Fennec Members vs MemberPress
MemberPress is an all-in-one membership platform with courses, coupons and several payment gateways. Fennec Members is a free plugin that does memberships and content restriction on your own Stripe account, with no fee on member payments in any edition.
MemberPress facts checked on against MemberPress's own pages. Prices change; follow the sources for current figures.
Fennec Members and MemberPress, side by side
Numbers in brackets link to the MemberPress page each fact came from. “Not listed” means we couldn't find it on MemberPress's own site, not that it can't be done.
| Checked October 6, 2026 | Fennec Members | MemberPress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free plugin. Members Pro (optional) $79/yr for 1 site or $149/yr for 5 sites | No free version. Launch $399/yr, Growth $699/yr, Scale $999/yr; first year is half price, renewals at full price[1][3] |
| Fee on member payments | 0% in every edition (Stripe’s own fees only) | 4.9% per payment on Launch; none on Growth and Scale (processor fees still apply)[2][1] |
| Payment gateways | Stripe | Stripe, PayPal, Square, Authorize.net, offline (varies by plan)[1] |
| Content dripping | Not yet (planned for Members Pro) | Yes[1] |
| Coupons | Members Pro | Yes[1] |
| Courses | Fennec Learn (early access, not downloadable yet) | Yes (courses and lessons)[1] |
| Money-back guarantee | 14 days on Pro | 14 days[3] |
Fennec Members facts come from the plugin's readme and code; Pro prices are on the pricing page.
Where Fennec Members differs
- No transaction fee, ever. On a $10/month membership with 500 members, a 4.9% fee works out to $2,940 a year (500 Ă— $10 Ă— 12 Ă— 4.9%); with Fennec Members that fee is $0.
- Levels, restriction, Stripe subscriptions, trials, upgrades with proration and failed-payment emails are all in the free plugin.
- Restricted content is also hidden from the REST API, RSS feeds, search and comments.
- Member data lives in your WordPress database; Stripe only sees what it needs to take payments.
What Fennec Members doesn't do (yet)
- Stripe is the only gateway for now (PayPal is planned).
- No content dripping or protected downloads yet; both are planned for Members Pro.
- Courses come from Fennec Learn, which is still in early access.
- Fennec Members is new (first stable release in October 2026) and isn’t on WordPress.org yet.
Moving from MemberPress
- Install Fennec Members on the same site and connect the same Stripe account MemberPress uses.
- Go to Fennec Members → Import (or run wp fennec-members import) and choose MemberPress.
- Read the dry-run report first: levels, members, Stripe subscriptions to link and content rules, plus anything with no Fennec equivalent. Nothing is written yet.
- Run the import. Levels, current members and content rules come across, and existing Stripe subscriptions and customers are linked, so members keep being billed without signing up again.
- Check a few members and restricted pages, then deactivate MemberPress when you’re happy. Re-running the import never duplicates anything.
Limits to know about
- Subscriptions billed by a gateway other than Stripe (PayPal, for example) are imported as manual memberships that end at the paid-through date; those members re-subscribe through Stripe.
- Expired memberships are skipped, and imports send no welcome emails.
Requires WordPress 6.9+ and PHP 8.1+. Fennec Members docs
Sources
Checked October 6, 2026; prices change. MemberPress is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare.
- MemberPress pricing (https://memberpress.com/pricing/)
- MemberPress FAQ: transaction fees (https://memberpress.com/faq/how-to-memberpress-transaction-fees-work/)
- MemberPress docs: can I try it for free? (https://memberpress.com/docs/can-i-try-the-plugin-for-free/)
- memberpress.com (https://memberpress.com/)
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