In DAP, there are 3 ways in which you can sign up members or subscribers.
1. Free members: They sign up for free via a signup form that asks for (say) their name and email – you can customize the signup form to ask for more data.
2. Paid members: These users buy a one-time product or sign up for a subscription or membership level.
You can create all types of products (free, one-off, payment plans, subscriptions etc) in DAP but if you want to give your users the option to pay using Credit Card or PayPal, you’ll need a shopping cart plugin/platform to do this. We recommend our own shopping cart plugin called SmartPayCart.com (SPC). SPC is one of the world’s most powerful and customizable shopping cart plugins for WordPress and integrates seamlessly with DAP. It also automatically logs in members to their members area upon a successful purchase. It also integrates with all leading email platforms.
DAP also integrates with other external shopping cart platforms such as WooCommerce, SamCart, ThriveCart, PayKickStart, Clickbank, JVZoo etc.
3. Admin-added members: You can import members from other platforms, other lists, past customers, etc., and give them free or paid access to your content or membership levels, via the DAP admin backend.
User Flow
DAP does not require your visitors to “pre-register” before buying products or becoming a member. So when it comes to purchasing a product or signing up for a subscription in DAP, the flow is like this:
- Visitor arrives at your web site.
- They click on a buy button on your sales page to become a member (or buy a one-time product)
- They’re taken to…
1) Your Shopping Cart Checkout Page (eg., SmartPayCart.com) where they can pay using Credit Card or PayPal, or…
2) Checkout page powered by an external Shopping Cart Platform that integrates with DAP. - When they complete checkout and finish paying for the product, at that very instant, DAP (on your site) gets the buyer’s information from the payment processor or your shopping cart. And THAT is actually when the member account is first created.
- DAP uses the buyer’s purchase email Id and generates a random password to create user account. You can configure DAP to send out a welcome email with the user’s login credentials. You can configure this email in the DAP products page >> notifications tab. Continue reading for more details on this.
- If you use a shopping cart plugin like SmartPayCart.com (SPC), after they complete checkout and finish paying, they are automatically logged in to the member’s area on your site, and they can start consuming your members-only content that you have made available to “buyers of this product” (a.k.a “members of this level”). If this is not a “membership” product, then you could also send them to any static “Thank You” page. You can control where the users land after they complete a purchase.
