Paid Membership Subscriptions – Effortless Memberships, Recurring Payments & Content Restriction
Feature-packed membership plugin for creating subscription plans, adding recurring payments & content restriction on your membership site.
4.7(260 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 2 weeks agoAs of April 2026, Paid Membership Subscriptions is a WordPress membership plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 260 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.1+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 27% this week. Support resolution rate: 96%. Top alternative: Ultimate Member – User Profile….
4.7/5260 reviews
10K+active installs
96%resolved
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Paid Member Subscriptions is the #1 WordPress membership plugin focused on growing recurring revenue.
Increase conversions and generate subscription revenue with a feature-packed membership solution. It lets you accept recurring payments, register and manage new members, create subscription plans and restrict access to premium content.
Paid Member Subscriptions is designed to help you kickstart your subscription business in just a few minutes and begin generating income as quickly as possible.
Integrates with WooCommerce, allowing you to restrict product viewing and purchasing to members-only as well, offer special discounted product price based on subscription plans as well as allow your customers to purchase subscription plans through the WooCommerce Checkout.
You can also use it to set…
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Ratings & Reviews
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required to fix bugs
by qhrlysterss·2 weeks ago·1 reply
on pricing page this persisting errors when want to edit showing Updating failed. Invalid JSON body passed. and its only on pricing page never allow to update your own informations kindly fix these errors
Very Promising, So Far So good!
by maxi_k·2 weeks ago·1 reply
I have been working with Paid Member Subscriptions Pro for about a year now, and although my membership site is not yet launched, it seems PMS Pro is going to play a very important part in it. In fact, I already have several membership projects planned and ready to roll out once the first one is running smoothly with Paid Member Subscriptions Pro, which may mean upgrading to the Agency plan.
Working Great
by John Webber·2 weeks ago·1 reply
Working great so far. No complaints.
Thank you for developing this!
I used AI to get a few things set up, like getting my browser extension to make an API call and see if the user has an active subscription
Disappointing
by therber2·1 month ago·2 replies
Didn’t like how the default form theme looked so I purchased the pro version, and all of the css with the paid form themes clash badly with Kadence theme. The pms plugin overrides the inherit font colors randomly disables js in other locations on the page. Looks even worse than the free version.
The billing is messed up too. The other day the plugin sent “Subscription expired” email to all of my valid paying customers. Made my company look really bad and I lost a few paying subs.
Not recommended.
Great plugin
by AsphodelB·2 months ago
Edited: the PMS Pro team addressed all the issues mentioned below. A truly great experience.
I’ve been using PMS Pro for some times and it’s been working great.
A couple of things need attention, though:
– It would be great if PMS registration didn’t allow spaces on usernames as it breaks some functions for user later down the road;
– It would be great if group members could be invited not only via email but via a link that can be sent out by the group curator or site admin
Otherwise, it’s great. Support is great.
- This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by AsphodelB. Reason: Issues have been addressed
Download Trends
Today: 380Yesterday: 328This week: 2KPeriod total: 347K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.1+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v3.0
33.4%
v2.17
24.7%
Other
20.0%
v2.16
16.6%
v2.15
5.3%
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Changelog
3.0.1
- Fix: Some false positive Stuck Payments issue reports generated by the new Dashboard Health Functionality
- Misc: Compatibility changes for new Advanced Subscription Toolkit option
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