Wcm Access Discounts

WooCommerce Memberships: access and discounts

Use this when an integration needs to decide whether a user can access content/products, alter restriction behavior, adjust drip-content timing, grant access from products, or work with member prices. This is where generic WooCommerce or WordPress assumptions most often produce subtle bugs.

Misconception this skill corrects

"Membership access is a simple active-status check, and member discounts are just a product price filter."

Memberships combines plan rules, user membership status, access start time, delayed/dripped access, product/category restrictions, purchase restrictions, product grants, and price-adjustment filters. Use the public capability/discount APIs and the Memberships filters at the rule layer.

When to use this skill

Trigger when ANY of the following is true:

• The user asks "can this member view/buy/access", "hide protected product", "drip content", "scheduled access", "member discount", "membership price", "grant access product", or "original price before discount".
• Code contains wc_memberships_user_can(), wc_memberships_is_post_content_restricted(), wc_memberships_is_product_viewing_restricted(), wc_memberships_access_from_time, wc_memberships_user_object_access_start_time, wc_memberships_user_has_member_discount(), wc_memberships_get_member_product_discount(), or wc_memberships_get_discounted_price.
• You are writing WooCommerce price filters in a store that uses Memberships.

Access checks

Prefer wc_memberships_user_can() for final "can this user do this" decisions:

if ( wc_memberships_user_can( $user_id, 'view', array( 'post' => $post_id ) ) ) {
    myplugin_show_content();
}

if ( wc_memberships_user_can( $user_id, 'purchase', array( 'product' => $product_id ) ) ) {
    myplugin_allow_purchase();
}

Useful public helpers:

Do not replace wc_memberships_user_can() with a raw membership status check when the target object matters.

Restriction and drip hooks

There is not a single universal wc_memberships_user_can result filter to "just allow access". Change the rule inputs, public-content decision, access start time, or membership status intentionally.

Product grants

When a variable product grants access, check whether the plan expects the parent product, variation, or both. The grant filter is also used by checkout registration logic, so return IDs that really grant the selected plan.

Member discount APIs

Member discount hooks

Price adjustment recursion safety

Memberships adjusts WooCommerce product prices through filters. If your code needs the original WooCommerce price while Memberships discounts are active, disable Memberships adjustments only around that read and re-enable them immediately.

do_action( 'wc_memberships_discounts_disable_price_adjustments' );

$product = wc_get_product( $product_id );
$regular_price = $product ? $product->get_regular_price() : null;

do_action( 'wc_memberships_discounts_enable_price_adjustments' );

For price HTML only:

do_action( 'wc_memberships_discounts_disable_price_html_adjustments' );
$html = $product->get_price_html();
do_action( 'wc_memberships_discounts_enable_price_html_adjustments' );

Do not leave adjustments disabled across template rendering, cart calculation, REST responses, or async callbacks.

Common mistakes

// WRONG: active membership is not the same as access to this protected object.
if ( wc_memberships_is_user_active_member( $user_id, $plan_id ) ) {
    echo get_post_field( 'post_content', $post_id );
}

// RIGHT: ask Memberships for access to the target object.
if ( wc_memberships_user_can( $user_id, 'view', array( 'post' => $post_id ) ) ) {
    echo apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_field( 'post_content', $post_id ) );
}

// WRONG: custom price filter can double-discount or recurse through Memberships.
add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_get_price', function ( $price, $product ) {
    return wc_memberships_get_member_product_discount( get_current_user_id(), $product );
}, 10, 2 );

// RIGHT: use Memberships discount filters or APIs at their intended layer.
add_filter( 'wc_memberships_get_discounted_price', function ( $price, $base_price, $product_id, $user_id, $product ) {
    if ( myplugin_should_cap_member_price( $product_id, $user_id ) ) {
        return min( $price, 99 );
    }

    return $price;
}, 10, 5 );

// WRONG: drip access by comparing post dates or membership start meta yourself.
$can_view = strtotime( get_post_meta( $membership_id, '_start_date', true ) ) < time();

// RIGHT: alter access start time or call the final access API.
add_filter( 'wc_memberships_access_from_time', function ( $from_time, $rule, $membership ) {
    if ( myplugin_rule_uses_external_unlock( $rule ) ) {
        return myplugin_get_unlock_timestamp( $membership->get_user_id(), $rule );
    }

    return $from_time;
}, 10, 3 );

Cross-references

• Use wcm-membership-hooks for creation, status transitions, profile fields, REST/webhooks, members area, CSV, admin, and Subscriptions-linked membership hooks.
• Use wc-variations-pricing-filters when combining Memberships discounts with custom variation price logic and cached variation price hashes.