WordPress Membership

Easy to use WordPress Membership plugin

API – Creating A Member Account Using HTTP GET or POST

This documentation is only for developers. If you are not a developer with good PHP coding skills then you have no need to read this.

WP eMember plugin has an API that allows you to create a member account using a standard HTTP GET or POST request.

Enabling the API

If you want to use this API then you need to enable it from the settings menu of the plugin first.

Go to the settings menu then scroll down to the “Additional Integration Options” section to find the option.

The following is a screenshot of this section in the settings menu:


It is very important that you do not reveal the Secret Word/API key to anyone else.

Using the API

Once you enable it, you can start to send HTTP request to the following URL to create member account remotely or from another software:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMember/api/create.php

You need a minimum of 5 pieces of information to create a member account using a HTTP request. These are:

  • Secret Word/API Key (you specified it in the settings menu of the plugin)
  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email Address
  • Membership Level ID

Optionally, you can pass in the following data with the request (if you do not pass these, a randomly generated value will be used for these)

  • username
  • password

1. Creating Member Account Using  HTTP GET request

In order to create a member account via HTTP GET use the following format:

http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMember/api/create.php?secret_key=XX&first_name=XX&last_name=XX&email=XX&membership_level_id=XX

Replace the ‘example.com’ and ‘XX’ with the appropriate values.

PHP Code Example:The following is an example of how to construct this link using PHP:

$secret_key = "6bd39ewe43a7bb";
$first_name= "Jon";
$last_name= "Doe";
$email= "[email protected]";
$membership_level_id= "1";
$prepared_data = "?secret_key=".$secret_key."&first_name=".$first_name."&last_name=". $last_name."&email=".$email."&membership_level_id=".$membership_level_id;
$get_url = "http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMember/api/create.php".$prepared_data;
// Execute this GET Request
file_get_contents($get_url);

2. Creating Member Account Using  HTTP POST request

To create a member account via HTTP POST use the following format:

<form method="post" action="http://www.example.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-eMmeber/api/create.php">
<input type="hidden" name="secret_key" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="last_name" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="email" value="XX">
<input type="hidden" name="membership_level_id" value="XX">
<input type=submit value="Submit Post">
</form>

Replace the ‘example.com’ and ‘XX’ with the appropriate value.

Passing Additional Field Values

You can optionally pass additional field values using the following parameters in your request:

  • phone
  • address_street
  • address_city
  • address_state
  • address_zipcode
  • country
  • gender
  • company_name

Create a Registration Form for a Particular Membership Level

WP eMember uses ONE registration form for all kinds of membership registration. This way you don’t have to create multiple pages with different registration forms and confuse your customers. Full details of how eMember does this is explained here.

Occasionally, you may need to create a registration form for a particular membership level for a special reason. For example,  give backdoor entrance to your paid membership site to some special people (this way they won’t have to pay)

Create a Registration Form for a Specific Level

Create a new WordPress page. Then use the following shortcode on this page. It will place a registration form for a particular membership level:

[wp_eMember_registration_form_for level=1]

1 is the membership level ID in this example. Change it to the actual membership level ID value for your system.

Now, when a user registers using this form, he will be signing up for that particular membership level that you specified in the shortcode.

You can also hide this special registration page from the standard WordPress navigation menu.

WP eMember Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

  • Does this plugin work with the latest version of WordPress?

Yes, all of our plugins work with the latest version of WordPress. The plugin is always kept upto date to work with the latest version of WordPress. So in the future you will always have a membership plugin that works with the latest WordPress updates.

  • Are there any ongoing fees for WP eMember plugin?

No, the WP eMember plugin is a one time purchase software.

  • Why buy a premium WordPress plugin?

See the why buy a premium WordPress plugin page.

  • Does this product integrate with WordPress’s user system?

Yes, the WP eMember can create a WordPress user log-in with the same details as the membership when the customer registers.

  • How does the member get the registration link after a purchase is made?

The member is email out a link to complete the registration process after they have completed their payment.

  • Can a customer sign up for a recurring membership if they do not have a PayPal account?

The standard PayPal subscription payment requires a PayPal account for all recurring payments. However, you can enable the enhanced recurring billing feature in your PayPal merchant account which will let your customers pay for subscription using a credit card. Your customers can sign up for a PayPal account (if they don’t have one already) when they go to make the purchase.

  • What type of license does the WP eMember have, can I use this plugin on more than one site?

Read the WP eMemeber Licensing Details.

  • Can I translate the WP eMember plugins in to my own language?

Yes, You can translate the front end of the plugin (the information that the customer sees). You can read more about this here.

  • If I buy the WP eStore, WP eMember and WP Affiliate plugins and activate and setup all 3, will I be able to run a membership site that charged a monthly RECURRING price with the affiliate program, giving the affiliate commission each month the member is signed up?

Yes

  • Is there a limit to the membership levels or members I can have?

No, there is not a limit on membership levels or the number of members you can have.

  • What forum plugin can I use with the eMember?

WP eMember will work with any forum plugin that utilizes the WordPress’s user roles. eMember has a feature for keeping the members in sync with WordPress users. BBPress and SimplePress seems to be the popular choice at the moment and our customers have been using those with eMember.

  • What payment gateways can I use for my membership site?

The WP eMember can be integrated with PayPal and ClickBank in a standalone setup. You can also integrate eMember with WP eStore which allows you to use any of the Payment Gateways offered by the eStore plugin. Read more on this on our Documentation site.

  •  What AutoResponders can the WP eMember integrate with?

The WP eMember can integrate with AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse autoresponders.

  • Can I protect only a section of a post and have some teaser content that everyone can see?

Yes you can protect just a section of a post or page. There are a few options on how you can do this, for more information on these options go here.

  • Can I drip content to my members?

Read this document for more information about the drip content feature

  • Can I use one user database to handle member login from multiple different WordPress installs?

No, this is not a supported feature of WordPress. There are some hacks out there but we do not support these hacks.

  • If I change membership plugins do my members have to recreate their recurring payments again?

Yes, PayPal does not allow you to modify a recurring payment once it is established.

  • Can I have it so members have to be approved by the admin after they sign up for a membership before they can view the content? 

Yes

  • Can I have both free and paid memberships at the same time?

Yes, you can have both free and paid memberships for your membership site.

  • Can I have a trial period with the WP eMember?

Yes, you simply create a subscription payment option with trial period.

  • If a membership level expires will it automatically transition to the free membership level?

You can allow your users to downgrade to a free membership level:
http://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/forum/topic/wp-emember-downgrade-member-level-from-premium-to-free

  • Does eMembers signup process replace the default registration process used by Buddypress/Wordpress?

Yes, it is better to have one registration and log-in process for the whole site (you can still use them if you like but I think it may be confusing for your users to have to remember different login pages).

WP eMember Miscellaneous Tweaks

If you are a developer and want to customize the code or if you want to add conditions around your content then the following code examples should be helpful.

Find out if a member is logged in or not

You can use the following function call to determine if a member is logged in or not. The following function call will return true if a member is logged in (otherwise it will return false)

wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()

You can utilize the above function in the following way to ad code in your theme’s template file to add conditional block (for example: show a special message to your logged in users):

<?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) { ?>
//Place your special message for members here
<?php } ?>

The following example can be useful if you want to show ad to non-members of the site:

<?php if(!wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) { ?>
//Place your ad code here
<?php } ?>

The following example can be useful if you want to show a message to a member who belongs to membership level 1:

<?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in('1')) { ?>
//Place your special message for members from membership level with ID 1
<?php } ?>

The following PHP code example shows how you can programmatically retrieve the member ID of a member and add condition:

<?php
$emember_auth = Emember_Auth::getInstance();
$user_id = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('member_id');
if (!empty($user_id))
{
    //pleace code that only members can see
}
?>

Hiding Post Title From Non Members

We will use the “wp_emember_is_member_logged_in” function (explained above) to modify the “Twenty Eleven” theme and make the post title only visible to users who are logged in.
This is an example for when a post is displayed on a single page – ie, I edited the content-single.php file:

The original line of code was as follows:

<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?>

To hide the post heading/title , I modified it as follows:

<h1 class="entry-title"><?php if(wp_emember_is_member_logged_in()) the_title(); ?>

The above is a simple example which will suppress the post heading if someone is not logged in.

Get member id and his/her membership level

<?php
$emember_auth = Emember_Auth::getInstance();
$user_id = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('member_id');
if (!empty($user_id))
{
    //User is logged in so add your conditional code here
    $membership_level = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('membership_level');
    if($membership_level == 1)
    {
        //Add stuff for this level
    }
}
?>

Get the homepage URL from the logged in member’s membership level

<?php
$emember_auth = Emember_Auth::getInstance();
$user_id = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('member_id');
if (!empty($user_id))
{
    //User is logged in so add your conditional code here
    $membership_level_resultset = $emember_auth->userInfo->primary_membership_level;
    $home_page_url = $membership_level_resultset->loginredirect_page;
    //Do something with this URL
}
?>

Show Logged in Member’s Username or other details

<?php
$emember_auth = Emember_Auth::getInstance();
$username = $emember_auth->getUserInfo('user_name');
echo "Username of the logged in member: ".$username;
?>

Check if the Logged in Member is Allowed to See a Post

<?php
$emember_auth = Emember_Auth::getInstance();
$post_id = "10"
if($emember_auth->is_protected_post($post_id))
{
    //This member is allowed to see this post
}

Retrieve Member’s Data

Retrieve a Member Record Using the Username

The following PHP code will retrieve a member’s record for the given username:

<?php 
$username = "johndoe";//Replace with the actual username
$member = emember_get_member_by_username ($username);
echo "Member's First Name: " . $member->first_name; //Output the first name
echo "Member's Last Name: " . $member->last_name; //Output the last name
?>

Retrieve Total Members Count

The following PHP code will display the total members count:

<?php echo emember_get_total_members(array()); ?>

Member Registration Completion Hook

If you need to execute some custom code after a member completes the registration, use the following action hook:

Show Different Navigation Menu to your Members and Non-members

Show Logged in Member’s Details Using Shortcode

You can use a shrotcode to show any details of the logged in member on a WordPress post or page. Refer to the eMember shortcode documentation for more details.

Placing a Registration Form For a Particular Membership Level to Give Backdoor Entrance

Free Members Must Confirm Their Email Address

Get the Login Page’s URL from the System

$emember_config = Emember_Config::getInstance();
$login_page_url = $emember_config->getValue('login_page_url');

Get the Registration Page’s URL from the System

$emember_config = Emember_Config::getInstance();
$login_page_url = $emember_config->getValue('eMember_registration_page');

Get the Edit Profile Page’s URL from the System

$emember_config = Emember_Config::getInstance();
$login_page_url = $emember_config->getValue('eMember_profile_edit_page');

How to Bulk Upload/Import Member Details from a CSV File

Update: You should use the bulk member data importer addon to import member data.

You can use the WP CSV to DB plugin to upload member details from a CSV file into the WP eMember’s database.

Before you use this method please note that if you want to import your WordPress users into eMember then there is an easier option for you. Simply browse to the “Import WP Users” tab from the “Members” menu and you will be able to import all your WordPress users into eMember.

Setup/Preparation

  • Install the WP CSV to DB plugin.
  • Download the members.csv template file and open it using Microsoft Excel.
  • Fill up the member details; One member per row (There are two example entries in that file so replace them with actual details).
  • Once you are done entering all your member details then save the file as a CSV file.

Specify the General Options

  • Enter 2 in the “Starting Row” field. This is the row number in the CSV file where you want the plugin to start reading from (the first row is the column titles so you want to read from the 2nd row)
  • Enter “wp_wp_eMember_members_tbl” in the “Database Table Name” field (this is the database table name for the WP eMember’s member table given you haven’t change the default database prefix of wordpress)
  • Enter the content of this text file in the “Column Names” field:

Specify the Input CSV file

Use the upload option to upload the CSV file created in the setup/preparation step.

Import into the Database

Hit the “Import to DB” button which will dump the member details from the CSV file into the database.

Now if you browse to the “Member” menu of WP eMember, you should see all the new members that you just added.

Note

This tool can’t handle importing of eMember custom fields. The primary purpose of this tool is to allow importing of some core member data.

WP eMember Plugin Features

Below is a list of the main features of the WP eMember Plugin:

Content Protection

  • Ability to selectively protect the posts, pages, categories and comments
  • Selectively protect full or section of a post or page.
  • Ability to set protection settings for posts and pages in bulk from eMember’s dashboard or set the protection of a particular WordPress post or page while editing/creating it in the editor
  • Ability to protect a section of a post or page for a specific member or for a membership level
  • Teaser content – Ability to use “more” tag protection to create teaser content
  • Secure RSS feeds – Secure RSS feeds allow your members to view their membership material in their RSS reader
  • Login restriction by IP Address – If the number of login attempts from different IP addresses exceed the specified limit then the member’s account will be locked
  • Ability to disable simultaneous member login using the same member account details (two users cannot log-in to the same account at the same time). Helpful when you want to prevent member login sharing
  • Domain Level/Sitewide Lockdown – ability to restrict anonymous visitor access to your site at a domain level (the site won’t even load unless the visitor logs in as a member). The only page the visitor will be able to access on the site when not logged in is the “Join Us” page.
  • Ability to use download folder protection option (users will need to provider their login credentials to download any file from the protected folder)
  • Google First Click Free (GFCF) – eMember lets you use Google First Click Free feature so your protected content can be indexed by Google search if you want (view full details).
  • You can make it to where only your members can comment on the site but everyone else can see the comments.

Membership Options

  • Unlimited membership levels – Your membership site can have as many “levels” as you need
  • Unlimited members. You can have an unlimited number of members with the eMember plugin
  • Multi-level access option – Give your members access to multiple levels within your membership site.
  • Flexible membership options- eMember gives you the flexibility to create different types of membership levels. Example, free, trial, and paid memberships
  • A member can buy multiple membership levels. In this scenerio the member will be able to access content from all the different membership levels that he/she purchased.
  • Subscription length control. You can control the length of each member’s access to your membership site.  A membership will automatically expire when the set time has been reached (e.g. 7 days, 1 month, 1 year etc)
  • One time payment membership option – if you do not want to offer a subscription based membership then you can use the one time payment option (example, a once off payment of $49.95 for a full year membership)
  • Ability to configure membership level expiry using a few different options. For example, expire after XX number of days or expire on a fixed date or expire when subscription is cancelled etc.
  • Auto Upgrade – You can setup scheduled upgrade of member’s membership level (e.g a member of silver membership will be automatically upgraded to gold membership after 1 month). This model can be used to drip content or deliver course materials to students in a timely fashion
  • Ability to manually approve members after they register. Members will not be able to log in until you manually approve their account
  • There is also an option to send members an email when you approved their accounts.
  • Ability to schedule automatic renewal email notice to the members before their membership account gets expired
  • Ability to bulk send emails to your members

Setup and Design

  • Simple installation with new and existing WordPress blog – Turn your existing or new WordPress blog into a membership site by simply installing the WP eMember and configuring a few basic settings.
  • Fully automated membership system.
  • Source code is non-encrypted – If you are a developer and would like to make customizations for your install then you are welcome to do so.
  • Ability to customize what fields show up on the registration and edit profile forms
  • Easy member management. You can easily view your members, their registration status, membership level etc.
  • Bookmarking feature – your members can bookmark their favourite posts and pages then view their bookmarks later.
  • Login redirection – Control the first page your members view when they login. You can specify a different redirection page for each membership level. This is very useful for adding welcome messages, information for that membership level, updates, news and events etc.
  • Membership login can be placed in a post, page, or sidebar.
  • Ability to show your member profiles to other users of the site.
  • Ability to display various details of the logged in member using shortcodes.
  • You can save hidden admin notes for each member that is only visible to admin of the site.
  • Ability to configure auto “account expiry” reminder notification email.
  • It can automatically send emails to your members whose accounts are about to expire.
  • It can automatically send emails to your members whose accounts have expired.
  • Compatible with the current version of WordPress.
  • Lightweight – WP eMember is a lightweight and easy to use membership plugin.
  • WP eMember is compatible with all properly coded (valid xHTML code) themes.
  • Ability to display a list of all the membership level(s) that belong to a user (very handy if you use the multiple membership levels per user feature).
  • Shortcodes to display your members list to other users.

Admin Dashboard

  • You can set which user roles can access the admin dashboard side of eMember. The user with “admin” permission can access the admin dashboard by default.
  • The members menu shows you all the members who have signed up.
  • You can quickly view a list of all members or just your active members.
  • You can view a list of soon to expire member accounts of your site.
  • Ability to export all your members profile data to a CSV file.
  • You can filter the list by membership level and search member records from this interface.
  • Ability to edit any member’s information by clicking the “edit” link.
  • Ability to manually add member data via the “Add Member” interface.
  • You can generate a comma separated email list of your members (for email marketing purpose)
  • The members interface also lets you manage user blacklisting.
  • The membership level interface lets you configure membership levels and allows you to apply content protection for each levels you have.
  • There is an Admin Functions interface that has various little utility type functionality. These functionalities can be handy when running a big membership site.
  • The settings interface lets you enabled/disable various features of the plugin.

Member Login Related

  • Ability to place the member login widget anywhere on your site
  • Ability to use a compact login option (view more details)
  • Ability to use a Fancy login option (a login window pops up when the login link is clicked). There are two different fancy login options for you to choose from
  • Ability to setup an after login redirection page (this allows you to set the first page your members see when they login). You can also customize this on a per membership level basis so that members from different membership levels can have different after login landing page
  • Option to automatically log your member into the site right after the registration
  • Ability to force your members to re-authenticate after XX minutes of browsing. When you enable this feature the members will get logged out after XX minutes from their sign in time and they will need to re-login
  • User login restriction by IP address
  • Disable simultaneous user/member login
  • WordPress shows an admin toolbar at the top of the site to the users that are logged in (this can be confusing for some members). Our plugin has an option to hide that admin toolbar in the front-end of your site.

Member Registration Form

  • Ability to customize what fields are included in the member registration form
  • Ability to add custom registration fields to the member registration form (view more details)
  • Real time registration form field validation
  • Single registration form for all types of membership to help you keep a clean and simple setup.
  • Ability to show a terms and conditions checkbox in the registration form. Users have to agree to your terms before they can become a member.
  • Ability to setup an automatic after registration redirection (can be used to redirect the user to a specific page just after they complete the registration)

Integration Option

  • Pre-integrated with the WP eStore plugin. This allows you to accept membership payment via any payment gateway supported by eStore. You can also display a member’s purchase history when they make purchases using eStore.
  • Simple PayPal button integration. You can use the eMember with a simple PayPal button for one time payments and recurring payments
  • Braintree payment gateway integration to accept membership payment via Braintree.
  • ClickBank Integration.
  • Integrates easily with BBPress 2.0+ forum plugin. View details here.
  • Can be integrated with AWeber, MailChimp, GetResponse to automatically sign up the members to your Autoresponder list when they register for a member account
  • Can be integrated with the MailPoet Newsletter plugin to signup your members to that plugin’s list.
  • Can be integrated with WooCommerce so you can sell membership access via WooCommerce products.
  • Can be integrated with any plugin that uses WordPress user role/capability feature. View detail here.

Miscellaneous

  • Free technical support – please see our support options here
  • Free lifetime plugin updates

Check the following video for a feature tour of WP eMember:

Visit the WP eMember (WordPress Membership) plugin page.

How to Integrate WP eMember with AWeber

The WP eMember membership plugin can be easily integrated with AWeber (Email marketing and Autoresponder service) so that your members get signed up to your AWeber list when they register for an account.

AWeber recently added the capability to add subscribers to a list via their API. We have updated the eMember plugin to use this new API for AWeber integration.

AWeber Integration Steps

Step 1) Make a Connection to the AWeber API

First, you need to connect with the AWeber API. In order to connect eMember with the AWeber API, go to the eMember Settings -> Autoresponder Settings menu and authorize the “Tips and Tricks HQ” app.

Click on the “Make Connection” button to start the process (see the following screenshots).

After you hit the “Make Connection” button you should see a message saying “AWeber Authorization Success” given you provided the correct authorization code. Save the settings.

Step 2) Enable the Integration

Make sure you have checked the “Enable AWeber Signup” option in the settings to enable the AWeber integration.

Step 3) Specify the AWeber List Name/ID

Next, you need to specify the AWeber list name/ID so the plugin knows which list it should signup the members.

Below is an example of how an AWeber list name/ID looks like (you get the list ID value from your AWeber account):

awlist1234567

You can specify a Global list name in the “AWeber List Name” settings field so all members get added to that list. Remember to save the settings after you make changes.

Alternatively, you can signup your members to different AWeber lists based on their membership level also. For membership level specific signup, specify the list name in the “Autoresponder List/Campaign Name” section of the membership level in question.

Typical Member Registration Flow (Signup Scenarios)

WP eMember was designed in a way so you (as the admin) have some customization freedom as to how the membership registration/signup flows on your membership site.

It is a good idea to read this post first and make up you mind on how you want your registration process to flow before you start setting eMember up.

If you are not sure about the difference between a “Join Us” page and a “Registration” page then read this post first.

The member registration flow is the same for signing up for any type of membership except the free one (if you want to allow free membership). The registration process for the “Free Membership” is slightly different because this one doesn’t have any payment involved.

WP eMember uses one registration page for all types of membership registration (there is no need to create multiple pages for multiple different membership levels). Full details of how eMember does this is explained here.

1) Member Signup Scenario 1

The basic member registration flow is similar to the following:

  1. Visitors land on your site.
  2. Want to become a member after seeing some of the awesome content.
  3. Follows the “Join Us” link.
  4. The above mentioned link will take them to the “Membership Join Us” Page where you have explained all the different types of membership you offer. It may look similar to the one here.
  5. From this page they can decide which membership option they want to choose (eg. Free, Silver, Gold or whatever you are offering)
  6. If they choose the “Free Membership” then they just follow the link and sign up for a free membership. Remember, the free membership sign up is only possible if you (the admin) allow free membership on your site.
  7. If they choose a “Paid Membership” then they make a payment by clicking on the payment button for the appropriate membership.
  8. Once the Payment is confirmed (at this point the plugin knows what type of membership this member wants), the plugin will create the appropriate membership account for this visitor.
  9. The member will receive an email that contains a “unique” link to complete the registration.
  10. When the member clicks on that link in the email it will let them choose a “username” and “password” and complete the registration. At this point the member can log into the site.

Step 9 and 10 are additional steps that allows the member to choose their own “username” and “password”. Many membership plugin just randomly creates a “username” and “password” for the member and completes the process at step 8. From my experience I know that most people do not like to receive random “username” and “password” assigned to them so in WP eMember I made sure the members can choose the login credentials.

2) Member Signup Scenario 2

In this registration scenario, you make the visitor signup for a basic free account before they make any payment for premium membership. If the visitor already has an account on the site then he can just log into the existing account and continue.

In short, this registration scenario looks like the following:

Create a free account -> Log into the site -> Make a payment for a paid level

The detailed steps below gives you (the site admin) an idea of what is involved in this scenario:

  1. Visitors land on your site.
  2. Want to become a member after seeing some of the awesome content.
  3. Follows the “Join Us” link.
  4. The above mentioned link will take them to the “Membership Join Us” Page where you have explained what you offer and how they can become a member. You instruct them to create an account first before they can make payment for any premium memberships (the payment buttons for the premium content are protected so only logged in members can view the buttons).
  5. After they create a free account they can log into the site and pay for a premium level (to get access to premium content).
  6. Once the Payment is confirmed (at this point the plugin knows what premium membership this member paid for), the plugin will simply update/upgrade the basic free account to the appropriate premium account level.

This registration flow is different than the one explained in “scenario 1” in the way that everyone who makes a payment already has a basic membership account so there is no need to prompt them to complete the registration by choosing a “username” and “password” as they have already done it when they created the basic membership account.

The following video show how this scenario works:

3) Member Signup Scenario 3 Extended with WP eStore

This registration flow is more suited for sites where you want to sell products only to members (registered users) of the site and you will be using WP eStore plugin to sell the product(s). Basically a visitor must have an account on your site to be able to purchase products (similar to amazon, iTunes etc).

  1. Visitors land on your site.
  2. Want to purchase some of the awesome products you have for sale.
  3. Adds a few product to the shopping cart.
  4. When they click on the “checkout” button it redirects them to a page that tell them that they need to have an account to be able to checkout or they can log in as a user if they already have an account.
  5. Creating an account is free and it’s quick so they sign up for an account and then log in to the newly created account. You can even enable the auto login after account creation feature so the user gets logged in automatically after account creation.
  6. Now they can continue to checkout and pay for the items.

To make WP eStore not let anyone continue to checkout unless they are logged in you simply have to check the “Only Logged In Members Can Checkout” field in the “AddOn Settings” tab of the WP eStore plugin.