Multiple Pricing Plans Tutorial

NB! Multiple Pricing Plans is a beta functionality and not publicly available yet. If you wish to get access to this, sign up on www.zlick.it and then let us know your account email via the contact form: www.zlick.it/contact/

In this tutorial, we will learn how to establish multiple pricing plans for different content types using Zlick portal and your WordPress admin page. For example, if you are selling two different types of content with varying prices, such as:

• Content 1 (e.g. regular news articles): Can be purchased as a single purchase or subscribed to weekly, monthly, or annually
• Content 2 (e.g. some more premium content): Can only be purchased as a monthly subscription and single purchase.

Step 1: Set Up Prices on Zlick Portal

1. Go to the Zlick portal.
2. Create a new price plan for each price point. In our example:
   • For Content 1, create four different prices:
     • Content 1 – single purchase price
     • Content 1 – weekly subscriptions price
     • Content 1 – monthly subscriptions price
     • Content 1 – annual subscriptions price
   • For Content 2, create a two price plan:
     • Content 2 – single purchase price
     • Content 2 – monthly subscriptions price

Step 2: Create Post Categories in WordPress

1. Open your WordPress admin page.
2. Navigate to ‘Posts’ and then select ‘Categories’.
3. Create a new category for each content type. In our example:
   • For Content 1, create a category named “news”
   • For Content 2, create a category named “premium”

Step 3: Assign Zlick Pricing Plans to Categories

1. On the Categories page, select a category and click ‘Edit’.
2. Assign the relevant Zlick pricing plans to each category:
   • For “news”, assign the following Zlick pricing plans:
     • Content 1 – single purchase price
     • Content 1 – weekly subscriptions price
     • Content 1 – monthly subscriptions price
     • Content 1 – annual subscriptions price
   • For “premium”, assign the following Zlick pricing plan:
     • Content 2 – single purchase price
     • Content 2 – monthly subscriptions price

Step 4: Assign Categories to New Posts

When creating a new post, ensure that you assign the relevant category. This will activate the associated pricing plans for that post.

Assign Categories to Pages

WordPress does not support Categories on Pages by default. If you need to enable multiple plans on pages, you have two options:

1. If you only have one type of content on pages, and everything else is on Posts, it’s easy. Just keep the default pricing for Pages and set up the multiple plans for Posts.
2. If you need to set up multiple pricing plans on different pages, you will need to use a third party plugin that enables Categories for all Pages in your WordPress. After such plugin is installed and enabled, Pages can be used in a similar way as Posts (see step 4 above).

Access to the Content

Once the setup is complete, when a person subscribes to a specific pricing plan (e.g., “Content 1 – weekly subscriptions price”), they gain access to all the content falling under the same category as that pricing plan. In our example, this plan was assigned to “news”, so the subscriber gets access to all “news” articles.

In conclusion, using Zlick portal and WordPress, you can set up various pricing plans for different types of content, providing your audience with flexible subscription options that best suit their needs.