Membership#94

Memberships would be great! Diffirent tiers with specific discounts

Hope this will be taken into consideration

Is this option being worked on? I hope so

Waiting…..

Hello, with the new Customer panel 2.0 the only thing is missing is subsctiption, with this feature the customers management would be perfect

Is there any updates on this? Having a way for customers to subscribe to regular services would be really helpful and a massive game changer for us. Also if we could offer free classes every now and then to those who are subscribed without too much admin, that would be ideal. Has anyone here found any workaround for offering memberships with amelia?

Hello there,

We could use your help to clarify something: Are Membership and Subscription two distinct features, or are they related in some way? Here’s how we currently see them:

Membership: This would allow creating member groups, assigning different discounts and prices, and showing specific services based on the member group. The only way to identify a user’s group would be through their email (or set of customer’s details), so we’d need to consider having users enter their email at the beginning of the booking process.

Subscription: This would involve creating subscription levels or plans with varying durations, booking limits, and pricing options for customers to choose during booking. It’s similar to our packages feature but broader, covering appointments and events, with the need for automatic subscription renewal and user billing.

We can see how these two features could be merged to serve specific use cases. However, based on our experience, a combined solution wouldn’t be as broad or useful for most users. For example, if we were to mix Membership and Subscription, the option to hide certain services or prices wouldn’t be possible. This is because Membership is designed around special offers for loyal members (which the admin assigns by creating groups), while Subscription is based on the plan chosen by the customer, allowing them to see all services and prices.

Does our understanding of these being separate features align with yours, or do you think a combined approach would work better?

In context of Amelia, I think memberships and subscriptions are two different things. The implementation for “subscription” is different if referring to a membership or to a booking.

A type of “membership” may be for lifetime or renewed periodically as a “subscription” (e.g. yearly, monthly). The membership could give access to restricted events or have different pricing, ideally based on the user’s/member’s WordPress role (customer, member, VIP, etc). Whether the membership is a subscription or lifetime status is irrelevant to Amelia in this situation.

A subscription for bookings in Amelia is something different, perhaps giving access to a series of events or a subscribed number of appointments, or similar. This is a different feature to membership and closer to a package.

Expanding the “Packages” feature (to include events/appointments and automatic renewals and billing) as you stated in your outline of ‘Subscriptions’ would be wonderful! I am running a yoga and massage/energy/healing therapy center and would love for the ability to have a monthly package that covers all yoga classes but not the other stuff. Automatic renewal would be a nice feature for that too!

The “membership” difference as Brent referenced could add depth to a customer’s experience. For example, I could create a Wellness Membership where if the customer purchases such a monthly yoga subscription/package, they get a discount on the healing therapies.

As a side note - the events forms work best for structuring the yoga classes, which is why I can’t use the Packages feature currently for yoga.

Dear all,

(Sorry but this is still not the notification that the feature has been delivered) 🥲

Many of you wanted to hear more regular and summarized feedback about what we are working on. That makes total sense, and we hear you!

We have prepared a post summarizing our work from the past year and current developments:

https://wpamelia.com/year-2024-in-review/

We plan to make our communication with you more regular. Post + newsletter + a small notification in the plugin itself seem appropriate, but let us know if you prefer a different channel.

Also, we are looking for volunteers to help us in some areas (more information in the post).

Thank you, and hope you like it,

Alexander

Please add subscription/memberships please!! Thank you!

Membership with client login would be amazing!