Paid Memberships Pro 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Paid Memberships Pro

5.0

(15)

Pricing

Starting at $247.00 per year

About Paid Memberships Pro

Paid Memberships Pro can be used for any membership business. The key features we offer are centred on three main principles of membership software: content protection, user registration and account management, and tight payment gateway integration for subscriptions or recurring billing. You can use PMPro for many popular use cases, such as Associations, Communities, Courses, Directory & Listing, Podcasts, Premium Content, Videos, and more.

We put members at the center of your membership business with features and integrations for every service you could ever need. Check our website for details on integrations like LifterLMS, LearnDash, bbPress, BuddyPress and BuddyBoss, Discord, Slack, ConvertKit, Mailchimp, and more.

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Paid Memberships Pro Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $247.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$247.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

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Paid Memberships Pro Features

Popular features found in Membership Management
Application Management
Communication Management
Dues Management
Email Marketing
Event Management
Member Directory
Member Portal
Membership Renewals
Payment Processing
Promotions Management
Registration Management
More features of Paid Memberships Pro
Access Controls/Permissions
Customizable Branding
Customizable Forms
Discount Management
Email Templates
Enrollments/Onboarding
Invoice Management
Member Communication
Member Database
Member Types
Recurring/Subscription Billing
Reporting & Statistics
Self Service Portal
Third-Party Integrations
Website Management

Paid Memberships Pro Integrations

LearnDash

Mailchimp

PayPal

AffiliateWP

Slack

Stripe

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Paid Memberships Pro User Reviews

Overall Rating

5.0

Ratings Breakdown

100%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

5.0

Functionality

4.9

Have you used Paid Memberships Pro and would like to share your experience with others?

Monica M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2023

Great even in its Free Version!

I really LOVE working with PMPRO. Is a great product and i hope they keep on keeping the good work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The great amount of features one can get with just the Free version, the great amount of codes their site offers to developers and the great possibility for customization it offers.

Cons:

For starting projects or very little websites which hope to grow, the paid version is an investiment when the budget is tight. So, critical features like recurring payments are not easily accessible directly from PMPRO.

Reasons for choosing Paid Memberships Pro

Affordable, have a free version, great customizations possible

Rober F.

Verified reviewer

Health, Wellness and Fitness

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2024

A problem is solved with interest and knowledge.

I would like to thank the Paid team and especially [sensitive content hidden] for the interest they always show in the incidents that sometimes arise in my online business. There are many times when those of us who are dedicated to online teaching cannot know everything and digital obstacles sometimes add up and complicate our task of teaching. I am very happy with Paid Memberships Pro because of how easy it makes managing students in my school and because of the support they have always shown me from the beginning. Thank you very much for making the digital journey easier. Rober

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I like it a lot, more than other plugins that manage payments and clients, in my case, students. It has everything integrated. The different possibilities to charge memberships and different models to charge those memberships. It is easy to learn to use and configure its different applications and extensions.

Cons:

I really don't have any complaints to point out. Sometimes a ticket may have been answered later than expected, but that is normal in any company. It even happens to me at my school when I am solving problems with my students. Nothing to object to.

Reasons for switching to Paid Memberships Pro

It was too expensive and complicated to set up

Vikas P.

Verified reviewer

Internet

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2025

Has every imaginable functionality for your membership site.

A very positive experience. I use on four sites for different functionalities: Membership site, eCommerce site, Community. It fulfils all my needs :)

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A fully featured plugin for all your membership site needs! It has so many integrations and extensions as well as features. On of the few membership plugins that supports WordPress multisite

Cons:

So many extensions!! Could some be integrated into core? You can end up with a huge WordPress plugin library. Granted that some of the add-ons are small but it can trigger ones OCD!

Reasons for choosing Paid Memberships Pro

Paid Memberships Pro has more functionality, extensions and integrations than these plugins and is suitable for multisite.

Reasons for switching to Paid Memberships Pro

The lack of features of Wix and the significantly higher pricing of High Level

Francesca M.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2023

Easy to use at all levels

In general, I find myself very comfortable working with this product, especially alongside the rest of the technical team.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The fact that even in the free package it includes so many features that others charge for it.

Cons:

Customization requires programming skills, it is not easy to manage automatic payments without other extensions.

Reasons for choosing Paid Memberships Pro

The developer already had experience with the product.

Geoff T.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2025

Great Product - Excellent Service

Great support, excellent software. I would highly recommend this company to anybody looking for a comprehensive, well backed-up membership package.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

After trying various options for membership sites, we finally came across Paid Memberships Pro and have not looked back. The software is easy to install and configure and the value adds are excellent. PMP also provide a truly excellent, responsive, and knowledgeable support service (a rarity in this day and age).

Cons:

Nothing to really dislike. Perhaps there could be some extra pricing levels for potential users of the software to select.

Nathan A.

Verified reviewer

Non-Profit Organization Management

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

The only member plugin you will ever need.

It has taken out not from profit from barely organized to having the potential to support more members.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Functionality is useful and easy to implement. It is backed by fantastic support. I used it for about 3 years then swapped to lifetime license.

Cons:

I would be nitpicking but maybe the reporting interface?

Aaron D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

A versatile, full-featured toolset

Our clients have used Paid Memberships Pro in a variety of situations and circumstances, from the small mom-and-pop who just needed a simple content subscription site, to the international organization with tens of thousands of members with differing needs, levels, and offerings. Some come to it fresh, while others migrate from another toolset. Almost none have expressed any interest in moving off of it, which demonstrates their satisfaction with the tool.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Membership management can be a chore, but our clients find that Paid Memberships Pro makes it significantly easier. After some initial setup, they can be off and running with little maintenance or ongoing work. The secret sauce of Paid Memberships Pro, though, is its extensibility: with a little help, you can get the toolset to support any membership or subscription scenario, and can add features that are custom to your situation. That flexibility is what leads us to recommend Paid Memberships Pro to our clients on a regular basis.

Cons:

The Paid Memberships Pro toolset grew from a fairly small base with a tight set of needs to now being much more robust and ready for any enterprise. Some of the very high-end features that a large enterprise might want are not available in the core tool. But a rich ecosystem of add-ons mitigate that, along with the incredible flexibility that allows third-party developers to create anything they might need.

Reasons for choosing Paid Memberships Pro

Periodically, we review the membership/subscription management space, to ensure that we are recommending the best-of-breed to our client base. For nearly all scenarios, we've never hesitated to go with Paid Memberships Pro.

Ben H.

Verified reviewer

Retail

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Fantastic open source membership software from a great team

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has all of the membership features we need: flexible recurring subscriptions, different membership levels, access to restricted information, and custom fields. I've found it to be easy to extend and customize because it uses predictable and well-documented WordPress hooks for nearly everything. The support team has always been responsive and helpful, one of the best WordPress plugin support teams I've interacted with.

Cons:

I've had a lot of pain integrating LearnDash for our training library. The plugin we've relied on is provided by LearnDash and doesn't work great - I'd love for PMPro to write their own to avoid that pain.

Robert W.

Verified reviewer

Design

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Fantastic application with even better support

I've been using PMPRO happily for more than 8 years. I have no reason to look anywhere else.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Paid Memberships Pro is probably the best and most reliable Wordpress plugin I've ever used. There seems to be no limit to what you can do with this app. It fits in so well with Wordpress and runs seamlessly and fast. PMPRO is stable and reliable. The best part of the application is the support. The tech team and leadership team are accountable, patient, and helpful more than any other Wordpress development team I've ever used.

Cons:

There's very little that I don't like about PMPRO. It would be interesting if they had more preset "widgets" out of the box, but if they did, the program probably wouldn't be as extensible as it is.

Reasons for switching to Paid Memberships Pro

The previous program wasn't reliable and didn't perform the functions I needed.

Krista M.

Verified reviewer

Animation

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2022

Best for memberships

It seems to be working for my PayPal and stripe so far and setting those up was really easy as well, for PayPal you just type in your email! The only thing I haven't figured out is if I can add a photo to one of their auto-generated pages.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I took a course to learn how to set it up, but once to activate the plugin, it's mostly self explanatory if you just explore around the different links it provides. It's easy to get your pages set up- they will auto generate them with 1 click. And it's really easy to restrict content but just choosing who you want to see it under the advanced tab for each item on your page.

Cons:

So far I haven't found anything I don't like, it's free to set up and then you don't need to pay unless you want extra features later.

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