Top Tips To Choose Membership Website Software

Prepare and Plan

The basic problem is not the membership website software. The main challenge is to make a draft and prepare the site so you can administer your clients efficiently and easily, with few interventions.

So first, think about the main questions about your membership software:

* how to add it to your new website? * how to add it to your e autoresponder sequences * how it should work with your merchant account or how can you earn from it * how the content should be allotted * how to systematize the various content for various membership levels (if you need more than one)

All this needs to be clarified before creating the membership site and even before thinking about buying the membership software.

Let’s look at a few questions.

Membership levels

Do you want to have a few levels, e.g. Silver, Bronze, Gold, Platinum. Or do you want to have just a member and non member area on your site? Do you want to have a more complex structure, e.g. sub-levels or ‘special’ levels?

Content distribution

Do you want to ‘drip content’? This means that the content is available immediately for the user only after some period of time after subscription. Or do you want to have a static content which your subscribers access or do you want to add new content on an ongoing basis?

Do you plan to add content on an ongoing basis, so you do not care about the right timing?

Payment processor

Make sure you know what payment processors are supported by the membership software.

Even more, depending on your payment plans and content delivery structure, make sure the payment processor approve other payment plans.

It is not only about recurring payments. There might be different scenarios needed. Like, you need to charge the one type of the payment in the trial period, and another after the trial period lapse and also some combination of the two.

Make sure your payment processor will support all your business cases. E.g. trial periods might not be supported by all the payment processors.

PayPal is the easiest to use and widely mostly supported by membership sites. And also surprisingly supports many payment plans. The other payment processors are Authorize.Net, 2Checkout, Clickbank, 1ShoppingCart.

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