Hey Taisa,

I’ve just checked the MemberPress website, and it looks like they’ve changed their plan around since I originally published this. Their most expensive plan does have the affiliate plugin bundled with it, but the others don’t.

You don’t need a LMS to sell your courses, you can always just embed the videos on their own pages. For a long time I had been selling mine without an LMS, just putting all the videos of each section of my course on its own page.

However, I’ve recently began an implementation of my LMS of choice, LearnDash. Including an LMS makes things a lot easier for your students, and for administration purposes as well. As far as I know, if you purchase LearnDash you don’t actually need MemberPress – I’ve just kept it integrated now because I have other products handled through MemberPress, and also want to make sure my affiliates receive their commissions for course sales.

Hope this clears things up!

Also, I saw it has integration with LMS systems. So… do you need them to sell courses or not?

I am a little confused…

Good review. I recently purchased Optimized Press but this was one of the membership plugins I looked into. It seems pretty good and simple. I’m learning the ins and outs of OptimizePress but I would consider this to try out for a few niche sites I’m considering. Good review.

– Andrew

Hi Sherman!

Yeah, being able to keep everything on your own site is really nice. You don’t have to worry about other services going down or changing their rules, which can be annoying. With MemberPress the only third-party service you have to use is a payment processor, but who wants to manage their own payments anyway? That sounds like a liability nightmare and I know there are a ton of legal rules you’d have to comply with. No thanks.

I previously used Selz to host my book but self-hosting gives you so much more freedom. MemberPress is definitely a good option for anybody who has products to sell, or content to protect.

Thanks for stopping by Sherman!

Hi Akaahan!

I have to admit I haven’t used any other membership plugins myself but I did research them all in detail before making my purchase. I chose MemberPress because it had everything I wanted, and seemed like a complete solution both for hosting my products and my membership site that will come sometime in the future. So far, I’ve yet to be dissappointed.

Affiliate Royale is definitely something I would have paid extra for, because it adds that much value. Having your own affiliate program really ups the potential to make a killing with each of your products, because we can only do so much marketing on our own right?

If you have any questions about either plugin please let me know and I’ll answer them to the best of my ability. Good to see you again Akaahan!

Hi Donna!

Yeah, I was actually pretty worried before purchasing because I saw quite a few negative reviews on MemberPress but it’s done everything I wanted it to do and more so I don’t get what all the fuss is about. Then again, a lot of those reviews were over a year old so maybe it’s just that much better now in 2015.

Affiliate Royale was the seller for me. It integrates perfectly with MemberPress. Installing is as easy as uploading the plugin and checking a box, and then of course setting all your options and settings.

I like keeping everything on my site and having complete control over everything but the payment processing (too much work and liability there.) The less third-party services I rely on, the better!

Thanks for visiting Donna!

Thanks for giving the word out on memberpress. This sounds like a great option for those that want to manage payments and what members can access . It sounds like it gives you total control so you don’t have to rely on any other sites as far as customers and affiliates are concerned.

this would be something great for me to look into the future! Have a great weekend!

Your review of MemberPress is quite thorough and I must say, I am already considering it. In the past, I sampled many membership plugins but discovered to my dismay that many of them did not suit my needs…it was quite a waste of time and really frustrating.

I may wind up getting the plugin again for the other component, Affiliate Royale: as a product creator myself, I believe it’s time to take things to the next level! This review of yours, certainty puts things into perspective.

Thanks a ton!

Kindly ensure to make the day great!

Always,
Akaahan Terungwa

When I got to the part about Affiliate Royale my wheels started to spin. I’m doing more affiliate marketing these days and this looks pretty amazing to me.

I like the way you had done this honest review. I am putting it on my Evernote right now to take a closer look after blog hopping.

Thanks so much for doing this

-Donna