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Groups WooCommerce

Use the Groups WooCommerce extension to sell memberships with WooCommerce – A powerful and flexible combination for memberships and content access control. Visit the main documentation page here: Groups WooCommerce Documentation


Documents

  • Legacy Setup

    We recommend to use the latest version of Groups and its group-based access control model. Legacy support for capability-based access control has been discontinued and capability-based access restrictions supported in Groups 1.x will be removed completely in upcoming releases of Groups. Use the Migration Guide to switch to the group-based access control model today. Set […]

  • Memberships

    Selling Memberships As an introduction, we recommend to watch the following video which shows how several membership products are set up: The following pages provide details on the topics outlined below: Selling Unlimited Memberships An unlimited membership assigns a customer to a group indefinitely. This is easily set up with simple or variable products. When […]

  • Selling Time-limited Memberships

    Here we are going to take a look at how to set up a membership product which grants a limited membership to the Premium group for 12 months. This is an example display of what we would like our customers to see advertised in the shop … The second example product in the following video […]

  • Selling Unlimited Memberships

    The most basic case of a membership product is that which once acquired, grants unlimited membership to one or more groups. In this case, we will set up a membership product which grants unlimited membership to the Premium group. This is an example display of what we would like our customers to see advertised in […]

  • Settings

    General Configuration and Defaults The Groups Integration for WooCommerce offers several general settings that can be adjusted. Go to WooCommerce > Groups to review or adjust the current settings. The default configuration reflects suitable choices for many deployments, but we recommend to review the details on those settings below and make initial adjustments when needed. […]

  • Setup

    To sell memberships with WooCommerce requires the following extensions besides WooCommerce itself: Optionally, if you would like to sell group memberships based on subscriptions it also integrates with WooCommerce Subscriptions. You must install both Groups and the Groups Integration for WooCommerce. To install Groups, go to your WordPress Dashboard and under Plugins > Add New […]

  • Shortcodes

    User Group Memberships The [groups_woocommerce_memberships] shortcode renders group membership information for the current user. Each valid membership displays the group, for time-limited memberships, the date and time until the membership is valid is shown, too. You can put this shortcode on any page or also add it to the My Account page as in this example: […]