MemberPress

MemberPress

· #275 most-used

Sell memberships, protect content, and manage subscribers — all from WordPress

MarketingFinanceEcommerceAutomationPaymentsCommunityCourses & LMS

MemberPress is the all-in-one WordPress membership and LMS plugin that lets you create membership tiers, protect content, sell online courses, handle digital downloads, and manage recurring subscriptions. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create or update members and subscriptions, issue coupons, monitor transaction completions and refunds, track course completions, and act within about a minute whenever a member signs up, upgrades, cancels, or a payment event fires — without anyone logging into the WordPress dashboard.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual cycle of creating members, issuing coupons, verifying transactions, and compiling weekly subscription health reports from the WordPress admin dashboard.

Schedule

What your MemberPress agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

MemberPress × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
5Apps spanned
~14 hrsSaved / week
5Personas served
For customer success
Featured5 apps

New member onboarded across all systems within a minute of signup

Within about a minute of a signup completing, the agent fetches the member's plan, creates the HubSpot contact, fires the welcome email, alerts #new-members in Slack, and logs the event to the growth sheet — zero admin touch needed.

~6 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a Member Signup Completed webhook fires from MemberPress
Result
Create or update HubSpot contact with membership tier and join dateSend branded welcome email with portal access linkPost new member alert to #new-members channel with plan detailsAppend member row to the membership growth tracker
The win
Saved per run
12 min
Runs / week
~30×
Every new member lands in CRM, email, and Slack within about a minute of signing up
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    30 min / week
    Manual member provisioning after deal close

    After a deal closes, a rep emails the admin team to create the MemberPress member, waits for confirmation, then manually updates the CRM — adding a day or more of delay before the customer can log in.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent creates the member record within about a minute of deal close

    When a deal closes in HubSpot, the agent calls Create Member in MemberPress and updates the CRM record simultaneously — the customer receives their access within about a minute without anyone touching the WordPress dashboard.

  • Marketing
    20 min / week
    Manual coupon creation before each campaign

    Before every promotion, the marketing team logs into WordPress, navigates to MemberPress coupons, creates each code by hand, and emails the codes to the team — a 30-minute process repeated per campaign.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates and distributes coupons from the campaign calendar

    When a promotion is added to the campaign sheet, the agent creates the coupons in MemberPress, logs the codes, and posts them to Slack — the whole setup is done before the meeting ends.

  • Customer Support
    40 min / week
    Agents log into WordPress to look up member status

    When a subscriber contacts support, the agent tabs over to the WordPress admin, searches for the member, checks their subscription status, and copies details into the ticket — adding 3-5 minutes to every member inquiry.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent enriches every ticket with member data automatically

    When a ticket arrives, the agent calls Get Member and Get Subscription and appends the plan tier, join date, and recent transactions to the ticket — the support rep has full context before reading the first line.

  • Human Resources
    15 min / week
    HR manually onboards employees into membership courses

    When new hires are enrolled in training courses on the membership site, HR creates each member account by hand, assigns the correct membership tier, and sends login credentials — a 10-minute-per-hire task.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent auto-enrolls new hires on their start date

    When a new employee record is created in the HR system, the agent calls Create Member in MemberPress and Create Subscription for the training tier — the hire has access before their first morning meeting.

  • Finance
    45 min / week
    Monthly manual export and ledger entry for transactions

    Finance exports MemberPress transaction reports monthly, copies data into the revenue ledger, reconciles refunds manually, and hunts for discrepancies — a half-day task each month.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent logs every transaction to the ledger in near real-time

    Each Transaction Completed and Transaction Refunded event triggers the agent to write a ledger row to Google Sheets — the finance team's revenue view is always current, and month-end reconciliation takes minutes, not hours.

  • Operations
    45 min / week
    Manual weekly subscription health check

    Operations pulls a MemberPress export every Monday, cross-references upcoming renewals, manually identifies at-risk accounts, and builds a report for the leadership review — taking 45 minutes every week.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent delivers the subscription health report before the Monday meeting

    Every Monday at 07:30, the agent compiles the renewal pipeline, flags at-risk accounts, posts the summary to Slack, and creates follow-up tasks in HubSpot — leadership has the full picture before the first meeting of the week.

  • Legal
    10 min / week
    Manual GDPR erasure across multiple systems

    When a GDPR erasure request arrives, legal manually coordinates deletion across MemberPress, HubSpot, the email platform, and any other connected system — a multi-hour process prone to missed steps.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent executes multi-system erasure and logs compliance evidence

    The agent calls Delete Member in MemberPress and simultaneously removes the contact from connected systems, logs the deletion event to a Notion compliance trail, and sends the requester a confirmation — the full erasure with an audit record in one automated task.

+ 100s of other MemberPress automations
Average time saved
21 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
13
Hours saved / year
625
Annual ROI
$46,875

Based on MemberPress's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug MemberPress into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

Connect via a MemberPress REST API key generated in your WordPress dashboard. Takes under 2 minutes to set up and gives Actionist full access to members, subscriptions, transactions, and coupons.

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Generate your MemberPress API key

In your WordPress dashboard, go to MemberPress → Settings → Developer Tools → API Keys and click Add New. Copy the generated key — you will not be able to see it again.

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Enter your site URL and API key in Actionist

Paste your WordPress site URL (including https://) and the API key into the fields below, then click Test Connection.

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Authorize and test

Actionist runs a read-only check against your member list to confirm the connection is live. If it passes, your MemberPress actions and triggers are ready to use.

Credentials you'll need
Site URL*
Your WordPress site URL, e.g. https://yoursite.com
API Key*
MemberPress → Settings → Developer Tools → API Keys → Generate key
Actions

13 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

11 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

FAQs

Questions about MemberPress + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to MemberPress?
Go to the Apps tab in Actionist, find MemberPress, and click Connect. You will need your MemberPress REST API key, which you generate inside your WordPress dashboard under MemberPress → Settings → Developer Tools → API Keys. Paste the key and your site URL into Actionist and click Test Connection — Actionist runs a read-only check against your member list to confirm the handshake before any actions are enabled.
What permissions does the MemberPress API key need?
MemberPress REST API keys inherit the permissions of the WordPress user account they are created under. For full Actionist functionality — reading and writing members, subscriptions, transactions, and coupons — the key should be generated by a WordPress Administrator account. If you want read-only agent tasks (Get Member, Get Subscription, Get Transaction), a lesser role with read_private_posts capability is sufficient, but most teams use a dedicated admin API user for simplicity.
Can Actionist trigger workflows when a member signs up or a payment is made?
Yes. MemberPress supports webhooks for key events including Member Signup Completed, Subscription Created, Subscription Expired, Subscription Stopped, Transaction Completed, Transaction Refunded, Transaction Expired, Member Deleted, Course Completed, Lesson Completed, and Quiz Attempted. Actionist registers a webhook endpoint with MemberPress during connection setup, so these events fire to Actionist within about a minute of occurring and can trigger any downstream agent task.
How does Actionist handle MemberPress coupon creation for win-back campaigns?
The Create Coupon action lets an agent specify the coupon code, discount type (percentage or flat amount), discount value, the membership products it applies to, and an expiry date — all as parameters in the task. For win-back flows, a common pattern is to generate a unique code per cancelled member (e.g. WIN-{memberID}-{date}) so each offer is personal and usage is trackable. The coupon is live in MemberPress within about a minute of the action running.
Can Actionist manage MemberPress LMS events like course and lesson completions?
Yes. MemberPress Courses (the built-in LMS) emits webhook events for Course Completed, Lesson Completed, and Quiz Attempted. Actionist listens to all three. Common uses include sending completion certificates on Course Completed, logging lesson progress to a Google Sheet on Lesson Completed, and routing failed quiz attempts to a support drip sequence on Quiz Attempted. These triggers require that MemberPress Courses is installed and activated on your WordPress site.
Will creating or updating a member via Actionist send WordPress welcome emails?
Whether WordPress sends its standard new-user email when you call Create Member via the API depends on your MemberPress and WordPress settings — specifically the 'New User Email' option under MemberPress → Settings → Emails. If that email is enabled, MemberPress will fire it on API-created members just as it would for checkout signups. If you want Actionist's agent to control the welcome email entirely (e.g. to send a branded Gmail message instead), disable the built-in MemberPress welcome email and let the agent handle onboarding communications.
Can Actionist work with multiple MemberPress sites or multisite installations?
Each Actionist connection is tied to one WordPress site URL and one API key. For WordPress Multisite networks where MemberPress is network-activated, you need to connect each subsite individually (each has its own REST API endpoint and member database). You can set up multiple MemberPress connections in Actionist and route agent tasks to the correct connection based on the site URL — useful for staging/production environments or regional membership sites that operate independently.
How does Actionist handle GDPR member deletion requests with MemberPress?
When a verified erasure request arrives, an agent can call the Delete Member action to remove the member record from MemberPress and simultaneously call actions in connected systems (e.g. delete from HubSpot, unsubscribe from email platform, purge from Google Sheets) within the same scheduled agent task. The Member Deleted webhook then fires within about a minute, which can trigger a confirmation log in a compliance audit trail in Notion. This gives you a documented, automated, multi-system erasure pipeline rather than manual admin work across each platform.