Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce
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This was my presentation at WordCamp Brisbane 2015. In this presentation I show how you can create a membership site using WooTheme’s WooCommerce plugin. Although there are a number of membership specific plugins around, WooCommerce brings with it a number of benefits. First and foremost, WooCommerce is a trusted and well supported plugin, which is easy to setup and use. It’s currently estimated to be powering approximately 28% of all eCommerce sites. Other benefits include the number of available extensions, and in particular, payment gateways, which are ideally suited for membership sites. On top of that, if you want to sell products to your members, you automatically have the ability to do so, nice and easily. I outline the benefits of using WooCommerce, over dedicated membership plugins and also discuss which plugins (along with WooCommerce) would be required and how to go about setting them up.
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Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce
- 1. Anthony Hortin @maddisondesigns Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce
- 4. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Things to Consider Ease of setup/use
- 10. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Receiving Payments 9/10 support PayPal* 3/10 support eWay*All support Stripe* *Out of the 10 previously mentioned membership plugins
- 11. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Receiving Payments Only 1 out 10 supports all 4 major Australian Banks* (and PayPal, Stripe, eWay and many others) *Out of the 10 previously mentioned membership plugins
- 12. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Benefits of WooCommerce Most popular eCommerce plugin (powers 24% of all eComm sites*) *http://trends.builtwith.com/shop
- 13. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Fully security audited by leading WP security firm Sucuri
- 14. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Extensive range of add-ons
- 15. #wcbne @maddisondesigns 15+ different Australian Payment Gateway add-ons
- 16. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Extensive range of reports
- 17. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Ability to sell products easily (digital, physical, affiliated etc.)
- 18. #wcbne @maddisondesigns No need for separate membership & shop logins
- 19. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Easy to setup and use
- 20. #wcbne @maddisondesigns What you’ll need WooCommerce (free) Groups plugin (free) Groups for WooCommerce (paid) WooCommerce Subscriptions (paid) Stripe or some other Payment Gateway plugin (paid)
- 21. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Getting Started Install and activate all your plugins
- 22. #wcbne @maddisondesigns After Activating WooCommerce, install the WooCommerce Pages Getting Started
- 23. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Install & activate the free WooThemes Helper plugin for updates Getting Started
- 24. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Configure Base Location & Currency WooCommerce > Settings > General WooCommerce Setup
- 25. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Turn off Shipping Calculations as we’re dealing with digital products WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping WooCommerce Setup
- 26. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Turn off Enable guest checkout Enable Force secure checkout (ie. SSL) if required WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Checkout Options WooCommerce Setup
- 27. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Enable our Payment Gateway (eg. Stripe) Add API Keys if required WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Stripe WooCommerce Setup
- 28. #wcbne @maddisondesigns If your payment gateway doesn’t support subscriptions, you may want to enable the option to Accept Manual Renewals WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions WooCommerce Setup
- 29. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Groups Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control “
- 30. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Add a new Group by entering a name in the Access restrictions Quick-Create field then Save or Update your page Adding Membership Groups
- 31. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Assign an existing Group by typing & selecting a name in the Access restrictions Enforce read access field Adding Membership Groups
- 32. #wcbne @maddisondesigns WooCommerce Subscriptions WC Subscriptions makes it easy to create and manage products with recurring payments “
- 33. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Groups for WooCommerce Groups for WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that allows you to sell memberships “
- 34. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Creating a subscription is just like creating a regular product Products > Add Product Creating Subscriptions
- 35. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Make the product a Simple Subscription and Virtual Set your Subscription Price per Day/Week/Month/Year Set how long the subscription should last Creating Subscriptions
- 36. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Add the Groups your customer will become a member of Creating Subscriptions
- 37. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Our Subscription Products
- 38. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Our Subscriptions View all your subscriptions in the Dashboard WooCommerce > Subscriptions
- 39. #wcbne @maddisondesigns Our Product Orders View all your orders in the Dashboard WooCommerce > Orders
- 40. #wcbne @maddisondesigns WooCommerce http://woocommerce.com WooCommerce extensions http://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions Subscription Payment Methods & Gateways http://docs.woothemes.com/document/subscriptions/payment-gateways Groups https://wordpress.org/plugins/groups Groups for WooCommerce http://www.woothemes.com/products/groups-woocommerce WooCommerce Subscriptions http://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions Links to remember
- 41. I’m Anthony Hortin You can find me here @maddisondesigns maddisondesigns.com @easywpguide easywpguide.com Thanks! Questions?