MemberWing is very easy to use and it seamlessly integrates with many 3rd party services.

Ease of Installation and Usage

MemberWing is as easy to install as any other WordPress plugin. And it is ready out of the box. There are no special modifications required to your WordPress theme or anything.

To protect a WordPress Post or a Page, you simply go to the Editor and specify a protection tag. Any content below the protection tag is hidden. For example, if I using MemberWing on this article and put the protection tag {+} right here, you wouldn’t be able to see this content or anything that follows it. There are four different protection tags that correspond to four different membership levels, {+}, {++}, {+++}, and {++++}.

Because of the way these tags work, you cannot make visible portions of content after you specify a protection tag. In other words, you cannot pick and choose areas of a post to be visible and other areas to be premium. These tags work kind of like the <!—more—> if you’re familiar with that.

Support

MemberWing includes free technical support. However, there is no forum or community support. (Note: even though there is a forum link in the navigation bar, there is no actual support forum – just a page that says "coming soon!")

MemberWing is sufficiently documented and a step-by-step user guide for most common functions.

Money Back Guarantee

At seller’s discretion. The seller simply says "if you can convince me that I failed to describe the product well enough, I’m happy to refund your purchase within 2-weeks"

Supported Payment Processors

MemberWing is rich support for various payment processors. It fully supports PayPal and 2CheckOut. If any of these two processors are used, your members will be automatically processed and granted access to your premium content. No action on your part required. MemberWing also supports ClickBank and PayDotCom, but users are not automatically processed with these last two.

Download Protection

Using MemberWing, you can keep your premium files from being directly accessed by non-members. In other words, members will not be able to share protected download links in public forums and such.

Sequential Content Delivery

If you want to make some content available after a user has been registered for a predefined period of time, you can use MemberWing Gradual Content Plugin. The plugin is sold separately and it is not part of the standard MemberWing license. It is, however, prepackaged with MemberWing Professional license.

Partial Content Protection

I have mentioned in the Ease of Installation and Usage section that the way the tags are implemented for MemberWing make partial content protection some what restrictive. Though, for the majority of cases, this wouldn’t be a practical limitation.

For example, with MemberWing you can create content that looks like this:

This is free for everybody. {+} This sentence can only be seen by bronze subscribers and above. {++} This sentence can only be seen by silver subscribers and above. {+++} This sentence can only be seen by gold subscribers and above. {++++} And finally, this sentence can only be seen by platinum subscribers…there is no above.

Autoresponder, Email Marketing Integration

MemberWing can be integrated with AWeber, the industry leading email marketing provider. When a user subscribes to your premium blog, they will automatically be added to your AWeber’s mailing list. MemberWing doesn’t provide integration with any other email marketing provider.

Affiliate Program

MemberWing allows you to easily setup your membership site to be promoted by affiliates from ClickBank, PayDotCom, or e-junkie. If you prefer self-hosted affiliate solutions, MemberWing also allows you to seamlessly integrate your membership site with iDevAffiliate software.

Protected RSS Feeds

MemberWing doesn’t provide protection for content delivered via RSS feeds.

Available Membership Levels

There are only four hierarchal levels of memberships with MemberWing. Bronze, silver, gold and platinum. For most people this is enough. And with just these four levels, even something like a free trial model can be emulated by making the bronze membership cost $0.

Available Licenses and Prices

Free ($0)

The Free license gives you access to a limited version of MemberWing software. The free version lacks partial content protection, automated payment processing, and email marketing integration.

Webmaster ($99.95)

The Webmaster license gives you access to richly featured MemberWing software. It lacks some features that most people would consider secondary. It lacks integration with Rapid Action Profits, sequential content delivery, ability to remove backlinks to MemberWing website from protected content pages. And it limits your software installation to a single website.

Professional ($149.95)

The Professional license give you access to the fully featured MemberWing software. The only restriction is the number of websites on which you can install MemberWing. It’s limited to one.

Professional (Unlimited Installations) ($295)

This license is just like the professional license with the exception of one thing – it allows you to install MemberWing on multiple websites.

User Thoughts and Feedback

On 08-08-2009 user said:

How come Memberwing is limited to just 4 levels of membership? Why not allow users to create their own levels? I have lots of content that will not fit into Bronze, Silver, etc.

On 09-02-2009 user said:

ultimately decided upon Memberwing due to the idevaffiliate integration

On 08-14-2009 user said:

If you’re going to use paypal and have your own affiliate program then definitely memberwing

Other Notes

On the Free and Webmaster versions of MemberWing, pages with protected content include a mandatory backlink to MemberWing’s website. The Professional version doesn’t have this.