Membership Web Site Software - aMember Pro
Ever since I read Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Marketing, I plan to use membership site software for all of my sites to integrate my subscription services, product download and affiliate management. However there are so many choices for membership site software and I really want the powerful and full-featured membership and subscription software for my website, so I began testing them.
I was recommended to use aMember Pro so I tested it.
Simple Installation and Free Installation
You can either did the installation yourself or you can opt for free installation. Yes, aMember offers free installation in 24 hours.
I did the installation myself and it was pretty straight forward:
- I just needed to upload it to my web hosting and it self extracted automatically.
- Then I just needed to follow its step-by-step guide,
- Created table using cPanel,
- Setup cron,
- Done!
Integrated with Many Payment Systems
I like this feature because having only PayPal as my payment system is very risky. Once my PayPal account was put under review so I couldn’t receive payment nor transferred my money there. It was frustrated to solve it with PayPal.
These are among the aMember supported payment systems: PayPal, WorldPay, ClickBank, 2Checkout, 1ShoppingCart, and many more.
Several of them also support recurring payment, which is great for membership subscription and recurring income! 
Membership Protection
Here’s another feature that I like. aMember Pro has built-in password sharing prevention. It logs the IP used to login to aMember. If there are more than 5 different IPs login within 24 hours, the suspected member account is automatically suspended. Off course this setting can be changed according to my preference.
Integrated with Autoresponder System
It’s just too bad that aMember Pro doesn’t support integration with GetResponse.biz that I’ve been using. It works with Aweber, Autoresponder Pro, HiveMail, and some others though.
Forum Integration
I also like this feature. I plan to use it sometimes. Having forum can make my members more loyal and reduce my support desk’s load because they can interact some others and support themselves
vBulletin, phpBB and SMF are among the supported forums.
WordPress and Joomla Integration
I haven’t tested this feature so I can’t really tell how it works.
Image Gallery Integration
aMember Pro supports Coppermine, 4Images, and PhotoPost so that you can show off your photos! It’s just too bad Gallery is not supported.
Affiliate Management
aMember Pro has built-in 1-tier affiliate program with recurring commissions support. I can upload banners and other promotional items for my affiliate.
Unfortunately it uses flat commission rate for all of affiliates so I can’t set special commission rate for JV partners and super affiliates.
Overall aMember Pro is a powerful and full-featured membership and subscription software. It’s great if I’m not picky with its limited affiliate management and I use GetResponse with it.
Comment by David Deangelo on 7 March 2008:
I’m looking for forum software that integrates with wordpress. Do you know of anything? I’d prefer something nice and sleek, written in Ajax or something.
Comment by Aldian on 7 March 2008:
Do you mean that you can use the same login information to login to both WordPress and the forum?
I’m not aware of it yet.
However once I used SMF forum (it’s open source and free) and changed its theme to match my WordPress theme.
It can be a simple and cheap alternative
Comment by Nick Bowen on 12 March 2008:
I know aMember Pro is the best membership site script currently on the market.. But I planned to use RegNow’s service, what do you think of that?
Comment by Aldian on 12 March 2008:
Each has advantage and disadvantage.
With aMember, you only need buy and pay aMember once, and you have full control of your membership and affiliate management.
With RegNow, you have to pay a fee to RegNow for each sale, don’t you? But on the other hand, RegNow is an online digital market where many affiliates look for products to promote there. So it may be easier to get affiliates there.
Comment by Nick Bowen on 12 March 2008:
Hi Aldian,
RegNow charges about $20 as a one-time activation fee, and 6.9% + $1 for each transaction. Which is acceptable for me. But do they provide membership functions as well?
Thank you
Comment by Matt on 19 March 2008:
I don’t know if this software is quite worth it. You may be better off getting a more custom solution built and then porting it to your other sites if you plan to use something network-wide. Saves money in the long run, and it’s proprietary.
Comment by Aldian on 19 March 2008:
@Nick:
The RegNow fee is a bit on upper side, isn’t it? I haven’t used RegNow so I can’t comment on its membership function.
@Matt:
I considered to hire a coder to build my own membership site. But the quotes that I got was much more expensive than ready-to-use membership script.
Furthermore, I’m concern with technical support… If I hire a coder, will I get technical support and upgrade after the script’s done?
Also, can I get guarantee that script’s source of code will be mine only and not sold to someone else?
Comment by Hans on 22 March 2008:
I think that is a quite interesting software, its installation can be very useful.
Comment by Aldian on 22 March 2008:
@Hans:
Yes it’s pretty easy to install and very useful.
However it doesn’t really suit my needs so I have yet to try other membership scripts such LFM, JVM, BFM, Easy Member Pro, etc.
I’m currently testing LFM (Launch Formula Marketing). So far I like it but its tech support is rather lagging in responding to my queries.
Let’s see how it goes.
Comment by Maik on 27 March 2008:
I work with aMember Pro since a few weeks. And i can say with the software is very good to work. It is the best program that i have testet!
Comment by Andrew Reynolds on 27 March 2008:
Well, there are lots of those programs that are available today. Whether it’s expensive or not, easy to use or not, each has it’s own advantages and disadvantages as what Aldian said. What’s important is that you have to choose one that you think may work well for you and sometimes it’s also worth to try different programs for you to compare.
Comment by Benjamin on 27 March 2008:
Yes , this soft has a lot of necessary possibilities.
Comment by Aldian on 28 March 2008:
@ Andrew:
Well said
We have to choose one that works for best for our own needs.
Comment by Gardening on 30 March 2008:
I’ve been using this software on one of my sites for a couple of years and it has worked very well for me. It has handled a couple of thousand members quite easily
Comment by Jacques23 on 4 April 2008:
I think the forum part is the best idea, it really is a big part of making sure people continue to come back to a site and help draw in more traffic.
Comment by nancy on 4 April 2008:
I’ve been reading a lot about this software, but this explains everything a lot better without all the fluff.
Think I’ll give it a try.
Comment by Kyrie Bridgewater on 8 April 2008:
Hi Aldian,
Thanks for the review of this software. I’ve been kind of curious about it and was waiting for someone to give some more detailed info on it.
Now I can make a much more informed decision!
Thanks again for the detailed review.
Kyrie Bridgewater
Comment by Karl on 8 April 2008:
i have testet aMember Pro and i must admit that this software is very useful. it is easy to work with.
Comment by Aldian on 10 April 2008:
You’re welcome Kyrie.
I’ve also been using Launch Formula Marketing and I’ll write its review soon since I like it better than aMember (for my specific needs).
Comment by Diana Jones on 20 June 2008:
Does anyone know what has happened to the aMember Pro website. I’ve not been able to get to them for the last couple weeks. I just purchased the software for a new membership site and I can’t even get into the manual for needed information. My club is getting ready to open and I’m quite concerned about this. Does anyone know what might have happened to them. I’m concerned about receiving my life-time membership and is my software going to work at all?
Comment by Czar on 2 August 2008:
Sounds like aMember Pro’s a great software for me. I think I’ll give it a try. Let’s see.
BTW, what are it’s special features??
Comment by Ian Roberts on 26 November 2008:
WEbber is better. I tested both and it’s a big difference
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