Magic Members Make Wordpress AlertPay Integration Simple

Posted on 12. Nov, 2010 by Steve in Payment Processors

If you have been searching for a way to integrate AlertPay into your WordPress membership site, then you may have noticed a lack of plugins that makes this process easy to do. There are several problems that you could end up facing and short of hiring a freelancer to integrate AlertPay for you, there doesn’t seem like there is much that you can do. Fortunately, there are several WordPress plugins that are specifically designed to not only integrate AlertPay but also manage your membership website successfully.

One of the biggest problems that you may have noticed is that most plugins that deal with WordPress AlertPay integration target donations. Obviously if you are running a paid membership site, then you simply cannot rely solely on donations because it doesn’t fit into your business model. The few plugins that are designed for billing, most are tailored to freelancers or businesses that require a function that allows them to create and send web invoices. While some of these do allow for recurring billing, you don’t want to be required to manually create a recurring billing cycle for each member. You need to use a plugin that can take care of all of these things manually, otherwise you will spend all of your time setting up billing cycles and no time promoting your membership site.

The reason that there does not seem to be a large amount of WordPress plugins that are comprehensive in how they integrate with AlertPay is because of the number of API’s that need to be integrated. There are actually 5 different API’s that need to be dealt with: Send Money API, MassPay API, Refund API, Subscription Cancellation API, and GetBalance API. Developers must also deal with issues like Encrypted Payments, Multi-Item Buttons, Checkout Form Pre-Filling, and even Instant Payment Notification.

The reason that so many issues exist is because AlertPay offers a wide variety of features and functions for both buyers and sellers. This includes multiple account types, multi-currency management, mass pay, and much more.

As a WordPress membership site owner, what functions are the most important to successfully integrated?

1. Encrypted Payments – If you are going to be accepting payments online, then it is vital that you offer secure encrypted payments, otherwise no one will provide their credit card information for you.

2. Multi-Currency – There are very few membership site topics that will only be of interest to people living in a single country. Even if you are targeting an audience within a specific country, it can only be a benefit to accept multiple currencies.

3. Subscription Cancellation API – If you do not make it easy for your members to unsubscribe then there are two possible outcomes. First, it would mean that you would have to manually unsubscribe everyone yourself, which takes a lot of time and effort, and your customers will be unhappy, which leads to poor online reviews. Second, you can create a customer service department, which costs money and you are still reliant on them to do everything correctly and leave your customers satisfied.

There are a variety of other useful AlertPay services that you will probably need as well. The key is choosing a plugin that not only successfully handles the WordPress AlertPay integration but can also manage your membership area. This will make the entire management process much simpler and less time consuming. Magic Members has proven to be a great plugin that allows you to integrate with multiple payment processors as well as create and manage an exceptional membership website.