WordPress Membership

Easy to use WordPress Membership plugin

JVZoo Integration with WP eMember

WP eMember plugin can be integrated with JVZoo to process the membership payment. When customers purchase your JVZoo product, membership accounts will be created for them.

What You Can Expect from the JVZoo Integration

  • The customers go to your landing page where you have the JVZoo payment button.
  • Customers click on the JVZoo buy button and complete the payment.
  • Payment is completed and they get sent to your thank you page.
  • JVZoo sends a payment notification (JVZIPN) to WP eMember plugin after the transaction.
  • WP eMember creates a member account by processing the notification and emails the special link to complete the registration.
  • Users complete the registration form. Now, they can view everything that the membership level offers.

JVZoo Integration Instructions

Step 1) Set Your JVZoo Secret Key

First, you need to set a secret key for the JVZoo IPN feature in your JVZoo account.

  • Login to your JVZoo account and visit the MyAccount page.
  • Search for Click here to edit JVZIPN Secret Key link as shown on the image below.
  • Click on that link, Enter your Secret Key and click Save.

jvzoo-secret-key-setup-1

Step 2) Enter the Secret Key in WP eMember Settings

Copy the secrete key from step 1 and enter it in the following interface of WP eMember

WP eMember Settings -> Gateway Settings -> JVZoo Integration Settings -> JVZoo Secret Key

Save the settings.

Take note of the JVZoo Instant Notification URL Value as we will need it in the next step.

Step 3) Enter the IPN URL in Your JVZoo Product

Click the Sellers tab in your JVZoo account. Click your product in the sub nav.

Enter an Instant Notification URL in the JVZIPN URL field.

The URL should look something like the following

https://www.yoursite.com/?emember_jvzoo_ipn=1&membership_level_id=XX

Replace “XX” with the membership level that corresponds to this product. A member account with this membership level will be created when a customer purchases this product.

Click ‘Save Changes’.

Now you should be all set and JVZoo transactions for the product in question will be processed and sent to your Instant Notification URL and WP eMember will create the membership account for them.

Creating a Braintree Buy Now Button for Membership Payment

You can create a Braintree payment button inside WP eMember plugin to accept payment for your premium memberships.

Braintree gateway allows you to create payment buttons that is processed on your site (so the visitor never leaves your site during the checkout).

Creating Braintree Buy Now Button for Membership Payment

Step 1) Select Braintree Buy Now Button

Go to Payments -> Create New Button interface from the admin side of the eMember plugin. Then select the Braintree Buy Now option (see image below):

braintree-payment-button-for-membership-step-1

Step 2) Configure the Payment Details

Enter the payment details and select your membership level for the button.

Step 3) Configure the Braintree API Key and Account Details

Enter your Braintree API Key details in the payment button also.

You can get the Braintree API key details from your Braintree account.

You can locate these values by following these steps:

  1. Log into your Braintree account
  2. Navigate to Account > My user
  3. Under API Keys, Tokenization Keys, Encryption Keys, click View Authorizations
    • If no API keys appear, click Generate New API Key
  4. Click View under the Private Key column to see your public and private keys, merchant ID, and environment

If you do not see the Authorizations section at all and your account was recently approved, please try again later – it can take a few business days for Braintree to set up your merchant account.

Merchant Account ID

This field controls your currenty for the transaction. You can leave the Merchant Account ID field empty if you want to use the default one.

Step 4) Save the Payment Button

Save the payment button after you have entered all the necessary details. This will create the payment button.

Step 5) Put the Payment Button on a Page

You can now put this newly created button on your membership join us page so the visitors can pay you using this button.

The Payment Buttons tab shows you the shortcode you need to use to put your Braintree payment button on a page. The shortcode should look something like the following:

[emember_payment_button id=2101]

The shortcode will create a Buy Now button (for the membership level you specified).

When your visitors click on the button, they will see a payment form like the following screenshot. They will be able to enter the credit card details to complete the payment.

braintree-payment-button-for-membership-card-payment-form

Customizing the Button Text

You can customize the button text by specifying the value in the shortcode using the “button_text” parameter. Below is an example shortcode that uses “Pay Now” as the payment button text:

[emember_payment_button id=2101 button_text="Pay for Membership"]

What Happens After the Payment?

If a payment is made by a new member then the user will receive an email that contains a unique link to complete the registration. Read the registration process overview documentation to learn more.

If the payment is made by an existing member then the membership level (associated with this payment button) is applied to the existing member’s profile.

Note: The member must be logged into the site as a member for this plugin to recognize the user and treat him as an existing member.

SSL Certificate Requirement

Braintree payment gateway requires you to have SSL certification on your payment/checkout page (the page where you put your payment button). So the URL of that page should have HTTPS (example: https://www.example.com/membership-payment-page).

If you are not already using an SSL certificate on your site then you should contact your hosting provider and request them to install it for you.

WordPress Newsletter Plugin (by Tribulant Software) Integration Addon

The WordPress newsletter plugin is a newsletter software for WordPress which allows you to gather unlimited email subscribers, organized into multiple mailing lists.

Tribulant has created an eMember addon that allows your members to be added to the WordPress newsletter plugin. View the full details of this newsletter plugin addon here.

It can sync memberships with subscribers.

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

WP eMember and WP eStore Integration for Membership Payment

The eStore and eMember plugins are pre-integrated so using a WP eStore button to accept payment for membership is very easy.

The only thing you need to do is specify the “Membership Level ID” in the eStore product’s “Reference Text” field when you create/configure a product in eStore.

This basically tells eStore which membership level a product corresponds to. You can create as many eStore products and payment buttons as you want for your different membership levels.

Here is a summary of the steps involved

Step 1) Create an eStore product. Our WP eStore documentation will show you how to do this if you don’t know it already (there are video tutorials for it too)

Step 2) Find a field called “Reference Text” when your are creating/configuring the eStore product. You can find this field under the “Additional Product Details” section of the product (see the screenshot below).

Specify the membership level ID in this reference text field.

Check the video tutorial from the “Video Tutorial” section below which will explain how this works in details.

Video Tutorial

Click on the following image to open the video tutorial:

WP eMember Premium Membership

Buy Now Type Button or Subscription Type Button?

Read the following documentation if you are not sure if you should use an ONE OFF payment button or a SUBSCRIPTION (recurring payment) button for your membership payment:

Example Scenario

Here is an example scenario,

You have a membership level called “Gold Pass”. The id of this membership level is 3 (The ID for each membership level is listed on the Manage Levels screen).

Say for example, you want to charge $25 for this membership level. Go to the “Add/Edit Products” menu of the WP eStore plugin so you can configure a payment button to accept payment from potential customers.

When you fill in the details of this eStore product, just specify 3 (Membership Level ID of Gold Pass) in the “Reference Text” field which is under the “Additional Product Details” section. Now, use an eStore shortcode to place “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” button (for the product you just configured) on your Membership Payment/Join Us page.

When a member pays for the membership using this button the eStore plugin will know (from the Level ID you entered in the reference text) that this payment was for a “Gold Pass” and it will automatically create the appropriate member account and send an email to the customer.

The email sent to the customers will contain a unique link. When they click/follow that link, they will be brought to the registration page where they will be able to choose their Username and password to complete the registration and access the “members only” content.

If you have multiple membership levels then create an “Add to Cart” or “Buy Now” button for each membership level and place them on your Membership Payment/Join Us page following the above instructions.

Integration Troubleshooting

Check the following link if your integration is not working as expected: