How can I set up Fan Based Pricing (membership or subscription)?

I am developing a t-shirt e-commerce site. I want to be able to have retail pricing and sale prices. I think this is handled in the marketpress plugin?

But I want to do what they do in other sites and create a Fan Club with special discounts to those who subscribe. Something like the Dallas Cowboys site, where they can have regular prices as well as fan based prices showing.

The fan pricing, in the Dallas Cowboys case, is membership based with a sign-up and fee. We won’t be charging a sign-up fee (in the beginning) but would obviously need to be able to know if they were considered a fan. So need to capture that info through some form of subscription or membership.

So what would be the best plugins to use for this approach?

Thanks,

JOhn…

  • DavidM
    • DEV MAN’s Mascot

    Hi John,

    You can definitely use MarketPress to provide any e-commerce needs in this case. Sales prices can be done by creating coupon codes that shoppers can enter when purchasing.

    Potentially you could use the Membership plugin to make those coupon codes available to members on your sites, along with providing restrictions to areas of your site.

    However, to provide more extensive integration between the two, such as automatic discounts on MarketPress products for members, it would take a bit of custom work. We could take a look at that as a feature request if you’d like though, as it sounds like a good idea.

    -David

  • Tyler Postle
    • Recruit

    Hey Truegold!

    Just in-case you haven’t already heard, I’m going over some past related posts to let you know we’ve released a brand new powerful, super easy to use membership plugin.

    Offering a different approach and logic when compared to our already existing feature packed Membership plugin.

    Check out the full details here: https://wpmudev.com/project/protected-content/

    Protecting content has never been easier :slight_smile:

    If you have any questions we are more than happy to help! https://wpmudev.com/forums/#question

    Have a great rest of your day.

    Cheers,

    Tyler