WordPress · Membership
Membership and paywall site
Calder Trade Association — 2024
Custom membership tiers, gated resources and renewals built on WordPress with a bespoke plugin.
- Result
- 3,100 paying members migrated with zero downtime
- Timeline
- 10 weeks

The challenge
A trade association ran memberships in a desktop database and emailed renewal invoices manually to more than three thousand members.
What we did
- Built tiered membership with gated documents, events and directory listings.
- Migrated historic member records and renewal dates without downtime.
- Automated renewals, dunning and member self-service.
- Gave staff a back office matching how they actually work.
The outcome
- 3,100 members migrated with no service interruption.
- Renewal collection automated end to end.
- Directory and resource access managed by members themselves.
Stack
- WordPress
- Custom plugin
- WooCommerce Subscriptions
- MySQL
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