A membership software will allow you to completely automate everything from the purchase to the actual delivery of content. It’ll allow you to create a seamless experience for your members. 

Member Experience for a Paid Product

• Users visit your sales page.
• They click on the Buy Button and land on the checkout page.
• They enter their name, email and payment details on the checkout and click on the “place your order” button. 
• If the payment goes through successfully, they’ll receive access to the purchased product. 
• Your membership software will send them a welcome email with their login credentials. The email contents can be customized in the software. Users can go to the login page, enter their credentials and access the purchased product. 
• Membership Password: If you use DAP, it’ll automatically generate a password for your members and send them their login credentials in the welcome email. Your members can change their password in the profile page. If you want to allow your members to pick a password during checkout, you can do that too. SPC will allow you to add a “password” field to your checkout page. 
• Automated login: If you use SPC as your shopping cart plugin, users will be automatically logged-in to their membership upon purchase.  So upon purchase, you can directly send them to the my content page, or downloads page. They don’t have to wait for a welcome email with their login credentials.

Member Experience for a Free Product

• Users visit your opt-in page.
• They enter their name and email and sign up for your freebie. You can send them to the thank you or the downloads page.
• If it's a double opt-in product (can be configured in the membership software), users will receive a confirmation email first with an activation link. When they click on the confirmation link, they’ll receive the welcome email with their login credentials. They can login to the members area to access / download the freebie.
• If it's a single opt-in product, your users will be automatically logged-in and can instantly access/download the freebie.

A membership software will allow you to completely automate everything from the purchase to the actual delivery of content. It’ll allow you to create a seamless membership experience for your members. 

There are a few member-facing pages that you need to create in your membership plugin to allow users to login, access their content, update their profile, view their invoice, self-cancel their subscription, etc.

DAP comes with one of the most advanced and customizable member page builders. 

These are some of the member-facing pages that you can create and customize using DAP’s member page builder:

 

My Content Page: This is the page where your members can find and access their free and paid products/content. DAP comes with several “My Content” templates. You can send your members to this page when they login. On this page, they’ll find all the products/content that are available to them. 

We launched DAP back in 2008. There were 1 or 2 other membership plugins at that time. In this industry where plugins came and go, DAP has evolved and gotten better every single year! No one cares more about the success of their customers more than we do here at DAP! 

DAP now powers thousands of membership sites. 

“ Everything you do, the platform, the changes, the videos are helping me to finally create this platform I have been working on for many years - and which I hope to be launching shortly. And if I can help others take the leap into DAP, SPC and your system. I will. “ - Sergio Sedas

There are so many different membership plugins out there that it can be overwhelming to pick one that’s right for you. There’s no plugin that will give you more flexibility, customizability, ability to grow and scale your business, and adapt based on the changing needs of the marketplace, than DAP.

There's no such thing as the right membership plugin, but DAP is one of the very few plugins that you will allow you to implement most, if not all, of the items on your list. 

DAP is considered one of most powerful membership plugins, but I admit, for many years, it didn't score high in the ease-of-use department. 

While it has not been an easy task, the last few years we've worked tirelessly and made a very conscious effort to address the ease-of-use problem. Now DAP is not just the most powerful, but also one of the most customizable, user-friendly and easy-to-use membership plugins.

You can use DAP to:
=> Create & deliver your freebies.
=> Charge for your products in many different ways - one-time payment, free/paid trial, payment plan, pay-what-you-want, donation, recurring subscription & more!
=> Create & sell one or multiple membership levels. 
=> Fully protect content or partially protect content using shortcodes or use the sneak peek feature to display teaser content.
=> Deliver all of your content at once or through a sequential drip-feed. 
=> Release content when users complete certain tasks (such as release next lesson only after users complete the current lesson).
=> Restrict access to content published in posts, pages, custom posts, RSS feeds, etc.
=> Restrict content access using tags.
=> Your members can be part of one or more products or membership levels at once, and access all products under a single account.

Here are some of DAP's unique features:

=> You can create and deliver online courses and training programs using DAP's built-in LMS. Most membership plugins don't come with a built-in LMS and the ones that do, come with a very basic LMS. See this post on what makes DAP's LMS one of the best in the World.

=> Use the powerful click/edit member page builder to create (& fully customize) beautiful and elegant member-facing pages such as login page, signup forms, my content page, my account page, affiliate area etc.  

=> Sell individual pieces of content (Netflix-style pay-per-post). You can sell your audio, video, WordPress content directly for a limited-time access (rent) or full access (buy now). You can even create an instant store to sell your content. DAP is one of the very few membership plugins that supports this feature.

=> You can allow users to pay-what-they-want for your products and services. You can specify a minimum amount.

=> DAP comes with a powerful, built-in affiliate management feature. You won't need a 3rd party affiliate management software like other membership plugins.

=> DAP is one of the very few membership plugins that comes with a setup wizard-style course/product creation process that will help you quickly & easily set up your membership site!

=> You can sell access to different types of content: Video, Audio, Articles, PDF’s, Webinar, WordPress Pages/Posts & Categories, Courses, Trainings, etc.

=> You can create unlimited products, unlimited membership levels and you can have unlimited members. No limits.

=> DAP comes with a built-in Email Autoresponder & Broadcast feature so you won't need an external platform to send emails to your members.

=> DAP has a very unique automation engine that will allow you to automatically add users to (and remove users from) your email platform such as AWeber, MailChimp, ActiveCampaign, GetResponse, ConvertKit, Drip & MailerLite. You can also send membership passwords to these platforms.

=> DAP also has a direct integration with Zapier.

Content Delivery Options

The way you deliver your content is key to your members level of engagement. As far as content delivery, you have several options with DAP:

Never been a better time to set up an online business. Never been easier to package your knowledge, skills, expertise into a product/training/course and start selling it online. 

As long as you've done your research and identified your niche, and can deliver ongoing value to your members, you can monetize it through a membership website. 

Spend time with your audience. Ask questions and request feedback. 

Consume all you want but the best way to learn is through doing!

Your ability to identify what's truly important, stay focused, prioritize and execute, will determine how far you can take your membership site business! 

If you are struggling to build your audience, sign up for my free course where you'll discover several ways to grow your audience. And I'll also show you how to implement it. 

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