Building a Membership Site with WooCommerce

Anthony Hortin @maddisondesigns

Building aMembership Site

with WooCommerce

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What’s available

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What’s available

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Things to Consider

Ease of setup/use

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Prorated charges

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Content dripping

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eCommerce Support

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Upsells/Downsells

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Support

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Receiving Payments

9/10 support PayPal* 3/10 support eWay*All support Stripe*

*Out of the 10 previously mentioned membership plugins

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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

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Benefits of WooCommerce

Most popular eCommerce plugin (powers 24% of all eComm sites*)

*http://trends.builtwith.com/shop

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Fully security audited by leading WP security firm Sucuri

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Extensive range of add-ons

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15+ different Australian Payment Gateway add-ons

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Extensive range of reports

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Ability to sell products easily (digital, physical, affiliated etc.)

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No need for separate membership & shop logins

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Easy to setup and use

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What you’ll need

WooCommerce (free)

Groups plugin (free)

Groups for WooCommerce (paid)

WooCommerce Subscriptions (paid)

Stripe or some other Payment Gateway plugin (paid)

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Getting StartedInstall and activate all your plugins

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After Activating WooCommerce, install the WooCommerce Pages

Getting Started

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Install & activate the free WooThemes Helper plugin for updates

Getting Started

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Configure Base Location & Currency

WooCommerce > Settings > General

WooCommerce Setup

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Turn off Shipping Calculations as we’re dealing with digital products

WooCommerce > Settings > Shipping

WooCommerce Setup

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Turn off Enable guest checkout

Enable Force secure checkout (ie. SSL) if required

WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Checkout Options

WooCommerce Setup

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Enable our Payment Gateway (eg. Stripe)

Add API Keys if required

WooCommerce > Settings > Checkout > Stripe

WooCommerce Setup

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If your payment gateway doesn’t support subscriptions, you may want to enable the option to Accept Manual Renewals

WooCommerce > Settings > Subscriptions

WooCommerce Setup

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Groups

Groups is an efficient and powerful solution, providing group-based user membership management, group-based capabilities and content access control“

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Add a new Group by entering a name in the Access restrictions Quick-Create field then Save or Update your page

Adding Membership Groups

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Assign an existing Group by typing & selecting a name in the Access restrictions Enforce read access field

Adding Membership Groups

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WooCommerce Subscriptions

WC Subscriptions makes it easy to create and manage products with recurring payments“

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Groups for WooCommerce

Groups for WooCommerce is a WordPress plugin that allows you to sell memberships“

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Creating a subscription is just like creating a regular product

Products > Add Product

Creating Subscriptions

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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

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Add the Groups your customer will become a member of

Creating Subscriptions

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Our Subscription Products

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Our SubscriptionsView all your subscriptions in the Dashboard

WooCommerce > Subscriptions

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Our Product OrdersView all your orders in the Dashboard

WooCommerce > Orders

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WooCommerce http://woocommerce.com

WooCommerce extensionshttp://www.woothemes.com/product-category/woocommerce-extensions

Subscription Payment Methods & Gateways http://docs.woothemes.com/document/subscriptions/payment-gateways

Groupshttps://wordpress.org/plugins/groups

Groups for WooCommercehttp://www.woothemes.com/products/groups-woocommerce

WooCommerce Subscriptionshttp://www.woothemes.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions

Links to remember

I’m Anthony Hortin You can find me here

@maddisondesigns maddisondesigns.com

@easywpguide easywpguide.com

Thanks! Questions?