WC Membership Product
01 The Challenge
The goal was to enable e-commerce stores to sell membership access with time-limited content restriction, without relying on heavy third-party SaaS plugins. This required deep integration into WooCommerce's product architecture, checkout flow, and order lifecycle while maintaining clean data storage patterns.
02 The Solution
Engineered a complete custom product type extending WooCommerce's WC_Product class with duration-based access control and automatic expiration handling. The solution utilises conditional checkout fields, a content restriction system via shortcode and meta box, and a full admin management interface — providing total control over the membership lifecycle.
03 Impact & Results
Enables content creators and e-commerce stores to gate premium content behind membership purchases, creating recurring revenue opportunities. The full membership lifecycle — from automatic granting on purchase to automatic expiration via cron — runs without manual intervention, while admins retain full override control to manually revoke, extend, or reactivate memberships when needed. Cron-based expiration sends notification emails automatically.
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Membership restricted content lock.
Duration and tier for the membership.
Admin List table.