ARMember
ARMember is a WordPress membership plugin for creating and selling memberships, restricting content, and accepting online payments.
What ARMember is
ARMember is a WordPress membership plugin for creating and selling memberships, restricting content, and accepting online payments. It supports free or paid plans, custom billing cycles, member panels, plan-based access rules, paid posts, and courses. Partial restrictions and scheduled content dripping can apply to pages, custom post types, and URLs. Premium add-ons provide courses, social profiles and messaging, group memberships, and member network sites. ARMember lists more than 22 payment gateways, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Mollie, Razorpay, and WooCommerce Payments, plus email, CRM, Zapier, AffiliateWP, AffiliatesPro, and Google Analytics 4 integrations. Security controls include two-factor authentication, IP blocking, shared-account locking, and several CAPTCHA options. The free plan is lifetime free with unlimited sites and plans but two gateways. The WordPress.org listing says the plugin was closed on February 1, 2025.
Good
- Supports free and paid membership plans
- Offers scheduled content dripping
- Provides 22+ payment gateways
- Includes two-factor authentication and CAPTCHA options
- Connects with email, CRM, and automation tools
Watch out
- Free plan includes only two payment gateways
- WordPress.org listing says it was closed
- Maker cannot guarantee absolute security
Who it suits
ARMember suits WordPress membership associations, communities, course businesses, directories, and media sites needing gated content and subscription billing. It is also relevant when drip delivery and many payment gateways are required.
Verdict
ARMember covers content gating, billing, drip delivery, and extensive integrations in one WordPress plugin. Review its current distribution status and the gateway limits before choosing a plan.
Plans and prices
From ARMember's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited sites · limited support · unlimited membership plans · 20+ in-built addons · 2 payment gateways · Lifetime Free |
| Standard | $99 a year | 1 site · 1 year premium support · Unlimited membership plans · 22+ payment gateways · Same renewal price |
| Professional | $259 a year | 2 sites · 1 year premium support · Unlimited membership plans · 22+ payment gateways · Same renewal price |
| Enterprise | $999 a year | 10 sites · 1 year premium support · Unlimited membership plans · 22+ payment gateways · Same renewal price |
| Standard (annual) | $89 a year | 1 site · 1 year premium support · 62+ in-built addons · 22+ payment gateways · 36+ premium add-ons · $89/year; same renewal price. Page also shows $99/year. |
| Professional (annual) | $139 a year | 2 sites · 1 year premium support · 62+ in-built addons · 22+ payment gateways · 51+ premium add-ons · $139/year; same renewal price. Page also shows $259/year. |
| Standard (lifetime) | $229, paid once | 1 site · 3 years premium support · lifetime updates · 36+ premium add-ons · $229; page also shows $249 |
| Enterprise (annual) | $299 a year | 10 sites · 1 year premium support · 62+ in-built addons · 22+ payment gateways · 56+ premium add-ons · $299/year; same renewal price. Page also shows $999/year. |
| Professional (lifetime) | $379, paid once | 2 sites · 3 years premium support · lifetime updates · 51+ premium add-ons · $379; page also shows $699 |
| Enterprise (lifetime) | $599, paid once | 10 sites · 3 years premium support · lifetime updates · 56+ premium add-ons · $599; page also shows $1999 |
The facts
Each one read from ARMember's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Community and courses
- Premium add-ons provide online courses, social community profiles and messaging, group memberships, and member network sites.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Content delivery
- The plugin supports partial content restriction and scheduled content dripping, and can restrict custom post types and URLs.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Content gating
- pagechecked 20 Sep 2026
- Core features
- Features include multiple free or paid plans, custom billing cycles, member panels, plan-based access rules, and paid posts or courses.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Distribution caveat
- The WordPress.org listing says the plugin was closed on February 1, 2025 and is not available for download there due to a guideline violation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Drip content
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes use cases including membership associations, communities, video and podcast membership sites, directories, and course businesses.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Other integrations
- Listed integrations include more than 15 email marketing and CRM tools, plus Zapier, AffiliateWP, AffiliatesPro, and Google Analytics 4.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Payment integrations
- ARMember lists 22+ payment gateways, including PayPal, Stripe, Authorize.net, Mollie, Razorpay, and WooCommerce Payments.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Product
- ARMember is a WordPress membership plugin for creating, managing, and selling memberships, restricting content, and accepting online payments.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Listed controls include two-factor authentication, IP blocking, shared-account locking, and CAPTCHA options including reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, Turnstile, and Math Captcha.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security disclosure
- The maker's privacy policy says it uses commercially acceptable means to protect personal information but cannot guarantee absolute security.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page lists limited support for the free plan, one year of premium support for annual paid plans, and three years for lifetime plans.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2016checked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Subscription billing
- bothchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Trial limits
- The plugin can configure free or paid membership trials with lengths in days, months, or years, but the maker's pricing page does not state a standard product trial duration.checked 9 Oct 2026
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