🆚 MemberPress vs. Stripe

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MemberPress

Stripe

Type

Membership management software solution

Payment service

About

MemberPress is a commercial WordPress plugin for paywalls, memberships, subscriptions, and learning management that lets site owners control access and monetize content on their WordPress sites.

It supports unlimited membership levels with fine-grained content restriction rules, automated recurring billing through Stripe, PayPal and other gateways, built-in LMS course creation with scheduling, coupon codes and promotions, member self-service portals, and community forums and directories.

Stripe is a payments processing platform that helps businesses accept online, mobile, and in-store payments with a single integration.

It supports over 135 currencies, enables direct bank debits and real-time payments, manages subscriptions with smart retry logic, includes machine learning–based fraud detection, and offers the Stripe Connect solution for marketplaces and platforms to route payouts in more than 45 countries.

Headquarters

Cedar City, Utah, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

memberpress.com #482,292

stripe.com #1,004

Pricing

Free version ❌

Launch
(Essential LMS Features, Stripe)$199.50/year

Growth
(Community Forums, Advanced LMS, PayPal, Square)$349.50/year

Scale
(API, Zapier, Authorize.net)$499.50/year

Payment processing, US accounts, per transactionDomestic cards2.9% + 30¢
Manually entered cards3.4% + 30¢
International cards4.4% + 30¢
Currency conversion1%

Payment processing, EU accounts, per transactionStandard EU cards1.5% + €0.25
Premium EU cards1.5% + €0.25
UK cards2.5% + €0.25
International cards3.25% + €0.25
Currency conversion2%

Post-payment invoices0.4% on transaction total, max $2

Identity$1.50/verification

Tax Basic0.5%/transaction

Tax Complete$1,080+/year

Custom domain$10/month