Hello everyone,
I am in the process of building a site which is subscriber based: users purchase a membership which gives them access to certain pages.
I have the subscriptions setup in Stripe, and have the buttons for each subscription. When clicked, it takes the user to the Stripe payment form and collects the payment.
However, it seems that the only way to keep track of who’s a member and who’s not, while still restricting page access to those prior two conditions, is through the standard wordpress payments feature.
The thing about this feature (and apparently all plugins with this capability) is that it just looks incredibly outdated and very sketchy. The stripe checkout page is modern, sleek, and trustworthy. The page offered by WordPress and plug-ins involve entering plain text into a simple text box which seems unsophisticated and again, sketchy.
So, I would like to collect payment with my stripe buttons, but also restrict access to those who aren’t paid subscribers. Is there a way to do this without a plug-in?
Here is my optimal, desired outcome: [https://polygon.io/pricing])
Thank you everyone!
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You can’t tell if a user has bought or not unless you write the code needed to get that information from Stripe after the transaction is completed and save that info somewhere on your site. That is what a plugin would do. So yes, you can do that without a plugin, but you need to write your code for that purpose. Without code or a plugin, no, you cannot do that…
Really, you probably don’t want to mange this on your own. The time and effort spent correlating ‘known good’ users will be maddening.
Use a subscription plugin. Pay a minimal fee for it. Spend your time generating content that people will want to pay for.
“without a plugin” – so I’m assuming you’re using the free plan on [Wordpress.com](https://Wordpress.com)?
Get some proper WP hosting else – [wp.com]) is expensive and restrictive. You’re going to need plugins to do what you’re wanting to do.