerce Checkout

Others

  • automatic refunds directly from your WordPress dashboard
  • GDPR
  • automatically log users in
  • hide admin bar
  • prevent account sharing
  • redirect default WordPress pages
  • setup a WordPress members area
  • enable reCaptcha v2 or v3 on your forms

Powerful Add-ons

Paid Member Subscriptions has a range of premium Add-ons that allow you to extend the power of the membership plugin:

Basic Add-ons (available in the Agency, PRO or Basic versions)

  • Global Content Restriction – add global content restriction rules to subscription plans, based on post type, taxonomy and terms
  • Email Reminders – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.)
  • Advanced Subscription Toolkit – extend your Subscription Plans and Discount Codes with extra options like automatic downgrade after expiration, limit member count, schedule availability for subscription plans and more
  • LearnDash – create multiple automated email reminders that are sent to members before or after certain events take place (subscription expires, subscription activated etc.)
  • Navigation Menu Filtering – dynamically display menu items based on logged-in status as well as selected subscription plans
  • Fixed Period Membership – create subscriptions plans that end at a specific date, no matter when a member subscribes to it.
  • Pay What You Want – accept donations and let subscribers pay what they want when purchasing a subscription plan
  • bbPress – integrate Paid Member Subscriptions with the popular forums plugin, bbPress, to restrict your forums and topics.

Pro Add-ons (available in the Agency & PRO versions only)

  • Gift Subscriptions – Let members purchase subscription plans as gifts for others. Perfect for holidays, special occasions, or rewarding team members with instant or claimable subscriptions
  • Pause Subscriptions – Allow members to temporarily pause recurring subscriptions without canceling. Maintain membership relationships while billing is suspended with flexible pause durations and limits
  • Multiple Currencies – Enable visitors to pay in their local currency, either through automatic location detection or by manually selecting their preferred currency
  • Pro Rate – Pro-rate subscription plan Upgrades and Downgrades, offering users a discount based on the remaining time for the current subscription
  • Tax & EU VAT – collect tax or vat from your users depending on their location, with full control over tax rates and who to charge
  • Group Memberships – sell group subscriptions to your users
  • Content Dripping – create schedules for your content, making posts or categories available for your members only after a certain time has passed since they signed up for a subscription plan
  • Multiple Subscriptions per User – setup multiple subscription level groups (e.g. Physics, Math) and allow members to sign up for more than one subscription plan, one per group (e.g. Physics Beginner and Math Advanced)
  • Invoices – both you and your members will be able to download PDF invoices for each payment that has been completed
  • Files Restriction – secure your valuable content and ensure it reaches only those who have subscribed and paid for access
  • Mailchimp – integrate Mailchimp to keep your membership audience up to date. Automatically add or update subscribers, enable Double Opt-In, and sync custom fields between Mailchimp and member profiles
  • Brevo – sync your members with Brevo to manage contacts smoothly. Automate newsletter subscriptions, use Double Opt-In for compliance, and link custom fields between Brevo and your member data

The Ultimate Membership Bundle

Combine user registration, memberships, and recurring revenue in one powerful plugin bundle called the Ultimate Membership Bundle.

Get access to both Paid Member Subscriptions Pro and our all in one user management plugin, Profile Builder Pro. These two plugins are designed to work perfectly together, offering you a powerful toolkit for managing and expanding your user base while generating revenue through paid memberships and recurring revenue.

Paid Member Subscriptions in your Language

We’re focusing on translating Paid Member Subscriptions in as many languages as we can. So far, the translations for 10 languages are almost complete, but we still need help on a lot of other languages, so please join us at translate.wordpress.org
You will be able to download all the available language packs as well as help us translate Paid Member Subscriptions in your language.
For more information please visit our documentation page

Website

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/wordpress-paid-member-subscriptions/

Documentation

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/docs/paid-member-subscriptions/

Addons

https://www.cozmoslabs.com/paid-member-subscriptions-add-ons/

Screenshots

  • Member Registration Form (Account Details + Select Payment Method)
  • Membership options: Group Memberships, Fixed Period Subscription & Pay What You Want & more
  • Select your subscription plan and billing details form in Paid Member Subscriptions
  • Member Account – Subscription Plan Details
  • Member Profile – Edit Account and Billing Details
  • Member discounted products for WooCommerce store
  • WooCommerce shop page restricted on the front-end for non-members
  • WooCommerce product discounts for members and restriction settings for individual product
  • Paid Membership Subscriptions onboarding wizard
  • Settings interface – Membership, Recurring Payments, Content Restriction & more
  • Subscription Plans listing from Paid Member Subscriptions – membership plugin
  • Members Management
  • Membership Recurring Payments Details
  • Discount Codes for Membership Plans
  • Available Add-ons for extending your membership site

Blocks

This plugin provides 6 blocks.

  • PMS Login Displays the Paid Member Subscriptions Login Form.
  • PMS Recover Password Displays the Paid Member Subscriptions Recover Password Form.
  • PMS Account Displays the Paid Member Subscriptions Account Form.
  • PMS Register Displays the Paid Member Subscriptions Registration Form.
  • PMS Content Restriction Start The first element of a Content Restriction block pair.
  • PMS Content Restriction End The final element of a Content Restriction block pair.

Installation

  1. Upload the paid-member-subscriptions folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
  3. Create a new page and use one of the shortcodes available. Publish the page and you’re done!

FAQ

What type of membership sites can I create?

Here are some examples of what you could sell from your membership site: premium tutorials, newsletter, magazine, database, online community, software, apps, videos, ebooks, audio files, discount codes, fan clubs, consulting, coaching etc.

What type of memberships can I sell?

You can sell one-time or recurring memberships with any custom duration you wish.

You can also give users a free trial to your plans and/or charge a sign-up fee.

Can I offer both free and paid memberships at the same time?

Yes, you can have both free and paid memberships on your site.

Can I create discount codes for special promotions?

Yes, you can create percent or fixed-amount discount codes that are available for selected subscriptions. You can limit the uses of a discount code, make it available only to new users, have a set period in which the discount is available, and many more. Learn more

Can I restrict access to premium content allowing only paying users to view it?

Yes, the plugin allows you to restrict content and make it available to paid members only.

Any type of content can be restricted including posts, pages, and custom post types. We also have an integration with WooCommerce so you can restrict access (or purchase) to these products

We also offer an Elementor integration which lets you restrict any Section or Widget and make it available only to paid users.

You can also restrict Gutenberg blocks and Divi Modules

Can I customize the registration form?

Yes, the registration form can be customized using Profile Builder.
You can change the order of the form fields, remove fields that aren’t required and also add extra fields to the form like Inputs, Checkboxes, Selects, Radio buttons, and more. Learn More

Can I ask users to confirm their Email Address before they can register and pay?

Yes, this is possible through Profile Builder as well using its Email Confirmation feature. In this case, the payment will happen after the user has clicked the link he received in the confirmation email after registering. Learn more

Can my members pay using a credit card?

Yes! Users can pay with a credit or debit card without leaving your website through the Stripe payment gateway.

Through Stripe you can also access additional payment gateways like iDeal, Bancontact, Giropay and more.

Can my members pay using Apple Pay or Google Pay?

Users can pay using Apple Pay and Google Pay by using the Stripe payment gateway and enabling these Payment Methods. Learn More

Revolut Pay or Alipay can also be used, alongside the Stripe specific Link payment method.

Where can I find out more information?

For more information please check out Paid Member Subscriptions documentation.

Reviews

March 17, 2026 1 reply
I have been working with Paid Member Subscriptions Pro for about a year now, and although my membership site is not yet launched, it seems PMS Pro is going to play a very important part in it. In fact, I already have several membership projects planned and ready to roll out once the first one is running smoothly with Paid Member Subscriptions Pro, which may mean upgrading to the Agency plan.
March 15, 2026 1 reply
Working great so far. No complaints.Thank you for developing this! I used AI to get a few things set up, like getting my browser extension to make an API call and see if the user has an active subscription
February 13, 2026
Edited: the PMS Pro team addressed all the issues mentioned below. A truly great experience. I’ve been using PMS Pro for some times and it’s been working great. A couple of things need attention, though:- It would be great if PMS registration didn’t allow spaces on usernames as it breaks some functions for user later down the road; – It would be great if group members could be invited not only via email but via a link that can be sent out by the group curator or site admin Otherwise, it’s great. Support is great.
February 5, 2026 2 replies
Didn’t like how the default form theme looked so I purchased the pro version, and all of the css with the paid form themes clash badly with Kadence theme. The pms plugin overrides the inherit font colors randomly disables js in other locations on the page. Looks even worse than the free version. The billing is messed up too. The other day the plugin sent “Subscription expired” email to all of my valid paying customers. Made my company look really bad and I lost a few paying subs. Not recommended.
December 19, 2025 1 reply
We are using both the Profile Builder and Paid Member Subscriptions for a client. I had a few issues which were resolved quickly by support. In fact the support we have received from Cozmoslabs is second to none.
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Contributors & Developers

“Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

“Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction” has been translated into 25 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

Translate “Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction” into your language.

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Changelog

3.0.1

  • Fix: Some false positive Stuck Payments issue reports generated by the new Dashboard Health Functionality
  • Misc: Compatibility changes for new Advanced Subscription Toolkit option

3.0.0

Version 3.0.0 of Paid Member Subscriptions is here!

This release bumps the plugin to a new major version to reflect the cumulative improvements and updates made over the past year. It does not introduce any breaking changes.

Features:
* Subscriptions page – added a new back-end page which lists all the subscriptions that are available on the website with support for Bulk Cancel, Bulk Delete Subscriptions actions
* Health Monitoring System – added a new widget on the Dashboard which shows admins the overall health of the plugin. If the plugin detects any issues with the overall system, you will be notified here
* Admin Bar Widget – added a new admin bar widget which can be used to quickly access the most relevant plugin pages and it will also notify you of any issues generated by the Health Monitoring System
* Scheduled Payments Overview – added a new widget on the Dashboard page which shows the amount of payments and revenue that will be processed over certain periods: next run, this month, next month, this year

Fixes:
* Refactor message handling in payment success functions to ensure proper sanitization and escaping of output. Thanks to loris4py and the Patchstack team
* Fixed a content restriction issue with WooCommerce Products and block themes
* Fixed issue with the GDPR delete button not working correctly on secondary languages with the TranslatePress plugin
* A notice being generated from the Bulk Upload Discount Codes functionality
* Refactor price calculation in Stripe gateway to ensure proper handling of custom prices and sign-up fees

Misc:
* Divi 5 compatibility fix
* A notice that could be triggered when receiving PayPal Webhooks
* Back-end UI changes

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