Best MemberSpace Alternatives (2026): 7 Options for Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and WordPress

The best MemberSpace alternatives depend on the site builder you use. On Squarespace or Wix, check the built-in membership tools first. On Webflow, Memberstack and Outseta are the usual picks. If you want a site you fully own, WordPress with a membership plugin such as Ultimate Membership Pro is the self-hosted route. MemberSpace itself charges a plan fee plus 1% to 5% of member payments, as of October 2026.

Ultimate Membership Pro is made by WPIndeed, the publisher of this blog.

MemberSpace alternatives take over the job MemberSpace does on your site: sign-ups, recurring billing and locked pages. They fall into three groups: membership features built into your site builder, add-on membership tools that work across builders, and platforms or WordPress plugins that replace the site itself.

• MemberSpace charges a plan fee plus a share of every member payment, from 5% on Starter down to 1% on Custom (full pricing below), and Stripe’s fees come on top.
• Webflow retired its User Accounts feature on January 29, 2026 and points users to Memberstack and Outseta.
• Moving from Squarespace or Wix to WordPress is a site migration. On WordPress already, it is only a plugin change.
• Canceling MemberSpace does not cancel your members’ Stripe subscriptions, so plan the billing switch before you leave.

Why do people look for MemberSpace alternatives?

Most people look for MemberSpace alternatives because of the percentage fee on every payment, the limits of the cheaper plan, or a wish to own the whole site. MemberSpace’s main strength is reach: it works with almost any site builder.

• The transaction fee. MemberSpace’s percentage applies to every member payment, so as revenue grows it becomes a bigger cost than the plan itself.
• Plan limits. Starter includes 5 spaces and one website. Unlimited spaces and up to three website connections need Growth.
• How content is protected. MemberSpace’s help center calls locking regular pages on your website the “less secure” option. For files, videos, courses and discussions, it recommends building them inside MemberSpace’s own Spaces.
• A builder that already does it. Squarespace and Wix now sell memberships natively, so the closest MemberSpace alternative may already be in your site builder.

How much does MemberSpace cost?

As of October 2026, MemberSpace pricing starts at $24/month billed yearly on Starter, with a 5% fee on member payments. Growth costs $99/month billed yearly with a 2% fee. A Custom plan with a 1% fee is priced on a call.

Every plan allows unlimited paid and free members. Starter has a 7-day free trial, and Growth can also be billed monthly.

Payments run through your own Stripe account, so Stripe’s processing fee comes on top: 2.9% + 30¢ per successful domestic card payment in the United States.

MemberSpace alternatives at a glance

Read the Works with column first: an option only helps if it runs on your builder. MemberSpace is the first row, then seven MemberSpace alternatives, with fees from each vendor’s site as of October 2026 and card processing extra.

Option	Works with	Pricing model	Platform fee on member payments	Best for
MemberSpace (baseline)	Squarespace, Wix, Showit, Webflow, WordPress, Duda, Notion and others	From $24/month billed yearly	5% Starter, 2% Growth, 1% Custom	Adding memberships to almost any site builder
Ultimate Membership Pro	WordPress	Sold as annual plans (Pro, Full Package, Agency) plus your own hosting	Your payment processor’s fees	A membership site you own on WordPress
Squarespace built-in memberships	Squarespace	Included in Squarespace plans, from $19/month billed yearly	7% Basic, 5% Core, 1% Plus, 0% Advanced	Simple members-only content on Squarespace
Wix Pricing Plans	Wix	Included with a Wix plan that accepts payments	Tiered by Wix plan; no single published rate	Wix sites that also sell bookings or events
Memberstack	Webflow, WordPress	From $25/month billed yearly, by member count	4% Basic, 2% Professional, 0.9% Business, 0% Established	Webflow sites
Outseta	Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Squarespace, Carrd	From $37/month billed yearly, by contact count	2% Start, 1% Scale and Pro, 0% Max	Billing, login, CRM, email and help desk in one tool
Memberful	WordPress and other sites	$49/month on Standard	4.9%	Hosted billing and member accounts on an existing site
Podia	Replaces your site builder	From $42/month billed yearly	5% Mover, none on Shaker and Earthquaker	Courses, community and memberships in one hosted tool

What are the best MemberSpace alternatives?

The top MemberSpace alternative depends on where your site lives. Squarespace and Wix users should start with their builder’s own memberships, Webflow users with Memberstack or Outseta, and creators who want one hosted tool for courses and community with Podia. Ultimate Membership Pro suits anyone who wants a WordPress site they own.

1. Ultimate Membership Pro on WordPress

Ultimate Membership Pro is a WordPress membership plugin by WPIndeed and the self-hosted MemberSpace alternative in this list. It runs on your own site, so members and content stay in your WordPress database and payments go to your own gateway accounts.

You can lock pages, posts, whole categories, files, URLs, menu links or only part of a post with content restriction rules. Memberships can be recurring, one-time, installment or pay what you want, with trials, coupons and prorated upgrades through the subscription billing features. Every plan includes 10 payment gateways, among them Stripe, PayPal, Braintree, Mollie and Authorize.Net.

Members manage their subscriptions from a member account page: they renew, cancel and print invoices, and with Stripe Connect they can change the card on a subscription or pause it. Sign-up and login forms support custom fields, email verification, manual approval and social login.

Best for: creators and businesses already on WordPress, or ready to move there, who want to own the site and the member data.

Limitation: you run hosting, updates and backups. The plugin does not host video or include a forum, and coming from Squarespace or Wix means rebuilding the site.

The pricing model differs from MemberSpace: Ultimate Membership Pro is sold as annual plans (Pro, Full Package and Agency), and every plan allows unlimited members, so the plan doesn’t change as your member count grows. The plans are on the pricing page; payment processor fees still apply.

2. Squarespace built-in memberships

Squarespace lets you sell content and memberships, including online courses, blogs and video, on every plan without an add-on. The fee on digital content and membership sales depends on your plan: 7% on Basic, 5% on Core, 1% on Plus and 0% on Advanced. Plans start at $19/month billed yearly, and Advanced costs $99/month billed yearly.

Best for: Squarespace sites that need simple members-only content and want a single bill.

Limitation: the fee is high on the lower plans, and the site stays inside Squarespace.

3. Wix Pricing Plans

Wix’s Pricing Plans app sells one-time, recurring and free plans, with trials and coupons. A plan can open hidden pages, Wix Blog posts, video channels, file libraries and Wix Groups. Online payments need a Wix plan that accepts payments.

Wix takes a transaction fee on every paid plan sale but doesn’t publish one rate. Its help center says the fee is tiered by your site’s plan and shown on your upgrade page, and the plans page lists no percentage (as of October 2026). Payment processing fees come on top.

Best for: Wix sites that sell memberships alongside Wix Bookings, Events or Online Programs.

Limitation: your site and blog stay on Wix. Wix says its sites can’t be hosted elsewhere and blog posts can’t be exported to other platforms, so leaving later means a full rebuild.

4. Memberstack

Memberstack adds sign-up, login, payments and gated content to Webflow sites, and it also lists WordPress. Plans are priced by member count: Basic costs $25/month billed yearly for up to 1,000 members with a 4% fee, and the fee falls to 0% on Established at $399/month. Stripe’s fees come on top.

Best for: Webflow sites, including those that lost Webflow User Accounts and need a MemberSpace alternative built for Webflow.

Limitation: member caps on each plan and a percentage fee on the lower plans. It is built for Webflow first.

5. Outseta

Outseta works across builders: it names Webflow, Framer, WordPress, Squarespace and Carrd among its integrations. One subscription covers Stripe billing, logins and gated content, plus a CRM, email marketing and a help desk. Start costs $37/month billed yearly for up to 1,000 contacts with a 2% fee; Scale and Pro charge 1% and Max charges none.

Best for: membership businesses that want billing, email and support tools in one place.

Limitation: it starts higher than MemberSpace Starter, takes a fee on every plan except Max, and payments run through Stripe.

6. Memberful

Memberful is hosted membership software for existing websites. Its Standard plan costs $49/month plus a 4.9% transaction fee. It connects natively with WordPress, Discord, Mailchimp and Kit, and on WordPress, signing in to Memberful signs members in to WordPress too.

Best for: WordPress creators who want hosted billing and member accounts without running payments in a plugin.

Limitation: you pay a monthly fee and a percentage, at a rate close to MemberSpace Starter.

7. Podia

Podia replaces your site builder as well as MemberSpace: the website and blog, online courses, a community with free or paid memberships and email marketing all live in one account. Mover costs $42/month billed yearly with a 5% Podia fee, while Shaker ($84/month) and Earthquaker ($150/month) have no Podia transaction fee. Stripe or PayPal fees apply.

Best for: course creators and coaches who want to leave their site builder and run everything from one hosted tool.

Limitation: email subscriber limits are low (100, 500 or 1,000 by plan), and moving means rebuilding your site on Podia.

How much do MemberSpace fees cost you?

At $5,000 a month in member payments, MemberSpace Starter costs $274 a month ($24 plan plus a $250 fee) and Growth costs $199 ($99 plus $100), before Stripe’s fees. This worked example uses the fees each vendor listed as of October 2026 and leaves out card processing.

Monthly member payments (example)	MemberSpace Starter ($24 + 5%)	MemberSpace Growth ($99 + 2%)	Squarespace Core fee only (5%)	Squarespace Plus fee only (1%)
$1,000	$74	$119	$50	$10
$5,000	$274	$199	$250	$50
$15,000	$774	$399	$750	$150

Growth becomes cheaper than Starter once member payments pass $2,500 a month. On Squarespace, Starter charges the same 5% as the built-in Core fee, plus its plan price, while moving from Core to Plus costs $20 more a month billed yearly and cuts the fee to 1%.

Among the hosted MemberSpace alternatives above, the plans listed with no platform fee are Squarespace Advanced, Memberstack Established, Outseta Max and Podia’s Shaker and Earthquaker.

On self-hosted WordPress, the yearly bill has three fixed parts that don’t grow with revenue: hosting, a theme (many are free) and the plugin’s annual plan. As an example, hosting at $30 a month is $360 a year; set that plus the plugin plan against MemberSpace Growth at $5,000 a month, which comes to $2,388 a year in plan and fees. Your gateway keeps its card fees, and if your subscriptions run on Stripe Billing, Stripe’s pricing page lists a separate 0.7% fee on that volume.

Which MemberSpace alternative fits your site builder?

Start with the builder you already use. Staying on it is the smallest change. Moving to WordPress or an all-in-one platform is a bigger project that gives you more control.

MemberSpace alternative for Squarespace

Check Squarespace’s own memberships first and compare the fee on your plan with what MemberSpace costs you today. Outseta also lists Squarespace if you want CRM and email tools in the same subscription.

MemberSpace alternative for Wix

Wix Pricing Plans covers recurring plans, trials and coupons, and it can connect plans to Wix Bookings, Events and Online Programs. Add the Wix Members Area if you want members to cancel their own subscriptions from a My Subscriptions page.

Webflow sites after User Accounts

Webflow sunset User Accounts on January 29, 2026, so Webflow sites need a third-party tool. Webflow’s own help center recommends Outseta and Memberstack. Both are in this list, and on their higher plans both take a smaller fee than MemberSpace Growth’s 2%.

Showit, Duda, Notion and other builders

Fewer tools name these builders, and MemberSpace is one of the few that does. Check an alternative’s install guide before you commit, or plan a move to Podia or WordPress.

MemberSpace alternative for WordPress

If your site already runs on WordPress, switching away from MemberSpace is a plugin change, and your pages, posts and domain stay put. A membership plugin such as Ultimate Membership Pro keeps members as WordPress users and takes payments through your own gateway accounts. Memberful is the hosted option if you prefer someone else to run billing.

Two other WordPress plugins are worth comparing as MemberSpace alternatives (details as of October 2026):

• MemberPress is sold as annual plans. Launch adds a 4.9% fee per payment and takes Stripe only, while Growth and Scale list 0% and add PayPal and Square. Best for: sites that sell courses with memberships. Limitation: both content dripping and course curriculum dripping start at Growth (as of October 2026).
• Paid Memberships Pro has a free, open-source core with 25 free add-ons; Standard, at $499 a year for one site, adds 54 premium add-ons. Best for: a free start. Limitation: many features sit in add-ons, and Stripe Connect without an active license adds a 2% application fee.

When staying on MemberSpace makes sense

Staying makes sense when your builder has no memberships of its own, your members use MemberSpace’s Spaces for courses and discussions, and revenue is still modest. At $1,000 a month in member payments, Starter costs $74 a month, often less than the hours a rebuild takes.

Is moving your site to WordPress worth it?

Moving to WordPress is worth it when you want to own the site, the member data and the payment setup, and your revenue is high enough for percentage fees to hurt. From Squarespace or Wix, it is a full site migration, not just a plugin swap, so plan for it as a project.

• From Squarespace. Squarespace exports a WordPress-format .xml file with layout pages, one blog and text and image blocks. Store pages, video blocks, extra blogs and custom CSS don’t export, and images may not import into a self-hosted site.
• From Wix. Wix says its sites can’t be exported to another host, and blog posts can’t be exported to other platforms. You rebuild pages and copy posts by hand.
• The rest of the work. Choose hosting and a theme, recreate your design, point the domain to the new host and redirect old URLs.

If you’re still weighing the options, this guide to choosing a membership site platform compares WordPress, website builders and stand-alone creator platforms.

How do you switch from MemberSpace without double billing?

Export your members, build the new setup, move paying members at their renewal dates, and only then cancel MemberSpace. Canceling alone doesn’t stop billing: MemberSpace’s help center says members on recurring plans keep being charged through your Stripe account, and canceling doesn’t cancel member subscriptions or transaction fees.

1. Export your members. In MemberSpace, open Members and choose Export Options. The Members & Plans export includes contact details, sign-up date, custom sign-up fields and each plan with its status.
2. Build and test the new setup. Recreate each plan with the same price and billing cycle, lock the same content and test a sign-up, renewal and cancellation.
3. Import members with their paid-through dates. Give each member access until the end of the period they’ve already paid for.
4. Move paying members. Agree with your new platform’s support team on how active recurring subscriptions move. Cancel each old subscription in Stripe only once the new billing is in place, so nobody pays twice.
5. Cancel MemberSpace and remove its code. Once every subscription has moved, cancel your account and remove the install code. Removing it turns off MemberSpace page protection, plan sign-ups and the MemberSpace Button.

Where do active MemberSpace subscriptions go?

MemberSpace subscriptions live in your own Stripe account. If you move to WordPress, the Ultimate Membership Pro support team helps you migrate from MemberSpace with its own tools. Ask them how your active recurring subscriptions will be handled for your payment gateway before you set a switch date.

If you prefer to do it yourself, the standard CSV member import adds members with a Membership and start and expiry dates. That import doesn’t create orders or gateway subscriptions and isn’t linked to existing ones, so recurring Memberships imported this way won’t renew by themselves.

With the CSV route, one common plan is to set each expiry date to the end of the paid period, share the new checkout link before then, and cancel the old Stripe subscription once the new one is active.

MemberSpace’s help center also notes that a Stripe account can be connected to only one platform at a time for accepting payments. Check how your new tool connects to Stripe while old subscriptions still run, and test with a few members first.

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