The Membership Submission System allows the site admin to monetize property submissions.

Choose a Submission Model

Decide from the start if you want to offer:

• Paid Submissions (users pay per listing)
• Membership Packages (users pay for a package with multiple listings)

Free Membership & Listings

• Each new account gets free membership at registration.
• Free membership includes a set number of free and featured listings, defined by the admin.
• Changes to these limits apply only to new accounts.

⚠ Important: If you modify membership settings after users have registered, old accounts will not update automatically. You will need to manually adjust existing accounts.
🔗 How to add a membership package manually

Membership Package Rules

• Users cannot have two active packages at the same time.
• Buying a new membership package replaces the previous one (listings do not add up).
• If a user downgrades to a package with fewer listings, all their listings will be set to EXPIRED. They must resubmit listings within their new limit.
• Deleting a listing does not restore it—it still counts as a used listing

How to Enable Membership Submission

Go to Theme Options -> Add Listing Page & Payment Settings -> Submission Settings -> Enable Paid Submission -> Select “Membership”

Setting Up Membership Features

Create a “My Subscription” Page

If you did not import demo content, you must create this page manually.
🔗 How to import demo content

Set Free Membership Options

From Theme Options, you can:

• Define the number of free and featured listings included.
• Set how long each free listing stays published.
• Free listing expiration is calculated as:
  Publish date + Number of days set in admin.
• Users receive email notifications when free listings expire.

Expired listings appear in My Listings under “Expired.”

Set Paid Membership Packages

A paid membership package includes:

• Package Name
• Payment cycle (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
• Listings included (regular & featured)
• Price
• Option to show/hide package in the user dashboard

Set Payment Options

WpRentals supports multiple payment methods for processing property submissions:

1. Direct Theme Payment Methods

These methods are built into the theme and allow users to pay for memberships or individual property submissions.

PayPal (Supports Recurring Payments)

• Users can pay via PayPal for one-time or recurring payments.
• Supports automatic subscription renewals.
• Users must cancel subscriptions from their PayPal account if they enable recurring but do not want automatic renewals anymore.
  🔗 PayPal Setup Guide

Stripe (Supports Recurring Payments)

• Allows users to pay using credit or debit cards.
• Supports automatic subscription renewals.
• Users can cancel Stripe subscriptions directly from their WpRentals user dashboard.
  🔗 Stripe Setup Guide

Wire Transfer (Manual Payment Processing)

• Users receive payment instructions and must manually send a bank transfer.
• The admin must manually approve the payment before activating the package.
  🔗 Wire Transfer Setup Guide

2. WooCommerce Payment Integration (Optional)

• Enable WooCommerce to use any WooCommerce-supported payment method (e.g., Stripe, PayPal, Authorize.net, local bank payments, etc.).
• WooCommerce does NOT support recurring payments for membership packages.
• Payments processed via WooCommerce are handled entirely through the WooCommerce system.

🔗 How to Install WooCommerce & Use WooCommerce Payments

How Users Buy or Manage Memberships

Users manage their membership packages from the User Dashboard -> My Subscription page. 

Buying a Package

• Users can purchase a membership package that includes a set number of listings and featured listings.
• A recurring payment checkbox is available for PayPal and Stripe payments. If enabled, the package will renew automatically upon expiration.

 

What Happens If Payment Fails?

• If a first-time payment fails (PayPal/Stripe), the user will have a Free Membership by default.
• If a recurring payment fails, the user is downgraded to Free Membership automatically.

Upgrading to a New Package

• When upgrading, the new package limits apply immediately, even if time remains on the previous package.
• Users receive the number of listings included in the new package.
• Listings do NOT accumulate across packages.

Listings and Package Upgrades

• If users already have published properties, those properties will be automatically deducted from the new package’s available listings.
• Deleted properties still count as used listings. Deleting a property does not restore an extra listing slot.

Downgrading to a Lower Package

If a user downgrades to a package with fewer listings than they currently have published:

• ALL listings are set to “EXPIRED.”
• The user must manually resubmit listings for approval, but cannot exceed the new package’s limit.

Published & Expired Listings After an Upgrade/Downgrade

• If the number of published listings is within the new package limit, they stay published.
• Expired listings remain expired and do not reactivate automatically.

Package Restrictions

🚫 Users CANNOT have multiple packages at the same time.
🚫 A new package replaces the existing package immediately.

Managing Featured Listings

• Users can mark a property as featured from My Properties.
• Featured listings are deducted from the package limit.
• Only the admin can unmark a featured property and grant a new featured slot.

Cancelling a Membership Package

One-time Payment Packages

• These automatically expire at the end of the billing period.

Recurring Subscriptions

• Stripe subscriptions can be canceled from the User Dashboard.
• PayPal subscriptions must be canceled from the user’s PayPal account.

What Happens if a Payment Fails?

• If a user does not renew their package, their account reverts to free membership.
• All listings will be marked as EXPIRED.
• The user must purchase a new package to reactivate listings.

Expired Listings

A listing will expire if:

1. The user’s membership package expires and is not renewed.
2. A recurring payment fails (e.g., insufficient funds).
3. The user downgrades to a package with fewer listings.

Users can resubmit only the number of listings allowed by their current package.