How to Create Membership Cards with ARMember? (step-by-step)
People love to flaunt their membership cards to show off what they belong to. If your membership site is super exclusive, then use the power of visual personalized content. Make your members feel like they are a part of an exclusive community and provide more visibility to their memberships. How? By using a digital card for membership or tangible ones – this is possible with the WordPress membership plugin by ARMember! Let’s talk about their perks and guide you through the process of creating one.
What are the Perks of Membership Card?
What are some of the benefits of using a membership card? Probably these reasons can provide you with some insights:- Digital or printed cards reflect important data, such as the start date of the membership, expiration date, bio, points earned, etc.
- A stunning card for membership is more likely to be shared online, giving a boost to your brand.
- For industry-related memberships (business coaching, online courses, professional communities) a member’s card can add credibility.
- Card for Membership is a good encouragement for referrals because having one makes members feel like they have something exclusive to show.
- Renew or expire cards based on membership status, for example, annual renewal triggers a new card.
What are Cards for Membership Sites in ARMember?
Among multiple social media-related features, Card for membership is the great way to personalize the member experiences on your WordPress membership website.
The ARMember plugin gives you an easy tool to make them, and numerous options to customize their look.
You can further display them on your site as virtual cards or send members in emails. Since you will be able to customize cards for your members based on the subscription level, you can enable this only for paying members or specific individuals. You may use a member’s profile image or your logo on these cards.
Some in-person perks, such as myCred points, can also be easily integrated with membership card.
👉 Membership Card DemoHow to Create a Membership Card with ARMember?
Finally, it’s time to actually create members’ cards.
Install ARMember and Social Feature Addon
Membership Cards is a free add-on included with any of the premium plans of ARMember. Here is how to get started with it:
- Find the ARMember menu on your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to Addons.
- Find “Social Feature” and click “Activate”.
Once you activate the addon, you will see certain additions to your WordPress dashboard left hand side panel. Here, you will see options of,
- Profiles and Directories
- Badges and Achievements
To create a VIP membership card, you need to click on the Profiles and Directories option. However, if you click on configure after activating the addon, this page will directly open up.
Creating a Membership Card Template
Now, on scrolling down, you will see the option of card templates for membership. Here, click on add templates to create a dedicated card for membership.
The next step is to customize the look and content of the member’s card.
1. Select a template for your members’ card, e.g. choose whether you want to have a circular or round design for your member’s photo.
2. Customize colors and fonts to suit the color scheme of your WordPress site.
3. Customize it further with a custom background, company logo, avatar, etc. You may also decide what personal data exactly must be displayed on the card (e.g. country, website, biography, membership plan, etc.). The card height can be automatically adjusted to fit the number of information.
4. Select a membership plan to which this membership card applies.
5. Click ‘Save template’.
Once the template is saved, you will be redirected to the Profile & Directories menu. Scroll down to find your newly created card template for your membership. There will be an automatically generated shortcode, which you can copy and place on any page. Copying the club cards shortcode is pretty simple. You just have to hover over it and you can click to copy it.
Furthermore, to add it to the page, use the ‘Shortcode’ block in the Gutenberg editor or any other page builder in WordPress.
You can also easily preview a card template by clicking on it.
Moreover, it’s easy for you to also edit these membership cards created with the ARMember plugin as well as create new ones.
Feel free to build as many members’ cards as you need to ‘attach’ them to different subscription plans.
Want to Create Attractive Cards for Membership and Profiles?
Well, then go no further. With the ARMember membership plugin, you get powerful membership features along with robust creation of members’ cards. You get multiple templates for user profiles, member directories, and cards as well.
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Where to Use Membership Card Templates?
Encourage the usage of membership cards in your community in many ways:
- Display these cards on your website with a simple WordPress shortcode.
- Attach a members’ card as a PDF in email notifications using the PDF creator add-on to provide users with a digital copy of their membership card.
- Enable members to print them out.
- Encourage members to share their cards on social media.
All these ways to use members’ virtual cards will build engagement around your membership site.
Leveraging Physical Cards for Membership
Did you know these ARMember membership cards can also be used for your offline stores and clubs? How, let’s get to it.
Gym Membership Sites: If you are a fitness membership site and also have an offline fitness class or gym, membership cards will work wonders for you. Allow entry or access to your offline class using that same member card provided online.
Online Courses: While offering online courses, you can bring together members for offline doubt solving or events. Now, a member’s card will be a chief identifier for entry.
Offline Events: While conducting a general event, having a member card separates your loyal members from other attendees. Based on that, you can provide special access, snacks, or entry to your members. Thus, supporting smooth management.
Online Stores: If you are selling physical products online and offering WooCommerce memberships for product discounts, then you can use cards efficiently. How? Well, allow product exchanges, product services, and repairs only on showing of a member card. This helps build the authenticity of your customers and members.
Thus, in a similar fashion, you can allow the use of cards in an offline setup as well. It helps build a community, supports verification, and credibility.
What Are Further Ways to Boost Member’s Engagement?
ARMember has a strong focus on tools that boost the engagement and loyalty of your members. For example, in addition to digital cards, it supports digital badges, user roles, and downloadable assets.
Discover more add-ons and tools to integrate with your membership workflow processes using ARMember:
- Promote your products through the affiliate program.
- Build your own social network within your membership site.
- Enable easy digital asset download in your community.
- Offer gift memberships.
- Make attractive member profiles.
Concluding on Creating Cards for Members with ARMember
If your site runs on WordPress with the ARMember membership plugin, it’s easy to integrate membership cards into your online community, both printed and digital cards. But there is more to it:
- Create fully branded cards for membership using the Social Feature add-on on ARMember.
- Use a PDF Generator plugin to generate and email a branded membership card.
- Use the myCred points add-on to add gamification effects to your cards.
FAQs
1. Can I use ARMember to generate a gym membership card?
ARMember is perfect to build and manage online gym memberships and can be used as a gym membership software. Further, you can offer member cards and motivate the members to print it for access to your physical gym space.
2. Can I add birthdays to a membership card?
With ARMember, you can definitely display member birthdays on their cards. This helps in knowing birthdays of each other and foster an environment of celebrating together.
3. Can users download or print their membership cards?
With ARmember, you can easily allow download and printing of cards with the PDF creator addon. This enables them to get a physical copy of a card. It is beneficial if you work offline as well.
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