Membership owners ask me some version of the same question all the time. What’s going on with my site?

The answer is always in there. Who joined this week. Who canceled. Whose card failed on Tuesday. Which plan is carrying the business. But getting to it means clicking through a dozen admin screens, copying numbers into a spreadsheet, and doing it all again next week.

Today we’re launching Membership MCP. It lets you talk to your membership site.

What it is

Membership MCP is the MCP for WordPress memberships. It’s a free plugin for your site plus a connection to the AI you already use: Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor.

Once it’s connected, you ask your AI a question in a plain sentence. “Who signed up this week, and which plan did they pick?” Your AI uses Membership MCP to look it up on your site, then answers. Ask it to set up a coupon for Thursday’s webinar and it shows you the exact coupon it’s about to create, then waits for your approval in your AI app.

That’s the whole idea. You stop hunting through screens. You ask.

We didn’t build a chatbot

A lot of plugins are adding a chatbot right now. We thought hard about doing the same, and we said no.

You already pay for an AI. You’ve learned how it works. It knows how you like things written. You don’t need a second assistant living inside WordPress with its own subscription and its own blind spots.

What your AI is missing is access. It can’t see your members. It can’t check your revenue. It can’t create a plan or look at a failed payment. That’s the gap we set out to close.

So we built the socket, not another AI. Membership MCP gives the AI you already use a precise set of tools for membership work. We don’t sell AI. We don’t run one. Your AI does the thinking, and our tools do the work on your site.

If you’re wondering what “MCP” means, Seth wrote a plain-English explainer: what an MCP is, for membership owners. Short version: it’s the open standard Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor use to plug into other software.

Built by the team behind MemberPress

These tools come from the people who build MemberPress. That matters more than it sounds.

A membership site has a lot of moving parts. Plans, subscriptions, transactions, access rules, reminders, gateways. They all depend on each other. Getting those relationships right is our day job, and it has been for years.

When your AI asks Membership MCP for a member’s history, it gets the real answer from MemberPress itself. Not a guess. Not a scrape of some admin page.

What you can do today

MemberPress is the first plugin we support. Here’s the kind of work you can hand off right now:

  • Members. Look someone up, see their plan and payments, fix their details, move them to another plan, export this month’s signups.
  • Revenue. Revenue by month, churn per plan, renewals coming up, and everyone who failed a payment this week.
  • Plans and coupons. Set up a new plan with a free trial. Create a launch coupon with a usage limit and an end date.
  • Access. Make a category members-only, then check it logged out to see what still shows.
  • Launch checks. Audit every plan, rule and reminder before you announce anything.

There are dozens of tools under the hood, and you never need to know their names. You describe the job. Your AI picks the tools.

See everything you can do, or start with one of our playbooks. Each one is a tested ask you can paste straight into your AI. A good first one is find and chase failed payments. If you run MemberPress add-ons like Courses, your AI can work with those too. The MemberPress page has the details.

You stay in charge

I wouldn’t let an AI loose on my own membership site without guardrails. So we built them in from the start.

  • Every action is logged on your site. You can see which tool ran, what it touched, and when.
  • Changes start as a preview by default. Your AI can show you what it’s about to do before anything is saved.
  • New posts and pages are saved as drafts. You publish when you’re ready.
  • Big changes take an extra step. Refunds, cancellations and other things you can’t easily undo always stop at a preview and wait for your approval in your AI app.
  • You choose how much your AI can do when you connect. Read only, content, or full access. Read only lets your AI look at everything and change nothing.
  • We never store your WordPress password.

Seth wrote up how we keep your AI from breaking your site, and our security page covers what we hold and what we don’t.

What it costs

It’s free with MemberPress: 50 actions a day. An action is one lookup or one change your AI makes on your site.

If you need more, Plus is $19 a month for 250 actions a day, and Power is $49 a month for 1,000. Every tool is on every plan. The plans only raise how much you can do each day, and limits reset daily. Compare plans.

Getting started takes a few minutes

  1. Go to Start free and enter your site’s address. We send you to your own MemberPress Add-ons screen, where Membership MCP installs and activates with one click. That screen needs an active paid MemberPress license. If you don’t see it, download the plugin zip from the same page and upload it under Plugins → Add New.
  2. When the plugin activates, click Connect and sign in, or create your free account.
  3. Add https://mcp.membershipmcp.ai as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. We have a step-by-step guide for each one.
  4. Your AI opens our sign-in page. Sign in with the account you set up in step 2 and pick your site.
  5. Ask your first question.

Connecting more than one site to the same AI app? Use each site’s own address from its card in your account, and name each connection after its site.

Updates arrive automatically, like any other plugin.

What’s next

MemberPress is first. It won’t be the only one. More WordPress membership plugins are on the way, and we’ll announce each one here when it ships.

If you build sites with WPVibe, Membership MCP works alongside it. Use WPVibe for general WordPress work like pages, posts, themes and plugins, and Membership MCP for your memberships. You can run both, and Membership MCP works fine on its own.

I’ve wanted this for a long time. A membership business should be something you can talk to. Connect your site, ask it what happened this week, and see what it tells you.