Connect ChatGPT to your MemberPress site.

Before you start

• A MemberPress site you can log in to as an administrator
• A ChatGPT plan that can add custom MCP servers (see the note above)
• ChatGPT on the web for setup, and about two minutes

Your site also needs a public https address and any permalink setting other than “Plain”.

Step 1. Install the Membership MCP plugin

Enter your site on the start page and we send you to your own MemberPress add-ons screen. There, type “MCP” in the Search add-ons box, then click Install Add-on on Membership MCP. It installs and activates in one step. Can't see it in Add-ons? That screen needs an active paid MemberPress license. Download the plugin zip, then upload it under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.

After activation, open the Membership MCP screen in WordPress and click Connect. Sign in, or create your free account, when it opens, and approve the connection.

Step 2. Add Membership MCP in ChatGPT

1. In ChatGPT on the web, go to the Plugins page (chatgpt.com/plugins).
2. Click the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
3. Name it Membership MCP. Under Connection, paste the URL.
4. Set Authentication to OAuth.
5. Read the warning, click I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
6. ChatGPT lists the Membership MCP tools it found. Install the plugin from your personal plugins.

Step 3. Sign in with your email

ChatGPT opens the Membership MCP sign-in. Sign in with Google, or with your email and password. The first time, choose Continue with Google, or Sign up with your email and a password, to create your free account. Then pick your site.

Step 4. Try it

Start a new chat, type @ in the message box and pick Membership MCP. Then ask.

Start with a question or two, then a change. Use your own plans and dates.

• “Who signed up this week, and which plan did each person pick?”
• “Which members had a failed payment in the last 7 days?”
• “Set up a Studio Monthly plan at $39 with a 7-day free trial, as a draft.”

For a change like the last one, Membership MCP prepares a preview by default. A draft plan is not for sale until you publish it, and putting a plan on sale always waits for your approval in your AI app. More tested asks are in the playbooks.

Business workspaces and approvals

On a Business workspace, only admins and owners can create a custom MCP server and publish it to the workspace. Members then install it from the workspace’s plugins. Enterprise and Edu workspaces follow the roles and app permissions your admin has set.

ChatGPT asks you to confirm before it runs a tool that makes changes. That comes on top of the preview Membership MCP shows you, so a change to your site gets two looks.

If you can’t find Add custom MCP server, your plan or your workspace’s settings don’t allow it yet. Ask your workspace admin, or use Claude or Cursor.

What ChatGPT can do once connected

Find and update members, spot failed payments and upcoming renewals, set up plans and coupons, protect content with access rules, enroll, cancel or refund when you ask, and pull revenue and churn reports. Everything you can do · Tools reference.

Safe by default

Reads never change anything. Changes show a preview by default, and riskier ones, like refunds and anything that goes live, always wait for your approval in your AI app. Every action is logged on your own site, and a pause switch in the plugin stops all changes. How you stay in charge.