BricksMembers vs MemberPress
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Membership for any WordPress builder
Choose MemberPress if you don't use Bricks Builder, want its AI Course Generator to draft course outlines, lessons and quizzes for you, prefer a wider partner add-on ecosystem, or need Authorize.Net (Scale tier only, $999/yr renewal). To match the rest of BricksMembers it also needs the Courses add-on plus Growth (certificates, quizzes, drip) or Scale (gifting, community, messaging).
- Works with Elementor, Divi, vanilla WP, any theme
- Mature partner add-on ecosystem
- Authorize.Net native, Scale tier only ($999/yr renewal); BRM does not have it
Everything bundled. No add-on shopping.
Choose BricksMembers if you want complete control over how your membership and LMS site looks. Because it's built natively for Bricks, membership, courses, payments, drip and access all run on Bricks' own dynamic data and conditions, with custom elements added only where there's no native way, so every member-facing page is yours to design, with no fixed templates or locked layouts. It's a true all-in-one (membership, LMS, payments, community, automation) available on annual plans or a one-time lifetime license if you'd rather not pay every year.
- All-in-one: membership, LMS, payments, community, drip, certificates, chat, gifting, automation. No add-ons needed
- Because it's native to Bricks Builder, you design every member-facing page yourself, with full control over the layout and styling, with no fixed templates or locked layouts in the way.
- Lifetime $497 one-time for 100 sites instead of forever-recurring yearly fees (60-day money-back guarantee, no free trial)
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3 things this comparison can't match
- Native Bricks integration with dynamic data tags for every member/course state
- Gifting, chat, community, instructor builder bundled in every tier (MemberPress gates Gifting + Zapier + Corporate Accounts + Developer Tools to the Scale tier at $999/yr)
- $497 one-time lifetime for 100 sites vs. MemberPress's $199.50–$499.50 introductory, renewing in perpetuity at $399–$999/yr (Launch/Growth/Scale, all 1 site; extra sites $69/yr each, 16 max)
Builder & Design
Membership & Access
Payments & Checkout
LMS & Courses
Emails & Automation
Community & Engagement
How the plans line up
Approximate prices.
The Migration Center handles the heavy lifting
A guided, dry-run-first wizard at BricksMembers › Migration Center in wp-admin. It scans your site, builds an import plan, runs in safe chunks, and offers rollback if anything looks off.
What it migrates automatically
- Course, lesson, and topic structure (with hierarchy preserved)
- Post content, titles, excerpts, and status
- Custom post meta fields (carried as-is)
- Required-level assignments (creates matching access rules)
- User level assignments and progress tracking
- Generic CSV exports of users, levels, courses, and progress
What you'll rebuild manually
- Quizzes from the source plugin (rebuild in BricksMembers' quiz module)
- Certificates and certificate issuance records
- Drip schedules from the source plugin
- Email automations (use BricksMembers' automation tab)
- For MemberPress specifically: membership tiers, subscription status, and Stripe billing data don't transfer (only MemberPress content imports)
From MemberPress
Moving from MemberPress to BricksMembers is content-and-access-rules only: subscription state stays on the MemberPress side until you re-onboard members through one of BRM's checkout adapters. MemberPress has no dedicated one-click importer, so MemberPress Courses content (`mpcs-course` and `mpcs-lesson`, where the Courses add-on is in use) comes in through the Migration Center's generic WordPress import, and membership levels and member-level assignments through its CSV path.
Stripe billing tokens and active subscription IDs do not transfer; you'll either keep MemberPress running until the existing subscriptions roll off, or re-create them through Stripe / FluentCart / SureCart with the BRM checkout. Plan for a parallel-run window. CSV exports cover users and level assignments for everything the importer doesn't touch directly.
Common questions: BricksMembers vs MemberPress
Year one: MemberPress Launch is $199.50/yr for one site (plus a 4.9% transaction fee on payments) versus BricksMembers $97/yr Creator (1 site) or $497 one-time lifetime (100 sites). Over a five-year horizon a single MemberPress Launch site costs roughly $1,795 USD in renewals plus the per-transaction cut; a BricksMembers lifetime license is a $497 one-time payment with no transaction fees. On the highest tier, MemberPress Scale renews at $999/yr versus BricksMembers $297/yr (100 sites) or $497 lifetime.
Yes, for content and access rules. The Migration Center imports MemberPress Courses content (lessons, quizzes, structure), MemberPress levels (mapped to BRM levels), and member-level assignments via CSV. Active Stripe subscriptions do not transfer: you'll either let existing subscriptions run their course on MemberPress, or re-create the recurring billing through BRM's Stripe, FluentCart, or SureCart bridges.
No. MemberPress paid plans start at $199.50/yr for Launch (year-one price; renews at $399/yr). BricksMembers also does not have a free tier; it has a 60-day money-back guarantee and a $97/yr or $497 lifetime entry point.
MemberPress works on any WordPress theme or builder including Bricks, but it has no Bricks-native conditions, no Bricks dynamic data tags for membership state, and no Bricks elements for member-facing pages. Member-facing pages in MemberPress are server-rendered templates with override files. BricksMembers is built around the Bricks integration as the first-class path.
MemberPress Courses (free add-on, available on all tiers including Launch) covers courses and lessons. Quizzes, the Gradebook, Assignments, and Certificates are separate add-ons gated to Growth or Scale. BricksMembers ships in core: courses, lessons, topics, quizzes, certificates, progress as a Bricks condition, video watch tracking, assignments, instructor frontend course builder, gifting, likes, and chat, with no tier-gated add-ons. If LMS is your centrepiece, BRM ships more of it bundled; if LMS is a small add-on to your membership site, MemberPress Courses is fine.
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