Members Only 1.7.0 is here, and it introduces one of our most-requested features: Group Memberships. You can now sell multi-seat subscriptions to companies, schools, families, and teams — opening up a whole new revenue model for your WordPress site.
Until now, memberships were strictly one-to-one: one user per subscription. With Group Memberships, you can sell a single “Team Plan” to one buyer — who becomes a Group Admin and distributes access to their team.
Why Group Memberships?
Selling to organizations is one of the fastest ways to grow recurring revenue. Instead of converting ten individuals one at a time, you close a single plan with one decision-maker and let them onboard their own people — bigger deals, shorter sales cycles, and less support overhead for you.
Key Features
- Self-Service Admin Dashboard: The person who purchases the subscription becomes the Group Admin. They get a dedicated dashboard where they can view seat usage, rename the group, invite members by email, remove members, and revoke or resend pending invitations — all without contacting your support team.
- Secure Email Invitations: Each invitation includes a unique, single-use token and is valid for 7 days. Recipients click the link in the email, sign in or create an account right from the invitation page, and are added to the group instantly.
- Automatic Seat Management: Members Only enforces the seat limit for you. The Group Admin, active members, and pending invitations all count toward the total, so a group can never exceed the seats it paid for. The dashboard shows seats used and remaining at a glance.
- Subscription-Aware Access Control: Member access is tied to the group’s subscription status. Active, trialing, and past-due subscriptions all keep members in. If the subscription is canceled, members retain access through the end of the current billing period — no abrupt cut-offs mid-cycle. Once the period ends, access is automatically revoked across the whole group. The Group Admin can also reactivate a canceled subscription and keep the existing group intact. As an extra safeguard, Members Only won’t let you disable the Group Memberships extension while a group subscription is still active, so members are never cut off by accident.
- Built on Stripe: Group Memberships sit directly on top of your existing Stripe workflow. You designate a Stripe Price as a group plan and set the seat count — Members Only handles the rest.
How It Works
Setting up a group plan (for you, the site owner):
- Go to Settings → Members Only → Extensions and enable Group Memberships. (Group Memberships ships with the plugin but is turned off by default.)
- Add or select a Stripe Checkout block on the page where you sell the plan.
- In the block sidebar, open the Group Signup panel.
- Check Enable group signup, enter the maximum number of seats (minimum 2 — the Group Admin counts as one), and click Save to Stripe.
- Make sure the page that serves as your members area includes the Account Dashboard block — that’s where group management and invitations happen.
For your customers (the Group Admin and their team):
- A customer purchases the group plan. Members Only automatically creates a Group and makes the buyer the Group Admin.
- From the Account Dashboard, the Group Admin invites team members by email and manages seats.
- Each invitee gets a secure email link, signs in or creates an account, and accepts the invitation from their own Account Dashboard — instantly joining the group and unlocking members-only content.
That’s it! Once the plan is live, everything from purchase to onboarding runs on autopilot — no manual account creation and no back-and-forth with your support team.
Also in Members Only 1.7.0
Group Memberships is the headline, but this release brings more:
- A new Members Only dashboard. A dedicated admin page gives you an at-a-glance overview of your membership — paid vs. Access Pass member counts, a 30-day new-member trend, groups with active members, action items (like a missing webhook secret or members needing billing follow-up), a recent-activity feed, and quick links to Members, Groups, Settings, and Stripe.
- A redesigned Account dashboard. Members get clearer subscription cards showing status, price, and billing period — plus a downloadable PDF invoice for each subscription.
- Self-service payment updates. Members can update their payment method themselves through the hosted Stripe billing portal, right from their Account Dashboard.
- Stronger login security. The login endpoint now includes rate limiting to deter credential-stuffing attacks. Limits apply per IP and per account, only failed attempts count, and a successful login clears the account’s counter so legitimate users aren’t locked out.
Plus a number of smaller fixes and refinements throughout the plugin.
Group Memberships is available now in Members Only 1.7.0 — update from your WordPress dashboard to get started.
Have questions or feedback? Check out our documentation or drop us a line at support.