Are PayPal is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to sell your WordPress posts, pages, or the entire content to visitors. You can sell for a one time payment or a recurring payment. Are PayPal automatically process users for you. An administrator doesn’t have to manually give access to paid users. Even though Are PayPal works, it is very user unfriendly. It’s not easy to setup.
How it Works
You wrap your premium content in Are PayPal WordPress shortcodes. Once wrapped and saved, the post will show on Are PayPal’s “Post Prices” administration page. On that page, you can specify the options for that post. You can set the payment type (recurring or one-time), you can create bundles where you sell more than one post, and more.
Before you can successfully do that, you’ll have to configure the plugin. And I’m afraid you’ll have a hard time setting it up with the inadequate documentation.
Buyer Experience
When your visitor lands on a post/page with protected content, your visitor is first presented with a customized message requesting that they “login”. Of course, if they don’t have an account, they’ll have to create an account first. So, when an unregistered user clicks on the login page, he will be taken to the all-familiar WordPress login form and he’ll see a little link below the form that says “Register”. The user will hopefully be smart enough to click on that and complete their registration. After registration (and logging in) is complete, the user will have to manually navigate back to the premium post. Now that the user is logged-in, in place of the “Login” link, he’ll see a PayPal button. The button takes the user to PayPal to complete the payment. Once payment is complete, the user can go back to the page and if they’re logged in, they’ll get access to the content immediately.
The user experience with this plugin is very unoptimized.
Getting Support
The author of the plugin is very dedicated. He replies to every support request that is left on the plugin’s website and on WordPress plugin support forum. Given that the available documentation is lacking, it is comforting to know that the author is dedicated to support users of his plugin.
