Membership site offering newsletters

  • Resolved commontater

    (@commontater)


    3 months, 2 weeks ago

    Hi everyone,

    My team and I are creating a demo site for a product in development. There is not much on the site, currently, as it was just spun up.

    The demo site needs to have:

    1. A membership sign-up form with hcaptcha, additional info such as postal US Zip code, and some selections for preferred newsletters.
    2. The site must be able to send a newsletter to each member based on the selections made upon sign-up. (Assume that these preferences can be accessed/changed on a user profile behind login.
    3. A newsletter function that works like MailPoet, where members who have chosen specific newsletters would receive these in an email.

    Questions: Does Paid Memberships Pro offer these functions? If so, are they in the paid or free version?

    Is it better to seek out an all-in-one solution that offers a member sign-up, user profile, and newsletter distribution?

    Thoughts, suggestions, and answers welcome!

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Support Jarryd Long

    (@jarryd-long)

    Hi there, thank you for reaching out to the Paid Memberships Pro team.

    1. We have a basic code recipe available that you can implement hCaptcha with https://gist.github.com/JarrydLong/d21cbdf6f61efd8282ef67cbc70da8dc
    2. and Point 3: Our Mailchimp Integration (https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/add-ons/pmpro-mailchimp-integration/) sends membership level data to MC that you can use to create automation based on the different levels. Choosing which audience or list they are added to would require some custom development.

    I would also recommend reviewing our Use Case Article on Newsletter Sites here: https://www.paidmembershipspro.com/paid-newsletters/

    Kind Regards,
    Jarryd
    Support Manager at Paid Memberships Pro

    Thread Starter commontater

    (@commontater)

    Hi @jarryd-long ,

    Thanks for these tips. Following up, I would like to know:

    1. I see that implementing hcaptcha requires the code snippet you mentioned. Does PMP offer reCaptcha natively?
    2. I want to show a potential member the kinds of newsletters that they can receive as an incentive for signing up (rather than a preference in their profile, seen only after signing up). Can the member sign-up form contain additional fields such as Zip code, and a group of newsletter topics-of-interest they can select from?
    3. I noticed that PMP has an Add-On for MailPoet as well as Mailchimp. I have not attempted to use Mailchimp, and have a small amount of experience with MailPoet. Do either of these email subscription plugins do audience/newsletter sorting (without custom code)?
    4. The site I’m creating is just a demo to attract funding for the concept. Are the above features available in the free version, or would one of the paid plans be needed?

    NOTE: Initially, this site will offer free membership to gain an audience for vendor-sponsored content.

    • This reply was modified 3 months, 2 weeks ago by commontater. Reason: Additional info about the site where PMP would be used
    Plugin Support Jarryd Long

    (@jarryd-long)

    Only a pleasure, thank you for your feedback.

    1. Yes reCAPTCHA and other spam prevention measures are included in the core PMPro plugin.
    2. The core plugin offers ‘User Fields’ functionality which allows you to create an unlimited number of custom fields that can show on the checkout and profile pages. Connecting those fields to a mail service would need some custom code though.
    3. Mailchimp would be your easiest to implement with. You can create custom fields using User Fields and implement a short code recipe to send the custom field to MC (its 2 short functions that we can share with you). You can then create segments and send content to the respective segments.
    4. PMPro is completely free, you can read more about this on https://paidmembershipspro.com/free – I don’t believe a paid plan would be needed for your use case just yet though no.

    Kind Regards,
    Jarryd
    Support Manager at Paid Memberships Pro

    Thread Starter commontater

    (@commontater)

    @jarryd-long ,

    Thanks for this info. My team was more interested in MailPoet, and as it happens, this was a simple enough setup. I added your provided PHP code snippet for hCaptcha, but found I had two hCaptcha boxes on the form. This was cured by turning off the code snippet.

    I added the fields desired to the Field Group, and that seems to be working as planned.

    It looks like the basic functions of the free version of PMP will suffice for the demo. Great plugin!

    Plugin Support Jarryd Long

    (@jarryd-long)

    Only a pleasure, I’m so glad to hear this has helped. Feel free to reach out if there’s anything else we can assist you with. Wishing you all the best with your website.

    Kind Regards,
    Jarryd
    Support Manager at Paid Memberships Pro

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