Memberstack

This Memberstack review covers what Memberstack is used for, its key features, Memberstack pricing and transaction fees, how it works with Webflow, where it shines and falls short, and how it compares with other membership tools. Memberstack is a membership platform you add to existing websites with one script. It handles user authentication, sign up, login, member management and payments, so you can protect content by membership plan and charge users through Stripe subscriptions or one time payments. Memberstack says it has launched more than 50,000 sites, manages more than 10 million member accounts and has processed more than $200 million for builders (Memberstack).

What is Memberstack used for?

Memberstack is used to add membership features to a website and turn it into one of many membership sites or a simple web app. Typical projects are paid communities and newsletters, online courses, digital products, gated resource libraries, client portals, job boards, directories with member submissions and SaaS front ends built in Webflow. Designers and agencies use it because the site keeps its own design: Memberstack adds data attributes to the elements you already built instead of replacing them with a hosted page.

It is most popular with Webflow, where it now fills the gap left by Webflow's own user accounts, which Webflow shut down in January 2026. It also works on WordPress, where an official plugin adds content protection with shortcodes, on React apps, on AI-built websites and on any website where you can add a script tag.

Key features

• Authentication: email and password, passwordless one-time codes, social logins, custom single sign-on, two-factor authentication, email verification and password resets.
• Gated content and content protection: lock whole pages, sections or single elements by plan with no-code data attributes, and show different content to logged-in users. Content gating works the same on every plan.
• Stripe payments: recurring billing for subscriptions, one time payments, free trials and tiered plans, with proration when members switch prices and webhooks for other systems.
• Member management: a Memberstack dashboard for managing members, custom fields, member JSON for storing app data per member, and Data Tables for structured content such as listings or submissions.
• Team accounts: plans with seats, where the paying member invites team members through a link in the profile modal (Memberstack docs).
• Email: branded transactional emails and built-in email campaigns without a separate email tool.
• Integrations: an API for custom integrations, a Zapier integration for workflow automation, and import tools for migrating members from other platforms.
• Security: SOC 2 Type 1, GDPR and CCPA compliance, according to the vendor.

Memberstack pricing

There is no free plan for a live site, but Memberstack is free to build and test: every feature works on a test-mode site with no credit card required and no time limit until you launch. The paid plans below come from the Memberstack pricing page as of September 2026, billed yearly.

• Basic: $25 a month, up to 1,000 members, 4% Memberstack fee on transactions.
• Professional: $39 a month, up to 5,000 members, 2% fee.
• Business: $79 a month, 10,000+ members, 0.9% fee.
• Established: $399 a month, 10,000+ members, no transaction fee.

Every feature is on every plan; plans differ only by member limit and transaction fee, which makes the pricing straightforward for a business to compare. Some listings, including the WordPress plugin page, quote $29 and $499 for Basic and Established; the vendor's pricing page shows $25 and $399 on yearly billing. Stripe's processing fees come on top. Memberstack offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, 50% off for nonprofits, and a startup offer for companies under $1M in funding.

The cost surprise to check is the transaction fee. On Basic, Memberstack takes 4% of every payment on top of Stripe's fee, so a site that sells $5,000 a month pays $200 to Memberstack alone. Once revenue grows, moving to a higher plan is often cheaper than staying on Basic. Also check the member limit of your plan before a launch campaign.

How to connect Memberstack and create gated content in Webflow

Webflow is where most Memberstack sites are built. To connect Memberstack, you add its script to the Webflow project, then add attributes to forms, buttons and sections: a signup form becomes a Memberstack signup, a button opens the profile modal, and a section is shown only to members on a given plan. Content stays in Webflow's CMS, and member-only CMS items can be gated per plan. Memberstack publishes free Webflow components and templates for pricing tables, login pages and dashboards, which shortens the learning curve. Most designers can create gated content and a first membership plan in a day; custom functionality with member JSON or Data Tables takes longer. Because the logic runs in the browser, sensitive data should live in member JSON, Data Tables or your own backend, not in hidden Webflow elements.

Memberstack vs Webflow user accounts

Many comparisons in search results still weigh Memberstack against Webflow user accounts, Webflow's native membership feature for users of a Webflow website. That choice no longer exists: Webflow user accounts are gone. Webflow stopped letting new sites enable user accounts on 31 January 2025 and switched the feature off on all sites on 29 January 2026, including its APIs and webhooks (Webflow Help Center). Webflow pointed affected customers to third-party membership tools, Memberstack and Outseta among them, which offered migration discounts. Anyone who built on Webflow user accounts had to move their users to another platform. For a Webflow website that needs logins, gated content, subscriptions or paid memberships today, an external membership platform such as Memberstack is the standard route, and Memberstack offers import tools for existing users.

Where Memberstack shines — and where it falls short

Strengths:

• Keeps your own website design; no hosted member pages you have to style around.
• Deep Webflow integration with templates and components.
• Everything to start is free until launch, with all features in test mode.
• Covers logins, payments, content protection, team accounts and member data in one tool, with the same features on every plan.

Trade-offs:

• Transaction fees of up to 4% on the lower plans, on top of Stripe.
• No built-in course player, community forum or help desk; the focus is authentication and access control rather than full membership management for a community.
• Client-side gating needs care: truly private data belongs in a backend.
• Stripe is the only payment processor.

How Memberstack compares

• MemberSpace: quick membership gating for Squarespace, Wix, WordPress and Webflow with less design control.
• Memberful: membership for publishers and creators, strong with WordPress and newsletters.
• Outseta: bundles billing, CRM, help desk and email in one product.
• Softr: portals and apps on top of Airtable or databases, with logins built in.
• Podia and Kajabi: all-in-one course and community platforms that host the site for you.
• Circle: a hosted community platform rather than gating on your own site.
• Ghost: publishing with paid newsletters and memberships built in.

Is Memberstack worth it?

Choose Memberstack if you are a Webflow designer, agency or business founder who wants paid memberships or a member area on a site you already built, without writing a backend. The free test mode lets you build the whole thing before paying. It is less of a fit when transaction fees on a low plan eat into revenue, when you need a hosted course or community platform, or when you want one tool for billing, CRM and support. If you want help building a Memberstack site or moving an existing membership to Webflow, the low-code agencies and developers on LowCodeDevs can take it on.

Sources

• Memberstack pricing: plans, member limits, transaction fees and discounts.
• Memberstack: features, supported platforms and company figures.
• Team Accounts, Memberstack docs: how seats and team invites work.
• Best Memberstack alternatives, Outseta: comparison written by a competitor; its point that Memberstack is built for individual memberships is outdated, as Memberstack now supports team accounts with seats.
• User Accounts sunset, Webflow Help Center: dates of the Webflow user accounts shutdown.
• Outseta vs Memberstack, Slam Media Lab: an agency's comparison of customization and scope.