Hi, I’m using ListingHive along with the Paid Listings extension.
I received a notification that Paid Listings is deprecated and that we should now use Memberships instead. However, I haven’t been able to find any documentation on how to migrate, especially for those of us with a live website.
The short video I watched about the Memberships plugin focuses on the user perspective, but in my case, providers pay when they create listings — so the workflow is a bit different.
Since it looks like I’ll need to purchase the Memberships extension (even though I already paid for Paid Listings), I think it would be really helpful to have a step-by-step migration guide. This transition requires extra work and testing, and proper documentation would make things much easier.
Also, how long will the Paid Listings plugin be supported?
Lastly, are there any features in Paid Listings that are not available in Memberships? I’d like to understand that before deciding whether to purchase the new plugin.
I’m not HivePress staff, but as far as I know all of the features from the old Paid Listings extension have now been combined with the latest updated version of the Memberships extension.
Once you have it installed you’ll need to create any packages you had from Paid Listings and re-create them as Plans under the Memberships settings page.
Once everything is set up, the only real difference for end users is that they must first select a plan, then they can add the listing details. Whereas Paid Listings allowed users to complete the Add a Listing page before selecting a plan.
The Paid Listings extension will only receive small maintenance updates going forward.
Re: migration - I’d recommend making a clone of your website as a staging site where you can set up Memberships and familiarise yourself with it first. That way you won’t be working on a live site.
Furthermore, by upgrading to the Memberships extension, you’ll thrn be able to restrict/charge users/vendors for a lot more features and access to pages/attributes, etc. if desired, too.
Thank you @ChrisB for this detailed explanation. I was curious if you have done the migration yourself? how painful was it? Are too many open bugs? Also if I understand correctly subscriptions are now supported? that means customers can choose to have a yearly recurring payment?
I was still in the process of designing my site when I learnt about the idea to merge Paid Listings and Memberships, so I didn’t need to do this on a live site.
Memberships has more functionality built-in to it than Paid Listings, so it’s slightly confusing to get your head around, but I don’t think there’s any major bugs, and the process is very easy. And, yes, that’s correct. The latest Memberships update now allows you to link a WooCommerce Subscription to a Membership Plan which will renew at the interval you set. E.g. weekly, monthly, yearly, etc.
Note: You will need the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin to achieve this which is a premium plugin.
