Sam Parr  ⚪️

My current stack is Memberful, Memberstack, ConvertKit and Webflow. It works but it’s not ideal. I pay for way more services than I should and it really cuts into the bottom line for me.

After running that stack for a little while I decided to add private pages for paid subscribers only. I realized I could not do this with the Memberful and Webflow stack. On Memberful you can only do that with Wordpress.

When I learned that, I decided it would be easier to move off of Webflow and move to Wordpress. I was wrong! I spent a month trying to figure that out and soon realized going to Wordpress was a bigger headache than it was worth.

This landed me back with the same problem. How to do private pages with Memberful and Wordpress? It’s not possible. Enter Memberstack.

Memberstack gives me the membership site I want but still there are challenges. I use Convertkit for my email but Memberstack doesn’t integrate with Convertkit. My plan is to move off of Memberful in the future.

Even when I do this, I will have problems 1. I doubt my paid subscribers are going to move to another payment provider. 2. Memberstack doesn’t offer paid trials like Memberful does. There will probably lead to a drop in paid subscriber conversions. So I have delayed the move

If I was doing this again today, I would probably check out @Ghost. It seems like the best platform to build a paid newsletter + membership site on besides Substack. @dr is an expert with the platform and I would definitely talk to him about it.