Application accessible to registered customers only

  • Resolved katovonkatz

    (@katovonkatz)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    I am so sorry if I am posting a question here that has been asked a thousand times before. I am fairly new to WordPress and I did some searching on this website and on Google, but I can’t find what I am looking for, perhaps also due to the fact that my development language isn’t well… properly developed yet 🙂

    I hope you can help me out a bit and perhaps also equip me with some terminology.

    So, I am building this application in Javascript, but I need it to only be accessible to paying web visitors, that is, to registered customers. What I am aiming at is to have some sort of paywall on my website, except that I don’t want to do the payments via WordPress, but to manually invoice them.

    How can I make sure that my application is only visible to registered visitors? Is there a reliable plugin available for this?

    I bought MemberPress, but as I am thinking about this more and more, I have the feeling that I won’t need this, since I don’t want everyone to be able to register. The registrations are invitation only.

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    I think what you are asking is for your site to have a page that is only accessible to paying customers, and your script is loaded only in that page.
    You can accomplish this using a membership plugin or a content restriction plugin, but it sounds like you want to manually add the customers to the allowed list.
    You could use a password protected page, but it’s the same password for everyone and they can pass it on (and once they know it, they can get in until you change the password).
    If there is more than one page to protect, it’s better to use the login to protect it, which is what the membership plugins do. The customers can’t get a login without paying.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Membership plugins typically allow you to mange access by role. If you’re manually managing payments, let new registrants be a role which affords them no special access. The site admin is notified when someone completes registration. You can invoice them then. Once you receive payment, change their role to one that permits privileged access.

    Or you can manage sign up and payment through other means and manually add users with an appropriate role once payment is received.

    Thread Starter katovonkatz

    (@katovonkatz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Thank you @joyously and @bcworkz for thinking along with me.

    @joyously You are correct, I do want this one page to be protected. It sound from both of your feedback that a membership plugin will suffice. I guess I will juggle around a bit with MemberPress, since I read good reviews about this plugin and I bought it for a year to experiment with. Do you have any experience with this plugin? Do you think that MemberPress can fulfill my wish?

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Not that specific plugin. Anything that lets you control access to pages by role or capability should be able to address your need.

    Thread Starter katovonkatz

    (@katovonkatz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    @bcworkz I think you mean, not only that specific plugin, as there are many as options :). Thank you so much for your kind thinking along.

    Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry, I don’t personally have experience with that specific plugin, I’ve used other membership plugins in the past but my experience with them is limited. There are many membership plugins, any of those that manage access by role or capability will work.

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