Step 2: Pick a simple plugin like MemberSpace to manage payments

Once you’ve decided how you will charge your customers, you’ll need to find a plugin to help you facilitate those payments. While you can go directly through payment gateways like Stripe, it’s a much more efficient and simple process to opt for a plugin like MemberSpace. MemberSpace is a user-friendly free WordPress membership plugin that allows you to sell digital products, accept recurring payments, create members-only content, and so much more.

MemberSpace has a built-in Stripe integration, as well as tons of other features to help you manage and grow your business. You can sell access to any kind of digital product, membership, or online community with MemberSpace, but some of the top-selling products our customers sell include:

• Ebooks: Ebooks, whether your business is the publisher, author or distributor, can be sold to customers as physical or digital copies using our e-commerce plugins.
• Memberships: Membership-based businesses, whether an app, a streaming service, or a magazine, need to be able to accept recurring payments from their customers.
• Community access: A community plugin allows you to accept payments from a members-only community, build discussion forums, lock pages to non-members, and more.
• Paid podcasts: Sell podcasts on your website either as a one-time purchase or as a recurring subscription fee with on-site membership options.
• Newsletters: Newsletters can be bought as single PDFs or emailed to subscribed users via a recurring charge.
• Content library: Your business may have a library of videos, PDFs, images, and more to sell to customers.
• Videos: Videos, including training courses, member content, entertainment, and more can be sold with MemberSpace.
• Online courses: You can create and sell online courses through your website, regardless of the platform you use.
• Digital downloads: Downloads such as PDFs, videos, images, and newsletters can be made available to customers through easy website plugins.
• Paid Zoom calls: If your business hosts a paid meeting service, you can process the charges or subscription fees directly from your page.
• Digital magazines: You can make magazines available both as a one-time purchase per issue and/or as a recurring charge through a subscription fee.
• Templates: Templates, whether for resumes, emails, calendars, collages, apps, webpages, or more can be sold via download links or PDFs.
• Workbooks: Whether for music, business, education courses, or safety training, workbooks can be sold as PDFs or downloadable files.
• Masterclasses: Businesses that offer masterclasses can sell them a la carte or on a recurring subscription basis using MemberSpace.