Automatic Membership Upgrades and Prorations Help Make

creator, Blair Williams, gives the lowdown on the wily world of prorations and upgrades.

If you purchase the WordPress membership plugin, the majority users aren't considering member upgrades. After all, you've got to gainmembers before you give members the chance to upgrade.

But the fact is, the way your plugin can impact the ability of your future members to upgrade is really important.

In the end, it's a surprise that a lot of plugins don't handle upgrades at all.

Well, during those days, I actually fell prey to the "upgrade issue" during a client's development. The team didn't think about upgrades in the beginning which led to an issue that I needed to solve using custom code.

Another aspect of our story... We created to solve all of the main difficulties we encountered when creating enterprise-level membership sites for our customers. For instance, the upgrade/downgrade issue.

That said, keep studying to find out the ways that you can use HTML0 to helphelps those who are members of your company upgrade and downgrade effortlessly and automatically. And how that can result in lower turnover of members.

 Groups

Utilizing Groups to specify a "group" of membership products as well as whether or not they're included in or are part of an "Upgrade Path", and what sort of order you'd like them placed in.

Groups allows you to create a beautiful pricing page for your membership items.

 Self-Service Upgrades, Upgrades and Downgrades

The member is redirected to the group pricing page which shows the level they're subscribed to as well as the levels they are able to change or upgrade.

 Prorations

This is an important one. I'm yet to discover a WordPress member-only plugin which can handle prorations with the same ease and ease as . Actually, most other plugins do not handle prorations at all..

As an example, suppose that a subscriber has paid for a month of membership and at the halfway point of the month decides to upgrade. automatically figures out and calculates the percentage members will be required to pay for the rest of the month at the current level..

Prorations can be calculated for subscriptions that have various times (weekly until monthly weekly to yearly or monthly, to lifetime).

They can be calculated between different payment methods. In this case, the member initially subscribed to PayPal. But they want to upgrade their subscription using Stripe. This is not an issue.

The proration procedures are robust extensive, complete and completely automated.

The Takeaway

There are lots of reasons is the most popular paywalling, course builder, subscription and membership site plugin in all of the globe. However, one important one is how the plugin handles upgrades automatically.

If you're interested in monetizing your site, check out . It won't disappoint you.

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