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Sync user roles with memberships and subscriptions. Grant access on purchase, revoke on expiry, and restrict your store by role.
The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce plugin automates the assignment of user roles based on product purchases in WooCommerce. It allows you to grant access upon purchase, revoke access upon expiry, and restrict store access by user role. The plugin also integrates with MemberPress, syncing membership states with WordPress roles continuously.
This plugin is suitable for those running membership sites or subscription-based models who want to manage user roles efficiently. The free version syncs one membership level, making it a basic tool for role management in WooCommerce stores.
Best for: This plugin is best for WooCommerce store owners managing memberships or subscriptions.
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The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce plugin offers a straightforward solution for automating user role management. While the free version has limitations, it can be useful for basic role assignments.
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Sync user roles with memberships and subscriptions. Grant access on purchase, revoke on expiry, and restrict your store by role.
The Membership & User Roles for WooCommerce plugin automates the assignment of user roles based on product purchases. This powerful tool streamlines store management by ensuring users are automatically assigned the appropriate roles, enhancing membership sites, subscription-based models, and more.
It also bridges MemberPress to WordPress roles: a membership’s state drives the role, continuously, so access granted in MemberPress is reflected wherever your site checks roles.
Automatically assign roles to users upon product purchase.
Integrates seamlessly with WooCommerce.
Syncs MemberPress membership state to WordPress roles, continuously — the direction other integrations don’t cover. The free version syncs one membership level.
Premium: Supports the definition of different roles for variations in variable products.
Premium: Allows defining, per product, a role validity period in days after the purchase, so the role granted in the purchase will be automatically removed after that period.
Premium: Supports role management tied to subscription products, supporting WooCommerce Subscriptions, YITH WooCommerce Subscription and WP Swings Subscriptions for WooCommerce.
Premium: Allows defining multiple roles per product.
Premium: Unlimited MemberPress levels, several roles per membership, and mapping of every membership state (pending, active, suspended, cancelled, expired).
Premium: Restricts your store by role — hides products and categories from the catalog and search, denies direct URL access, blocks add-to-cart, and sets per-role prices, payment gateways and shipping methods.
Premium: Retroactive sync — a batched admin tool that aligns the roles of members who already existed before the mapping was configured. Safe to re-run.
Edit a product from your catalog.
Choose the role (or several roles PREMIUM) to assign when the product is purchased.
Premium: Define a role validity period in days after the purchase.
In WooCommerce > Settings > Role Changer you can configure advanced settings to fine-tune role assignments, such as defining if the new role must be added to the user, or if the new role should just replace the previous one.
Save changes.
The premium version allows defining a role validity period in days after the purchase. The role granted in the purchase will be automatically removed after that period.
The premium version supports advanced functionality for subscription products, supporting WooCommerce Subscriptions, YITH WooCommerce Subscription and WP Swings Subscriptions for WooCommerce, assigning roles based on subscription status:
Active: Assigns a role when a subscription is activated.
Suspended: Updates the user role if a subscription is suspended, or is waiting for renewal.
Cancelled: Removes or changes roles when a subscription ends.
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