WooCommerce Memberships: Access based on start date
It would be great to have the ability to restrict content based on membership start date. For instance, I sell weekly meal plan subscriptions. I give the content in pdf form as a file download as well as in a series of pages with recipe cards that they can access online.
How it is now, if someone signs up today, they would have online access to ALL meal plans from the past via the online versions unless I take them down the week after (or at some point after) they are originally released as the content for that week.
It would be great to set the content access date based on membership start such that you could protect a page or some part of a page to members that sign up before a certain date. So, the meal plan of this week would be accessible for any members that signed up on or before a set date. Any new members after the date set would not have access to that plan but would have access to new plans released and restricted appropriately.
This could apply nicely to any online weekly content.
Ryan
shared this idea
This feature has more complexity than originally thought. The team will look into other requests first before this one, so we’re removing the status for now.
22 comments
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Anne
commented
Please, please, please do something about this issue. And please make it a priority. I was told Woo does lots of magazine subscriptions - this must have been false information? Because magazine subscriptions require that you receive only the magazine editions that you paid for, not the whole back catalogue!
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Anonymous
commented
Any news ? It is a must-have for many of us
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ajit
commented
Really? How did you consider it less important? I work hard to prepare my contents and someone subscribe a year letter only a very nominal subscription fees can have access all the contents without paying a dime for those past contents.
We need RCP like past content restriction. Thats all. -
Anonymous
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Dear WC Team,
You are taking too much time to provide us a simple solution which should come by default in this plugin. A past content restiction which restrict the past posts before the subscription period. A hefty sum involved for buying this plugin and even after numerous request, you are not listening to your customers.
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Brent
commented
Wow...Seriously? This is to difficult for our devs to wrap their heads around...we're just going to ignore it and pretend it's not an important feature for a membership site.
Unbelievable...Please turn over control of the WooMemberships to a shop that doesn't run in the face of complexity!
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Elena
commented
Does anyone know how to do a work around for this issue?
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Sara
commented
Please is there any news on this topic? I would really like to use only woocommerce on my site, but i am using woocommerce for products and RCP for my subscriptions, because my client is an online magazine and want to limit access of previous content. RCP has been doing this for a while now.
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Anonymous
commented
Hei, it's not fair! I was anxiously waiting for this feature to be implemented. The fact it's complex implementing it it's not a good reason to abandon it. A lot of people need this feature and have been waiting for years. Please reconsider your decision.
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GUILLAUME
commented
Good idea !
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Luke Cavanagh commented
Version 1.7 does have fixed-date membership plans.
https://www.skyverge.com/blog/woocommerce-memberships-1-7/ -
Brent
commented
Any updates?
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Kaye commented
Eagerly awaiting this update as well. It is too much work come every renewal time with the current system.
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Anonymous
commented
Any news on the release date ? Q1 is finished and we're in mid of Q2. Please let us know. This is something which all "news" type of memberships requires.
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Justin
commented
This would be important for us, especially as we are launching an online digital magazine. This way we are not giving away "all" of the issues to someone that just subscribed.
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CPM
commented
I just bought the Membership + Subscriptions extensions thinking this would be a no-brainer option and am shocked that there is no way to limited content based on publication date & membership date. I guess I will have to get a refund. Not sure what to do now!
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Rooks Advertising
commented
This is the one missing feature that will prevent me from using WC Memberships and WC Subscriptions for my current project. I wish I could use them, but the client requires this functionality. So unfortunately I will have to settle for Restrict Content Pro, as that provides this required functionality by default. If you get this feature implemented before years end, I can ditch RCP and use WC Memberships and WC Subscriptions instead. Wishful thinking.
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Danny
commented
This should be at the top of the ROADMAP!!
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Lars
commented
Would also be a very crucial and important feature for us - especially in combination with WC Memberships and WC Subsriptions. Workarounds are very cumbersome and manual. So the early the better!
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Gram Davis
commented
This seems like a serious no brainer for any Membership site.
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Gray Ayer
commented
We accomplished something like this for FloraBowley.com using the WooCommerce Post Locker, and a lot of custom code, but it would be nice to just have this an option in settings.