Wix Membership Sites: What are They and is it Worth Creating One?

Once you include the above features on your Wix website, you can restrict access to exclusive content and services to paid plan holders or select members.

You’ll also be able to manage your paid membership site with ease and according to your business goals.

Now, let’s head over to the pros and cons section to see where Wix’s strengths and weaknesses lie.

Wix membership sites have many advantages for your business, but they also have certain setbacks.

Let’s look at some of their pros and cons:

In the next section, we’ll discuss all you need to know about building your Wix membership site and how to keep it up and running.

Wix provides you with the Wix Pricing Plans app to create different levels of paid membership for users.

Using this app, you can sell membership plans and membership subscriptions.

For example, once you create a Wix blog, you can monetize it by selling subscriptions for your blog posts to site visitors.

Unfortunately, Wix doesn’t offer subscriptions for physical products.

Below are features that come with the Pricing Plans app:

Once you land on the Wix app market, select the Wix Pricing Plans app and click “Add to site.”

To start, name your plan, create a tagline, and list your benefits or offers.

For example, if you’re an online coach, you could offer benefits like 1-on-1 coaching sessions, 2 strategy sessions per month, and more.

You can offer content and services you created on your Wix site as part of your pricing plan benefits to reward repeat clients or create a community around your brand.

For example, you can connect an online program, like a 30-day fitness challenge for Wix users with your membership plans.

You have 3 options to set your charges: One-time payments, recurring payments, or free plan.

Once set, choose the duration of your plan — recurring payments can be weekly, monthly, or yearly.

For example, for a recurring payment, you can provide monthly access for 6 months, or a one-time payment that provides access for 3 months before renewal.

A free plan can act as an incentive to attract potential paid Wix users and Wix understands this.

You can offer a Free plan to new site members for a certain time period, then restrict access to encourage them to buy a paid plan.

With these tips in mind, let’s look at how to connect Wix content to your membership plans.

As mentioned earlier, the Wix platform allows you to integrate your membership plans with content and services from your Wix blog or site.

There are 2 ways to connect content and services to your pricing plans:

One significant downside to Wix content and services is that you can’t connect your online course to your membership plans.

However, Wix lets you create courses using Wix Bookings where site visitors can book and pay for this service.

With Wix’s editor, you’re also able to:

To encourage customers to purchase paid plans, create members-only pages on your site.

To do this, you must first add a member’s area to your site from Wix’s app market.

Next, using Wix’s editor, you can restrict page access to paying customers or selected members (member roles) to make it a membership page.

Alternatively, create a paywall by connecting your paid plans to members-only pages.

Here is a step-by-step process for restricting page access:

Wix also allows you to:

Although Wix’s Members Area has many benefits, it has a rating of only 2.6 out of 5 on the Wix app market.

The main concern with site owners is that they kept receiving a lot of spam member requests or email addresses.

On your Wix site, you’re able to create member roles and assign them to specific members.

For example, if you have a teaching site, you can create student and teacher roles and assign these roles to members on your site.

Once you've assigned your roles, you can give access to certain pages to any site member or limit access to some pages for specific members.

Each plan includes the following features:

It’s important to note that Wix offers a 14-day money-back guarantee for each premium plan.

Also, for paid plans, Wix support comes in the form of 24/7 customer care.

There are some great alternatives to Wix websites that you can use to create your membership site.

To start, let’s look at what systeme.io has to offer compared to Wix.

Since our system is fully integrated, you won’t require third-party integration to host members on your site.

Like Wix, you can market and sell your products online with systeme.io and have access to detailed analytics regarding the same.

We also allow you to sell membership subscriptions using our Free plan whereas with Wix, you’d have to upgrade to a Business Unlimited plan ($25/month).

Another advantage is that systeme.io lets you customize your checkout page, which isn’t possible with Wix.

Aside from letting customers create membership sites, systeme.io boasts other key features for businesses:

Some benefits of systeme.io’s Free plan that a free Wix plan lacks, are:

Systeme.io offers more with their Free plan compared to Wix since you can create an online business and start selling your offers straight away.

Interestingly, with WildApricot, you’re able to access the same features regardless of which paid plan you choose.

In contrast, systeme.io and Wix’s pricing models offer access to more features as you scale your business.

WildApricot’s features for each paid plan include:

Like systeme.io, no credit card is required to start with WildApricot.

That said, they’re very expensive compared to both systeme.io and Wix.

For example, WildApricot’s cheapest plan costs $48/month whereas, with systeme.io, you can start for free and upgrade at any time.

Having a Wix membership site comes with many benefits such as making you a recurring income, building a community and scaling your business.

Although there are certain limitations, like having to upgrade to a premium plan to sell paid memberships and basic customization options for your membership website.

If you’re willing to overlook these setbacks, Wix may be a good choice for your business.

However, we recommend looking at syteme.io.

Even with a Free plan, you'll get access to nearly all of our features and advanced customization options.

Want to see what we can do for your membership sites? Sign up today!