Connect Claude Code to your MemberPress site.

Before you start

• A MemberPress site you can log in to as an administrator
• Claude Code installed and signed in (it comes with Claude Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, or an Anthropic Console account)
• 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 Claude Code

1. Open a terminal. To have Membership MCP in every project, run the command below with --scope user added. Run it as shown to keep it to the project you are in.
2. Paste the command and press Enter. Claude Code saves the server; it doesn’t check the sign-in yet.
3. Run claude mcp list to see membership-mcp in the list.

claude mcp add --transport http membership-mcp https://mcp.membershipmcp.ai

Step 3. Sign in with your email

Start Claude Code, type /mcp, pick membership-mcp and choose Authenticate. Your browser 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

Ask in Claude Code as you normally would. It picks Membership MCP’s tools when they fit, and asks before it runs one unless you have changed its permission settings.

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.

One project, every project, or the whole team

Claude Code keeps a server in one of three places. The default, --scope local, is just you, in the current project. --scope user is just you, in every project. --scope project writes it to .mcp.json in the project, so everyone who opens that project gets it and signs in with their own email.

Agencies with a project per client site can add a separate server per site, named after the site, so the right one loads with the right code.

To remove it, run claude mcp remove membership-mcp. To sign out first, choose Clear authentication in /mcp.

What Claude Code 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.