Welcome to the VIP Memberships documentation. In this first section, you’ll learn how to create and edit memberships. In addition, you’ll see how they connect with WordPress roles. Finally, we’ll see how you can organize prices between different memberships.

Create a membership

After installing the plugin, it’s time to create a membership. VIP Memberships automatically creates the first membership. However, we’ll disregard it for now and create a new one.

First, go to the following page :

In this page, you’ll see all your existing memberships. You can edit existing memberships by clicking on the membership name in the list.

To create a new membership, click the Add button. Enter a Name for your membership and click the Save button. You will then access the membership edition screen.

Membership Settings

The first group lists all global settings for your membership. Here are the settings you can set here :

• Display Name : The name of your membership
• Sticker : If you choose an image here, you will see it in product page at the same place where you usually see the Sale Sticker.
• Replaced roles : By default, when a user joins a VIP Lounge, the corresponding role is added to his list of roles. However, it’s possible that you want that a previously assigned role to be removed when the user earns this new role. This setting lets you choose what roles will be replaced.
• Exclusive shipping methods : Set shipping methods that are exclusive to this membership. Only members will be able to select that shipping method on the cart and checkout pages. Use it to set up preferred shipping methods or free shipping.
• Denied shipping methods : If you setup exclusive shipping methods for members, you may also want to remove standard shipping methods to avoid confusion. This option is here to do exactly that.
• Granted at user registration : If you check this box, users will automatically receive this membership when they create an account on the website.

We’ll detail other group options in other parts of this documentation.

Product Rules

Here, you can define Membership access and price rules for your products. These rules can be overriden if you define rules inside specific products.

There are a lot of options there. Therefore, we’ll look at them one by one :

General

• Name : The name of your rule. For your use only.

Rules

• Visible by members only : Set if the products are visible for not members.
• Hide price for others : If you check the box, the product price won’t be visible for not members
• Purchasable by members only : If you check the box, only members of this membership will get the possibility to purchase the products
• Discount (%) : Set a percentage discount for members

Categories

• Categories : Select the products categories for which this rule will apply

Page Specific Content

• Location : There are 5 locations in the WooCommerce product page where you can display specific content. Select the appropriate one
• Specific Content : Set the content you want to display for members. You can use html and css.

When you’re done with the rule, click the Save button. You can add as many rules as you want and edit/delete them at will.

Pages and Posts Visibility

For each membership, you can set a list of exclusive pages and posts that only members can see. In the two groups, you’ll see a list of all the pages and posts that exist on your website. Here are the options at your disposal

• Filter the result : Select if you want to see all pages/posts or only the ones exclusive to the membership.
• Narrow your search : Find a post or page by its name
• List : Shows the list of pages and posts with the following columns :
  • Name : The page or post name
  • Visibility : See if the page is visible by everyone or if it is exclusive to members
  • Action : You can change the content’s visibility by using the action

Sell your membership

When your membership is ready, it’s time to start selling it. Selling a Membership is really easy with VIP Memberships. Go to your WooCommerce products and create a new product.

Set a price for your membership like for a regular product.

In the Product Data group, you will see a new WooVIP Membership Tab.

Select the WooVIP Membership Tab. Then, select which membership will be granted when purchasing the product.

In addition, you can set a duration for the membership.

That’s it, you’re ready to sell memberships to your customers.

Memberships and Roles

Memberships are always associated to WordPress roles. Every time you create a membership, you also create a user role.

VIP Memberships also provides a full role edition feature. We’ll detail that feature in another part of the documentation.

Prices Priority

If you create multiple memberships or if you run sales on your store, you’ll probably want to use the prices priority feature. You can do so by going to the following page :

Here, you will find a drag and drop list where you can set prices priority.

Upper items have priority over lower ones. “On Sale” prices always have a higher priority than “Regular” prices.
Drag and drop items to change priorities.
Each membership has two items. One is for global pricing rules based on product categories. The other is for specific price rules set in the product edition page.