ARMember

ARMember is a WordPress plugin for building a membership site: paywalled content, recurring subscriptions, member profiles and directories, a community layer and, through its Online Courses add-on, courses with lessons, quizzes and certificates. The homepage says it manages subscriptions, paywalls, online courses and communities from one dashboard, with 22+ payment gateways and 62+ add-ons at no extra cost, and that it is trusted by 50,000+ membership sites worldwide. It is made by Repute Infosystems, the company behind BookingPress, AffiliatePress, ARForms and ARPrice, and the company's blog says ARMember has been serving digital entrepreneurs for around 10 years. Because it is a plugin, it runs inside your own WordPress site rather than on a hosted platform.

Who it is built for

The homepage lists the kinds of sites people build with it: membership associations, member communities, video and podcast membership sites, searchable member directories, and eLearning hubs that sell and protect online courses. Its FAQ describes the audience as creators, coaches, businesses and associations who want to monetize content without coding.

Plans you can sell to members

ARMember's pricing tools are the core of the plugin. You can create unlimited membership levels with recurring billing on weekly, monthly or yearly cycles and more, or sell one-time access. A plan can give lifetime or limited access for one fixed price. Pay Per Post puts a single page, post or custom post type behind a one-time paywall, so members can buy only the piece they want. Parallel memberships let one user hold several plans at once, and group memberships let a team, family or organization join under one plan with shared access.

The company's blog adds detail: four plan types (free, paid finite, paid infinite and recurring subscription), payment installments, and free or paid trials attached to a subscription plan. The plugin also handles signup fees, upgrade and downgrade paths, grace periods and expiration dates, prorated charges when a member changes plan, and coupons for discounts.

Content restriction and drip

Restriction rules cover pages, posts, menus, forums, categories, tags, custom post types and specific URLs, and you can lock the entire site to logged-in members. Shortcodes restrict part of a page, so a guest sees an introduction and a member sees the rest, and a private content feature delivers specific content to specific users.

Drip rules release content on a schedule per membership plan, by date, time or length of subscription, and can be applied to whole pages or to sections through a shortcode. A drip rule can also limit how long content stays viewable after release, in hours, days or months. For a course creator this is the mechanism that turns a library into a weekly program.

Courses inside WordPress

ARMember's course features come through its Online Courses add-on, which lets members purchase and access courses and lessons. The FAQ says it sells "courses with lessons, quizzes and certificates," and the homepage says it tracks member progress through structured lessons. A comparison post on the company's blog describes the course builder add-on as running an education hub with badges, points and certificates. Pairing this with drip rules, Pay Per Post and the Digital Download add-on (eBooks, files, videos and other downloads) lets one WordPress site sell courses, single lessons and downloadable material side by side.

Community, profiles and gamification

The community side is where ARMember goes further than a plain paywall. Members get public profiles with photos, bios, social links and digital membership cards, and you can build searchable member directories from templates. The Social Community add-on adds friendships and messaging, and the blog lists friends and following and member reviews among the tools. Gamification is built in, with points, badges and achievements for progress and participation, and there is a myCRED integration. For forums, the homepage advertises one-click integration with BuddyPress and BuddyBoss.

Registration and login forms, profile layouts and directories are built in the plugin's form builder without code, and forms can open in modals. A membership setup wizard is listed among the features.

Payments

The homepage says ARMember uses native payment processor support with no third-party connectors, and its FAQ names Stripe, PayPal, Razorpay, Authorize.Net, Braintree, Paystack and 2Checkout among the supported gateways. Several can be enabled at once. A comparison post on the blog lists further gateways available "in different plans", including Mollie, Square, Skrill, Klarna, Paddle, Mercado Pago and Airwallex. The same post lists invoices that members can download, a wide currency selection, built-in tax settings, refunds, manual payments such as bank transfer, a sandbox mode for testing, and WooCommerce integration.

Integrations, security and admin tools

The integrations section names email, CRM and automation tools including Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign, Brevo, AWeber, MailerLite, GetResponse, Constant Contact, Kit (ConvertKit), HubSpot, Zoho CRM and Zapier, page builders such as Elementor, Divi Builder, WPBakery and Beaver Builder, plus WooCommerce, AffiliateWP, AffiliatesPro and Google Analytics 4. Other add-ons send WhatsApp and SMS notifications, launch member network subsites, and let users buy memberships as gifts. The plugin is translation ready with WPML, Polylang and Weglot. Members can sign in through Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, X or Instagram.

For admins there are reports on payments, logins and coupons, API services for third-party apps, templated email notifications, and import and export of users, plans and settings. The security set covers brute force login protection, a hidden WordPress login page, IP and URL restrictions, banned usernames or emails at signup, automatic locking of shared accounts, and a hidden or renamed admin panel.

Pricing, free version and support

ARMember has a free version, ARMember Lite, and premium versions. The homepage FAQ says premium versions start at $89 per year, and the homepage promises all add-ons in one package with no separate add-on purchases; a limited offer advertised up to 70% off. A company comparison post dated July 2025 listed the plans then on sale: Standard at $69 a year for one website, Professional at $129 a year for two sites and Enterprise at $299 a year for up to 10 sites, with the course builder in the Enterprise plan. Check the pricing page for the current line-up. According to the same post, the free version accepts PayPal and bank transfer and still supports free trials for members.

Purchases carry a money-back guarantee within 14 days, according to the homepage. Support is advertised as 24/7 help and real-time support, alongside documentation, video tutorials and developer hooks. The homepage shows a Trustpilot rating of 4.4/5 and a Trustindex rating of 4.6/5, and quotes users on support. One writes: "Possibly the easiest membership software to install and setup with wordpress, and highly customisable. Support also takes great effort to explain what is possible and how to get stuff done."

Who it suits

ARMember suits creators, coaches and associations who already run WordPress and want subscriptions, drip content, a member directory and a course area in one plugin rather than several. The free Lite version is a low-risk way to start. The trade-off is that you host and maintain the WordPress site yourself, and the course tools are an add-on to a membership plugin, so a training team that needs a dedicated LMS will find the course side lighter than the membership side.