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Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal

by Scott Paterson

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Description

Overview

This plugin will allow you to sell subscriptions and / or memberships with PayPal on your WordPress website.

The plugin can be setup to sell only subscriptions, or it can be setup to sell memberships and limit content on your site.

You can sell subscriptions in terms of a set number of days, months, or years. As well as have subscriptions continue forever. You can also offer your customers a trial price.

This PayPal plugin works with any WordPress theme.

WP Plugin is an offical PayPal Partner based in Boulder, Colorado. You can visit WP Plugins website at wpplugin.org. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.

Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPalFeatures

  • View payments received in your WordPress admin
  • View subscribers in your WordPress admin
  • Page / Post Button shortcode inserter
  • Page / Post Button shortcode Login / Logout shortcode inserter
  • Built in support 25 currencies
  • Built in support 20 languages
  • Offer a trial subscription
  • Offer an optional free trail
  • Each button can have its own language and currency
  • PayPal testing with Sandbox mode
  • Choose from 11 different PayPal Buy Now buttons
  • Choose how the PayPal window opens
  • Choose to automatically create a WordPress subscriber account for your members

Subscriptions & Memberships for PayPal Pro

We offer a Pro version of this plugin for business owners who need more features.

  • Custom subscription levels
  • Offer a second trial period
  • Free membership registration
  • Free membership level
  • Add a price dropdown menu per button
  • Add a text dropdown menu per button
  • Add up to 2 input boxes per button
  • Each button can have a separate PayPal account
  • Each button can have a separate return URL
  • Limit content by shortcode
  • Link directly to buttons via URL and redirect to PayPal
  • Button Widget
  • Custom button image
  • Further plugin development

You can learn more about the Pro version here

WP Plugin is an offical PayPal Partner. Various trademarks held by their respective owners.

Automatic Installation

  1. Sign in to your WordPress site as an administrator.
  2. In the main menu go to Plugins -> Add New.
  3. Search for paypal subscriptions and memberships and click install.
  4. Configure values on the settings page.
  5. Make a new event on the events page. Place the shortcode it creates anywhere on your site to show the button.
  1. Subscriptions menu link added to admin navigation.

    Subscriptions menu link added to admin navigation.

  2. Settings page - Getting started

    Settings page - Getting started

  3. Settings page - Buttons

    Settings page - Buttons

  4. Settings page - Subscriptions options

    Settings page - Subscriptions options

  5. Edit button page

    Edit button page

  6. Page / Post button inserter

    Page / Post button inserter

How do I use this plugin

Configure values on the settings page. Make a new button on the buttons page. Place the shortcode it creates anywhere on your site to show the button.

Can I put more then one shortcode on the same post / page?

Yes, there is no limit to the amount you can put on one post / page, or your entire site.

Simple and effective

By Dong Ngo (ngodong) on January 16, 2025

I've used this plugin for a couple of years, and it has proven to be the most reliable. So far, there has never been any issue—it just works. The setup is simple enough. It's a valuable plugin. I hope it's maintained.

I'm contented with this plugin

By jakdak on December 12, 2024

The plugin is serving its purpose well. It has solved the payment/subscription pretty well on my site - after trying out a couple of plugs here and there. The configuration is also not complex at all. Then, I also like the current Paypal integration of possible payment even without a Paypal account. This literally makes it a multi-payment integration. Then the multilingual feature is another plus.

My only question to the developer/support team: Would it be possible to dynamically fetch variable values: subscription & price from an external database (querried from an external app)? Where I don't have to pre-configure buttons (shortcodes) - but rather have the price and package dynamically fetched when checking out. I'll be more than glad to get a response on this.

Doesn't work...

By mirob on July 9, 2019

I managed to set up the plug-in just fine and add buttons to my side. But whenever I click the buttons I get the following error-message: Things don't appear to be working at the moment. Please try again later.

Updated to 5 stars

By enterpim on February 1, 2019

UPDATE TO EVERYONE: If you are using the newest WordPress page editor, it may be a problem as described in this thread. The solution (Thanks, Robert!) was to install the plugin called "Classic Editor".

Works like a charm!

By havasuscannerfeed on February 1, 2019

This program works great. I just got done providing free phone support for another WP webmaster, and we want to share this great tidbit of information for anyone just installing this plugin: If you are using the new WP Editor, please download "CLASSIC EDITOR" to remove the new blocks-style editor so that you can see the buttons that this plugin uses to insert shortcode on your pages.

5 stars, as far as I know

By enterpin on January 31, 2019

You have to buy the Pro version if you want to customize the email the user gets. What they do get is a receipt from PayPal that they may or may not associate with signup to my site. I don't know if I want to spend $60 just for use of that feature. We'll see how it goes.

Doesnt work and you have to pay for support.

By shoelace1291 on July 6, 2018

The IPN listener created 9 payments for every user that subscribes. You have to pay to have an out-of-box feature that doesn't work fixed. If I could give 0 stars I would.

Plugin does not work

By jim21slim on January 25, 2018

Don't waste your time there's better plugins than this one

amazing piece of code

By michels4 on February 10, 2017

Have been using this plugins since 1 months and it is amazing. I wouldnt mind to pay for the plugins and get 1. remove the open account on paypal, just allow user to pay directly with CC for our subscription 2. be able to add a french buy button which i can design or add from paypal. All nice graphics proposed are in english. Otherwise this plugins deserve a 5 stars wihtout a doubt. If you are not using it, you are missing an amazing tool. Regards

Works Great!

By tips4sailing on February 8, 2017

We needed a solution for a subscription service and found Scott's plugin. So far it works great and Scott was a big help when I had a question... I highly recommend this plugin! Bill Wiggins www.tips4sailing.com www.lakewebdev.com

1.1.8

  • 11/17/25
  • Fix – Two security issues.

1.1.7

  • 2/24/25
  • Fix – Small security issue fix.

1.1.6

  • 10/25/21
  • Fix – Security Issues

1.1.5

  • 10/21/21
  • Fix – Security Issues

1.1.4

  • 10/14/21
  • Fix – Security Issues

1.1.2

  • 11/10/17
  • Update – Readme and Pro version Features

1.1.1

  • 6/15/17
  • Fix – Fixed code formatting issue
  • Update – Tested up to WordPress version 4.8
  • Update – Added clarity to how to use the plugin once it it installed

1.1

  • 9/7/16
  • Fixed but that occured on the settings – related to some versions of PHP.

1.0

  • 8/14/16
  • Initial release
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