You can send a quick notification email to your members when editing their details from the admin dashboard. This is useful if you wanted to let the user know that you have made some changes to their account.

When you review the member’s profile details and make some changes to the account, you can additionally check the Send a Notification to the User checkbox and enter an email message. This email will be sent to the member when you save the profile.

The email content (subject and body) of the last email notification is saved (when you use this feature). So next time you want to send the same notification email, you don’t have to manually enter the email content.

In a standard setup, your visitors will signup for a membership account after they read your membership offers. You will use one of these registration scenarios for them to register for an account.

On rare cases, you may be running an organization where you only allow the members to be added manually (by an administrator). You can make the following changes to the setup so only an administrator can add member records to the site.

Step 1) Remove the registration form shortcode

Edit the registration page from the “Pages” menu of your site and remove the standard registration form shortcode of eMember. Instead, you can put a message like the following in there:

Members are added manually by an administrator. Please contact us if you have any questions.

This will prevent anyone from being able to register from the front-end.

Step 2) Hide the links to the “Join Us” page

Since you handle the registration process manually, you probably don’t want the users to go to the Join Us page.

• Use this CSS tweak to hide the “Join Us” link in the member login widget.
• Use this text/language tweak to customize the “Protection” message.

Step 3) Manually add members from the admin interface

When you want to add a member to your site manually, do the following:

• Click on the Members link from the WP eMember plugin’s admin menu.
• Click on the Add/Edit Member link from the top navigation menu.
• Fill in the details of the member and hit the save button.

These changes should make it so members can be added to your site manually (only).

Using the WP eMember Plugin together with the free WP Express Checkout plugin, membership payments can be handled via PayPal express checkout gateway.

Using the WP Express Checkout Plugin, customers can purchase memberships via a ‘Buy Now’ button and checkout using PayPal. Their member profile will be automatically created by WP eMember and as a result they will be able to enjoy protected content.

Installation and Activation of Plugins

To accept membership payments via Express Checkout, you will need the WP eMember Plugin as well as the WP Express Checkout plugin installed and activated.

Creating a Membership Product that Can be Purchased via Express Checkout

Step 1) Create a new product in the WP Express Checkout plugin. This documentation explains how to create a new product.

Step 2) Specify a membership level for this product in the “WP eMember Membership Level” section of the product.

Step 3) Your customers can now purchase this product and it will be considered as payment for the membership level you specified.

Member Sign Up Process with Express Checkout

After a successful payment, the standard WP eMember’s registration flow applies.

Member Upgrade/Renewal Process

If a member is logged into the site and makes a payment, then the payment is applied to that existing membership profile. So it works as an upgrade/renewal payment.