AccessAlly vs. MemberPress: a comparison

Both AccessAlly and MemberPress integrate with Stripe and PayPal out the box and accept one-time payments or recurring subscriptions with or without a trial period.

With AccessAlly’s order forms you also have built-in affiliate tracking, and shopping cart abandonment functionality so you can recapture lost sales with an abandoned cart email campaign. The order forms are mobile-friendly and customizable with a few clicks, plus they’re available in multiple currencies.

MemberPress doesn’t offer multiple currencies with one site, and 1-click upsells aren’t possible. And you’ll need a 3rd party affiliate plugin like EasyAffiliate to offer affiliate sales.

With AccessAlly you can allow people to switch between one-time payments and subscription plans, offer 1-click upsells and order bumps, and create one-time-use coupons or mass promo codes. Your customers can also update their credit card on file when a card expires or a payment is due through their account dashboard.

MemberPress offers add-ons to create a one-way integration with a few email marketing automation platforms or leaves it up to you to figure things out with a Zapier integration. In fact, many of these integrations — including Zapier — aren’t available on their Basic Plan.

AccessAlly was built with an integration-first approach.

In MemberPress, you can enable an integration and then pass the customer’s email address onto a list or apply a tag in your CRM… but you can’t do the finely tuned tagging automation that can trigger a campaign or unlock content in both directions.

With AccessAlly’s deep CRM integration, an action inside the membership site can update your CRM’s automation tags and when someone clicks an email or segments themselves they can see different content inside the members’ area.

This deep 2-way street integration makes for more meaningful member interactions and can increase or reduce the number of emails people get based on their engagement.

With MemberPress, you’ve got to purchase an additional Learning Management System (LMS) like LearnDash or WPCourseware if you want to run a modern online course. MemberPress’ course feature allows you to create a course framework with modules and lessons and tracks the % of completion.

AccessAlly Pro comes with its own built-in LMS so you can track member progress, offer quizzes, unlock content, and autogenerate PDF certificates of completion.

You can have members submit homework that you can review and give individual feedback on. You can also add video bookmarks for videos, and trigger advanced follow-up automations in your CRM when someone hasn’t logged in for a while or completed a module.

With AccessAlly, you’ve got the flexibility of a tag-based system, and a beautiful user-friendly front end for students to learn and stay on track.

If you want to set up a member dashboard that shows members what they have access to and how they can purchase more, with MemberPress you’re out of luck. That’s where AccessAlly’s cross-selling dashboards and gamification features come in.

AccessAlly makes it possible to create gamified credit systems, where members can earn points for completing quizzes, sharing on social media, or for being a paid member in good standing. Members can redeem points for bonus content, services, unlock additional courses or other goodies.

Plus, AccessAlly makes it easy to do all of the automation your heart desires: follow-up with members who haven’t logged in for a while, and you can even conditionally display different content on a page based on whether someone has a specific tag or not.

MemberPress doesn’t have any gamification functionality.

MemberPress allows you to create expiring coupons and set limits on redemption, but if you want to run evergreen promotions you’ll need to purchase another scarcity-style plugin.

With AccessAlly you can create any number of coupons, including ones that are uniquely generated for each person and set to expire after a set time or on a specific date. This makes it easy to create an evergreen sales funnel.

You can also display all of the affiliate stats and links that you need to offer to your affiliates, by building a beautiful affiliate dashboard right inside of your AccessAlly membership site. Affiliates are regular members, they just have an additional tag to give them access to their promotional tools. Your affiliates don’t have to be members to have access to the affiliate center you create within your AccessAlly setup.

• • You have a simple recurring membership you want to run, and don’t plan to offer any online courses
  • You don’t need deep integration with your CRM or prefer not to follow up differently with people based on their actions in your membership site
  • You’re comfortable with the “more plugins and add-ons” philosophy and maintaining them all
  • You have an existing payment system that integrates, or you’re fine with a very basic option without 1-click upsells, abandoned cart follow-up, or multiple currencies

• • You want everything to work seamlessly from one end to the other (payments, courses, and memberships) with as few plugins as possible
  • You’re looking to create an amazing customer experience, that’s functional, profitable, and helps you stand out in the marketplace
  • You know keeping your client information centralized inside your CRM will help you scale

With the AccessAlly migration wizard, you can take an existing WordPress membership site and convert existing members easily.

Similarly, you can also import members directly from your marketing automation platform, and AccessAlly’s migration wizard will ensure all of your members have the right tags and permissions.

Then you can run through the Offerings Wizard to import existing course content, and you’ll be ready to showcase your new members area.