I'd like to see Parent/Child Membership Functionality in WooCommerce Memberships
I have an online service where children are the users and parents are the "customer". I'd like parents to create one family account and have the ability to add family members to their account. I'd like them to be able to login and view each child's activity, manage payment details, etc.
JJ Kirkpatrick
shared this idea
The team at SkyVerge have launched an add-on for Memberships to cover this – check it out here: https://woocommerce.com/products/teams-woocommerce-memberships/
23 comments
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Sean Nelson
commented
Teams does not have this functionality. Instead it simply allows you to add users under a team account, but still requires a unique email for each account. That would require a parent with three children to have to have 4 accounts and log into each childs account separately when needed.
We offer classes and want to be able to have a family account where a parent can purchase a class and assign to a child. That cannot be done with teams.
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Denise Crosbie
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What if each child does not have their own unique email address? It appears this plugin needs a unique email for each sub-user on the team.
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Phil Butenko commented
I really need this functionality!!!
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Erkan Isik commented
I really need this feature. If you would add a Team & Parent/Child function, this plugin would suit my needs!
Im still searching for a plugin capable of it.
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Gary T
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100% require this.... and would be ideal for many other projects, so the sooner the better for us.
More and more of our clients are asking for Parents to control / pay for child access.
Our current project is involving schools and the teachers won't to control what the child can see.
I 've noticed that memberpress already have this function ...
https://memberpress.com/add-ons/corporate-accounts/ -
Paul
commented
I'd like this functionality as would allow corporate memberships - one payment for multiple users
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Rafael Rolando
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it would be good to have the ability to select how many "Child" users a membership can have too.
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Frank Sanborn
commented
Yes please! the sooner the better! I would happy be a tester for this!
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Jessica Dalen
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We desperately need a way for admins to be able to process orders over the phone. We recently upgraded and now they get an error when they try to access a customer's payment page to help them process the payment.
Also would be helpful if people didn;t have to login at all to pay their invoices or memberships. They just get a secure encryped link to the payment page and pay.
We have instances where an admin staff or secretary will be paying the invoice for the doctor and now they are forced to log into that person's account.
Also instances where hospitals or schools are paying for the resident's membership dues, so if they could also somehow be a temporary parent to the members account to pay their dues that would also be ideal. but eventually be able to turn it off for when those students/resident doctors graduate and then need to pay membership themselves.
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Tim Johnson
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Agreed, this is the most needed feature for us, to allow when a parent purchases multiple, to upload a csv list to create child members. If they remove a child member from the account, a SEAT is freed up and they can add another person to that seat.
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Sandra Bornn
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This is a must for my project as well and a big reason I'm holding off on implementing this solution.
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Anonymous commented
I'd really like to see this too. Where the parent can login and purchase subscriptions for each child. The parent can basically manage the records of their child including updating information/data/profile of the children
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Thomas Troxler
commented
Hello - has anyone ever received an indication on whether or not such functionality will be added, and if so when this may occur?
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Edward Kay
commented
This is a common requirement - especially in UK membership orgs. I'd caution about it becoming integrated in the to core of Woo memberships though; it soon gets very complex and there are many possible permutations.
I build sites using Woo memberships that includes provides this. The owner of a membership can add a predefined number of linked members to their membership. These linked members can log in and access the same member benefits, but can't manage the membership plan / subscription - only the owner can do that.
This is not all done in Woo memberships though. It's via an integration with Sheep (http://getsheep.co.uk) which does the heavy lifting.
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Anna
commented
Yes, very crucial and an argument not to go with a full LMS solution.
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David
commented
Super killer need. For non-tangible membership businesses like, say, an athletic club, having this would be Super good because parents always pay for their children's iron pumping. Same for an athletic team that uses a facility. The admin of the team takes care of the tab while the athlete's themselves can access the services and have that access logged in the account to be paid later by the admin guy, ok? Super. Total super. Please do this, okay?
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Anonymous
commented
Hopefully this Feature will Come soon like in rcp!!!
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Matt Eden
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We sell mainly to resellers and retailers who often have multiple buyers so this is an essential feature for us.
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Ben Knowles commented
I'd really like to see this feature - it's like when you sign up for an organisation account on Github.
In the UK a lot of membership bodies call this 'Organisational Membership' where an organisation pays for an account and then can assign its employees as members.
MemberPress have indeed released its Corporate Accounts feature that Stéphane mentioned. I'd really like to see something equivalent in WooCommerce Memberships. https://www.memberpress.com/user-manual/memberpress-corporate-accounts/
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Anonymous
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We have two client sites, both are using subscriptions, one w/ groups and the newer one w/ membership. Both are instructional video library systems and both are asking for parent/child type of functions. Where a subscribing business can offer individual 'seats' to employees and/or subscribing educators can offer 'seats' to their students.